Who will come to the aid of Israel

In today's news we read about an Arab driving his car into a small crowd waiting at the train station, injuring seven and killing a three months old baby. The murderer was hailed  as a hero and a martyr. Arabs were throwing stones at the light train. There is concern that this may be the beginning of a new intifada. If this happens more Arabs will be killed, more will be considered martyrs, the world will condemn Israel for its necessarily heavy-handed response.  Suppose the entire Middle East gets taken over by an Islamic fundamentalist movement and the conquest of Israel becomes its aim. Suppose it has access not only to a vast motivated army but also to the latest weaponry stolen from Arab regimes armed by the Americans and the Russians; who will then speak up for Israel and who will come to its aid.
Today I talked to a group of senior students from Hastings Girls High School and I mentioned that after the war I could not understand why the Jews did not resist, reported to where they were told to report, lined up when they were told to line up, marched to the bank of the Danube to be shot, and because I could not understand this I became a Zionist and think of myself still as a Zionist to this day. The girls did no know what I meant by Zionist and Zionism. With all the Israel bashing over the last few months in the media, with Zionist being depicted as aggressors, brutal occupiers, as distinct from Jews who are perceived as good law abiding citizens, I was delighted that the girls did not have this image of the Zionist. May be they will grasp that it is not OK to kill Jews, or even to throw stones at them, threaten them, endanger them when they hitchhike, threaten their young children with abduction. It is OK to talk with the Jews, to try to arrive at some resolution to the war the Arabs waged for close to ninety years, it is OK to try to improve the lives of Arabs along with the lives of Jews. It is not OK to hail murderers as martyrs and make the lives of more Arabs miserable.