I agree they have reason to be paranoid, Big John. But what they don't have the right to do is to act out their fears by punishing their new neighbors with military repression, massacres, and state sponsored terrorist tactics like political assassinations, illegal round-ups and detentions, censoring the international media, etc etc.

The state of Israel has the same rights of security any sovereign nation has, but not more of a right to security than is allowed by international law.