The recent drills carried out by Israel were a mere attempt to revive legends that accompanied the creation of the Jewish state, which would unite the community to fight foreign threats, according to As Safir's Managing Editor Sataa Noureddine.

The five-day drills, at a cost of over 300 million dollars, involved the whole Israeli community and "escalated fears of a probable foreign threat ... to the extent of requesting eliminating it at any cost," Noureddine added.

However, the "modified legend ... dropped the concept of mass suicide" by Jewish mutineers against the Roman Empire and replaced it by introducing the concept of "mounting power," he wrote.

"The modified legend has become the official doctrine of the bastion state ... and exaggerating the enemy's force has become a daily life tradition," he added.

The drills, Noureddine concluded, marked "the beginning of a new era in Israel: A beast that grows on the idea of fighting to the end, a non-precedence Jewish legend."