Israeli Strategic Blunders

Stephen Walt covered "The Myth of Israel's Strategic Genius". You can find it here:

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/01/17/the_myth_of_israels_strategic_genius

While Arab blunders are also many, Walt sticks to discussing Israeli blunders. Despite tactical successes, Israel has consistently failed to improve it's overall security situation. Israeli reliance on force has, increasingly, failed to provide greater security and greater integration into the Middle East region. The U.S. propensity to shield Israel from the consequences of it's blunders means that Israel never learns from its mistakes. The Arab states, with no superpower shielding, have had to learn more from their errors than Israel. So we have this situation wherein the Arab League has offered full normalization of relations with Israel if they withdraw to the 1967 borders and allow the Palestinians a real state and Israeli rejectionism. Israel and the Arabs have shifted positions--Arab states beg for peace and Israel remains unmoved and belligerant.

The U.S. plays a role in Israeli failures to learn from mistakes. As an analogy, we can look at a parent who consistently shields a child from ANY AND ALL consequences, consistently rejects constructive criticism of the child, defends and praises the child's wrong actions of a child, and, finally, convinces the child that he or she can do no wrong and all criticism means that the world is against him or her. If you raise a child in this fashion, what do you get? Sound anything like Israel?