Ben Gurion said that Israel is a small state that needs additional land the Atom bomb military strength. He wanted more and more land. If you want to establish an NGO, even for art or literature, you must get a license. Everything is government controlled. Only religious people enjoy lack of control.
Today there are six thousand.
Since the days of Abd Al-Nasser there has been little progress in the realm of personal liberties. There is a little more freedom of expression in books but not in the electronic media. Egypt's Debacle Al-Mahdi was in Beirut in September 1982 and took pictures of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. His pictures were published in the Lebanese paper Al-Safir and worldwide. I realized that there is an alliance between extremists in Israel and undemocratic fascists here.