Israel increasingly resembles the Crusaders in both method — perpetual war — and aspirations.

Evidence

Is Israel going the way of the Crusaders? (Middle East Eye)

corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
XREF: connects to: Is Israel repeating the Crusaders’ fatal mistake?; The Crusaders failed to build an everlasting kingdom; the podcast asks whether Zionism will meet the same fate. — Is Israel repeating the Crusaders’ fatal mistake? | Roy Casagranda | Déjà Vu; Ambassador Chas Freeman draws a parallel between the demise of the Crusader kingdoms in Palestine and the current trajectory of Israel. — Chas Freeman: The Greater Israel Project Is Collapsing (Transcript) (+4 more)

Ambassador Chas Freeman draws a parallel between the demise of the Crusader kingdoms in Palestine and the current trajectory of Israel. (similarity 0.85)
Israel began to be seen by its Arab neighbours as a national mutation of modern crusaders coming from the West to create a ‘Europe overseas.’ (similarity 0.85)
There are historical structural similarities between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the state of Israel worth scholarly comparison. (similarity 0.85)
The podcast explores historical parallels between modern Israel and the Crusader kingdoms, examining whether Israel is repeating the Crusaders’ fatal mistakes. (similarity 0.84)
Israel is often compared to the Crusader kingdom as a settlement project of fanatical Europeans in the Muslim East. (similarity 0.84)
Discourse shaped by the contemporary Israel-Palestine conflict serves as a framework for modern historiography of the Crusades. (similarity 0.80)
The Zionist-crusader analogy made by Arab scholars and writers and internalized by Israeli politicians has given rise to an Arab and Israeli ‘Crusader anxiety’. (similarity 0.80)
The Crusaders failed to build an everlasting kingdom; the podcast asks whether Zionism will meet the same fate. (similarity 0.79)
The analogy between Israel and Outremer is usually drawn by Israel’s enemies; ‘Jews and Crusaders’ was one of Osama bin Laden’s epithets. (similarity 0.78)