Existential Danger Quotes
There are two main interpretations of Hawking's statement: One that artifical beings will eventuall gain dominance and have no need for humans. The other is that humans will more and more incorporate computer technoliogy and powerful sensors into their bodies or eventually move human brains into artificial entities and the human race will evolve to the degree that our species as it exists now will no longer exists. Humans may well evolve themselves. It is not clear which of these views he leaned towards.
Israel's Arab enemies do not simply want to control the territory and/or the economic resources. Their aim, overtly stated thousands of times since the formation of Israel, is to "drive the Jews into the sea", murder the population, obtain revenge for their percieved humiliation that "foreigners" to the region and their religion could build a society so far advanced compared to Arabs on the harsh land abd without any of the oil riches that some of the Arab states had. Israel has won all the wars that the Arabs have initiated, and never murdered the population, and provide the "occupied territiries" with better medicine and infrastructure than the Arabs achieve on their own.
