The astonishing—and quite unbelievable—announcement by the head of intelligence for the Israeli Defense Force that there in excess of 170,000 rockets aimed at Israel’s cities, has highlighted once again the staggering paranoia which drives Jewish Supremacist behavior.

The announcement by Aviv Kochavi, IDF Intel head that “the 170,000 rockets and missiles pointed by enemy states at Israel represented the most pressing threat [to Israel], a danger even above Iran’s rogue nuclear program” was made at a recent Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv.

Kochavi asserted that Israel faces 170,000 rockets and missiles, and that, “for the first time in many decades, the enemy has the ability to drop considerable amounts of munitions on the cities of Israel.”

In the past the threat was countered by the IAF, he said; today it is Israel’s enemies’ primary weapon and it represents an enormous intelligence challenge to counter.

He said the 170,000 number had actually been higher, but that Syria’s stockpiles were being depleted in the civil war, and Hamas’s arsenal had been depleted during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. “The number will rise again,” Kochavi warned.

The claim that Israel’s enemies actually have 170,000 rockets “aimed at Israel’s cities” borders on the absurd, given that most of the rockets which are fired at Israel are home-made by Palestinian militants, and almost always inflict no damage at all.

Even at the very height of the 2008 war in Gaza, the number of these home-made rockets which even made it across the Israeli border is highly debatable, and even at their most inflated, make the claims of 170,000 such weapons laughable.

So why would the head of the IDF’s intelligence section even make such a ludicrous claim?

The answer to this lies deep within the psychological underpinnings of Jewish Supremacism, and indeed that group’s entire behavior towards Gentiles.

Anyone who has studied psychology knows that there are two symptoms to paranoia: Delusions of grandeur and delusions of persecution.

Jewish Supremacism has made a religion out of these two symptoms: on the one hand, they claim that God has chosen the Jews to be above all Gentiles (delusions of grandeur); and on the other hand, they have perpetuated the idea that they are always being “persecuted.”

Of course, the Jewish Supremacists never say why they are persecuted, just that they are.

The bizarre claim that there are “170,000 rockets aimed at Israeli cities” is just one more example of this “persecution complex”—created by those suffering from this group paranoia and designed specifically to appeal to fellow group members to heighten their sense of paranoia.

This then, is the reason why Jewish Supremacist are always making up enemies and threats, and then, as anti-Zionist activist Gilad Atzmon has pointed out, make these made-up threats into real ones by their own behavior.