Reminds me of reading a story someone wrote about the epiphany they had when their therapist finally told them "the world does not wake up in the morning to fuck you"
Would there be an Israel today if Jewish people convinced themselves that the world is forever going to hate and subjugate them and that they are powerless to change it?
They could have done so, after all, the Holocaust was an unspeakable evil. But they chose the path of constructive defiance.