Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 08.05.2025
Israel has been functioning as a strategic partner for Western imperialism and, in particular, for American imperialism for many years. The government of Israel has been very proud of being a strategic asset for the West. This was the vision of Herzl, who said: “A Jewish state in Palestine would build an iron wall against Asian barbarism”. He was offering to secure Western imperialist interests against the Arabs and eastwards, by a European colonial settlement in what for centuries had been Palestinian.
Allan Arkush in the Summer of 2013 wrote in Jewish review of books:
“Herzl wasn’t dead-set on establishing it in Palestine, but he did argue that there would be certain advantages in doing so, and not only for the Jews. “ We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia,” he wrote, “an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” Twenty years later, Chaim Weizmann spoke in a more multicultural voice. England, he said, “would have in the Jews,” among other things, “the best possible friends, who would be the best national interpreters of ideas in the eastern countries and would serve as a bridge between the two civilizations.” [i]
Not only Herzl and the governments of Israel have seen Israel as strategic Assets of the West, as Peres said. The US views Israel as a critical ally because it helps promote US global supremacy at a time when it is facing inevitable decline. Israel’s survival in its current settler-colonial form – the US elites believe – is closely tied to maintaining US supremacy. But is it so today?
Sources close to the president: “Trump is disappointed with Netanyahu and has decided to advance moves in the Middle East without him. A low point in personal relations and mutual disappointment between the prime minister and the US president. Trump is furious at the attempt by Netanyahu and his people to push the fired national security adviser to take military action against Iran. The president’s anger is the explanation for Israel’s compartmentalization and the background to the announcements by Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz
Earlier this week, we reported that Netanyahu is frustrated with Trump, and now it turns out that the American president has also lost patience with the Israeli prime minister. Two senior sources close to the president said in recent days in closed-door conversations that reached Israel Hayom that Trump has decided not to wait any longer for Israel but to advance moves in the Middle East without waiting for Netanyahu. The US president has lost patience with the prime minister.
The sources explained that the president is interested in making decisions that he believes will advance the United States, especially regarding Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. In some of these steps – apparently referring mainly to normalization with Saudi Arabia – Israel was supposed to take part. However, according to Trump, Netanyahu is delaying making the necessary decisions. Against this background, the president is not willing to delay until Israel does what is expected of it and moves forward without it.
It should be noted that as part of normalization with Israel, Saudi Arabia expects an end to the war in Gaza and an Israeli declaration of a “horizon for a Palestinian state,” or similar formulation. Minister Ron Dermer, who is handling the issue, devoted many hours to formulating words related to Israel’s willingness to establish a “Palestinian state” in the future, against the backdrop of public opposition to the idea and the political sensitivity of the term in Israel.
In addition, Trump is furious at what he sees as an attempt by Netanyahu and his people to push National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who has since been fired from his position, into military action in Iran. In response to the publication of the affair in the Washington Post, Netanyahu claimed that he had spoken with Waltz only once. But Trump was not convinced.”[ii]
Israel out of Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria!
One democratic state for the Israelis and the Palestinians, including the refugees!
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[i] https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/345/east-and-west/ #
[ii] https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopolitics/article/17914980