{"id":315838,"date":"2025-09-26T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315838"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:19:25","slug":"the-genie-of-israeli-first-dominance-is-out-of-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315838","title":{"rendered":"The genie of \u2018Israeli First\u2019 dominance is out of the bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alastair Crooke \u2013 Strategic Review Sept 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Gaza is on fire; the Jewish state will not relent\u2019<\/em>, Israeli Defence Minister Katz excitedly proclaims: \u201cThe IDF is striking with an Iron fist at terrorist infrastructure\u201d.<\/em> In fact, over recent weeks Israel has struck at \u2018infrastructure\u2019 in West Bank, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Tunisia \u2013 besides Gaza.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u2018Rules-Based Order\u2019 blueprint (if it ever truly existed beyond narrative) has been ripped up in favour of violent Zionism: Genocide, sneak attacks under the guise of on-going peace negotiations, assassinations, and the de-capitation of political leaderships. It is war without limits; without rules; without law; and in complete disdain for the UN Charter. Ethical boundaries, more particularly, are dismissed as mere \u2018moral relativism\u2019.<\/p>\n

Something profound is re-shaping Israeli foreign policy. The transformation needs be understood as a U-turn within the very core of Zionist thinking (a journey from Ben Gurion to Kahane), as Yossi Klein has written<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s strategy from past decades continues to rest on the hope of achieving some literal Chimeric transformative \u2018de-radicalisation\u2019 of both Palestinians and of the Region, writ large \u2013 a de-radicalisation that will make \u2018Israel safe\u2019. This has been the \u2018holy grail\u2019 objective for Zionists since Israel was first founded.<\/p>\n

Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer claims that such radical mutation in consciousness will only come from the bombing of opponents into utter submission. (The lesson which he draws from WWII). One aspect \u2013 Israel\u2019s foreign policy \u2013 then is clear: It is the \u2018War of the Jungle\u2019.<\/p>\n

But there is another aspect; one perhaps more troubling: These norms and ethical principles that Israel openly seeks to tear apart are, in the last resort, American proclaimed norms and values. Strikingly, the U.S. has abandoned its traditional ethos when it comes to Israel. And rather than criticise or seek to limit Israel\u2019s use of such norm-busting military actions, the Trump Administration emulates them \u2013 sneak attacks under the guise of talking peace, de-capitation attempts, and striking with missiles at unknown vessels off Venezuela, vaporising the crew.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is doing this openly \u2013 thumbing its nose, like Israel, at international law and conventions.<\/p>\n

It does appear that key components of the U.S. Establishment increasingly favour the military strategies of Israel and even are shifting from the moral ethos of a \u2018Just War\u2019, shall we say, to one closer to the Hebraic ethos of \u2018Amalek\u2019<\/em>. It amounts to updating western moral \u2018software\u2019 with the alternative \u2018justice\u2019 of absolute war.<\/p>\n

Does the Israel state have a future? Israel is now carrying out a second Nakba<\/em> in Gaza and the West Bank<\/a>, with Jewish society remaining trapped in repression and denial \u2013 just as it was back in 1948. Israeli Historian, Ilan Pappe wrote<\/a> in 2006 in his seminal work on the 1948 Nakba <\/em>the fundamental importance of \u201cretrieving [the events of 1948] from oblivion\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n

Once the decision was taken [on 10 March 1948], it took six months to complete the mission. When it was over, more than half of Palestine\u2019s native population, close to 800,000 people, had been uprooted, 531 villages \u2026 destroyed, and eleven urban neighbourhoods emptied of their inhabitants. The plan \u2026 and above all its systematic implementation in the following months, was a clear-cut case of an ethnic cleansing operation, regarded under international law today as a crime against humanity \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The story of 1948 is not complicated \u2026 It is the simple but horrific story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a crime against humanity that Israel has wanted to deny and cause the world to forget. Retrieving it from oblivion is incumbent upon us, not just as a greatly overdue act of historiographical reconstruction or professional duty; it is \u2026 a moral decision, the very first step we must take if we ever want reconciliation to have a chance.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wrote recently how Israeli film-maker Neta Shoshani\u2019s controversial<\/a> documentary about the 1948 Nakba<\/em><\/a> showed Israeli ethical and legal boundaries to have been erased in a bout of bloodletting and rape. The absolute loss of ethos (there was no accounting or justice), Shoshani says, imperilled the then-legitimacy of the State founding project. Repeated a second time \u2013 the current war \u2013 she warns, \u201ccould be the one That Ends Israel<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shoshani\u2019s comments hint at the trauma felt by secular liberal Jews at witnessing the norms and lifestyle of their largely secular-liberal society upended by the swivel towards the militaristic and eschatological objectives of the Israeli Right. Finance Minister Smotrich declared<\/a> recently that the Jewish people are experiencing \u201cthe process of redemption and the return of the divine presence to Zion \u2013 as they engage in the \u2018conquest of the land\u2019\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many European Jews did arrive in the new Israeli state to find safety and protection, however, they also came to participate in the Zionist project in Palestine.<\/p>\n

For now, Netanyahu states he has Trump\u2019s \u201c100%\u201d<\/em> support and \u201cunlimited credit\u201d <\/em>for the maelstrom unleashed across the region. As Ben Caspit writes<\/a>, quoting a senior Israeli diplomat:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that Rubio landed here just days after the [Doha] attack, and voiced almost no criticism \u2014 in fact, the opposite \u2014 gives a tailwind to Israel\u2019s operation in Gaza \u2026 Israel has not received such a generous and long line of credit from any American administration\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

And Trump seems to be moving away from the \u2018global peacemaker\u2019 moniker to concentrate more narrowly on demonstrating American \u2018exceptional greatness\u2019 \u2013 through tariffs, sanctions or military operations \u2013 thus demonstrating a dominating, if not Great, America.<\/p>\n

Yet the problems are all too apparent: In previous years, Israel had been largely relegated to the sidelines at the U.S. National Conservatism Conference<\/em>. This time around, the Jewish state and its wars couldn\u2019t be avoided. The latest Conservatism conference<\/a> slid into \u2018civil war\u2019 between the neo-con \u2018realists\u2019 supporting Israel, and those asking: \u201cWhy are these our wars? Why are Israel\u2019s endless problems America\u2019s liabilities? Why should we accept [Israel as being part of] \u2018America First\u2019?\u201d, as the editor of The American Conservative <\/em>exploded: \u201cWe f***ing shouldn\u2019t!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The tension within the Republican Party is obvious: MAGA supporters wish to support Trump, but the big Jewish donors and commentators, such as pro-Israel hawk Max Abrahms, mocked Tucker Carlson-loving \u201cMAGA isolationists<\/em>\u201d at the conference, who had gone \u201cinsane<\/em>\u201d in their push to disengage from the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Trump warned Netanyahu that the genocide in Gaza is causing Israel to bleed support among Republicans, including especially among younger people. Nonetheless, Trump has not modified his unwavering support for Israel (for whatever reason), but he has taken notice of the \u2018mood vibe\u2019 amongst his base.<\/p>\n

If Trump has indeed noticed the change, Netanyahu doesn\u2019t care. As Amir Tibon in Haaretz<\/em><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump thinks his comments on Israel\u2019s loss of \u2018control over Congress\u2019 will be a wake-up call for Netanyahu, he\u2019s mistaken. Israelis didn\u2019t need Trump to know that their country is losing the battle over global public opinion\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu and Ron Dermer \u2026 are at peace with Israel\u2019s loss of international support, heightened isolation, the threats of sanctions against it, and arrest warrants for its leaders (including Netanyahu himself). The two don\u2019t seem to care, and the reason, ironically, is the very man sounding the alarm: Donald Trump\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Netanyahu\u2019s point of view, as long as he\u2019s got Trump\u2019s backing \u2013 none of it matters\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, Israel\u2019s wars have lost a generation of young American conservatives \u2013 and they\u2019re not coming back. Whatever the circumstances to the killing of Charlie Kirk, his death has let loose the genie of \u2018Israeli First\u2019 dominance in Republican politics to escape from the bottle.<\/p>\n

When Netanyahu does peer out, he will find that Israel has lost America (and the rest of the world, too).<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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