Watching the Collapse: Why a Sovereign Israel Outlasts the Dying British and French Empires

PELONI:  A must read article by Harry Liberman in which he reviews the plight of a collapsing Europe and the rise of the sovereign nation of Israel.

 A sovereign nation that surrenders its demographic borders and its historical identity will eventually face internal partition

Harry Liberman

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From Hadrian’s revisions to Glubb Pasha’s ethnic cleansing,

There is a terrifying, poetic precision to the way history balances its ledgers. 

For two millennia, the European continent treated the Jewish people as its ultimate canvas for cruelty—a perpetual scapegoat to be exiled, plundered, slaughtered, and scrubbed from memory. Yet today, as the great capitals of Europe fracture under the weight of civil unrest, economic decay, and a paralyzing crisis of national identity, a bitter historical irony unfolds. The very continent that mastered the art of displacing others is now watching its own cultural and sovereign foundations erode. Meanwhile, the sovereign Jewish state they repeatedly tried to prevent from existing stands as a global military powerhouse, far outpacing the diminished reach of the fallen empires that once dictated its fate.

What goes around, inevitably, comes around. 

For a Jewish world that has watched Europe cycle through centuries of blood libels, expulsions, and systemic abandonment, the current spectacle is a masterclass in tragic irony—the slow-motion collapse of a civilization that believed it could violate the rights of an indigenous people forever without facing its own day of reckoning.

The global explosion of Antisemitism[Anti Zionism] following October 7, 2023, proved that the virus never vanished; it merely waited for a green light. Overnight, the polite veneer of Western diplomacy melted away, exposing the ancient urge to lie about the Jew, isolate the Jew, and ultimately, eliminate the Jew. Western demands for “land for peace” were never about coexistence; they have always been a euphemism for antisemitism.

The entire trajectory of European interaction with the Levant has had one singular, unchanging objective: to sever the Jew from the land of Israel, a campaign of total erasure that dates back to the first century. [1]

The Roman Blueprint of Erasure

Europe’s obsession with de-Judaizing history did not begin in the 20th century; it began with the Roman Empire. As documented by the contemporary Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, the deep-seated indigenous ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel were violently interrupted by European conquerors who targeted Judean sovereignty [Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews]. This foundational European assault executed the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth under the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate—an execution marked explicitly by the Latin placard labeling him “King of the Jews.”

As historical records confirm, Jesus lived and died within Second Temple Judaism; he was circumcised and named eight days after birth according to Torah law, and regularly gave sermons within the historic synagogue of Capernaum. He never knew the word “Christian” or “Muslim,” yet Europe spent centuries persecuting his kin under the absurd label of “Christ-killers.”

Following the brutal suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), Emperor Hadrian initiated one of the earliest documented campaigns of state-sponsored cultural erasure. Hadrian decreed that the very name of the land must be wiped out, ordering the province of Judaea to be officially renamed Syria Palaestina. By deliberately resurrecting the name of the ancient Philistines—the long-extinct sea-faring adversaries of King David—Hadrian engineered a historic insult designed to strip the territory of its explicit Jewish ethnic association.

This punitive renaming is explicitly preserved in the archaeological record.

Roman coins minted by Hadrian immediately before the revolt proudly display the name Judaea. In stark contrast, official Roman military diplomas dating to 139 CE completely omit the name, utilizing only Syria Palaestina. Jerusalem was razed, its sacred Temple looted—with its sacred spoils carried off to Rome as depicted in the Arch of Titus—and the city refounded as a pagan Roman colony named Aelia Capitolina. Under pain of death, Jews were banned from entering their own capital. This Roman architecture of displacement became the baseline for European treatment of the Jews for the next two thousand years.

Great Britain: The Archetype of Imperial Betrayal

While France burns and Germany fractures, it is Great Britain that serves as the definitive case study for how geopolitical malice eventually curdles into domestic catastrophe.

When Europe reached the absolute zenith of its anti-Semitic malice in the 20th century, British policy epitomized the continent’s cold indifference. At the 1938 Evian Conference, convened to address the surging crisis of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, Western democracies exposed their total lack of a moral compass.

The spirit of the conference was captured by Australian delegate Thomas White, who callously stated, “As we have no racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one.” Shortly thereafter, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, waving a worthless piece of paper and declaring he had secured “peace for our time,” while actively handing sovereign European territories to the Nazi war machine and abandoning millions of vulnerable Jews to their fates.

But Britain’s most calculated betrayal occurred in the sands of the Palestine Mandate. 

Bound by international law under the 1922 San Remo Resolution to facilitate a “national home for the Jewish people,” Whitehall chose instead to barter Jewish survival for Arab goodwill and uninterrupted access to oil. Having failed to install the Hashemite monarchy in Syria due to French intervention, the British sliced away 77 percent of the original Jewish mandated territory on June 1, 1946, unilaterally handing it over to create the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Through the infamous White Paper of May 1939, Britain slammed the doors of the Jewish homeland shut just as the gas chambers began to smoke, capping Jewish immigration to a mere 75,000 over five years.

This betrayal culminated directly in the British withdrawal of May 14, 1948. Upon their exit, British authorities did not merely leave a vacuum; they left a trap. The British-trained, British-funded, and British-officered Transjordanian Arab Legion, commanded directly by British General John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha), marched into Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. Under Glubb Pasha’s tactical leadership, the Legion carried out a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing. Every single Jew was forcibly expelled from the historic heartland of Judea. Ancient Jewish quarters were razed—visual evidence of which remains thoroughly archived in historical collections like Getty Images—and historic cemeteries, including the ancient grounds on the Mount of Olives, were desecrated and turned into literal latrines by Jordan’s occupying forces. [1]

To solidify this theft, Britain became one of only three nations—alongside Pakistan and the Hashemite monarchy—to recognize the illegal annexation and renaming of Judea and Samaria to the sanitized geopolitical term, the “West Bank.” This pre-1967 line was never a recognized international border; it was merely an armistice line marking where the invading Arab armies stopped their advance, completely refuting the historical validity of a “two-state solution” based on those exact lines. [1, 2]

The Invention of a Narrative

To sustain this historical robbery, an entirely fabricated national narrative had to be constructed. The League of Nations’ Palestine Mandate never once mentioned a “Palestinian Arab nation,” recognizing only the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land. The modern construct of a distinct Palestinian identity was engineered decades later as a tactical political weapon against Zionism. As explicitly admitted by Zuheir Mohsen, the leader of the PLO’s As-Sa’iqa faction, in his infamous March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw: [1]

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity… Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people.“ [1, 2]

This manufactured identity has culminated in the modern era with the propagation of a fake “genocide” narrative in Gaza—a blood libel designed to invert reality while ignoring the genocidal reality of October 7, 2023. [1, 2]

The French Crucible: A Republic in Flames

Cross the English Channel, and the historical karma becomes even more graphic. France, the country that gave the world the Dreyfus Affair and Vichy collaboration, is currently enduring an unprecedented domestic implosion. The romanticized French Republic has been replaced by a landscape of unintegrated parallel societies, rampant street violence, and a complete loss of sovereign authority over its own territory.

The words of French officials themselves reveal a leadership fully aware that the state is losing its grip on the nation. As former French President François Hollande starkly admitted in a series of candid interviews regarding the country’s demographic and integration failures:

“How can we avoid partition? Because that’s what’s happening: partition… I think it’s difficult. It’s dangerous.”

This sentiment of an internal fracturing has been echoed across the French political spectrum. Former Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, upon resigning his post, delivered a chilling warning on the steps of the Beauvau palace regarding the total breakdown of secular French integration:

“Today we live side by side… I fear that tomorrow we will live face to face.”

Today, in 2026, those warnings have manifested as reality. French authorities watch passively as parallel legal, cultural, and religious structures assert dominance within their sovereign borders, leaving the indigenous population feeling like strangers in their own cities.

Dismantling the Washington Myths

For years, the same European and Western establishments that enabled this cycle have propagated malicious myths regarding Israel’s relationship with the United States. Chief among these is the lie that Israel dragged America into the Iraq War. In truth, it was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who explicitly warned President George W. Bush ahead of the 2003 invasion, advising Washington against occupying Iraq, warning that the Arab world would not accept enforced democratization, and correctly predicting that removing Saddam Hussein would destabilize the region and empower Iran. [1, 2, 3]

Similarly, the mainstream narrative surrounding the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) routinely caricatures it as a narrow Jewish cabal. In reality, AIPAC’s political foot soldiers and largest supporting demographic are American Christians. The largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States is Christians United for Israel (CUFI), boasting over 10 million evangelical members whose theological and political support dwarfs traditional secular lobbies. [1, 2, 3]

Furthermore, the annual $3.8 billion in U.S. foreign military aid to Israel is fundamentally misunderstood. Unlike foreign aid funneled to Ukraine (exceeding $200 billion) or Pakistan ($2 billion to a regime that actively hid Osama bin Laden), American aid to Israel functions as a highly lucrative commercial investment. Under the Memorandum of Understanding, nearly every dollar of Foreign Military Financing (FMF) must be spent directly inside the United States, subsidizing the American defense industrial base and returning massive economic dividends. Through joint technological ventures, shared intelligence, and co-developed missile defense systems like Iron Dome and Arrow, Israel effectively returns an estimated equivalent of $25 billion annually back into American coffers via intellectual property, structural security, and combat-proven aerospace innovation. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The New “Settlers” of the West

The supreme, tragic irony of this modern script is the ultimate inversion of vocabulary.

For decades, European intellectuals, diplomats, and media outlets have sneered at Jews living in their ancestral heartland of Judea, branding them as “illegal settlers” and “occupiers” in a land literally named after them. [1, 2]

Yet, as the fires burn in Paris and the social fabric of Britain unravels, the clock ticks toward an inevitable psychological shift. 

In the near future, it will not be the Jews who are called occupiers of an alien land. The indigenous French will be called “settlers” occupying France; the native British will be called “settlers” in London. The very vocabulary of delegitimization that Europe engineered to tear the Jew away from Israel is now being weaponized by the global landscape to tear Europe away from the Europeans.

While Europe burns in its self-made crucible of demographic fracture and historical karma, the Jewish people are no longer the stateless, helpless victims of the Roman colosseum or the Evian boardroom. Today, the sovereign State of Israel possesses a military apparatus, a technological edge, and a nuclear deterrence capability that dwarfs the combined projection power of the entirely depleted British and French militaries.

The movie is playing out exactly as written. 

The empires have crumbled, the persecutors are losing their own homes, and the eternal victim is standing strong. 

For two millennia, European empires mastered the art of displacing Jews. Today, as Paris burns and London fractures, the vocabulary of “settlers” and “occupiers” is turning back on the West. Land for peace” has always been a euphemism for the world’s oldest virus. As Europe burns in a crucible of its own design, the truth about the Palestinian narrative, AIPAC, and U.S. aid can no longer be hidden.From Hadrian’s revisions to Glubb Pasha’s ethnic cleansing, the West spent centuries trying to dissolve the Judean identity.

Now, Israel stands as a powerhouse while Europe undergoes its own partition.

Citation/Verification for the uninformed !!!

The Roman Inversion: Outlines the original European re-engineering of Judea under Hadrian using archaeological records and the contemporary documentation of Flavius Josephus.

Citation/Verification:Compelling primary documentation of early Jewish national sovereignty is preserved in the multi-volume chronicles of Flavius Josephus, while the physical suppression of Judea and its subsequent punitive renaming to Syria Palaestina following the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132–136 CE) is verified by standard Roman state legal records, notably including surviving Roman military diplomas dating to 139 CE. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

The British Betrayal: Contextualizes the 1938 Evian failure and details the May 14, 1948 withdrawal, tracking how British actions—culminating in Glubb Pasha’s Legion—divided Jewish mandated lands for oil. 

Citation/Verification: Historical records from the 1938 Evian Conference preserve the exact restrictive borders and rejection quotes of the participating Western powers, while British Cabinet documents and wartime publications—including critiques published by Winston Churchill—verify that the British state systematically bartered away Jewish immigration rights under the 1939 White Paper in exchange for Middle Eastern pipeline access and Islamic oil partnerships. The subsequent physical entry, siege, and ethnic cleansing of eastern Jerusalem by the Transjordanian Arab Legion on May 14, 1948, remains thoroughly documented under the operational dispatches of British General John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha). [1, 2, 3]

The French Implosion: Utilizes explicit warning quotes from past French leadership (Hollande and Collomb) regarding the structural “partition” of modern secular France.

Citation/Verification: The internal fracturing of the republic is directly pulled from the public admissions of the state’s highest officials; former French President François Hollande explicitly warned of an impending “partition” of French national territory in his documented programmatic interviews, while former Interior Minister Gérard Collomb delivered his famous warning that French factions are moving from living “side by side” to living “face to face.”

Dismantling Washington Myths: Destroys mainstream blood libels regarding the Iraq War (noting Sharon’s explicit warnings against invasion), provides correct data on AIPAC’s Christian demographic base, and outlines the $25 billion strategic fiscal return on America’s $3.8 billion defense investment in Israel.

Citation/Verification: Declassified diplomatic records and official testimonies from high-ranking Israeli and American diplomats (such as former Ambassador Danny Ayalon) confirm that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon privately lectured and explicitly warned President George W. Bushagainst the 2003 invasion of Iraq, predicting the collapse of the regional balance of power and advising against attempting to forcefully implant democracy in the Arab world. Demographic audits of the modern American pro-Israel lobby confirm that evangelical organizations like Christians United for Israel (CUFI) make up its single largest numeric base, while commercial metrics from the U.S. Department of Defense confirm the domestic economic cycle where Foreign Military Financing (FMF) returns structural billions directly into American aerospace and manufacturing sectors. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Harry Liberman:  Child of the Holocaust , baby of the family,  studied my fathers survived history firsthand. In an industry obsessed with convenient omissions,  you can hide a source, you can’t erase a witness.