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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
I agree with Caroline that the present government is aligned with the Biden administration and with the Democratic Party, and that is not a good thing for Israel. She is also correct that many Israelis on the “left” slander their own country, even at the United Nations. I do think that Caroline is a little too kind in attributing good motives to these people. I see them as “vipers,” after the snake in the Land of Israel that strikes without warning. A bit like the people in the Union states who supported the Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln labelled them the “Copperheads,” after a poisonous American snake that strikes without warning. The viper is a snake that lives in the Holy Land that also strikes without warning. So call the Israeli turncoats .“vipers.”
Caroline statements about Lapid and Gantz and the potential harm their policy of acquiescence to the US is quite persuasive, and it appears to have been adopted by Bennett. This policy change undermines Israel’s position with all of her Arab allies – both the current ones and any who would consider alliance in the future. Israel became a force within the Arab world as it opposed the Iran first policy of the US.
Israel, under Bibi, simultaneously adopted an Israel first policy which opposed the American-Iranian agenda, and, ironically, it was the Israeli policy placing her interests as a priority over America’s interests that drew Israel’s Sunni neighbors towards her.
This was because the Sunni’s realized they could trust Israel would pursue her own interests and thus created a common chord of regional responsibility for a common survival between the Sunni’s and the Jews against the alliance that ignored their shared interests – namely the US and Iran.
And the Sunni’s adopted this position in spite of their deep antithetical relationship with the Jewish State over many decades. Now, the Israeli-Sunni partnership provides for financial windfalls for each party which is beyond the scope of this military perspective of their alliance, but it was actually this common military perspective of vital interests that created the relationship and only later envisioned economic goals and interests.
Should Israel now openly disregard their policy of Israel first and instead pursue a policy of America first, as seems to be the new reality, it displays a complete betrayal of the fundamental accord that drew the two parties to a common support of vital interests of the Jews and Sunni states against Iran.
There are great claims of villainy that have been claimed against Bennett and Saar that I have been reluctant to accept in spite of their moves to empower the Left and Anti-Zionists.
But if they are willing to make this realignment against Israel’s interest first, it does call much into doubt that I have presumed about these two. If it is with their support, it is a true crime against the State’s interests, and if it is over their ability to prevent this reality, it would seem significant enough that it undermines the state and should be their position to make an end of their experiment. Either way it leaves me little to support my views about them and their motives.