T. Belman. Yes, the US is openly challenging this government and will not back down. This time, hopefully Israel has the strength and determination to say “no”.
Anyone who doesn’t see how President Joe Biden’s administration is quietly marching toward a Kissinger-level pressure doesn’t know US diplomacy or is willingly blind.
America is probably the most tolerant, liberal, and democratic empire ever seen in international relations. The founding father George Washington cast it as a new world that would have nothing to do with the old ways of the corrupt Old World. He saw the ocean as the best way to protect it.
President James Monroe championed isolationism but broke with it in 1823 when he sought to prevent European inroads in South America. Theodor Roosevelt flirted with the idea of imperialism in the early 20th century, but ultimately isolationism carried the day and made it difficult for the US to join both world wars.
After World War II, its sheer power made the US the world’s de facto juggernaut, forcing it to act as an empire to block Communist Russia. But compared with other empires before it, the US imperial dominance has been moderate, and it has often turned a blind eye to its allies not falling in line. Its forgiving attitude to Germany and Japan also attests to this.
Israel, as a darling of Washington, has enjoyed the US empire’s kid-glove treatment like a child who gets away with mischief because his parents love him.
But things have not always been perfect. When Israel captured a swath of land in Sinai at the end of the War of Independence in 1949, then-US ambassador all but forced Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to relinquish that territory. In 1956, after Israel captured Sinai in the Suez Campaign, all it took was a reprimand from President Dwight Eisenhower to disabuse Ben-Gurion of the notion that Israel could hold on to the Straits of Tiran.
The biggest analogy to what could unfold in the near future in the relationship is the post-Yom Kippur War period. Back then, the master of US diplomacy, Secretary of State Henri Kissinger, suggested Israel withdraw from part of Sinai in an interim deal with Egypt. But then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who had supported the idea as ambassador to the US, refused, even though the plan was originally drafted by Moshe Dayan, the former Israeli general and defense minister.
As the Haaretz correspondent in Washington, an outraged Kissinger told me, “America doesn’t need to shout in order to for it to be heard all around the world.” Kissinger eventually showed how this is done: He exerted pressure on Israel without confronting it in public, and this proved effective. Rabin eventually caved and embraced the plan; the interim deal was finalized. It ultimately became the critical foundation for the most important peace deal Israel has: the Israel-Egypt peace treaty signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat in 1979.
Anyone who doesn’t see how President Joe Biden’s administration is quietly marching toward the same pressure point with Israel doesn’t know US diplomacy or is willingly blind.
Washington is not going to let Israel get away with action on settlements that would contradict its pledges in the Aqaba Summit several days ago. Nor will it turn a blind eye to cases where the IDF, which depends on US funding for some of its weapon systems, shows inaction in the face of Jewish rioters carrying out pogroms against Palestinians.
The US is moving toward the junction where it will force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do things, just like Kissinger used his leverage on Rabin. Netanyahu knows more than anyone else what impact the US can have simply by changing how it votes in the UN.
Netanyahu has, for all intents and purpose, entered a period of political incapacitation. He has been holding on to his seat like a criminal grabbing the horns of the altar during biblical times. He should get a plea bargain that would allow him to clear the stage. This would pave the way for Likud to form a reasonable right-wing government that would safeguard the high-tech sector, restore security and revive the mutual respect and friendship with Washington.
About Dan Margalit:
In 1977, while serving as Washington correspondent of Haaretz, he revealed that Leah Rabin, wife of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, had a United States bank account, illegal in Israel at the time. The story, known as the Dollar Account affair, led to Rabin’s resignation and the nomination of Shimon Peres as the Alignment‘s candidate for prime minister.
In 1992 he was appointed editor of Maariv by publisher Ofer Nimrodi, but he resigned six months later.[2] In June 2007, Margalit began to write for Israel HaYom, a new free daily newspaper in Israel. On 6 June 2017, Margalit informed the public via his Twitter account that he had been fired from Israel Hayom.[3]
Michael, I am not paralyzed with fear. I have a healthy respect for what I see coming on the world. I also, know that God is in control of everything. I was looking at Isaiah 13 last week and noted something in the text. According to which translation you use, so you may have to go back to the Hebrew to see it more clearly. In v.6 it speaks of a “day of the Lord” being near. In v. 9 it speaks of a “day of the Lord” coming. Translators and scholars, have seen in the text the – first is speaking of the time of Isaiah but the – second his speaking of a time in the future and that it’s not just the land as in the first – but it seems to move out to the whole earth in the second.
In my opinion, if you look close at the language there seems to be and echo of the first – that rings loud and clear in the N.T. writings. But, in the second it seems to connect up with Matt. 23-24, although, I think you can see overlaps in both.
Many people understand “the day of the Lord” as a future time, at the end of time. But a closer reading of the idea suggests that it is a theological concept with both a present and future connation.(present meaning, the time it was written or spoke by the prophet/Writer). I have often wonder where the N.T. writers got the idea of a Second coming as opposed to just one coming?
I heard a Rabbi teaching on Gog / Magog once and he said this was not just one event, but he thought it had been broken up into at least 3 pieces if not more, due to Gods mercy. The event being so bad….. that if it all happened at one event it would completely destroy mankind. i.e. World War 1. WW2 and the next event WW3.
I think the same logic could be applied to “the day of the Lord”. At any rate, Zech 12 is calling.
This debate about the USA and Israel has been going on since forever. Israel can and must stand onits own feet.
Hi, Tanna.
The Bible tells us 365 times not to be afraid. Since this is not a leap year, that covers one admonition per day.
I hear often, from many sources, about a >Master Mind” in the White House. The most reasonable trail I’ve seen so far, is that Susan Rice is Obama’s interlocutor to Joe and Dr. Biden. Obama’s moneylaunderer is in the Ukraine. The money comes from Soros, Xi and a host of others, whereas orders and direction come from the WEF. From here on there is speculation, but there’s a good case to be made that Charles III, respected leader of the world’s largest “elite”, oversees the WEF.
This could be. I was certainly shocked to see his free acceptance of a mechanical “Moloch” bull at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which he oversaw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRX4-h8c3Y
He was also the one (not Klaus Schwab) who inaugurated the “Great Reset” at the WEF
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid19-great-reset-gita-gopinath-jennifer-morgan-sharan-burrow-climate/
Whoever the “head beast” is, the one over him is the “Old Dragon” of old; and fortunately for us, his time is quickly coming to an end.
I’m speechless……. I spend to much time, trying to keep up with the reported news. It seems to me, like America is slowly being primed for a war. Im not ready to pick who with, but the drum beat is relentless. My worries, is that Master mind, in the WH will take on China, India, Russia and Iran all at once. Remember, the Pentagon said we are out of bullets.
If the currnet Cabal continues to hold Washington, I don’t think it will be “benevolent” much longer.
I’m speechless……. I spend to much time, trying to keep up with the reported news. It seems to me, like America is slowly being primed for a war. Im not ready to pick who with, but the drum beat is relentless. My worries, is that Master mind, in the WH will take on China, India, Russia and Iran all at once. Remember, the Pentagon said we are out of bullets.
The most idiotic article I have ever read although it does contain some interesting info.
Hmmm.
What’s perfect about a spoiled child? Grow up, kid!
This all follows a consistent logic. Margalit’s CONCLUSION, though, is not correct. Israel certainly should not be a “willful, disobedient child”, but neither should it be an “obedient child”. What it needs to do is grow up! Israel needs to:
1. Make its own decisions, based on weighing its own needs with its possibilities, and
2. Once it has made it’s decision, follow through on it. Once Israel’s decision is ITS OWN, it can no longer blame the US for what it decides!
I actually think the majority Jews of Israel don’t WANT to be adults, which is why they don’t want to decide, which is why they can’s seem to decide on who to lead them. Do they want a benevolent Uncle Sam, who treats them like babies? Or do they want a reliably ruthless Vlad the Impaler? Or maybe Xi, or the Ayatollah. Let them go up to Mount Carmel and choose; then let them take the consequences for what they’ve done.
BTW. If the currnet Cabal continues to hold Washington, I don’t think it will be “benevolent” much longer.