Deception & Politics From Washington to Tel Aviv

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the final resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”

For more than fourteen painful months Israel has passed off its inhuman actions against the people of Gaza as “defensive.”

We are to believe that the massacre of tens of thousands of civilians and attacks on its Arab neighbors are somehow Israel’s “right.” Championed by the Biden administration, Tel Aviv has grown ever more bold and barbaric in its efforts to crush the resistance and expand its “undeclared” borders; simply, because it can.

Since it proclaimed itself a state on Palestinian land in 1948, Israel has been and continues to be engaged in the largest dispossession of an ethnic group in modern history. And following its victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Israel has emerged an expansionist, occupying and annexationist power, ruling over vast Arab lands and people.

The United States has, particularly since 1967, been the bulwark for Israel’s expansionist dreams. U.S.-Israeli supremacist intentions, papered over and buried for decades, are now clear for all to see.

Out of the ashes of World War II, the newly created United Nations, with U.S. pressure, helped legalize land theft. In 1947, the General Assembly (made up of 58 nations) said “yes” to the creation of a Jewish state on 62 percent of historic Palestine.

At the time of the unequal division, 68 percent of the population were Arab Palestinian Muslims and Christians, while only 30 percent were Jewish.

Zionist plans to seize all of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, have never ceased, and are clearly stated in the 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐮𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟕:

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚… 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚, 𝙅𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣; 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙞 𝙨𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙩𝙮.”

The inhumanity, injustices and militarism that we see today in Gaza, in the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen have deep roots in the founding of the Jewish state and its ongoing desire to create a hegemonic Eretz Israel (Greater Israel) throughout the Middle East.

The expansionist policies of the current Israeli regime are not an aberration. They are rather a continuation and the inevitable outcome of Zionist political ideology espoused by Israel’s founding fathers, advanced by the Labour and Likud parties, and currently being prosecuted by the fanatics in the far-right Religious Zionism party.

Like the early Zionists, every Israeli leader has believed in the Jewish right to all of Palestine and the right to expel the indigenous population to achieve an exclusive Jewish state. Their plans, goals and strategies have been blatantly stated and well documented over many years.

European founders, men like the father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904); Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940), founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of today’s Likud Party); Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), the first president of Israel; and David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Israel’s first prime minister, agreed that increased Jewish immigration and removal of Palestinians were required to secure control over Palestine and to create a Greater Israel.

Following are a handful of the many citations that should be weighed to understand European Zionism and its ethnic cleansing schemes for Palestine and its people:

“𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙨. 𝙒𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨. 𝙒𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮….𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮.” — 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝘇𝗹, 𝟭𝟴𝟵𝟱 [to Herzl, Palestinians were “it”]

“𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙯 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡. 𝙄𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙨….𝙒𝙚 𝙅𝙚𝙬𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩….𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙯 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡….[𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚] 𝙮𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙞𝙣 𝙜𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙮, 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙨.” — 𝐉𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟗.

“𝘽𝙮 𝙖 𝙅𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙄 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙅𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙖𝙨 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣.” — 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧, 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟗.

“𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙚 [𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙] 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖 [𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩]….𝙄 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙚𝙧. 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩.” — 𝐁𝐞𝐧-𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟕.

And:

“𝙈𝙮 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣…𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙅𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 [𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣] 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜….𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚.” — 𝐁𝐞𝐧-𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟖.

From Israel’s founder, Herzl, to its first prime minister, Ben-Gurion, its goal has been “a land for Israelis, without Palestinians.”

Ben Gurion speaking at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the building of the Histadrut, which would become Israel’s national trade union, in Jerusalem, 1924. (National Photo Collection of Israel, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)

Furthermore, by looking back on Israel’s expansionist strategies, we can better comprehend what Tel Aviv and Washington are currently plotting for Palestine and the larger region.

Their schemes for becoming the hegemons of the Levant are revealed in the: 1948 Plan Dalet (Plan D); Oded Yinon Plan, “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s;” and 1996 “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.”

𝐃𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 — 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞

Long before the British terminated their mandate and pulled their army out of Palestine, a cabal of Zionist political and military leaders, led by Ben-Gurion, had been preparing militarily plans for the dispossession of the Palestinians once the British left.

Plan Dalet (Plan D) was officially put into effect on March 10, 1948. Military orders were given to the new Israeli army and Haganah militia to systematically and forcibly remove Palestinians from vast areas of the country.

The operational orders specified which population centers should be targeted and laid out in detail how to drive out the inhabitants and destroy their communities, using methods including intimidation, setting fires to homes, properties and goods, demolishing homes and planting mines to prevent inhabitants from returning.

On April 9, 1948, at Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, over 150 Palestinian men, women and children were massacred by Zionist terrorist militias (members of Irgun and Stern Gang).

After six months, when the Nakba (the catastrophe) ended, over 750,000 Palestinians had been uprooted, 531 villages destroyed and eleven urban neighborhoods had been depopulated, soon repopulated with Jewish Israelis.

The destruction of Palestinian communities begun during and after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War marked the beginning of Israel’s apartheid system on 78 percent of historic Palestine.

𝐘𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 — ‘𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟎𝐬’

In February 1982, an essay appeared in Kivinum (Directions), a journal of the World Zionist Organization. It was written by Oded Yinon, a journalist for The Jerusalem Post with close ties to Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

The Yinon Plan for the Middle East contained the key elements of the “Greater Israel” scheme reflected in the expansionist policies — underwritten by the United States — that Tel Aviv has implemented over more than eight decades.

Although the “de-Palestinezation of Palestine” has been a priority, every Arab state has been a target of Zionist expansionism.

The Yinon Plan emphasizes two key elements: To survive, Israel must become an imperial regional power; and to achieve that hegemony, it must weaken and divide neighboring Arab states.

Israel’s aim has been to create small, sectarian-based Arab states with little choice but to yield to Israeli domination.

The Yinon Plan has been taking shape since the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) and U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Israel’s interest in weak states in the Middle East has been borne out in its air and cyber-wars and numerous assassinations of prominent opposition figures.

US Army tanks pose for a photo under the “Hands of Victory” in Ceremony Square, Baghdad. (U.S. Air Force, John L. Houghton, Jr., Public domain)

Since 1967, Israel has swallowed up more Arab land. It has illegally annexed Arab lands in Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights; with plans, as recently announced, to colonize the devastated Gaza Strip and to annex the West Bank.

𝐀 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 — ‘𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐦’

A U.S.-Israeli neoconservative research group at the Institute for Advanced Strategies and Palestine Studies in Washington, D.C. prepared a policy document in 1996 for newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The report titled, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” laid out a plan of action for how Washington and Tel Aviv could integrate their policies to defeat Israel’s “foes” by reshaping the Middle East.

Notably, the authors of the manifesto worked in the George W. Bush White House, inside the Pentagon and Defense Department. Its lead author, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (1981-87), Richard Perle, was one of the key figures in the formulation of the disastrous 2003 Iraq war strategy adopted by the Bush administration.

To win American support, Netanyahu was advised to package the proposed policies in a language familiar to Americans; hence, standard-issue canards such as “Israel has the right to defend itself” and branding supporters of Palestinian rights as “terrorists.”

The strategies described in the “Yinon” and “Clean Break” plans were constructs for endless U.S.-Israeli wars and chaos in the region.

It should be noted, that the United States has engaged in or sponsored wars or conflicts — beneficial to Israeli strategy — in Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Syria (from 2011 to the present), in Lebanon, Yemen, occupied West Bank and Gaza; and with Iran if Israel continues to have its way.

To “secure the realm,” Israel was urged to pursue aggressive policies of preemption and regime change against governments in the region that resisted Israel’s expansionist aims. Netanyahu was advised to collaborate with Jordan and Türkiye to destabilize Iraq and to contain Syria through proxy warfare.

Consistent with “clean break logic,” the Bush administration, under the pretext that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction, invaded Iraq in 2003, toppled Saddam Hussein and dismantled the ruling Ba’ath Party.

Iraq has yet to recover from America’s eight-year-long occupation and war.

Despite the Iraqi government’s request that the U.S. leave, Washington has refused to withdraw its remaining 2,500 troops.

The U.S.-Israel war on Syria, which led to the fall of President Bahar al-Assad in December 2024 began with the 1996 “Clean Break” strategy for the region.

It escalated in 2011 when President Barack Obama covertly instructed the C.I.A. to overthrow President Assad in Operation Timber Sycamore. Thirteen years of deadly war, frequent Israeli air strikes, and crippling U.S.-led economic sanctions, left Syria impoverished, fragmented and unable to resist foreign invasion.

Israel got what it wanted in Syria, a Balkanized and weakened country. The United States, Türkiye and their forces dominate in the North, while Israel controls areas in the South.

Tel Aviv now claims control over the demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, and has declared its intent to expand its illegal colonies in the Golan Heights, declaring them part of the Israeli state “for eternity.”

Netanyahu has eagerly embraced “Clean Break” proposals on ways to “secure the realm” in Palestine. He has perversely sabotaged the Oslo Accords (1993/1995), completely written-off the so-called two-state solution (land for peace) and sown division within the Palestinian national movement.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) tasked with limited government over parts of the occupied Palestinian territories by the now extinct Oslo Accords, has been reduced to an enforcement arm of the Israeli security state.

The Dec. 21 large-scale armed crackdown against Palestinian resistance groups in the Jenin refugee camp carried out by PA Security Forces exemplifies the extent of the collaboration.

It should be noted, that the assault was coordinated with Washington and Tel Aviv, and put under the direction of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael R. Fenzel, who has served as U.S. security coordinator of the Israel-Palestinian Authority since November 2021.

Clean Break strategists callously advised Israel, “to pursue Palestinians into all areas.” In its sinister belief that it can physically destroy the Palestinian national desire to return home to a free Palestine, Israel has ravaged and pulverized the defenseless Gaza Strip.

And for more than 17 years, Netanyahu has made it his mission to kill as many Palestinians as the United States and its Western allies will tolerate.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐳𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐡𝐮

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem on June 10. (State Department, Chuck Kennedy)

From Herzl’s “spirit them out” to Netanyahu’s campaign of genocide, the message and actions have been the same — remove all trace of Palestinians.

And from President Harry S. Truman to President Joe Biden, the message has been: the United States will prevent Israel from failing, whatever the political or economic cost.

When Biden asserts that he is a “committed Zionist,” he emphatically says to Israelis and Americans that the United States is in lockstep with Israel’s plans to erase Palestinians and their hopes for a sovereign Palestinian nation. Americans, too, many unwittingly, have become committed Zionists by financing Israeli supremacy and regional militarism.

In addition, by suppressing the truth about Israel’s expansionist plans, American politicians and the corporate media have fed the country’s addiction to regional supremacy and its dreams of a Greater Israel, without Palestinians.

Ben-Gurion’s words in a letter to his son in 1937 were menacing and foreboding:

“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣, 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙧.”

Israel’s current Zionist extremists have seized upon the Palestinian act of resistance on Oct. 7, 2023 to make Ben-Gurion’s hoped for “opportune moment” a reality, believing that they, like their predecessors, can continue to disfigure history.

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M. Reza Behnam is a political scientist specializing in the history, politics and governments of the Middle East.