In fact, U.S. foreign policy has created a genocidal Israel. Without massive, unconditional U.S. military subsidies, Israel would have had to practice diplomacy with their neighbors years ago.
As Gaza and Beirut burns under Israel’s bombs, it is obvious for anyone who is paying attention that America has long incubated the emergence of the worst possible version of Israel. Decades of U.S. foreign policy have rewarded and accelerated a downward trajectory of genocidal politics and actions in both Israeli society and government. And now, with the full backing of the US President, Israel is driving wave after wave of escalating violence in its ongoing push to eliminate any opposition to the continued expansion of a Jewish state in lands where millions of Palestinian, Lebanese, and other people already live.
The Israel that we see today is the worst of all potential outcomes, a chauvinist, racist, and genocidal country that perceives Christian and Muslim Arabs as bodies to be crushed and destroyed. This ugly reality is the direct result of decades of massive military subsidies and political support by the West essentially by the United States. Without this support, Israel would have had to compromise with their neighbors years ago.

The history of occupied Palestine is a succession of betrayals of the Palestinian people orchestrated by the West in favor of the Zionists. We are all familiar with the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, which was notable for its total absence of any reference to the Palestinians, who were simply described as “non-Jews”. The very terms of the Mandate over Palestine granted in 1922 by the League of Nations (League) to the United Kingdom show that all the arrangements for subsequent conquest are included, including an embryonic army, making the Zionist Organization the privileged interlocutor of the Mandatory Power. In 1947, when London handed over the baton to the United Nations Organization (UNO), which resulted in the famous partition plan that was highly unfavorable to the Palestinians, everything was ready for the military phase of the conquest, which began even before the formal establishment of the State of Israel. The second structuring moment in the conquest was the period 1947-1949. And if the Arab states declared war on Israel as soon as the state was proclaimed, it was in reaction to ethnic cleansing that had actually begun long before May 1948. Starving, exhausted Palestinians forced to move by bullets and massive bombardments: these are the hellish conditions endured by the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. Thousands of women and children murdered daily, with no reaction from certain Western countries, who are normalizing a genocide.
More than a year after the start of the war on Gaza, the worst-case scenario seems to be taking shape in this isolated territory, now cut off from the rest of the world and deprived of all humanitarian aid. The population is trying to survive despite the total siege imposed by the Israeli army, a total siege imposed well before October 7, 2024. While the rest of occupied Palestine continues to be progressively colonized.
Paradoxically, the other defining moment in this long war came with the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. This process, which for many at the time heralded the prospect of peace, had two key elements. The first, when the Madrid conference was convened in 1991, was the exclusion of the UN from the forthcoming talks. Since 1947, the international organization had been a central player in all attempts to find a solution. Henceforth, the United States and Israel decided that a settlement could only be reached through bilateral negotiations, under the aegis or otherwise of multilateral sponsors. The Oslo Accords are a perfect illustration of this. But in reality, under cover of these agreements, Israel set in motion an extraordinarily sophisticated process of appropriation of Palestinian land and took institutional control of the Palestinian territory. Since Oslo, and thanks to Oslo, the process has continued inexorably. The increasingly predictable defeat of Ukraine, Europe’s obvious weakness in the face of the United States and the West’s support for Israel’s genocidal war – the geopolitical upheavals of which we have yet to gauge – are isolating the West, which is seeing its hegemonic influence steadily diminish as the cards are redistributed in line with the new alliances of the emerging “Global South”, led by China and Russia. In reality, what is happening and what we are seeing in Gaza is not a war between two armies, but rather genocide by a professional army against the women and children of the Gaza Strip.