Wag the dog
The US is doing everything it can for Israel, seemingly against its own interests, at a time the world is turning its back on them.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, removed their Christian paraphernalia, donned yarmulkes, via the Wailing Wall and inaugurated the newly exposed first-century Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, Jerusalem, a site operated by the Israeli settler group Elad in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan. At the inauguration, standing on occupied lands in a Palestinian territory, the familiar spectre of Netanyahu took the stage. “It’s our city. It will always be our city. It will not be divided again” said the face of the genocide in Gaza, completely ruling out a Palestinian state.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee marked the gathering with the words "Jews are God's chosen people and the foundation of all morality" while the percussive reverberations from giant explosions in the ancient Gaza City could be felt in central Israel, and the global public opinion on Israel was immolating in real time. Among all of this, 250 US representatives and senators from every state in the United States landed in Israel to attend the ‘The 50 states, One Israel’ event in Tel Aviv. The event opened with a jarring falsetto rendition of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, as the largest foreign delegation of US politicians in the country’s history sat together under Israeli flags, addressed by Israeli leaders, with the aim of strengthening ties between the United States and Israel, at a time that the entire human race is severing them.
With a majority of Americans against Israel for the first time since numbers were taken, and a majority of American youth backing Hamas over Israel in the Gaza war, there was a palpable lack of confidence at the event, and a perception of preaching to the converted. Speaker of the Knesset Amir Oshana addressed the 250 representatives and Senators who had packed the convention, “As you leave tonight, look upon the Knesset, illuminated in red, white, and blue - a tribute to all that America represents.” The crowd, dotted with kippot-clad and cowboy-hatted US political representatives cheered in a political vacuum, knowing ultimately that they were going home to constituencies that have turned against Israel.
Back in the US the political furnace is running at full capacity for Zionist interests. This is demonstrated by the large delegation with a double digit percentage of total politicians in the country decending on Jerusalem in 2025, it’s felt in the chasm between Americans and their politicians, but it is being codified by the laws, protections and decrees that alter the fundamentals of American society to preserve Israels increasingly narrow interest. The open case surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk has become a propellant of a catalyst for a dystopian shift. And as the validity of the accused killer is being questioned in light of what is a poor investigation, and the drums of revenge look to blame the far-right, the far-left, or Israel, it has only been Israel that has benefited in the short period after Kirk’s killing on September 10.
In the immediate wake of Kirk’s assassination, barely a day after, among the disproportionate outpouring of grief from Benjamin Netanyahu, and an anxious dismay in Americans gripped by politically fuelled gun violence, the house passed a bill punishing “politically motivated” boycotts of Israel. Two days later, as the Trump White House stirred flames of civil war rather than calm the country, and Elon Musk started dialling into Tommy Robinson events wearing an Orwell shirt whilst telling the baying masses over the Telescreen that “the left is the party of murder”, US politicians offered to calm their country by proposing a bill introduced in Congress that would allow Marco Rubio to revoke the passports of US citizens if they criticise Israel.
Donald Trump is hosting Netanyahu for the fourth time this year, and when the embattled PM returns to the one of the few places he is still welcome, he will do so a man at war with seven countries, and a leader in charge of a country in global villain status, and a society on the verge of total meltdown. The regular pilgrimages from Rubio, the regular catch ups at the White House, and 250 politicians in Israel, are doing too little for the Zionist cause compared to the self inflicted hull damage as a result of wrangling the entire machine of the United States to pursue its interests at all costs.
Netanyahu has been looking more frenetic than his usual defiant best of late. The brand of Israel has hit rock bottom due to its insistence to carry out endless war, totally belligerent to the consequence, currently operating militarily in seven surrounding nations including the UN declared genocide in Palestine, the beleaguered PM has had to run from one spot fire to the next. The Israeli propaganda machine has stalled under the pressure of an all encompassing reality: it is an international pariah state for engaging in the sustained killing of innocents and it cannot change that no matter how much it complains or censors about it.
Israel may have 250 US representatives pledging loyalty, and the political class of the West in the pocket, it may have the business class looking to preserve its interests, or might hold sympathetic ears in organisational bodies with friends in high places, it seems to have the ability to shape media narratives and take over companies of those it can’t fully control – it appears to have the bot armies, the vexatious callers that skew Eurovision results and peoples choice awards at film festivals – it may feel it can stem the flow buying TikTok - but Israel has lost the support of the international community. And it probably never will regain it.
After two years of a UN declared genocide and a global outpouring of desperation from collective humanity on this earth, Israel has become the dark spot on this earth, and every other place in this world, no matter how bleak and catastrophic the environment, is on some spectrum lighter by comparison. All of our leaders, business-people and media personalities, all who gather under Israel’s darkness are sucked into a moral vortex, all of us who stand in the relative light outside don’t understand why they choose to dwell there, and the population of the world watches on with despair
The world is turning its back on Israel’s genocide. The evidence is there to see in the continuous global gatherings, the thinly veiled condemnations from traditional allies, the mounting stack of ICC warrants and embargoes, the polling, the social media outcry, and the real anger in the nations of the world from China to Brazil. This war needs to stop, and its not stopping, and things like 250 US politicians standing for photos like clapping seals in Israel may be the only reason that it isn’t. The tail appears to be wagging the dog, and with all the things in play, there isn’t much of an argument to say otherwise. As the tidal wave of opposition to Israel grows, so does the desperation of those controlling the narrative, and in the case of this stanza of modern US history, that control seems to rest with Israel.