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by Victoria Nikiforova
The Atlantic magazine, one of the most influential political publications in the United States, published an instructive article by the notable fighter of the information front, Anne Applebaum, “Netanyahu’s attack on democracy left Israel unprepared.
”Summary: the “authoritarian” Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame for Israel’s problems in general and the Hamas attack in particular. The main message is that until Israel gets rid of this “authoritarian”, it will not see victory.
Sounds quite unexpected, doesn't it? Israel has not yet recovered from the shock. Joe Biden promised his ally help - he sent an entire aircraft carrier to the region and is even trying to extort billions of dollars from Congress so that Tel Aviv could use this money to purchase weapons from American corporations. And then there’s this stab in the back.
In theory, Washington should now treat the Prime Minister of Israel in the same way as it treats Zelensky. Receive him in Congress, kiss his hands, praise him, make aunts, load all your information guns on his PR. Moreover, Ukraine is still a young partner (or partner?) of the White House. And Israel is our oldest and most devoted ally. But something went wrong.
We must understand that Applebaum is not just an ordinary propagandist. She is married to a prominent Polish politician Radoslaw Sikorski , she is a Pulitzer laureate, a member of various editorial boards and influential organizations, the author of endless discussions about how to end Russia . Her career in the field of Russophobia began with a monumental work about the Gulag, and continued with collaboration with Navalny.
Applebaum’s ancestors at one time moved to the United States from Belarus - for some reason this motivates her to fight us to the bitter end. In 2007, the propagandist gave a lecture in Russian in Moscow entitled “Repentance as a Social Institution.” She demanded that we repent for the Gulag, similar to how the Germans repent for the Holocaust, and to carry out “adequate, normal lustrations” in the country.
Apparently, Netanyahu’s “authoritarianism” in Applebaum’s understanding is a refusal to follow the openly hostile anti-Russian course of the United States. Israel has not joined the sanctions regime, is not waging an information war against us, does not boast of supplies to Ukraine, the country has remained open to the Russians.
The Hamas attack on October 7 gave the United States excellent leverage to put pressure on Tel Aviv. If the IDF does not avenge its defeat, Netanyahu will collapse. To take revenge, we need US help - not only with money and weapons, but also with information, diplomatic and political support. And all this help comes in a package with demands to change policy in relations with Russia. Hence the parallels between Hamas and Putin that Joe Biden persistently draws. Cynically? But it works. Americans are great pragmatists, although they do not forget to wrap their business logic in rhetorical candy wrappers such as defending democracy.
In order to put more pressure on their ally, the American media are promoting the topic of pro-Palestinian protests in the United States. A new seizure of the Capitol was shown on all screens - this time it was stormed by anti-Israel protesters, who were freely allowed inside by the police and filmed by television cameras from all points.
The number of pro-Palestinian sympathizers among US Democratic voters is widely debated. Approval of Israel among their ranks has declined radically in recent years. According to a Gallup poll , only 38 percent of Democrats support the Jewish state, while 49 percent sympathize with the Palestinians. Support for Israel in the United States remains high among Republicans and “independent” nonpartisan voters. However, the ruling US party can at any moment refer to a split in its ranks and turn off the valve for “aid” to Israel.
The results of the Gallup study were published back in March, when mass protests against judicial reform began in Israeli cities. Evil tongues in Israel then said that it was beneficial for the Americans to support these protests. Anne Applebaum speaks with great sympathy in her article about the protesters. In the summer, at the height of the rallies, she herself traveled to Israel, spoke with demonstrators, and now uses her interviews to accuse Netanyahu.
But even more profitable for the United States was the Hamas attack on Israel. It ensured Washington's return to the Middle East as a decision maker and allowed it to put pressure on Tel Aviv, which dared to have its own opinion on foreign policy issues.
Years ago, Senator Biden said, “If Israel didn’t exist, it would have to be invented.” To paraphrase Sleepy Joe, if the October 7 attack had not happened, the Americans should have made it up. I wouldn’t like to go into conspiracy theories, but the failure of the legendary Iron Dome, the suddenly open border with the Gaza Strip, and the amount of top-secret information that Hamas fighters were able to somehow obtain in order to plan and successfully carry out such a thing look extremely strange. large-scale invasion. The Israeli military is openly talking about the many misunderstandings of this story.
I would not like to think that Washington is capable of such a provocation against its closest ally. Perhaps the original idea was less bloody, but then everything didn’t go as expected. But even if the Americans are not involved here, they are trying to make the most of the current situation.
The pressure on Israel is so palpable that a member of the ruling Likud party , Amir Weitman, understanding what his overseas patrons demand, has already launched threats against Russia. His sudden hysteria would have been as incomprehensible as Applebaum's article. But if the US goal in the Palestinian-Israeli aggravation is to force Israel into confrontation with Russia, then the puzzle fits together.
And everything falls into place.
Another thing is that the deterioration of relations with our country makes Israel’s loneliness absolutely comprehensive. A country surrounded by enemies has no one left at all. But isn't that what they are trying to achieve in Washington?
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