WhatsappAfter an IDF soldier and two “palestinian” Arabs were critically injured on the Gaza border, PM Naftali Bennett ordered airstrikes on Hamas installations on the Gaza border.
These sorts of exchanges are typically isolated or at the very most mini conflicts that can last up to three weeks. However, given the current climate post the US retreat from Afghanistan, Israel’s border has grown more unsteady than it has been since the Arab Spring.
The uptick in violence in Gaza, Hezbollah’s threats, and Russian protected Iranian activity were all growing over the last month, however Biden’s fumbled and chaotic retreat from Afghanistan has made Israel’s position far more precarious.
After all, if you cannot trust the US with managing to protect Afghanistan from a rag tag group of terrorists, then why would anyone believe they will swing to Israel’s defense against a much more sophisticated enemy. The fact is they won’t. Not because they don’t want to, but because the empire the US built post World War Two and somehow kept relevant after the Cold War is now crumbling.
Bankrupt, “woke”, and addicted to cheap Chinese goods, most Americans appear to be living in an alternate reality where marching around paranoid about hurting each other’s feelings has become the underlying ethos of their society. Social justice and transgender rights do not preserve culture or sustain countries – only strength and a clear moral purpose do.
Israel’s upstart leaders like Bennett and Lapid are working within an out dated paradigm. Instead of flying to Washington, – Bennett should be flying to Japan, South Korea, and India in order to tackle the real enemy pulling the strings – China. If Israel’s leaders don’t, they risk being pulled into the collapsing vortex of the once hegemonic America.
The choice is Israel’s.
