The fall of Israel will be the fall of the West
How the US, Britain and the rest will go down with the sinking Israeli ship
Right after 7th October 2023, back when legacy media would have you believe this war kicked off, Ursula von der Leyen caused consternation when she rushed to convey, on behalf of the whole of Europe, sympathies with Israel after its losses in Hamas’s military operation into occupied Palestine. This resulted in not only a massive backlash across Europe (I remember Yanis Varoufakis being particularly incensed), but an unprecedented official letter of protest from nearly a thousand EU staff on the ‘unjustifiable bias’ being shown towards Israel. This was no less than the opening of the chasm that now exists between the political classes of Europe (and the rest of the West) and the people they claim to represent. Almost one year later, hours after Iran attacked Israel in retaliation for its assassinations of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh, the snivelly, mediocre bag handler currently managing the British State, Keir Starmer, stood in front of the country and cravenly offered unflinching support (on behalf of the entire country, naturally) to Israel. All this despite Israel’s horrendous popularity in the UK.
If any positives can be said to have come from Israel’s war on Gaza, it’s that the so-called ‘values’ of the West have been laid bare for the world to see. As the US, Britain, and Europe have doubled down in their support for the ethno-supremacist state, so international law in all its forms has been sidelined: the Geneva Conventions conveniently disregarded, the Genocide Convention gone by the wayside, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights long since thrown out the window. Nothing of so-called ‘Western civilisation’ can any longer be considered civilised, and the fact that the politicians pretend that they still represent human rights and dignity is beyond laughable at this point; their steadfast adherence to the self-serving narrative and their brazen disconnect with facts on the ground is so deep into the absurd that it’s terrifying.
This narrative they cling to is one that has existed since the beginning of the State of Israel. Britain’s midwifing of the Zionist state came about, in the words of Ronald Storr (British governor of Jerusalem between 1917 and 1926), as a way of “forming for England ‘a little loyal Jewish Ulster’ in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism”. This utterance evoked the reliance of Britain on settler colonialism as a means of suppressing and oppressing the resistance to occupation by a foreign power, just like the plantation of Ulster was enacted as a means of putting down the rebellious Irish. Thus an alien entity was planted smack-bang between Africa and Asia with zero consent of any neighbouring African or Asian country. And just as the British were intimately involved in the fight of loyalist paramilitaries in the north of Ireland, during its time as protectors of Israel Britain turned a blind eye to Jewish terror groups such as the Stern Gang and the Irgun, both precursors to today’s Zionist terrorists, the IDF.
The Zionist state was created essentially as a means of protecting Britain’s imperial interests in the region, that being the Suez Canal, and later the proliferation of oil that the area was discovered to be hiding. (These are the events that Joe Biden’s assertion that if Israel did not exist they would have to invent one would later come to echo.) And when, after WWII, world hegemony was passed from the British Empire to the United States, so custodianship of Israel passed from British hands into American, and Israel continued to function in much the same way as it had since its inception – as an attack dog to be unleashed upon the unruly Arabs.
It is in this capacity that it is uniquely suited:
“Racism is not an acquired trait of the Zionist settler-state. Nor is it an accidental, passing feature of the Israeli scene. It is congenital, essential and permanent. For it is inherent in the very ideology of Zionism and in the basic motivation for Zionist colonization and statehood.”[1]
It is this racism that lends itself so effortlessly to the violence which Israel has adopted since its inception.
“Such massacres as those that were perpetrated at Dair Yaseen, Ain ez-Zaitoun, and Salah ah-Deen (in April 1948) were calculated measures in a formal program of eviction-by-terrorization… instances of a program of racial hate elevated to the level of state policy.”
Those massacres committed seventy years ago almost pale into insignificance when considered in the light of the genocide we have witnessed over the past year, when we have watched, with our own eyes, the targeted assassination of women and children, the bombing of hospitals, schools and mosques, the burying alive of Palestinian civilians, the use of civilians as human shields, the rape of Palestinian prisoners and the elevation to celebrity status of the rapists… all this and more we have witnessed, and what is the response of the political class in the West? The ever-increasing support – political, diplomatic, military, economic – of the brutal racist regime of Israel. Balls to boots, they are all in.
So what does this mean for Israel, the West, and the rest of us?
Israel will fall. Or rather, it will be torn apart. It has doomed itself ecomically, socially, strategically and militarily.
The governments of the West – primarily the US, Britain and Germany – have buried not only their economic and military capital into the settler colonial project, but more importantly, the totality of their ideological dogma is now invested in the survival and supremacy of the Israeli regime. Which means, when Israel falls, the West will too. Like a house of cards, they will all come crashing down together.
Israel has essentially become the flagship of Western supremacy. But the ship is sinking. And when it goes down, it will take the entire West along with it. And who from the Global South will be tossing in the lifejackets?
[1] Sayegh, Fayez A., ‘Zionist Colonisation in Palestine’,