Despite conventional, bi-partisan opinion America’s fulsome support for Israel is a fatal weakness.

The rest of the world can witness how a small country in the Middle East and a Zionist diaspora controls US foreign and economic policies. At the UN, the United States has used its veto to prevent ceasefires, aid and even a savage genocide, despite the rest of the world being in virtual consensus against it. Washington’s unconditional support for Zionism is not negotiable, albeit unpopular and controversial. Two-thirds of Americans want the government to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire, but this sentiment is being ignored.

Israel is presently attacking Rafah, the latest chapter of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Rafah invasion comes shortly after Congress approved the largest military aid package to Israel in US history. In an attempt to massacre Palestinians in the dark and silence those who speak up against genocide, Israel has expelled Al Jazeera, while the United States has potentially banned TikTok, clamped down on antigenocide protests on its campuses, and passed a new McCarthyite bill aiming at criminalizing criticism of Israel in the United States under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

Confronted by college protests against Israeli genocide, our ruling elites respond by angrily lashing out. Indeed, these actions reflect desperation and a touch of panic. What else can one say when Senator Tom Cotton posts: “These little Gazas are disgusting cesspools of antisemitic hate, full of pro-Hamas sympathisers; fanatics and freaks”?

And in response to a potential International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu, a bunch of senators, led by Cotton, claim that a threat to Israel’s sovereignty is a threat to American sovereignty. That is effectively a claim that Israel is a part of the United States, or that the United States is a part of Israel. 

I mean, what the fuck?

At this point it’s imperative to discuss the neoconservatives who effectively operate as a 5th column influencing US foreign policies. Neoconservatism is better described in general as a complex interlocking professional and family network deployed to recruit the sympathies of both Zionists and non-Zionists in harnessing the wealth and power of the United States in the service of Israel. Since 9/11 the US has waged wars across the Middle East that by any honest appraisal seem to be in service of Israel. They certainly haven’t made America safer or respected, not to mention the costs of lives and treasure. I’m certainly not in favor of starting more wars but our elite inform us that China is actually our arch enemy and we need to confront them. And, just to play devils advocate, imagine that instead of using those trillions of dollars to set the Middle East ablaze we used it to rebuild our manufacturing infrastructure so that it would actually be possible to wage a war with China instead of realizing that much of our critical high-tech electronic components that make up modern weapons is made in China? Whoops. Or, hear me out as I know this is crazy talk, imagine that if instead of endless war, we had used those trillions of dollars to do what the Chinese have done with their Belt and Road infrastructure projects across the developing world, as a way to win friends, security and trade?

Even if most Americans remain blissfully unaware of such realities, other countries have taken notice. Perversely, America’s ironclad support for Israel has united all our enemies. As one Chinese scholar, describes the new security arrangement between Russia, China and Iran: “This time, the barbarians are facing a 5,000-year continuing written civilization, armed with Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Mao thought, Xi’s dual circulation strategy, Belt and Road, BRICS, renminbi digitalization, Russia and China unlimited, the world’s most powerful manufacturing industry, tech supremacy, economic powerhouse, and the backing of the Global South.”

China, Iran and Russia are using the Zionist stranglehold over Washington to begin rapidly improving their own reputations at the expense of the US’ diplomatic standing. Global approval ratings for China and Russia are rising throughout the world, thanks in part to their hardline stance against Israel, willingness to legitimize Hamas, and their leadership in advocating for Palestinian state.

Then there’s the fact that Russia and China have substantially increased their military cooperation with Tehran since tensions with Israel have increased suggests that applying special pressure to the Zionist regime is not inconsequential blowback, but part of a grand strategy to strike at the true heart of the American empire.

There is evidence that some American policy planners understand this. Four months before the TikTok ban, the US Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Aaron Keyak expressed fear that the Chinese could use the app to promote anti-Israel sentiment and discredit American institutions by pointing to the role Jews play within them.

Keyak’s fears are not groundless. In recent years, Chinese celebrities, academics, journalists and state officials have started openly discussing Jewish power as the hidden language needed to understand why America and its liberal vassal states behave as they do. One lengthy article in the Chinese language version of news outlet Global Times titled “Do Jews Control The United States?

It’s not like this is a mystery. Some years ago a former senior AIPAC official once boasted to a friendly journalist that if he wrote anything on a simple napkin, within 24 hours he could get signatures of 70 Senators to endorse it, and the political power of the ADL is equally formidable. Therefore it was hardly surprising that last week an overwhelming bipartisan 320-91 majority in the House passed a bill broadening the meaning of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the anti-discrimination policies of the Department of Education by codifying the definitions used in our Civil Rights laws to classify those ideas as discriminatory.

The last few weeks of Washington’s activity have been particularly unhinged: expanding FISA surveillance, $95 billion in weapons for Israel and Ukraine, violently suppressing peaceful protests against Israel, a sudden ban on a social media app used by 150 million Americans, and so on.

This does not look like a well thought out plan. Perhaps Xi and Putin have finally discovered Washington’s Achilles Heel: not the threat of nuclear war, not de-dollarization, but isolating Zionism, and by extension Israel.  Furthermore, the US Congress and the Israel Lobby campaign against critics of Israel is bringing into stark relief the question of who controls the US regime.

It’s become blindingly obvious that Israel’s parasitical relationship with its host is hastening the end of the American empire, and the “seize ever-increasing power over the US and force America to do Israel’s dirty work,” has passed its expiration date, because the US empire is no longer what it once was—in large part due to the damage Israel has inflicted on it.