Anatomy of a “Fall” / Describing the decline of Israel under the knife of “Stephen Walt”
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard University, in an article for this publication (Foreign Policy), describing the regime’s decline Zionist, wrote that Israel is in a bad trouble.
Walt wrote that Israeli citizens are deeply divided and this situation is unlikely to improve. Israel is caught in an unwinnable war in Gaza, and its army has shown signs of weakening, and a large-scale war with Hezbollah or Iran is also possible. Israel’s economy is also suffering, and according to The Times of Israel, 60,000 businesses will probably close this year.
Furthermore, Israel’s recent actions have severely tarnished its global image, and today it is being ostracized as much as before. This was unimaginable. After the Hamas operation on October 7, 2023 (15 Mehr 1402), Israel faced a flood of sympathy from its allies, but with the passage of 10 months since the genocide in Gaza and the intensification of settler violence in the West Bank, all that (unjustifiable) flood of sympathy has disappeared. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested the issuance of an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, and Yoaf Galant, the Minister of War of the Zionist regime, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In its initial findings, the International Court of Justice has described Israel’s actions as inherently genocidal and has called Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem a clear violation of international law.
Only those defenders and supporters of the Zionist regime who have “buried their heads deep under the snow” can understand what Look at what is happening in Gaza and don’t be deeply disturbed and panicked. Support for Israel’s actions in the United States is severely declining, and the young generation of America is against the inaction of the Joe Biden administration in the face of Israel’s actions.
Walt wrote that “Putting all the blame on Netanyahu is ignoring a deeper problem; “The gradual erosion of strategic thinking in Israel over the past 50 years”; Israel’s tactical achievements and skills in its first two decades, especially among older people, have obscured the extent to which its major strategic choices since 1967 have undermined its security.
The professor of Harvard University further wrote: The early Zionists and the first generation of Israeli leaders were clever strategists and were trying to They achieved something almost impossible, and that was the establishment of a Jewish state in the heart of the Arab world! David Ben-Gurion and other Zionist leaders were often willing to temporarily settle for agreements that did not meet their long-term goals, as long as the agreements brought them one step closer to those goals. At the beginning, after achieving independence, this new regime seriously tried to attract international support through non-stop propaganda and, most importantly, to create a special relationship with the United States. A relationship that was mainly based on the increased power and influence of the Israel lobby. Clever and largely deceptive diplomacy also helped Israel to develop a secret arsenal of nuclear weapons and to hide the harsh and brutal realities of Israel’s founding that were not revealed until the 1980s.
According to Walt, however, as thoughtful Israeli scholars have repeatedly emphasized, the main mistake , the decision to preserve, occupy and gradually colonize the West Bank and Gaza was part of a long-term effort to create “Greater Israel”.
Another obvious sign of strategic judgment analysis was Israel’s failed attack on Lebanon in 1982. This plan was the brainchild of Ariel Sharon, the war-loving Prime Minister of the time, who came to the conclusion (!) that the start of military aggression against Lebanon would cause the dispersal of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the establishment of a pro-Israel government in Beirut, and Israel’s freedom of action in the West Bank. The invasion was a short-lived success and led to the occupation of southern Lebanon, but instead led directly to the creation of Hezbollah; The force whose increasing power of resistance eventually pushed Israel out of Lebanon in 2000.
According to Walt, it is necessary to compromise with the Palestinians, stop the expansion of settlements in the occupied territories and cooperate with the Palestinians to establish An efficient, effective and legitimate government. However, Israel’s leaders, especially Sharon and Netanyahu, have acted against it and have repeatedly blocked American efforts to reach a two-state solution. The result of these policies was a chain of destructive but fruitless wars that could not end the Palestinian resistance and finally led to the attack of Hamas on October 7; An attack that is considered the most severe blow to Israel in recent decades.
