With the Zionist regime as its proxy, the US government is pursuing a policy of attempting to crush the entire population of Gaza with the belief that this will inflict a strategic defeat on the regional Axis of Resistance. This strategy represents what could be Washington’s final bid to reassert American dominance over West Asia and dismantle governing forces indigenous to the region.
When we talk of the collective West, we are really discussing a tyrannical empire with its headquarters in Washington DC. It should be clear by now that the European nations are not independent in any meaningful sense, and the interests of their governing officials are those of the corporate elites. The Israelis are also in this fold and, evidently, hold considerable power through their extensive multi-national lobbying campaigns, yet in this case have become the convenient proxy force and attack dog to prove a point to the Global South.
If one is to look into mega-corporations in the West, the likes of Vanguard and Blackrock to name a few, it quickly becomes obvious that their interests are inherently intertwined as they quite literally own each other and are therefore working for their own collective success as mega-corporations.
Why talk about mega-corporations when assessing US foreign policy in West Asia? Because “The West” as we know it is no more than a collection of mega-corporations to begin with. Its democratic elections have been revealed to be shams, as all viable candidates work for the donor class and not the people who vote for them. Even the experts that Western politicians trust to shape policy for them are directly financed by the same corporate elites, with every major think tank that helps frame the opinions of advisors being on the same payroll. If we are to look at the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s new modus operandi, we will see that “Stakeholder Capitalism” is now the flavor of the day. Stakeholder Capitalism is in essence allowing corporations to openly influence social norms and shape both domestic and foreign policy.
The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), which serves as the US response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, depends on allowing corporations to take the driving seat as proposed by the WEF for instance. This is the natural evolution of the Western Empire, which has managed to pacify the populations living under the tyrannical control of the Capitalist elites. They entertain their rising desire for political engagement through divisive surface-level political issues; usually weaponizing identity politics that result in ‘chicken or egg arguments,’ effecting no tangible change in the political systems of Western nations.
The Zionist project came as a result of European antisemitism and served as a perfect political movement to turn an inter-European conflict into an imperialist alliance. It was promoted in literature, then in the form of a settler-colonial movement, a specific kind of typical European colonial supremacy, in this case, the notion of White Jewish supremacy woven into a synthetic nationalism. Although this project ended up having issues with elements of the Western imperial system, namely the British during their Mandate of occupied Palestine, this began to change in 1956 with the tripartite invasion of Egypt; which saw the Israelis, British, and French launch a joint war. By 1967, the Zionist project had fully integrated itself as a loyal member of the Western imperial system and now serves as a vanguard to the US Blackrock.
Instead of viewing the policies of Western nations as representing any kind of desire to serve the interests of the working people that reside there, we must remove the notion that any of these governments work on behalf of the populations that reside in these countries. Instead, they must be viewed in the same manner that Arab regimes like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are, in that they may occasionally take their populations into consideration but ultimately serve an agenda that works to the benefit of the despotic ruling elites. In the case of the Western empire, they pursue global dominance and seek to undermine indigenous self-determination, because this represents the single greatest threat to their tyranny.
When Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, it dealt a mighty blow to the heart of the US Empire, as it shattered the illusion of Western invincibility and smashed the regional agenda that was being promoted from Washington. The Zionist entity uses the most sophisticated and newest Western military equipment, works to divide the entire region, and forces it to bow to the demands of the Western empire. This equipment was proven useless in the face of an indigenous military force that had been under a comprehensive siege for 17 years. They dismantled the regional ambitions of the Western empire and their “New Middle East” vision that was outlined by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the United Nations General Assembly in September of last year.
What Hamas has also done since is destroy the propaganda surrounding the Western empire’s global agenda, also awakening an anti-war movement throughout the collective West – with the exception of the Zionist entity – that has channeled the genuine rising anger at the betrayal of the working people. The racist assumptions about the Palestinian people have come back to bite the Western empire, and so too has the dehumanizing rhetoric that they believed would work on a younger generation who do not carry the same biases as the past generations when it comes to race/ethnicity/religion.
Realizing the catastrophic defeat it suffered due to its miscalculations and arrogance, the US is now determined to crush the people of Gaza from which this act of defiance rose. The mere fact that a population of 2.3 million, most of whom are refugees, contained in a concentration camp only 141 square miles in size, refused to bow down and instead opted for freedom or martyrdom, has triggered what Washington has decided will be a genocidal attack on all of them. This barbaric act of savagery is not just about Gaza, it is a message to the entire Axis of Resistance and the wider Global South. The US is saying, if you dare to challenge us, this is what we will do to you.
The Zionist entity is only the proxy for this war, and the people of the Gaza Strip are to be made an example out of, under the US empire’s vision. When the right-wing fascist Zionist militants were set on the people of Gaza, it was clear what they were sent there to do, and if the US didn’t approve, none of this would have occurred.
Unfortunately, there are no level-headed leaders in the West, because the government officials are simply willing actors in a game of chess and they simply represent its pieces on the board. This is why they are of the view that Gaza must be defeated, it must be starved, its children and women must be slaughtered, its intellects have to be purged, and it must be reduced to a wasteland. It is no coincidence that we hear World War II invoked frequently by Western leaders and Zionists because they are sending the message to the world that they are taking us back to an era where there was no international law or united nations, a world in which the geneva conventions were not there to prevent or punish actions like the dropping of atomic bombs.
Although they may not seek an immediate path to a direct war with Iran and its allies, constituting the Axis of Resistance, it appears as if they are willing to risk it in order to inflict a defeat on the Palestinian people in Gaza. The only wildcard now is what the Axis of Resistance will do in order to ensure the Western empire is defeated on the battleground of Gaza. The US may attempt to score a victory by proxy and impose its will in a post-war Gaza, by restricting the desperately needed reconstruction, political solution for the territory, and aid introduction, instead of imposing a normalization plan, but this will ultimately fail. We are on a path toward a decisive victory for one side or the other at this current moment, and the only thing that will stop this is if the US realizes that even if it was to reach “victory”, it would be a pyrrhic victory and decide instead to back down. Yet, the arrogance of the West which led it to this position does not seem to have faded and reality may never set in.
Source: Al Mayadeen