Israel is no longer an independent state, says its former prime minister. Israel's relationship with the U.S.
is at an all-time low, he says. Israel has lost control of its own borders, he adds. Israel is not a nation, but a nation-state, and that is what it should be, says Ehud Olmert. He says that Israel's relations with the West are at a low ebb, and it needs to find a way to get back on its feet, rather than rely on the United States to do it for it, as it did in the 1950s and '60s. Olmert says that Israel needs to find a way to get back on its feet, rather than rely on the United States to do it for it, as it did in the 1950s and '60s. "Israel is not an independent country, it is a nation. It is a state that has lost its sovereignty. It has lost the right to decide what it wants to do with its borders. It needs to be able to control its borders, not to be dictated to by the West." He says Israel needs to take the lead in the fight against Iran, not wait for it to act. This is not an intellectual discussion, but a disastrous procrastination that is already costing us the loss of our independence. The problem is that this voluntary enslavement to a foreign interest (which also comes with a lot of money and weapons), as obscene as it is in principle, is excellent at the level of practice. Some of those who wish for the rule of contemporary Rome hope that this westernization will permeate not only foreign and security decisions but also domestic policy. Here, too, there will be those who will say "then yes now" when the alternative is religious fanatics. We are better off with a "fax-Romana," a Roman peace, says the Israeli writer. He adds that it's a bit like in a shared building whose tenants have trouble getting along with each other about the payments for the elevator, about the landscaping, and about the garbage room - until they order an external management company, so is Israel now, he says. It is not the first time in history that the Jews drag a foreign power to interfere in what is going on among them.