"There is a new government in Israel and there is a new government in the United States, and I come to Washington with a new spirit of cooperation," Bennett said on boarding the plane, recalling his old campaign "Something new is starting." From the days of Bennett, this is how it is about Israel-US relations: Bennett is returning Israel to something very old and very dangerous.
Values and interests.
These are the two components of our relationship with the United States. On the Judeo-Christian basis of values, interests were integrated. Israel needed international and military backing against a hostile Muslim majority, and the United States needed a front stronghold against the Soviets who deployed them in Arab countries in the Middle East.
"Aircraft carrier," as George Schultz called us.
This affair with the West has taken a heavy toll on us, such as withdrawals from Sinai or dictates in the face of embargo.
But the partnership in the values of faith, reason, and liberty of the new age, and the fact that we were a Western settlement vis-à-vis the totalitarian regimes headed by the Soviet Union, allowed the prime ministers from Ben-Gurion to Shamir reasonable diplomatic maneuvers.
So until the Berlin Wall fell.
The fall of the Iron Curtain and the Communist bloc led to a dramatic change in the foundations of this alliance.
The West was found to be fighting against the enemy, but not against ideology.
The day the war ended opened the gates of the West to Marx's soldiers, and many were captivated by the charms of radical equality.
The neo-Marxist left has become a mainstream in the West, its values assimilated into the democratic parties, which have promoted a universal agenda and stripped modern man of his identity.
Not a god, not a king, not a hero.
Not a religious identity, not a national identity, nor a personal identity.
The map of interests has also changed.
In Western eyes, the end of the Cold War turned Israel from an asset to a burden, the price the West paid for Israel vis-à-vis the Muslim world became unnecessary.
Jerusalem policymakers internalized and ties with the US became common to hang. The bad boy born of this new relationship is called the Oslo Accords. The fear that the new West would throw Israel under the bus wheels in the Middle East led Rabin to sign. He did not sign with Arafat, he signed With Clinton.
Oslo architects were not afraid of change.
On the contrary, the Israeli left felt at home in the new and Marxist West.
Together with their European counterparts who built the EU on these foundations, they are weaving the new Middle East here.
The Oslo Accords were just the opening.
But then Netanyahu appeared and spoiled the celebration.
With many years of diplomatic work, Netanyahu did not give up on the West. He has forged ties with nation-states and conservative and religious elements from South America to East Asia, and of course in the United States where he has a special status in public opinion. He has re-established Israel as a role model The imperial aspirations of radical Islam.
The unique political status he created also restored the balance to Israeli-US relations. The summit of the Netanyahu Doctrine was his speech at the congress in 2015. In the face of the Obama administration's hostility, at his home on Capitol Hill, the Israeli prime minister demanded a deep soulful account of his values and His policy. He also made it clear to his listeners that with or without them, Israel would preserve its identity and power. The child of this relationship with the United States is called: the Abrahamic Agreements. A few days after the speech, Netanyahu said, he was approached by the United Arab Emirates. They understood that Israel had ceased to be a US sponsor, and that it was once again a strategic partner worth doing business with.
With Torch turning his back on Allies in Eastern Europe and preferring lunch in the EU, with Bennett deliberately boycotting Republican and evangelical leaders in the U.S., players in the Middle East are adapting themselves. Everyone understands that Bennett takes us back to the Oslo era.
