Biden: I wish I could have been there to hug Abigail/Reuters
It is difficult for an outside observer to understand these days the entirety of Israel-United States relations.
On the one hand, the unprecedented standing of the American administration with all its arms by Israel's side in its most difficult days ever.
And on the other hand, a distancing that we never knew existed.
President Biden has become the elder brother of the Israelis.
For a responsible and compassionate leader who fills the emotional and leadership void that Netanyahu has vacated by his very political existence.
Jerusalem is led from Washington;
With money and weapons, with support and diplomacy that enable Israel to do in Gaza and the occupied territories acts that no country in the West has permission to do.
And on the other hand, the campuses, the progressive political wings, parts of the media and not a few members of the black community point in a completely different direction.
The reservations about Israel are increasing to the point of real hostility and a danger to President Biden's re-election chances.
In general, that way you are more democratic, young and educated.
Your reservations about Israel have grown.
And the more you identify with the struggles of the black community in the United States for equality and the correction of past corruptions, the more you identify with the symbolism of the Palestinian struggle.
without necessarily understanding the complexities and differences.
President Biden has become the elder brother of the Israelis, the campuses disapprove of Israel to the point of hostility/Reuters
A great deal has been written about the terrible damage that Netanyahu has caused (also) to the relations between Israel and the United States.
For pushing Israel into the arms of the conservatives, for the alliance he made with the worst of them, for his preference for evangelical Christians as his political "base" and for the Jewish fundamentalist government under his leadership, and for abandoning the democratic Jews of the United States.
But it is necessary to understand that the Netanyahu-Trump alliance, Bibiism and Trumpism, is much more than a casual political conjugation.
Over the course of generations, many politicians have talked about the values shared by the great United States and little Israel.
We meant dynamic democracy, the ethos and pathos of pioneers, a determined struggle for freedom and the centrality of the Bible in the national identity. All of this was greatly eroded by the two aforementioned angels of sabotage.
The powerful interests and the split relationship remain on the surface.
Half America with half Israel.
The populist halves - of the USA and Israel - are getting very close and the liberal halves are getting farther and farther away. The
dark side of the partnership is almost never discussed here, the common denominators that silence suits them. In the navel of Washington, DC. On the entrance floor of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is engraved like this Baban: "The paradox of the American Revolution, the struggle for freedom in an era of widespread slavery, was embedded in the foundations of the United States... and it still exists in its institutions to this very day."
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Bibiism and Trumpism are much more than casual political conjugation/Reuters
Israel rose on the foundations of the same paradox.
Sublime freedom for the Jewish people at the cost of a terrible tragedy for the Palestinian people.
The twins Azmatu and Nakba were born together.
One symbolized the end of the episodes of suffering and wanderings of the Jewish people and the other the beginning of the suffering journey of the Palestinian people.
It is impossible to understand the greatness and weaknesses of the "Jewish state" without acknowledging the underlying Palestinian tragedy.
The deportations and evacuations, the looting of property and land, the destruction of the settlements that were and the discrimination built into the Israeli DNA.
Current Israel is more Jewish than democratic.
Her Judaism is motivated by a vision of Jewish superiority - genetic and religious - and a war of attrition with at least two of the West's fundamental values - freedom and equality.
And that's why it's easy for her to find commonalities with those similar to her in North America: the white supremacy movements, an existential war with the "other", the conservatism of the system of privileges for the elites and the constant persecution of those who seek to correct the existing order.
Current Israel is more Jewish than democratic / photo adaptation, Reuven Castro
This is exactly how it is impossible to understand the United States of 2024 without knowing the deep foundations of the destruction of the original peoples of America and without recognizing slavery as the foundation of the wealth and greed that drives the American machine to this day.
And without realizing that those wounds are still drinking blood.
Because the United States of America has not yet succeeded in purifying its institutions from the ancient founding distortions.
After the wonderful achievement of electing Obama as the first black president came the white Trump era.
The chauvinistic racist who is doing everything in his power to return the American pendulum to the narrow-minded, discriminatory and racist pole that it was.
The real MAGA is a longing for the greatness that was not, it is an effort to recreate the era of white supremacy, and nothing else.
Netanyahu and Trump, Babyism and Trumpism are mirror images of each other.
We must fight them in every possible democratic way.
Because their existence is our burial.
And in their - political - burial lies the seed of hope.
The writer served as chairman of the Knesset and chairman of the Jewish Agency
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