Israel has failed in its primary mission

When the British encouraged Jewish settlement in Palestine with the Balfour declaration in 1917, their objectives were not altruistic. What they had in mind, was that a Jewish state in the Middle East could keep an eye on the Arabs, act as a disruptive influence, and discourage the reestablishment of an Islamic superstate after the Ottoman Empire was dismembered at the end of WWI. And, Russia, France and the US joined with Britian in this primary geopolitical objective. Ever since the time of Muhammad, Islamic superstates had been a threat to the West, for almost 1500 years -- first, the Muslim Caliphate, and then, the Ottoman Empire. The West wanted to make sure this would never happen again, and, up to a point, they saw Israel as a means to assist them in this very practical, and rather ruthless objective. And, for several decades, after the state of Israel was founded in 1948, they did manage to keep the Arab world off balance and divided, which the West appreciated, and rewarded them for, with material aid and diplomatic support. However, with the rise of the power of an Islamic superstate of Iran, spreading its tentacles throughout the Middle East through proxies such as Hezbollah and the Houthis and the Iraqi militias, it is becoming quite clear that Israel has failed miserably in its primary mission, from the standpoint of the West. Hence, support has largely evaporated in Europe for Israel, and is now on the verge of being eliminated in its last bastion of support, the United States. Israel's use of brute force to suppress Muslim opposition to its presence in their midst is no longer fashionable, or acceptable to the West, simply because the costs are becoming too great to the international community, in terms of conflict with the emerging Islamic superstate of Iran. The West is now realizing that they will have to get along with Iran, and, so, the original function of the state of Israel --preventing this uncomfortable contingency from ever occurring --has ceased to exist. From the standpoint of the West, Israel no longer has any function at all to them, so, they are discontinuing their support. If Israel wishes to survive, they must learn to adapt to this new geopolitical reality -- the Islamic superstate of Iran -- and to find some way to make itself sufficiently useful to the world as a whole, that it may continue to exist as a Jewish State. #geopolitics #history #Israel #Islam