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\"\"<\/a>America\u2019s Betrayal of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

IEL LEIBOVITZ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A decade of perverse U.S. policy sets the stage for mass murder.<\/strong><\/span>
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STILL IMAGE FROM A VIDEO OF ISRAELI WOMAN NOA ARGAMANI BEING KIDNAPPED BY HAMAS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am writing this on Saturday, as news outlets report hundreds of Israeli dead, and dozens, if not hundreds, of soldiers and civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken into Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is never a good idea to write anything as events are still rapidly unfolding, especially as neither I nor anyone else can answer the only question that ultimately matters\u2014namely, \u201cwhat happens now?\u201d But we can answer another, much more rudimentary and no less urgent question: Who\u2019s at fault?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There will be plenty of time to pore over how a cataclysmic disaster of this magnitude could happen, and who\u2014from Bibi down to the IDF Chief of Staff, head of intelligence, et al.\u2014failed to protect the lives of Israelis. A lot of it will have to do with people who should have known better\u2014including former prime ministers and former and current high level security officials\u2014abandoning the core commitment of defending Israel and instead entertaining themselves by cosplaying some game of Demokratia, complete with donning handmaid outfits and ululating about fascism. Hysterics about your political opponents being the enemies of democracy may be fun in Kalorama; in Sderot and Ofakim, and even in Tel Aviv, there\u2019s a price to pay for abandoning the real world and indulging in fetish play.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the bigger mistake on the part of the Israelis is that over the past few years they have gotten the power equation that governs their lives backwards: Instead of understanding themselves to be citizens of a strong but beleaguered country whose first responsibility is to protect itself, they luxuriated in the fantasy that the United States was and always would be their protector\u2014when in fact the ruling party in America has decided that Israel is a liability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch this video<\/a>. That\u2019s a Hamas drone taking down an Israeli Merkava tank. A drone operated by an organization sponsored and trained by Iran applying both Iranian tactics and, most likely, Iranian hardware to attack Israel. This happened weeks after America sent Iran six billion dollars, and one week after we learned that the American government had over the past years ceded whole parts of its own intelligence units to Iranian spies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The stage for this attack was not set in or by Israel. It was set by the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the better part of the last decade, the United States has pursued a foreign policy designed to strengthen Iran and enable it to form a strong sphere of influence in the region. This is the idea behind what Tony Badran and Michael Doran called<\/a> \u201cthe Re-Alignment,\u201d a vision of a new world order in which America partners with Iran in order to \u201cfind a more stable balance of power that would make [the Middle East] less dependent on direct U.S. interference or protection.\u201d Those words aren\u2019t Badran and Doran\u2019s; they\u2019re Robert Malley\u2019s, Barack Obama\u2019s lead negotiator on the Iran Deal who, as Semafor reported this week<\/a>, helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government\u2014first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations. Biden himself, in an op-ed<\/a> in The Washington Post<\/em>, spoke of \u201can integrated Middle East,\u201d using the phrase no less than three times to make clear that his administration was intent on pursuing his predecessor\u2019s commitment to seeing Iran not as a U.S. foe but as our collaborator.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And the Biden administration wasn\u2019t just talking the talk. It was also walking the walk, from unfreezing billions in assets to make it easier for Tehran to support its proxy, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, to sending huge cash infusions used primarily to pay the salaries of tens of thousands of unvetted \u201csecurity personnel.\u201d And while the previous administration halted all aid to the Palestinians\u2014directly because of the \u201cpay for slay\u201d policies that support the families of those who slaughter Israelis\u2014the Biden administration was quick to reverse<\/a> the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lots of people argued that this was simply clear-minded realpolitik after decades of disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bullshit. Here\u2019s how you know this policy was, and is, motivated not by what\u2019s best for America but by what would kneecap the Jewish state: Because it extended to inside Israel\u2019s borders.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In addition to creating the external circumstances for terror, the Biden administration did everything in its power to derail Israel\u2019s democratically elected government and prevent it from being able to see an attack like today\u2019s coming. That the Israelis let themselves fall for this was stupidity of criminal order. But the invisible hand here was America\u2019s. Biden himself took to CNN to call<\/a> Netanyahu\u2019s government \u201cthe most extreme\u201d he\u2019s ever seen, and lost no opportunity to lecture<\/a> his Israeli counterpart about democratic values. The former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, took the unprecedented step of intervening<\/a> in the country\u2019s domestic affairs, announcing ominously that he \u201cthink[s] most Israelis want the United States to be in their business.\u201d And if words weren\u2019t enough, the administration also sent American dollars to support<\/a> the anti-Netanyahu NGOs organizing the protests that brought Israel to a halt for months. Netanyahu was famously denied an invite to the White House; his key opponent, opposition leader Benny Gantz, had no such problem<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One idea floating around my inbox this afternoon is that part of Israel\u2019s complete military collapse today was caused by a massive Iranian cyber attack that hacked its systems and prevented it from seeing what ought to have been obvious. That this could not only be true but related to the U.S. having recently given a team of Iranian agents high-level access to U.S. intelligence<\/a>, which could very well have included information about Israeli systems, is not nearly as far-fetched a scenario as many would like it to be. And to the extent that we ever find out the truth about any of this, it will be because of Elon Musk<\/a>, without whom we\u2019d only have access to state-approved propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It doesn\u2019t matter what words<\/a> Biden says today. When you champion Iran; when you send it and its proxies money; when you reward Palestinian violence; when you go out of your way to portray Bibi as a dangerous fascist; when you finance and champion his opponents, contributing to further instability and unrest; when you hand over U.S. intelligence keys to Iranian agents; when you have your spokespeople declare it \u201cdisinformation<\/a>\u201d for people to connect obvious dots; when you do all of this, you know what is going to happen. You mean <\/em>for it to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here today, then, is the challenge for Israel\u2019s leadership: Can you accept that this is what\u2019s happening? Can you imagine a future for the Jewish state decoupled from America? Because you must.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For at least a decade now, we\u2019ve been told that part of what makes Israel so mighty and so safe is its superior technology, developed in partnership with America. Who, went this line of argument, needs to worry about missiles when we have Iron Dome and F-35 stealth fighter plans as part of a 3 billion dollar military aid package? Who cares about guns and grenades when we\u2019ve developed high level cybersecurity systems that can strike at will? The war of the future, we\u2019ve been promised, will be waged on computer terminals, in cyberspace\u2014not in dusty border towns.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And then came a gaggle of Gazans with Kevlar vests and pick-up trucks and small arms that brought Israel to its knees. \u201cStart-up Nation\u201d has been ravaged by reality. It is clear that the dream Israel\u2019s elites have entertained for the past decade\u2014to become part of the global set of people who make all the money and all the decisions and have all the right opinions and fashionable friends\u2014has soured into a nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And now it\u2019s time to wake up. Stop prattling about the \u201ccycle of violence,\u201d about faults on both sides, about \u201cthe occupation,\u201d about Bibi\u2019s cabinet appointments, or any other distraction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Re-root yourself in what you should never have forgotten\u2014which is that we have enemies not because of what we did or didn\u2019t do here or there, or on this day or that one, or because our hasbara isn\u2019t good enough or because it is too good, or any other pointless argument. It is because we have vicious enemies, and they hate us. Instead of trying pathetically to curry favor with American overlords by scrubbing Judaism from your streets, pray to HaShem to fulfill the promise made to Isaiah and deliver vengeance. Reject, with great force and wrath, the death cult that has gripped so much of American political, public, and intellectual life and that sees virtue in prompting up benighted regimes in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We don\u2019t need an integrated Middle East, because we don\u2019t wish to integrate with the murderous Mullahs and their packs of wild animals. We have our own interests, and if we\u2019re smart\u2014and if we wish to survive\u2014we\u2019ll never forget it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Liel Leibovitz<\/strong> is Editor at Large for Tablet Magazine and a host of its weekly culture podcast Unorthodox<\/a> and daily Talmud podcast Take One<\/a>. He is the editor of Zionism: The Tablet Guide<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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