This Israeli Government Is Not US Ally — Dear President Trump
The notion that Israel has a government that is no longer behaving as an American ally and should not be considered as such, is a shocking and bitter pill for Israel’s friends in Washington to swallow but swallow it they must
Because in pursuit of its extremist agenda this Netanyahu government is undermining our interests
The fact that you are not letting Netanyahu run over you the way he has other US presidents is a credit to you It is also vital to defend the US security architecture your predecessors have built in the region
The structure of the current US-Arab-Israel alliance was established by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger after the 1973 October War, to push out Russia and make America the dominant global power in the region which has served our geopolitical and economic interests ever since
The Nixon-Kissinger diplomacy forged the 1974 disengagement agreements between Israel, Syria and Egypt
Those laid the foundations for the Camp David peace treaty
Camp David laid the groundwork for the Oslo Peace Accords
The result was a region dominated by America, its Arab allies and Israel
But this whole structure depended to a large degree on a US-Israeli commitment to a two-state solution of some kind — a commitment that you yourself tried to advance in your first term with your own plan for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank next to Israel — on the condition that the Palestinians agreed to recognize Israel and accept that their state would be demilitarized
This Netanyahu government however made annexation of the West Bank its priority when it came to power in late 2022 — well before Hamas’s vicious invasion on October 7, 2023 — rather than the US security-peace architecture for the region
