What this Article is About?
This article discusses how global power alliances shape modern conflicts. It explains how political interests often outweigh moral responsibility. Ongoing division allows injustice and violence to continue. Weak coordination leaves affected communities exposed and powerless. Long term consequences grow when unity is ignored. Collective effort and shared purpose are presented as the only path forward.
The Project That Rewrites the Map
Israel is not merely a state; it is the most successful multinational enterprise of the Western world. Conceived in imperial boardrooms, financed by multiple empires, and defended by their combined power, it stands as a fortress in the heart of the Muslim world. From Balfour to Biden, every generation of Western leadership has treated Israel as a strategic investment-a forward base from which Western influence radiates across the Middle East.
This is no accident of history. It is the result of a century-long design in which Britain laid the foundations, the United States became guarantor, France supplied nuclear deterrence, Germany bankrolled reconstruction, the European Union integrated trade, and NATO secured logistics. The survival of Israel is the collective outcome of Western unity-unity that transcends party, ideology, and even popular will.
The fruit of that project is visible in Gaza’s rubble. The starvation of children, the destruction of hospitals, and the mass displacement of millions are not aberrations but the logical outcome of a system built to preserve Israel at any cost. The lesson for Muslims is existential: unless they construct a counter-project of their own, they will remain spectators of their own humiliation.
The Collective Western Enterprise
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was never an act of humanitarian idealism; it was an imperial calculation. Britain sought to secure its route to India and the Suez Canal by planting a loyal enclave in Palestine. During the Mandate years, it facilitated the immigration of over 400 000 Jewish settlers, armed Zionist militias, and crushed Palestinian uprisings. The Haganah and Irgun were not spontaneous militias; they were creatures of empire, trained and shielded while Palestinian resistance was disarmed.
When Britain’s empire waned, the United States inherited the venture. Since 1948, Washington has delivered more than $150 billion in aid to Israel-99 percent of it military. Today’s $3.8 billion annual commitment, supplemented by emergency packages like the $14 billion approved in 2023, makes Israel the most subsidized ally in U.S. history. The relationship is not transactional but symbiotic: Israel serves as America’s forward base, while America serves as Israel’s strategic insurance policy. Forty-five U.S. vetoes at the UN since 1972 have shielded Israel from accountability, cementing impunity as state policy.
France provided the next pillar of Western integration. In the 1950s and 1960s, Paris supplied tanks, jets, and artillery-and, more importantly, the Dimona nuclear reactor, built in secret partnership. Israel’s undeclared arsenal of some 80-90 warheads permanently altered the regional balance, ensuring that no Muslim neighbor could confront it militarily again.
Germany’s role was financial salvation. Under the 1952 Luxembourg Agreement, West Germany paid three billion Deutsche Marks in reparations, effectively underwriting Israel’s economy during its fragile first decade. Today, Berlin continues to supply Dolphin-class submarines capable of carrying nuclear missiles, guaranteeing Israel a second-strike capacity and thus strategic immortality.
The European Union institutionalized Israel’s economic survival. In 2022, EU-Israel trade exceeded €46 billion, making Europe Israel’s largest trading partner. Even during the Gaza war, these flows persisted-a sign that moral outrage ends where strategic utility begins. NATO, meanwhile, remains the logistical spine: from Operation Nickel Grass in 1973 to the 2023 resupply of bombs and artillery, Western aircraft and fleets ensure that Israel’s war machine never pauses.
The conclusion is inescapable: Israel’s durability is not Israeli-it is Western. The state functions as a joint geopolitical enterprise whose shareholders are the major powers of the North Atlantic world. Its purpose is not merely the protection of Jews but the preservation of Western hegemony over the Muslim heartlands.
Gaza Genocide: The Logical Outcome of the System
The destruction of Gaza is not a departure from Israel’s history but its culmination. The genocide of 2023-25 revealed how completely Western infrastructure underwrites Israeli power.
Hundreds of thousands and more Palestinians killed, hundreds of thousands more wounded, and 1.7 million displaced-yet the flow of Western weapons and trade never ceased. The bombs that flatten apartment blocks are American-made, the jets that drop them U.S.-supplied F-35s, the submarines patrolling the coast German-built, and the targeting systems fed by British and French intelligence. Even as European publics protested, their governments deepened cooperation.
The economic architecture sustains the military one. European and American markets absorb Israeli exports, while NATO naval patrols protect the new EastMed gas corridors linking Israeli fields to Europe. The very energy diversification that Europe hails as independence from Russia now binds it to Israel’s security.
