Palestinian Liberation From Israeli Colonization Will Liberate the United States, Too
By Ida Audeh, Reposted from Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 26, 2025
Since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal rampage in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, various pundits across the political spectrum have intimated that the battle between Israelis and Palestinians is an existential battle and that it will bring about the end of Israel. Some argue that a new geopolitical order is being configured and that Israel has no role in it; for the new order to be realized, stability is required and Israel, which has bombed every country in the region, is clearly a destabilizing force.
Others point to the state’s economic downturn, the emigration of Jewish citizens, the demoralization of the army, and the very real possibility of civil war as an indicator that Israel won’t be around for the long haul. Another way of putting this is that the artificiality of the state—its creation as an act of will by Western imperialist countries to serve their interests in a resource-rich area of the world—is finally catching up with it, and its implosion is inevitable.
Historians like Ilan Pappé have argued that Israel is following the predictable trajectory of colonial powers whose grip on their colony is weakening and that it has now begun to unravel, the fate of most colonizers throughout history.
Casual observers like myself hold on to the belief that a state as uniquely, sadistically, and flamboyantly evil as Israel has to end because it cannot be tolerated in the 21st century. To tolerate it is to normalize savagery, which is a direct threat to every person on the planet and an insult to what it means to be human.
Israel is a lab experiment gone hideously haywire. Israel is what happens when you take a group of people from around the world and settle them in an ethnically cleansed geography; tell them they constitute a people; foster a sense of superiority ordained by the Almighty; encourage them to believe that the world owes them for the crimes of World War II and that norms don’t apply to them; give them unlimited financial, military and diplomatic support; and assist them as they subjugate populations who defy them.
The outcome of nearly eight decades of such indulgence is the Jewish Frankenstein on a vicious rampage today, dismembering and crippling children in Gaza, dynamiting homes in the West Bank and southern Lebanon, and initiating an unprovoked war with Iran.
Historical precedents for the dissolution of similar monstrosities include Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and apartheid South Africa. None of these political systems had a “right to exist” as threats to humankind, and Israel doesn’t either.
The benefits to the Arab world of the demise of Israel are obvious and will be felt immediately. But here I want to focus on the benefits to the United States.
The US Without Israel
The end of Israel would spell the beginning of the liberation of U.S. citizens, who may not fully appreciate the extent to which this country has been colonized and dominated by its client state.
Consider the implications on the U.S. political process. When presidential candidate Donald Trump accepted $300 million in campaign contributions from Miriam Adelson, whose single cause is Israel, no one dared to raise the obvious objection that he was being bought to serve foreign (Israeli) interests.
To prove their servility to Israel, presidential candidates threaten to bomb without cause a Muslim country (Iran, Syria, Yemen) that has not attacked the United States, just to curry favor with the most genocidal pro-Israel voters and money dispensers. With Israel out of the picture, such sick discourse and payoffs will disappear, because no other U.S. ally arouses such deranged expressions of fidelity.
De-zionize the entity now called Israel, and U.S. Middle East policy would be drafted by U.S. elected officials trying to serve U.S. interests (admittedly hardly benign) rather than by Tel Aviv or its lobbyists in Washington. No longer would members of Congress have American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) handlers assigned to them who draft legislation for them to ram through Congress.
Indeed, there would not even be an AIPAC, and the disappearance of that unregistered and malevolent foreign lobby is reason enough to celebrate the demise of Israel. With Israel gone, the Anti-Defamation League could, with some effort and new staff, live up to its name and combat bigotry rather than acting in concert with Israel to smear Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. and to make Israel’s rampages against Arabs and Muslims in West Asia less objectionable to the general public.
U.S. legislators won’t make fools of themselves passing laws that are unconstitutional, and they won’t violate laws they have sworn to uphold, like the Leahy Law, which, if implemented, would have ended arms shipments to Israel decades ago. As of April 2024, at least 38 states had laws criminalizing Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) moves by U.S. citizens; such legislation, clearly a violation of citizens’ constitutional rights, would become a thing of the past, relevant only in law classes to illustrate the need for mechanisms to curb rogue legislatures.
Although all countries spy on one another, none spies on the United States more aggressively than Israel, especially in the areas of military and dual-use technologies. Blackmail is part of its arsenal: The infamous Jeffrey Epstein, who hosted parties at which underage girls were made available to (in legal terms, raped by) political figures, was (according to former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe) a Mossad agent who had evidence against his guests, useful for blackmail purposes. Epstein died (or was killed) in prison, and the stories were hushed up.
Is this really an ally that deserves unlimited U.S. support?
Without Israel’s minions—in Congress, the elite media, rich donors—nudging the U.S. government, would the U.S. have destroyed Iraq, shelled Lebanon in 1982, bombed Syria, or bombed Iran even as the two countries were in the process of negotiating an agreement? Would it have shredded its reputation by joining in the shabby farce of working with the (Mossad-conjured) “humanitarian assistance” hubs in Gaza that lure starving people to areas where they can be killed more easily?
The Cost of Shielding Israel From Scrutiny
To examine Israel is to be appalled at the con job that has been foisted on the public for almost eight decades. Abandon Israel for your own self-respect as a nation. You have done everything humanly possible to coddle your deformed protégé, even making yourself look ridiculous everywhere in the world. The U.S. is the only country on the Security Council that consistently vetoes a resolution for a ceasefire during a genocide. Is Israel really worth living with the disgust that the vote evoked in people everywhere?
To protect Israel, certain words are verboten. The Intercept reported that The New York Times instructed its journalists to avoid using words such as “refugee camps,” “occupied territory,” “slaughter,” “massacre,” “carnage,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing” when writing about Gaza, even while it was doing all of these things in Gaza and the West Bank. Even the word “Palestine” is to be avoided when possible in text and headlines. The New York Times is hardly an outlier.
But where Israel is concerned, Israel’s U.S. agents go one step further and change the definitions of words. The new cynical definition of anti-Semitism makes it a form of hate speech to describe Israel in anything other than glowing terms. To speak out is to risk accusations of anti-Semitism by people and organizations who are never required to provide evidence of their charges. A country that requires such minute policing of the conduct and speech of the U.S. public is clearly not sustainable in the long run, and it stifles the kind of political discourse that is associated with a free body politic.
The demise of Israel as a Jewish and Zionist state won’t make the United States a democracy; this country will still be controlled by corporations that own politicians and write legislation that protects their predatory practices. But corporate control can at least be named and fought against. It has been much trickier combating Israel’s pernicious control of and twisting of popular culture.
We see it everywhere. The gratuitous positive references to Israel or an Israeli character in movies. The ludicrous usurpation of Middle Eastern cuisine as being in any way associated with 77-year-old Israel. The outrageous attacks on student speech and activism on global issues: the Jewish state cannot stand scrutiny, and so students must be silenced, hounded, and rendered unemployable. The failure of most U.S. journalists to denounce the assassination of more than 250 journalists in Gaza illustrates how thoroughly they have been groomed to serve power.
Rooting For The Resistance
But perhaps the most glaring example of the corrosive effect of Israel on the U.S. body politic is the reluctance (or inability) of ordinary people to look at Gaza and describe accurately what is on display. The humanitarian catastrophe overwhelms everyone, but that is not the only story worth noting: there is also a remarkable and inspiring resistance.
For more than 20 months, Israel has been carpet bombing the Gaza Strip and deliberately, methodically, and sadistically massacring civilians. It has targeted children, families, journalists, medical staff, university professors, relief workers, U.N. staff, bakers, computer scientists, and others. Despite the army’s brutality, the Palestinian resistance continues to fight back, with weapons it has made locally, often repurposing dud Israeli grenades and lobbing them back at their invaders. It has not surrendered.
Had people watched this in a movie, it would be clear who to root for: the Israeli miscreants, sniping pregnant women and shooting children in the head and chest (and for boys, the groin, to deny them future reproductive ability), are the ones any normal viewer would want to see vanquished decisively by the resistance.
Yet where Gaza is concerned, the U.S. mind is so colonized by Israel that even after the genocide has been livestreamed month after month, people are still reluctant to give the resistance the credit it deserves for defying, against daunting odds, Israel’s determined erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.
We should never be so terrorized by a putative “ally” that we can’t state the obvious truth: The Palestinian resistance, fighting a better-armed and unscrupulous army, has been illustrating for close to two years what courage looks like. Every day, it makes the legends that will inspire generations to come.
In time, North Americans will look back with incredulity at the way a partisan force had them rooting for so long for a settler colonial project (Jim Crow on steroids, fraudulently packaged as “the only democracy in the Middle East”) that terrorized an entire region, wiped out at least 1,400 bloodlines in Gaza alone and celebrated the slaughter as necessary for its self-defense. The end of that settler colonial project, which will remove one shackle choking this country, cannot come soon enough.
Ida Audeh is senior editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine.
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