Israel has lost the American people. The politicians are next - Middle East Eye

Can the US and its political culture ever be liberated from the fangs and tentacles of genocidal Zionism? Might we see a day when the US is decolonised and declares its independence from Israel and the Israeli operatives inside its own borders?

Something is rattling deeply in the United States, with its proverbial soul at stake.

Will it continue to act as a military-industrial complex, waging clumsy and unwinnable wars against the whole world, unable to finish them in any meaningful way, and ending up enriching even more a class of obscenely wealthy men and women like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Miriam Adelson, ad nauseam - most of them genocidal Zionists committed tooth and nail to the Israeli settler colony?

Or will it correct course and put the immediate well-being of the almost 350 million human beings of its own population at the forefront of its idea of itself?

I have always thought the worst thing about the US is that there is always hope for it. We are now in the midst of that desperate hope.

Consider just one vital statistic: according to Feeding America, about 14 million American children live in food-insecure households, meaning these kids face daily uncertainty about where their next meal will come from.

At the same time, this very country gives Israel $3.8bn every year in baseline military aid under a 10-year memorandum of understanding that the cowardly US President Barack Obama gifted to genocidal Zionists, spanning 2019 to 2028.

That was before Israel began slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza in the tens of thousands, for which purpose US military aid to "the Jewish state", as they falsely call it, has vastly expanded.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza since October 2023 with the weapons Obama put lucratively at its disposal. This mass murder will be his lasting presidential legacy - not that gaudy presidential centre he built on the South Side of Chicago.

What obscenity is this? Americans in their millions have always wondered, and are now publicly, openly, asking without fear of Gestapo-like Zionist outfits like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) slandering them and maligning their good names.

The rage we witness in the US against the obscenities of Trump is the rage against the chokehold Israel has maintained on this country for generations. Americans, left and right, conservative or liberal, are revolting against Israel.

The New York Times knows this and is desperately mobilised to conceal, camouflage, discredit, malign or else dismiss it. With Israel, The New York Times, too, is going under.

Notice how, now that the war on Iran is going calamitously for Trump and Israel, The New York Times is leading the US media in decoupling Israel from the US.

"We've lost the United States, we've lost the world." This is Naftali Bennett, the former Israeli prime minister - yet another genocidal politician wishing to succeed Netanyahu.

They, of course, never had the world to lose, but yes, they have lost the US political leadership that the Israeli operatives once had in their pockets. That they lost the American people a long time ago is now common knowledge.

Imagine if the war were going according to the delusional hallucinations of the Mossad, echoed in the pages of Bret Stephens' columns - then all the credit would have gone to Israel.

We need to keep Stephens' and Benjamin Netanyahu's feet to the fire. This is the war they triggered and imposed on millions of American people.

Israeli operatives led by the pro-Israel lobbying group, Aipac, are having a miserable time these days trying to handpick the dwindling number of corrupt politicians, like Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, who can still ignore the Israeli genocide in Gaza and Israeli warmongering elsewhere.

The war Israel has triggered Trump to wage against Iran has now emerged as the litmus test of this fateful battle. Americans will never go back to sleep before they tear down Aipac, that Israeli fifth column in the US - "I'm coming to tear your kingdom down," as the bold and brilliant former Congresswoman Cori Bush put it.

The war Israel maliciously waged against Iran is the war Israel has waged against the majority of Americans, who oppose this vulgar act of military thuggery against a sovereign nation.

The US is changing, and it is changing fast. In the future of this country, Israel and the Israeli operatives at work in its various institutions will never again have the power and influence the misbegotten settler colony once enjoyed, courtesy of genocidal Zionist operatives dressing up their incessant warmongering as being in the best interests of Americans.

What they do, it is now common knowledge, is exactly against the best interests of the majority of Americans, who are now declaring loudly and publicly that they no longer wish to be the stooges of the European settler colony.

When leading American artists like Mark Ruffalo, Susan Sarandon and Macklemore speak openly and accept the consequences, you know the vicious bugbear of the false charge of "antisemitism" has lost its power to scare.

Israelis and their fifth-column columnists at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, ad nauseam, know this well. They are desperate to evade, dismiss or denigrate it - but they know it for a fact.

American political culture is being decolonised right in front of our eyes. Emerging names with liberated politics - Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, Aber Kawas, Chris Rabb - are pushing national figures like Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to take more daring political positions.

Consider the fact that in a historic vote in July, 103 House Democrats joined one Republican, Thomas Massie, to vote in favour of a sweeping amendment to block $3.3bn in military aid to Israel. Israeli operatives like Thomas Friedman, Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss are having insomnia these troubled nights.

From US Vice President JD Vance, to corrupt Chicago politicians like former mayor Rahm Emanuel, down to the Republican Massie and the entire base of the Democratic Party; from the mayoral election in New York, to congressional elections in New Jersey, the Senate election in Michigan and the gubernatorial election in Colorado - Israel and the Israeli operatives are on the run.

Kamala Harris, the former vice president who aided and abetted the Israeli genocide in Gaza, is now reaching out to Mamdani. The recently and happily liberated writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is now one of the most eloquent and powerful voices exposing genocidal Zionists.

There is no stopping this chorus. No corrupt careerist like Weiss, no matter how many millions Paramount owner David Ellison puts at her disposal, no new AI-engineered propaganda - nothing will stop this flash flood.

Americans are decolonising themselves from the extended fangs of Israel and can immediately detect the foreign agents among them - people like US Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.

The tail can no longer wag the dog. Which one is the dog, and which is the tail? Israel made the US drop so many bombs on Iran that the Pentagon's own watchdog now reports "strategic inventory shortfalls".

What arrogance, what astounding vulgarity, what bizarre sense of self-entitlement allows the Israeli operatives, many of them employed in US media and the entertainment business, to do this to a colonised nation? Americans want to be liberated from Israeli tutelage.

The astounding victory of Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan is another indication that the money spent by Israeli operatives masquerading as Americans to keep the United States colonised by the Israeli settler colony is not working anymore.

On behalf of these Israeli operatives, Aipac spent millions of dollars to defeat El-Sayed - and it miserably failed. Why? Because Americans are disgusted with being fooled into war after war, in the false hope of quenching the genocidal Zionists' thirst for the flesh, blood and bones of dead Palestinian children.

When the final chapter of the murderous misadventure called "Israel" is finally written one day, its gaudy and ugly gall in triggering Trump into attacking Iran - on the trail of its genocide in Palestine and land theft in Lebanon and Syria - will be the very depth of its political depravity.

The idea that a contemptible little garrison state can dismantle the will of a vast civilisational power is not just utterly stupid; it is a supreme sign of an entire history of murderous hubris, finally exposing the depth of its malignancy.

They actually thought they were capable of overthrowing Iran's government, dismantling its domestically developed nuclear energy programme and bringing an obsequious pro-Israel regime to power.

For better and for worse, the Islamic Republic is the tip of an iceberg of a vast political culture, of which the entire garrison state of Israel, from one end to the next, is woefully ignorant. That ignorance is now echoed in the US, too, where the Zionist cabal is losing its grip on reality.

In his habitual counting of the wars he has initiated, Netanyahu fails to mention the single most important front: the United States of America.

There, a Zionist fifth column is helping him wage a deadly war against the American people, who are sick and tired of giving their resources, plus the lives of their sons and daughters, to fight for Israel.

In this, Iranian, Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian people are united with the American people. It is imperative for people around the globe not to confuse and conflate the corruption of a small gang of political elites with the rising voices of Americans opposing Israeli warmongering.

The United States is experiencing one of its most fateful moments in history.

For generations, genocidal Zionism has infiltrated its democratic institutions and taken American political culture hostage to its genocidal politics, ruling the manipulated sentiments of mass media and the entertainment business alike, silencing and intimidating any single solitary voice that would dare to speak the truth to its insatiable and psychotic power-mongering.

The extraordinary figure of the Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said looms larger than life, as subsequent generations remember with awe and admiration the work he did, in the face of vicious savageries, defending the Palestinian cause, which he made emblematic of the larger colonised world.

For generations, pro-Israel Zionists have infiltrated every aspect of American life, from higher education to the media to the entertainment industry and everything in between - and from there, they normalised the mass murder of Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians, and the unfolding theft of their homelands.

In major news organisations like The New York Times, CNN and The Wall Street Journal, in a significant component of the Hollywood film industry, all the way to the boards of trustees of major universities, pro-Israel Zionists have made the very mention of the word Palestine a crime.

To this day, unhinged elected officials like US Congressman Brian Mast say Palestinian babies killed in Gaza are not "innocent civilians", while poor excuses for comedians like Jerry Seinfeld openly say there is no such thing as Palestine. Well, Palestine is now finding vast, fertile moral ground on which to grow in the United States.

Americans are now waking up - left and right, Christians, Muslims and Jews, African Americans and Latinos, old and new immigrants. A decolonial movement is taking shape in this country, and the world must take notice.

The idiotic clamouring of Trump and his Zionist enablers and handlers alike should not distract from this historic moment. The vulgar columnists of The New York Times are the accurate barometers of the panic that the Zionist custodians of the mass media now feel coming their way.

The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York was a seismic event. There are thousands of Mamdanis flowing towards moral and political fruition.

Generations of postcolonial and decolonial thinkers, before and after Said, have produced their most significant works in English and in the United States - the enduring gift of global thinkers to their American habitats. That sustained course of critical thinking is finally coming home to its fertile ground in America.

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