America and Israel... the limits of the current crisis

There is a wide debate in Israel about what is described as the “crisis of the relationship with the American administration.” The debate, especially on this point, is not entirely objective, due to its investment in the crisis in the internal debate between the forces fighting over power and influence.

And given that the American presence in Israeli life has a strong influence on public opinion, each of the parties to the conflict is keen to accuse the other of misconduct towards Israel's first and last ally.

The opposition accuses the government of provoking the US administration, by neglecting the common values ​​on which the strategic relationship with the superpower was built. In this context, the government proceeds with judicial reforms that the administration has reservations about. Likewise, the presence of extremist elements in the government that embarrasses the US administration with its “language and behavior,” and narrows the margins for defending Israel.

As for the government... it defends its policies, by exaggerating its claim of independence from American policies and positions, to the extent that many of its ministers and writers showed contempt for it, and called for its challenge not only in Israel but also within the United States itself... and this matter has reached an extreme level. Explicit talk about alternatives, by developing relations with other countries, with which the United States is not satisfied.

Netanyahu is the blatant headline of the current crisis, and given his realization of the strength of American influence on public opinion in Israel, he attaches an almost fateful weight to the American disapproval of his coronation by the White House, and his willful neglect of shedding a revealing American light on the head of state who was invited to Washington.

A shrewd politician like Netanyahu realizes the significance of the president's call as a factor of heavy pressure on him and his coalition.

Netanyahu also realizes that it is an American taming project and not a decisive boycott, and he lost his balance when the Biden administration put him under conditions that he could not meet, in order to open the doors of the White House in front of him, and the most difficult of these conditions is giving up the hard-line ministers who are the basis for his survival in his position.

As well as abandoning judicial reforms, and this is what Netanyahu considers the end of his term as prime minister now, and in the future.

By scrutinizing the location of the Palestinian issue in the American-Israeli crisis, and even the dispute with the administration regarding it seems secondary, and it can be described as “marginal” in terms of influencing the general course of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. America, which does not stop criticizing settlement policy, and excessive abuse of the Palestinians It does not propose serious solutions to the root of the problem, insofar as it manages a crisis through which Israel understands that it has a free hand in continuing its "Palestinian" policy... In the sense that the American position on this issue in particular is easy to contain and empty it of any actual influences.

In a lengthy article by Mr. Dennis Ross, who is one of the most important American experts on the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and what is broader, i.e. the Middle East issue, I noted an accurate and detailed diagnosis of the reality of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, but what he saw as a way out of it was to reproduce the experience of Salam Fayyad "Reformist" and called on President Abbas to assign him, or someone like him, to head a new government.

America, the official administration and the experts in its orbit, do not come close to the fact that the Palestinian-Israeli situation will not be dealt with by bureaucratic formulas, as its basis is political and there is no choice but to deal with it politically. On the political horizon”, which shows that the only global force that can be relied upon to influence Israeli policies towards the Palestinians affects adaptation to reality, and this is what the Israelis desire and depend on.

The current Israeli-American crisis should be read not from the angle of an American objection to ministers in a government, nor from the angle of objection to excessive Israeli behavior that abuses the Palestinians, but rather from a deeper and broader angle, which can be summarized very succinctly: “Different administrations are an almost daily matter. However, it is not permissible for him to touch the basis of the strategic relationship between the two countries.” Note: The recent phone call between Biden and Netanyahu was done to contain Netanyahu's reaction to procrastination in his invitation and to give the president an opportunity, and Netanyahu will be invited finally, and Biden will continue his conservative position on judicial reforms, and thus he has retracted in the matter of the visit and has not retracted in other contentious matters This satisfies Netanyahu and does not satisfy his opponents.