Secrets Behind the Silence of the American Jewish Groups Before the Extremist Israeli Government

The Anti-Defamation League, which represents the Jewish lobby in America, hasn’t said anything about the new far-right Israeli government despite all the warnings. The league’s new president, Jonathan Greenblatt, has kept a deafening silence while Ted Deutch, the new CEO, is very quiet.

The Netanyahu government includes many convicted criminals, fascists, and racists and will damage relations with the Biden administration, but Jewish leaders welcomed the government anyway.

On the Mondoweiss news website, the writer Philip Weiss explained this silence reflects many realities even though many Jewish leaders have implored Netanyahu not to move forward with the government, which includes many fascist and racist convicted criminals, because it would damage American-Jewish relations and provide ammunition for anti-Zionism, but Netanyahu did it anyway, in order to pass anti-judicial legislation that would save him from corruption charges.

 

Deafening Silence

Weiss added that Jewish leaders in the United States are horrified by Netanyahu’s indifference, but they welcomed the new right-wing government.

Ambassador Nides and the State Department had nothing to say about the new Israeli government’s explicit commitment to further ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

Reuters reported that Netanyahu’s new alliance with the ultra-nationalists has White House officials worried about the prospect of the deterioration in Israeli relations with the Palestinians.

On December 29, Biden said he looked forward to working with Netanyahu, whom he described as “a friend of mine for decades, who is committed to “supporting the two-state solution and opposing policies that endanger its viability or run counter to our shared interests and values.”

In a new working paper entitled From Jerusalem to Washington: The Significance of Israel’s New Government, the researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Eldad Shavit, warns that the Israeli failure to take into account American positions and interests will result in a very dangerous backlash against it. Shavit says that since the announcement of the results of the Knesset elections, the US administration has acted with extreme caution and refrained from taking a position related to its policy towards the new government that is being formed in “Israel.”

 

Embarrassing to Biden

In his comment, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took advantage of his appearance at a conference of the pro- “Israel” left-wing Jewish lobby, J Street, to stress that the administration respects the democratic elections that took place in “Israel,” and intends to deal with “the policy of the new government, and not with specific people who are present.” Nevertheless, Blinken returned and indicated that the United States would ask the new government to “commit to the mutual standards of the relations that have existed between us during the last 70 years.”

The New York Times said that the emerging government poses a great threat to the future of “Israel,” and the future government alliance may harm relations with the United States, which requires President Joe Biden to intervene.

The article emphasized that the ideal of the Jewish state is in danger. Unusually, the recent Israeli elections brought dramatic results, although the results of the last five elections weren’t short of any surprises, as “Israel” appeared troubled. The far-right government that will soon come to power, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, looks fundamentally different, in a disconcerting way than all previous Israeli governments.

It added, the positions of the members of the next government may make reaching a two-state solution militarily and politically impossible, for which the Biden administration must do everything in its power to intervene in order to preserve the deep relationship between “Tel Aviv” and Washington because the indictments against Netanyahu prompted him to do his best to remain in power.

To respond to the demands of extremist elements, they formed a fragile government made up of people who demand settlement expansion, annexation, change of the status quo at al-Aqsa Mosque, and undermining of the Supreme Court, all with the aim of saving him from prosecution and imprisonment.

 

Damage Control

Reportedly, it is clear from this reception that the new Israeli government will make life difficult for pro- “Israel” Jewish groups, especially those largely allied with the Democratic Party under the slogans of defending civil rights and democracy and opposing racism, homophobia, and white nationalism, while the new Israeli government will continue to shatter these alleged values of the new government openly committed to the continuation and expansion of occupation in the West Bank and the destruction of Palestinian rights.

In fact, the task of the Democratic current in the American Jewish lobby in the United States will be “damage control” to the extent of presenting Netanyahu as a supporter of gay rights, but the writer also indicated that the J Street group had issued a statement calling on the Biden administration to act against A radical government threatens “democratic values” in “Israel,” the statement stressed: Now is the time for the United States government to speak up and prepare to take action to keep this radical coalition in check.

In an interview with Al-Estiklal, the researcher Hazem Ayyad said: “Common values are one of the pillars of the American relationship with the Israeli Occupation entity. These values suffer from spontaneous disintegration resulting from the rise of the fascist settler right within the entity and the widening gap between it and the Jewish community in America in conjunction with the rise of progressives, especially within the Democratic Party.

He added: “Disintegration and erosion are expected to have a limited impact on the solid geopolitical interests that unite the Israeli entity and the United States in the short and medium term. However, it is expected to have an impact on the mechanisms for managing the conflict with the Israeli Occupation and in weakening the momentum of normalization and the efforts of geopolitical engineering of the Arab region on the Israeli scale.”

He emphasized: “Efforts to avoid confrontation with the United States are facing real difficulties. Netanyahu’s fascist government unleashed complex dynamics whose impact is not limited to the occupied territories and the Palestinian people. Its impact extended to the Jewish community in America, whose American organizations threatened to transport protesters on planes from America to Jerusalem to demonstrate against Netanyahu’s fascist government.”