By Ali Rizk

The alliance between the United States and "Israel" is the most talked about in Middle East politics. The US is committed totally to "Israel's" security, its military edge and also provides it with the political protection of veto power at the Security Council. Basically it is committed to "Israel's" dominance in the region. "Israel" on the other hand, takes advantage of this US assistance and support to slaughter and carry out massacres without fear of being held accountable. Everything was going as planned for both sides until a popular will emerged to challenge the image of "Israeli" military invincibility". This popular will was represented by what we know today as Hizbullah which forced "Israel" to withdraw from southern Lebanese territories in May 2000; an event which Hizbullah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah recently described as something which changed the face of the region and led many to reconsider this slogan of "Israeli" invincibility. Ever since then problems have piled up for "Israel", as they have for the US because it continued to support irrational and illegitimate "Israeli" policies. The withdraw of "Israeli" forces in May 2000 inspired many in the Arab world including the Palestinians who escalated their resistance against the "Israeli" occupation. The "Israeli" military also suffered a clear cut defeat at the hands of Hizbullah in the July 2006 war. But it is important to note that all of these events exposed to the world what I referred to above: irrational and illegitimate "Israeli" policies and behavior. Because of "Israeli" confusion on how to defeat the popular will (which cannot be defeated) "Israel" resorted to massacres and shedding the blood of other people's, most of whom were women and children(a well known "Israeli" addiction).

Thanks to the developments in information technology many people throughout the world witnessed these "Israeli" atrocities. This led to the emergence of an increased number of anti-"Israeli" activists from all over the world and from different walks of life. These activists became champions of the Palestinian cause and basically any anti "Israeli" cause. But the US had to continue its support for "Israel" despite these atrocities which led to an increase in hatred towards the US in the region. But "Israeli" policies only worsened and have ironically dealt the most damage to "Israel" itself. Two very irrational and even stupid policies which I could mention here are the assassination of the Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai and the attack on the Turkish flotilla aid flotilla in international waters which led to the death of a number of Turkish activists. I mention these two events because they affected "Israeli" ties with states on an official level and not just the people. The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh led to the discovery that the Mossad agents who carried out the operation used fake passports from European countries and other states like Australia. This led to the request the departure of certain "Israeli" diplomats or Mossad officials from these countries and did damage to "Israel's" reputation internationally. The attack on the Turkish flotilla meanwhile was a desperate attempt to stop people from seeing more brutal and irrational "Israeli" policies in the Gaza strip. But this attack created an even bigger problem for "Israel", it lost what used to be one of its most important strategic allies: Turkey.