{"id":6324,"date":"2025-09-10T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:57:45","slug":"billionaires-israel-control-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2025-09-10\/billionaires-israel-control-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Western elites don\u2019t care what you think or say, so long as you don\u2019t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Inevitably, the more extreme the West’s actions \u2013 by, for example, actively aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza \u2013 the more extreme the assumptions about the causes of that behaviour.<\/p>\n

As a result, some are falling into an easy trap laid for them by western establishments. They assume that tiny Israel controls the West and its foreign policy, and then dedicate their energies to making the case for this analytical framework.<\/p>\n

In a sense, the debate about whether Israel controls the West or the West controls Israel cannot be won on facts alone. It is too easy to select the facts that suit your view. It makes more sense to try to understand the context in which this debate is taking place, and address the question of \u201cCui bono?\u201d, or \u201cWho ultimately benefits?\u201d<\/p>\n

I published a long essay this week, which you can read here<\/a>, making the case that the West uses Israel to provide a moral gloss to its own larger, colonial aims in the oil-rich Middle East \u2013 aims the West has been pursuing for more than a century, when Britain promised to implant an explicitly \u201ccolonial\u201d entity, one it fashioned as a \u201cJewish state\u201d, in the throat of the Arab world.<\/p>\n

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Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a \u2018moral\u2019 cause. Now the game is up.<\/p>\n

My latest here: https:\/\/t.co\/5MMaHCUFPV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n