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The Mirage of Greater Israel and the Mechanics of Imperial Collapse.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo September 29, 2026
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The mirage of Greater Israel and the structural mechanics of imperial collapse
The Global Outcast and the Eviction from International Law
September 28, 2026 at 2:18 pm
Israeli settlers, joined by far-right ministers and lawmakers, march from the Yad Mordehay area in southern Israel toward the Gaza border, calling for the establishment of new Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by Israeli attacks in Yad Mordechai, located 10 km south of Ashkelon, Israel, on July 19, 2026. Mostafa Alkharouf Anadolu Agency
- by Ranjan Solomon
The expansionist Zionist project has entered its terminal, self-devouring phase. What the global community is witnessing in the aftermath of the devastating campaign in Gaza is not the consolidation of an invincible regional power, but the structural, compounding decay of an aggressive settler-colonial enterprise. Blinded by decades of unchecked ideological hubris, racial supremacy, and Western imperial protection, Tel Avivs political and military establishment has pushed the state into an irreversible strategic dead end.
In attempting to forcefully realize a biblically inspired territorial maximalism spanning from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and into the broader Levant, the Zionist state has succeeded only in rendering itself a global outcast while systematically destroying its own internal political, economic, and social viability from within.
Nothing captures this diplomatic eviction more starkly than the hall of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steps forward to address the world body, he faces an ocean of empty seats as delegations representing the vast majority of the global population across the Global South including Latin America, Africa, and Asiastand up and walk out in a unified, sweeping rejection.
This global snub is far more than a symbolic protest it marks a formal, historical expulsion from the consensus of civilized nations. The moral authority the state long claimed in Western capitals has completely dissolved, exposing a militarized garrison state reliant solely on raw industrial violence and American diplomatic coercion to project its presence on the world stage.
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From a structural perspective, the conduct required to maintain this expansionist project represents a complete, systematic repudiation of the international legal architecture constructed after World War II. The expropriation of land and the expansion of over 700,000 illegal settlers across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem stand universally codified as an ongoing war crime under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which strictly prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into occupied territory.
Furthermore, the institutionalized regime of racial enclosure, military checkpoints, land confiscation, illegal annexations, and dual legal systemscivil law for Israeli settlers, brutal military law for Palestiniansmeets every technical and legal criterion established by the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
By weaponizing forced starvation, targeting health infrastructure, denying access to potable water, and systematically flattening entire urban centres, the state operates in direct violation of the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute.
The binding provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice investigating genocide, alongside the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for top political and military figures, signify a permanent shift. Israel is no longer viewed by the vast majority of the world as a normal state actor navigating a defense crisis, but as an outlaw ethnostate operating far outside the boundaries of international legal order.
Ethno-Nationalist Ideology and Western Imperial Complicity
At the root of this crisis lies the ideological concept of Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah Greater Israel. This expansionist vision treats the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and historically portions of the wider Levant, as an exclusive ethno-religious domain, framing indigenous Palestinians not as human beings with equal rights, but as demographic threats to be managed, displaced, or eliminated. Political theory classifies this structure as a classic settler-colonial state: a system that does not merely exploit indigenous labour, but operates on the logic of elimination to replace the indigenous population on their ancestral land.
This apparatus has survived primarily through the brazen complicity of the Western geopolitical bloc. European powers exhibit a deep, structural hypocrisy, lecturing the Global South on human rights and the rules-based international order while maintaining lucrative economic, diplomatic, and military ties with Tel Aviv. Europe issues empty rhetorical statements calling for restraint while actively suppressing domestic pro-Palestinian dissent, criminalizing resistance solidarity, and continuing to trade in lethal military components.
Concurrently, the United States acts as the explicit imperial guarantor of the Zionist project. Washington regularly bypasses domestic oversight to ship heavy munitions, deploys naval strike groups to shield Israel from regional accountability, and uses its UN Security Council veto to neutralize international enforcement. Yet even this level of superpower backing cannot override the physical and economic limits of imperial overextension.
The Collapse of Absolute Deterrence and the Multi-Front War
The foundational premise of Israeli security doctrine has historically rested on absolute deterrence: the belief that inflicting catastrophic kinetic destruction would terrorize surrounding populations into permanent submission, fracture regional resistance, and permanently erase Palestinian national existence.
Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the political establishment locked the country into a multi-front strugglean attempt to simultaneously project power against Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran.
As analyst Robert Inlakesh incisively observed in the Palestine Chronicle, Israeli officials frame these multi-front operations as a defensive response to an existential ring of fire. In reality, Tel Aviv chose to wage expansionist, colonial wars on multiple asymmetric fronts to enforce regional hegemony, secure territorial ambitions, and perpetuate colonial dominance. Rather than establishing dominance, this strategy has exposed the profound limits of high-tech warfare against decentralized resistance networks.
The old deterrence model has broken down completely across every operational theatre. In Gaza, despite an apocalyptic campaign of destruction designed to erase human life and render the territory physically uninhabitable, the Palestinian spirit of Sumud steadfastness remains completely unbroken. Families continue to organize, survive, and rebuild their lives amidst the ruins, proving that military violence cannot eradicate an indigenous peoples connection to their ancestral land. Demographics and human willpower have permanently voided the dream of an exclusively dominated ethno-religious domain.
In Lebanon, resistance forces have maintained operational cohesion and strategic depth under heavy bombardment, demonstrating that territorial dominance cannot be achieved through aerial supremacy alone. Farther south, Ansar Allah in Yemen introduced an unprecedented strategic variable into the equation by enforcing an effective maritime blockade in the Red Sea against Israeli-linked shipping. Utilizing low-cost drones and ballistic missiles, Yemen exposed the severe limitations of both Israeli air defense networks and Western naval coalitions, imposing immense economic costs on global trade routes tied to the state.
Most decisively, direct military exchanges with Iran shattered the psychological bedrock of the garrison state: the illusion that its civilian population and core infrastructure were invulnerable to direct retaliation. When ballistic volleys penetrated layered air defense systems to strike heavy military installations, the strategic equation changed forever. The historic era in which Tel Aviv could strike its neighbours at will without facing high-yield, high-precision counter-strikes on its own soil is over.
Furthermore, Israeli strategists made a fatal miscalculation regarding the Arab and Muslim world. They operated under the delusion that top-down diplomatic normalization dealssuch as the Abraham Accords could bypass the Palestinian issue and secure regional quiet. However, the street across the Arab and Muslim world has reawakened in overwhelming solidarity with Palestinian resistance.
This grassroots reality has exposed those autocratic regional regimes that quieted their opposition or sold out as fragile houses of cards, unable to integrate Israel into the region while its colonial violence remains on full display. Even in places like Syria, where state apparatuses remain constrained by complex internal recoveries and foreign pressures, the underlying geopolitical dynamics mean that top-down arrangements are temporary at best, leaving Israel permanently exposed to unpredictable internal setbacks across its northern perimeter.
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The Mechanics of Domestic Disintegration
While the military state struggles on its periphery, its domestic foundation is disintegrating under compounding economic, social, and demographic pressures. The garrison state model required to enforce territorial conquest is actively devouring its own political, economic, and demographic foundation.
First, the state is experiencing an unprecedented state of economic paralysis and structural capital flight. Mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists for prolonged, multi-year deployments has stripped the civilian workforce of vital labour, gutting local enterprises, wrecking small businesses, driving national debt to unsustainable levels, and triggering consecutive credit rating downgrades from major global agencies. Foreign direct investment has plummeted as international capital flees an environment defined by continuous instability and legal exposure. Government rhetoric regarding the creation of a fully self-sufficient domestic armaments industry represents an economic fantasy a small domestic economy cannot maintain high-tech military production without continuous access to foreign supply chains, global financial markets, and massive foreign subsidies.
Second, the state is suffering from an irreversible high-tech brain drain. The very core of the modern Israeli economy its software engineers, technology founders, venture capitalists, medical specialists, and senior academics is quietly emigrating. Driven by intense political polarization, authoritarian judicial reforms, and the reality of endless conflict, the secular professional class is leaving for North America and Europe. A society increasingly dominated by messianic religious nationalism, continuous warfare, and rising economic volatility offers no viable long-term future for its educated youth. The loss of this critical human capital permanently undermines the technological superiority and tax base upon which the state depends.
Third, this mass emigration has drastically accelerated an unbridgeable secular-religious social fracture over the issue of military conscription. The endless demand for active-duty manpower has intensified a bitter domestic crisis regarding long-standing draft exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) population. As secular and national-religious units face severe physical exhaustion, casualty rates, and prolonged deployments, public demands to end Haredi exemptions have reached a boiling point. Conversely, ultra-Orthodox political parties and religious leadership explicitly threaten to collapse any governing coalition that attempts to enforce military service upon their community. These irreconcilable dynamics pits secular nationalists, religious fundamentalists, and military pragmatists against one another in an escalating internal struggle over the core identity and governance of the state.
Transformation or Catastrophe: The Only Path to Peace
Israel now stands at an unavoidable, fatal historical impasse. Its internal political architecture, deeply rooted in ethno-nationalist supremacy and colonial conquest, makes it structurally incapable of accepting a genuine, equitable peace. Yet, it lacks the physical, economic, demographic, and military capacity to sustain an endless war of attrition against an entire region that completely rejects its presence. Halting its military operations exposes the absolute failure of the Zionist garrison model, triggers immediate domestic political accountability, and unleashes internal ideological conflict. Continuing the war accelerates economic ruin, military exhaustion, and total global isolation as an international outcast.
While military analysts remain divided on whether these compounding strains pose an immediate existential collapse or a prolonged decay, the direction of history is clear.
Militarized settler-colonial projects do not survive when their internal economic model breaks, their military deterrence evaporates, and their international legitimacy vanishes.
For decades, the diplomatic framework of the two-state solution served as a convenient illusiona diplomatic stalling tactic utilized by Western powers and Israeli leadership to project the appearance of a peace process while illegal settlements, land seizures, and apartheid infrastructure expanded rapidly across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That illusion is now completely dead. The physical reality created on the ground by decades of settlement expansion has made a sovereign, viable, and geographically contiguous Palestinian state alongside an expansionist ethnostate physically impossible.
The collapse of the Greater Israel project leaves the region with a stark choice between continuous, violent decay or a total transformation of its political architecture. The only moral, logical, and lasting alternative to endless destruction is the total dismantling of the apartheid apparatus and the establishment of a single, secular, democratic state for all people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
True security, stability, and peace can never be constructed upon blockades, racial supremacy, mass displacement, or military occupation. It can only be realized through full decolonization, equal civil and political rights, the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and the complete recognition of Palestinian national and human rights.
By abandoning the destructive mirage of Greater Israel and embracing a shared democratic framework where Muslims, Christians, and Jews hold equal standing under the law, the region can finally dismantle the machinery of colonial violence and build an enduring, shared future.
About the author
Ranjan Solomon is an author, researcher, and freelance writer focused on global and national justice. Over a 58-year career beginning at age 19, he has worked closely with oppressed and marginalized groups. A central pillar of his human rights advocacy has been his steadfast solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against occupation and apartheid. A regular commentator on socio-political issues, his articles frequently appear in major digital and print media, including Counter currents, Tehran Times, The Palestine Chronicle, Middle East Monitor, The Wire, Clarion India, Janata Weekly, The Rift, Muslim Mirror, and The Print. Contact: ranjan.solomongmail.com.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.
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Do stay element tego bloga stanowi zastanawianie si, w jakim stopniu rnorakie wystrzay Donalda Trumpa s wynikiem wiadomie prowadzonej polityki, a w jakim mieszanin wybujaego ego z wtpliwej jakoci kompetencjami i biografi wiecznego dziecka. I sam nie do koca potrafi na to odpowiedzie.
Puapka prawyborw i baka w Biaym Domu
Na pewno w kwestii wyborw powkowych prezydent przeszed na kryterium lojalnoci w wyborze kandydatw. Poniewa jego zaplecze polityczne, czyli ruch MAGA, zdominowao Parti Republikask, namaszczeni kandydaci z atwoci wygrywaj prawybory partyjne stanowice warunek uzyskania nominacji. Ale wygrana w wewntrznym plebiscycie to jedno, a wygrana w wyborach waciwych to ju co zupenie innego.
Co z tego wynika Sondaowe wyniki wielu kandydatw republikaskich, nawet w tradycyjnie czerwonych stanach, s pki co bardzo umiarkowane. Czemu zapewne nie pomagaj ceny paliwa na stacjach. A to przyprawia otoczenie prezydenta o niema panik. Cho sam Trump, trzymany w do szczelnej bace informacyjnej, dodatkowo wspieranej przez narcystyczn osobowo, przejmowa si takimi drobiazgami nie zamierza i nie zamierza.
Obserwujc to, co dzieje si tak w Biaym Domu, jak i w caej polityce USA, pojawia si u mnie teza, e Trump nie tyle posiada jaki wasny program (nie jest nim na pewno izolacjonistyczny Projekt 2025), ile pozostaje manipulowany przez kilka grup w swoim otoczeniu, realizujcych osobne i czsto wzajemnie sprzeczne agendy. Poniej sprbuj zidentyfikowa te rodowiska.
1. Dolina Krzemowa i techno-bracia
Pierwsz jest grupa tzw. techno bros, ktrej podstawow agend jest utrzymanie i pompowanie baki AI oraz zabezpieczenie rde dochodu wynikajcych z asymetrycznych rozwiza w zakresie sieci spoecznociowych (brak odpowiedzialnoci prawnej nadawcy). Jej najbardziej widocznym reprezentantem jest Elon Musk, chocia waniejszym, tkwicym bardziej na zapleczu graczem pozostaje Peter Thiel. Ich wkadem jest promocja Trumpa przede wszystkim w obrbie mediw spoecznociowych, gwnie na Muskowym X-ie oraz ogromne pienidze.
2. Tradycyjni miliarderzy i eksperymenty podatkowo-celne
Druga grupa to tradycyjni miliarderzy. To oni odpowiadaj zarwno za projekt prolongaty obniek podatkw, jak i powizane z nim inicjatywy celne. Tu interesw pilnuje Howard Lutnick, sekretarz handlu. To on jest odpowiedzialny za lawinowe stosowanie alarmowych ce na pograniczu legalnoci.
Celem finalnym ma by zastpienie podatku dochodowego wpywami z ce. I nie chodzi o to, czy jest to cel osigalny bo nie jest ale o to, e denie do niego utrzymuje uud systemu podatkowego wpdzajcego USA w kolejne gigantyczne deficyty i napychajcego sakwy najwyszemu procentowi najbogatszych obywateli.
3. Jastrzbie polityki zagranicznej
Trzecim krgiem jest obszar interwencyjny z sekretarzem obrony Hegsethem i sekretarzem stanu Rubio na czele. Ci dwaj staj si ordownikami kolejnych eskapad zagranicznych i eskalowania idiotycznych grb wobec sojusznikw.
O ile jednak Hegseth, majc skromne kompetencje intelektualne, suy gwnie za pas transmisyjny izraelskich politykw, o tyle Rubio wyranie za cel obra sobie nowy porzdek w obu Amerykach z wielkim finaem zakoczonym odbiciem Kuby. To wszystko, jak pokazuje przykad Wenezueli, odbywa si w modelu neokolonialnym, a nie dotychczas preferowanym demokratyzacyjnym.
Co ciekawe, plany ekspansji nie obejmuj na przykad Haiti, gdzie interwencja USA mogaby przynie realne korzyci. Wyglda jednak na to, e katastrofa bliskowschodnia moe tutaj niele pokrzyowa im szyki. Zwaszcza e potencjalna klska w wyborach, o ktrej pisaem na pocztku, w istocie sparaliuje kolejne inicjatywy wojskowe.
4. Radykaowie z ruchu MAGA
Czwarty krg to co, co nazwabym radykaami MAGA. To konglomerat ludzi zdeterminowanych do wdroenia najbardziej skrajnych koncepcji ruchu, ktre s wzajemnie niespjne, ale wyjtkowo druzgocce w skutkach.
Na czele mamy bardzo aktywny ruch antyimigracyjny, ktry po serii wizerunkowych katastrof zosta nieco wyhamowany, ale dalej de facto drastycznie ogranicza napyw imigrantw do USA. Do tego dochodzi katastrofalna polityka zdrowotna pod wodz Kennedyego czy kolejne czystki w administracji. Co ciekawe, tu mamy do czynienia z najwiksz elastycznoci samego Trumpa, ktry najwierniejszych partyjnych Hunwejbinw traktuje bez sentymentw, pozbywajc si ich z zadziwiajc atwoci.
5. Rodzinny interes
Pity obszar to familia. Tu motywacje s wyjtkowo proste: nakra, ile si da. Na czele tej grupy stoi Jared Kushner, a towarzysz mu zarwno synowie prezydenta, jak i jego specjalny wysannik oraz biznesowy konfidant Steve Witkoff.
Norm w tym rodowisku jest zarabianie na unikalnych informacjach (insider trading) oraz pobieranie rnego rodzaju opat na rzecz interesw prezydenta i wasnej kieszeni. Paradoksalnie, to wanie w tym miejscu powstaj dla pastwa ogromne i bardzo dugofalowe szkody.
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Kiedy decyzje Trumpa rozpatrujemy przez pryzmat zagubionego piciolatka poruszajcego si w otoczeniu ludzi posiadajcych wasne, twarde interesy, otrzymujemy znacznie wiksz jasno co do tego, co naprawd kieruje prezydentem USA. Te dziaania nie s spjne, bo spjne by nie mog. S chaosem i katastrof ale katastrof, ktra ma bardzo konkretnych autorw i przyczyny.
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If we dont hold these people accountable, then theyll do it again."
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