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Israel is barking up the right tree

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Imran Jan May 21, 2026 3 min read
The writer is a political analyst. Email: imran.jan@gmail.com Twitter @Imran_Jan

Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard genius-turned-bomber of airlines and university professors around the United States, was caught by the FBI through a strange clue. There is an old saying that "you can't have your cake and eat it too". The entire world uses this version of the phrase. Kaczynski in his manifesto used the phrase "you can't eat your cake and have it too" by flipping the verbs. This was one of the major clues that the FBI noted. However, the FBI also found out that the version that the entire world was using was the wrong one. It was Kaczynski who was actually using the correct old version, which had gotten flipped through centuries and nobody noticed.

Every time nations around the world want to curry favour with the United States and want to sway the specific aspect of US foreign policy in a certain direction, they think up of ways they can benefit the United States as a nation and how they can play a role in furthering the US interests. While these nations are not entirely wrong in expecting that this approach would yield benefits for their nations and nationals, the reason it is never as effective as Israel's approach is because they are barking up the wrong tree. It is only Israel that got it right. They know which buttons to push and what chokehold points to dominate in order for the US to act exactly as the Zionists want.

If one observes the policies and actions that many states took in order to influence US foreign policy, it is basically offering up various utilities that these states can provide in helping the US achieve its national interests goals such as access to oil, containing the Chinese rise, access to land in order to fight the "enemy", and so forth. Bahrain plays host to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, Qatar hosts Al Udeir base, Japan and South Korea provide land for US bases in order to contain and deter China. All of these countries mentioned above and many others help some kind of US national interest goal and yet nobody has as much power inside the US as Israel does even though Israel helps further no US foreign policy goal. I can't think of one. In fact, Israel is rather a liability and a national security threat for the US due to what's called blowback for US support for the Zionist state.

What then can explain this anomaly? It is the difference in the method that Israel uses in steering the US foreign and even domestic policies to where it benefits Israel. The method is not how Israel would help further US interests but rather to remind the politicians instead of what would happen to them if they decided to have funny ideas and not provide blind support to Israel. While other nations deal with the US as a country, Israel deals with politicians individually and strike terror into their hearts by reminding them how Israel can cause their political career to end if no blind support was given to the Jewish state. It is like all students follow the rules of the exam and study for it in order to pass it. And one student skips over all that and directly approaches the teacher and threatens the teacher with dire consequences if A grade wasn't given.

The threats given to politicians are no idle threats. That power and ability to arm-twist the politicians is the only reason why Israel has immense control over the US media, academia and even tech sector now. The relentless reminders sent out to the Americans about how the so-called Judea Christian values are similar are designed to make the American people think that somehow as Christians it is their duty to protect the Jewish state and help the chosen people be safe in their homeland that was promised to them 2000 years ago. Truth be told, they spit at the Christians inside Israel. The Jews over there hate Christians perhaps more than they hate Hamas.

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