A famous fable attributed to Aesop tells how the scorpion tricked the frog he wanted to carry on his back, into crossing the river with the promise that it would do nothing to him in the middle of the current.
But what was meant to happen happened: the scorpion broke what had been agreed upon and stabbed the frog with its sting, then the frog asked him why he did that and he replied “it’s part of his nature.”
A former Israeli diplomat applies Greek fable to current relationship Between Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel and Joe Biden’s USA, This situation may result in the Zionist State being dragged into war with Iran.
Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat and current director of the Beirut Conflict Forum, quotes him anonymously in a recent article.
According to him, Netanyahu is preparing a strategy of shifting his own blame to others and avoiding personal responsibility because he does not know how to prevent Hamas’ October 7 attack.
This strategy will also include “trapping” the Biden Government so that it will have no choice but to support the Zionist State in every way, with the risk of escalating military tensions in the Middle East region.
Israeli journalist and human rights activist
Orly Noy seems to conclude that after Hamas’ surprise attack, Israeli public opinion has largely come to terms with the so-called “Smotrich doctrine.”
According to Israeli Finance Minister and leader of the far-right Religious Zionist PartyBezalel SmotrichRather than maintaining the fiction of a possible political agreement with the Palestinians, the old conflict needs to be resolved unilaterally and definitively by Israel.
It would be enough to put the three million Palestinians living in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank before the alternative of giving up their national aspirations and continuing to live on their land, albeit in a lower status than the Jews. accept, emigrate.
And if those who chose to stay ever took up arms against Israel, they would be considered terrorists and the Jewish Army would know how to act accordingly.
The historian in his book “We Are Going to War” Max Hastings He recalls that in the seventies, Netanyahu admitted to him that in the next war things would be done better and the opportunity would arise to expel all the Arabs from the West Bank.
In his article, former diplomat Crooke also reminds us of another doctrine that has come to the fore these days due to the destruction of Gaza and is named after the Dahiya neighborhood of Beirut, which is the stronghold of Hezbollah and was completely destroyed by the air. force, Israel in 2006.
According to General Gadi Eisenkot, what happened in that neighborhood “will also happen in all villages where fire was opened against Israel. “We will use disproportionate force”
According to Crooke, Joe Biden’s team does not trust Netanyahu very much, as happened to the frog in the scorpion tale, because they are afraid of being dragged into a direct military conflict with Iran, but Israel is making such a maneuver that Washington will not be able to achieve this. If the Gaza war continues, it has no choice but to join Israel.