Stephen M Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard University, recently published an article in the leading US journal, Foreign Policy, entitled: “The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy”. He argues that Israel, the US and their supporters are wedded to long-honed, conspicuously bad policies, which “is a prescription for unending trouble, if not disaster”.

Many in the US pay attention to what Walt says. After victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, he argues, Israel hubristically decided to create “Greater Israel” by steadily colonising “the West Bank and Gaza”. This exceptionally harmful decision resulted in an apartheid governance system:

“[Israel] could remain a Jewish State only by suppressing the political rights of Palestinians and creating an apartheid system, in an era when such a political order was anathema to growing numbers of people around the world. Israel could deal with this problem through additional ethnic cleansing and/or genocide, but both are crimes against humanity that no true friend of Israel could endorse.”

While acknowledging “the cruel realities of Israel’s........

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