Propped Up by the West, Preserved by Its Neighbors

News:

Netanyahu toughens his stance on "Israel’s" security ahead of meeting with Vance. (apnews)

Comment:

In his recent meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “Israel is not a protectorate of the United States,” claiming full independence over the Zionist entity’s security and political decisions. He portrayed it as a sovereign power, free from Washington’s influence. Yet, this statement came even as the United States continues to dictate the political tempo of negotiations and cease-fire arrangements.

Such claims of independence are a transparent attempt to project strength at a time when the Zionist entity’s legitimacy and stability rest entirely on the shield of Western support. In reality, the Zionist entity is nothing but a forward operating base - a military, intelligence, and political outpost of the Western colonial order implanted in the heart of the Muslim lands. Its existence and survival depend on the uninterrupted flow of U.S. military aid, intelligence sharing, and economic subsidies that total billions of dollars annually. From its U.S. funded Iron Dome system to its air force reliant on American aircraft, and an economy propped up by Western trade, investment, and U.S. taxpayer money - every critical lifeline of this entity is externally sustained. Without this backing, the Zionist Entity could not endure even a single day - or an hour - of sustained military confrontation.

Netanyahu’s rhetoric is a desperate attempt to maintain the illusion of strength and sovereignty while the world witnesses the reality: the Zionist entity exists only as a colonial implant, serving Western strategic interests - to divide the Muslim world, suppress its political unification, and maintain Western control over the regions resources and political direction. Its continued survival is further guaranteed by the surrounding regimes - those in Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey - which act as regional bodyguards. Together, these regimes form a protective ring that shields the Zionist project from genuine confrontation, preserving it as a Western outpost planted in the heart of the Muslim lands.

The truth is unmistakable: the Zionist Entity exists only through the scaffolding of Western protection and the treachery of the surrounding regimes. Remove a single layer of this artificial security, and the entire project would collapse. It persists not through its own strength, but through the subservience of those who sustain it. Only when the Muslim Ummah awakens to this reality and restores the Khilafah (Caliphate) upon the method of the Prophethood will the region return to its natural order - free from this colonial outpost and the regimes that protect it.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Haitham Ibn Thbait
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in America