A capitalist economy is a world-system, where growth and accumulation in the imperial core (e.g, the US and Western Europe) relies heavily on the appropriation of cheap labour and resources from the periphery and semi-periphery, or the global South. Western states and firms need Southern states to remain subordinated suppliers of cheap labour, raw materials and consumer goods within global commodity chains.
In order to maintain this arrangement, the core states must find ways to suppress sovereign economic development in the South. Sovereign development means Southerners begin to escape their subordination, produce more for themselves, increase their wages, and consume their own output. This makes resources and inputs more expensive for the core, which constrains their consumption and makes it more difficult for them to realise profits.
Since economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core, the core states must constantly intervene to prevent or crush anymovement or government in the periphery that seeks national liberation and economic sovereignty.
The US started to support the Zionist project in the 1960s, because they saw this as a way to have a military proxy in the Middle East, where they could stage counter-revolutionary interventions against the Arab socialist movements and national liberation struggles that were gaining traction at that time. The US could not accept the prospect of sovereign development in the region: the liberation movements had to be crushed or destabilized and they used #Israel to help them do it.
Israel has been instrumental in assassinating liberation leaders in the Arab region, and interfering in the political processes of the Arab countries to prevent nationalist and socialist parties from coming to power. It has a long history of attacking regional states - Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, etc - destabilizing them and forcing them to divert resources toward defensive spending instead of industrial development. This is in full alignment with US strategy.
Israel has a long history of providing military and intelligence support to right-wing regimes around the world. For example, Israel armed and supported Argentina’s US-backed military junta, which murdered 30,000 socialists and political dissidents. And Israel armed and assisted the US-backed genocide in Guatemala, training military cadres in techniques of torture and ethnic cleansing.
This is why Israel is so despised around the world. Not only because it is hell-bent on ethnically cleansing Palestine, but because it intervenes everywhere to crush popular movements and create chaos and instability.
Palestinian liberation would remove a key US proxy, and would open the way to liberation movements elsewhere in the region. A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East. And a liberated Middle East — at the hinge of Africa, Asia and Europe — is strongly antithetical to the interests of Western capital.
The Western ruling classes are willing to back obscene violence in Gaza, and shred the liberal values they claim to believe in — resulting in breathtaking displays of hypocrisy — because they want to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation and geopolitical hegemony.
Unfortunately, you cannot appeal to imperial power in moral terms. The only way the US will stop arming, funding and propping up the Zionist regime is when it becomes too costly for them to do so.
https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-the-us-support-israels-crimes
Fabio Manganiello
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