Thank you for the new analysis Nel, always a pleasure to read your work. Your essay clearly put into words the relations between the economic profit minded billionaires and the radical racist groups of people in the Atlantic alliance. I just want to say what an irony it has been. Back in early 2000s, Islam has been framed and demonized as this theocratic military radicalizes religion. Now, more than ever, it should be crystal clear to everyone in the world (except that it’s not for some people in the West) that Israel-US regime IS the radical one.
And that radical Israel-US regime is using Saudi funded Sunni extremist ISIS and the like to, as Merz said, do their dirty work. It's all tied together, if there is a problem in the world, you can be assured one or more of the three are involved there and likely on both sides.
Nell Bonilla, Who are the Trotsky academics that turned Zionist? Trotsky was a critique of Stalin, as revolution is not for ethnic religious ideologies and dictatorship, but to end the gross abuse of capital serving and protecting imperial and colonial inequality and injustice. ‘And what was more important, in 1926 Trotsky changed his stance concerning the possibility of extirpating anti-Semitism from the soil of Russia. Indeed, he was the first to declare openly that Stalin was using anti-Semitism as a foul weapon in the struggle for power.’ Joseph Nedava: Trotsky and the Jews
Re: "I want to offer a third, synthesizing position: Israel is a functionally radicalized proxy that has also served as an ideological and military-operational laboratory and role model for a specific faction of the US ruling strata (neoconservatism and securitocrats), producing a feedback loop in which US imperial strategy and Israeli state logic have become mutually constitutive."
I'd agree, and offer a thought: can't ignore the role of certain factions of the ruling strata (all 3 "tranches" - in your formulation, the Cynics, the Ideologues, and the Entitled/Pleonexy) of the UK. As in *physically resident* in the UK much/most of the time, and/or holding a UK passport (perhaps one among others). So they could be Americans, or Israelis, or Englishmen, or all three.
These are the "neocons before the neocons", the Mackinder crowd (maybe even well before him). Prof. Carroll Quigley discusses this a bit in his "Tragedy & Hope". Le Carre referred to them as "Atlantic Men" in some his novels (I recall a beautifully named "Geoffrey Darker" in one, as well as the infamous Richard Onslow Roper). The role of the City of London (Nick Shaxson's excellent Treasure Islands book), arms exports (UK remains in the top 10, I'm pretty sure), and all the rest of it.
Indeed, we are all strugulling to make our mind over theories on the menu, nevever fully satisfied by one. Glad you make a synthesis I was bumping against. I was not sure how to handle tradition/military/chabad against wall street/central banks/globalism/progessive societal agenda looking for définitive duality. Clearly the feedback loop you 've described found a more efficient path with likoudniks in power in Israël. This seems to me as an emergence transition. I would like to refer you this article on system evolution through a thermodynamic eye (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08374), C. Rovelli is an incredible popularizer. It might join your conceptual toolbox. See it as an expression of my gratefulness for your work.
Thank you for the new analysis Nel, always a pleasure to read your work. Your essay clearly put into words the relations between the economic profit minded billionaires and the radical racist groups of people in the Atlantic alliance. I just want to say what an irony it has been. Back in early 2000s, Islam has been framed and demonized as this theocratic military radicalizes religion. Now, more than ever, it should be crystal clear to everyone in the world (except that it’s not for some people in the West) that Israel-US regime IS the radical one.
And that radical Israel-US regime is using Saudi funded Sunni extremist ISIS and the like to, as Merz said, do their dirty work. It's all tied together, if there is a problem in the world, you can be assured one or more of the three are involved there and likely on both sides.
Nell Bonilla, Who are the Trotsky academics that turned Zionist? Trotsky was a critique of Stalin, as revolution is not for ethnic religious ideologies and dictatorship, but to end the gross abuse of capital serving and protecting imperial and colonial inequality and injustice. ‘And what was more important, in 1926 Trotsky changed his stance concerning the possibility of extirpating anti-Semitism from the soil of Russia. Indeed, he was the first to declare openly that Stalin was using anti-Semitism as a foul weapon in the struggle for power.’ Joseph Nedava: Trotsky and the Jews
Re: "I want to offer a third, synthesizing position: Israel is a functionally radicalized proxy that has also served as an ideological and military-operational laboratory and role model for a specific faction of the US ruling strata (neoconservatism and securitocrats), producing a feedback loop in which US imperial strategy and Israeli state logic have become mutually constitutive."
I'd agree, and offer a thought: can't ignore the role of certain factions of the ruling strata (all 3 "tranches" - in your formulation, the Cynics, the Ideologues, and the Entitled/Pleonexy) of the UK. As in *physically resident* in the UK much/most of the time, and/or holding a UK passport (perhaps one among others). So they could be Americans, or Israelis, or Englishmen, or all three.
These are the "neocons before the neocons", the Mackinder crowd (maybe even well before him). Prof. Carroll Quigley discusses this a bit in his "Tragedy & Hope". Le Carre referred to them as "Atlantic Men" in some his novels (I recall a beautifully named "Geoffrey Darker" in one, as well as the infamous Richard Onslow Roper). The role of the City of London (Nick Shaxson's excellent Treasure Islands book), arms exports (UK remains in the top 10, I'm pretty sure), and all the rest of it.
Excellent.
Indeed, we are all strugulling to make our mind over theories on the menu, nevever fully satisfied by one. Glad you make a synthesis I was bumping against. I was not sure how to handle tradition/military/chabad against wall street/central banks/globalism/progessive societal agenda looking for définitive duality. Clearly the feedback loop you 've described found a more efficient path with likoudniks in power in Israël. This seems to me as an emergence transition. I would like to refer you this article on system evolution through a thermodynamic eye (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08374), C. Rovelli is an incredible popularizer. It might join your conceptual toolbox. See it as an expression of my gratefulness for your work.