How did Zionists mislead the U.S.?

After the U.S. and Israel's attacks on Iran, much has been made of the fact that Zionist information sources misled Trump. Of course, among these sources, Netanyahu's name stands out the most, but since he is an executive, what is really being questioned is the U.S.'s – or Trump's – information sources. Indeed, the names of institutions and organizations operating in the U.S. have also begun to be mentioned among the misleading information sources. These are mostly organizations that continue the legacy of the think tanks that marked the 1990s, and they had made a name for themselves through field research. Think tanks were part of a system. Therefore, it is not so much specific people and institutions that misled the U.S. and Trump and gave them false information, but rather a system. The system itself produces false and misleading information. We must make a similar observation regarding lobbies. To think that lobbies have an irresistible power on their own would also be misleading for countries like ours that are exposed to problems produced from within the U.S. itself. Unfortunately, examples of this have occurred in the past. Lobbies were also the structures that gave life to think tanks. As far as we can see, the system has created its own poison and is losing its chance to renew itself.

Previously, we shared ideas about lobbies – which had become one of the main elements of the system in the U.S. and the UK – that fell outside the general consensus. It was not correct to place lobbies at the very top layers of the system, especially from the U.S. perspective. The validity of this view has become much more obvious over time. In a very short period, it has begun to be said that lobbies no longer have their old power in the U.S. In fact, evaluations that lobbies are losing power are now being voiced openly. Lobbies, in fact, were never anything more than one of the channels for distributing the wealth produced by the system. They distributed a portion of the wealth that emerged through think tanks. The people in these organizations had no choice but to produce information that suited the system. Edward Said's concept of authority was probably pointing precisely to such a situation. Zionist Orientalists saw this space created by the system very clearly, and new authorities emerged. The fundamental characteristic of the shift from Orientalist research to field research took shape within this framework. What has emerged, in fact, is a new Orientalism. The story of the transition from Orientalist research to think tanks needs to be examined in a much broader framework, because many people in our country too had become part of the work done in this field. Lobbies had also included such people and institutions in the same network.

After all this, it is impossible not to agree that Netanyahu gave false and misleading information to Trump. But this information is mostly at the tactical level. Almost the entire world sees that the U.S. is trying to get out of much bigger problems. In this framework, the problems the U.S. is having with the UK and European countries, or its image of helplessness in the face of China's rise, point to something far beyond the tactical level. The Jews gained power within the Western alliance. Zionism was also a product of the expansionist understanding of the Anglo-Saxon union. Therefore, the adoption of Zionist ideology by the Jews is a complete consequence. But today, Israel – which has been amassing power within the Western alliance – is making the problems of Western civilization visible. Yes, Netanyahu managed to convince Trump that Iran would fall in a few days, but this is not a matter of being misled by false and incorrect information. Israel and Netanyahu are products of the same system, and they too see that they have reached a limit. Probably Netanyahu's team also believed that Iran would fall in a few days. There is no harm in saying it again: this belief is the result of an authoritarian view of knowledge production. They really believed Iran would fall, and Trump believed it too. They also believed that the Palestinians would leave Gaza. With one final, sudden attack, they would take revenge on Yahya Sinwar, and they would make the Palestinians regret having believed in Hamas. Because they thought they were an irresistible force.

Israel and Zionist Jews were born from the Zionism that the Western alliance produced. The success of the Zionists came from their loyalty to the Western alliance. After World War II, it was the Zionist Jews who formed the backbone of Orientalist studies. They produced knowledge according to the era of their rise and became authorities. Now the Western alliance and the Anglo-Saxon union are experiencing great internal problems. Is this a collapse, or a stagnation, or a temporary crisis? The answer to this question will deeply affect the future of Israel and all Jews.