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The Pursuit of the unattainable, Israel’s “deep state”

No other country in the Western world has been forced to exist and strive under the constant shadow of endless cycles of war, terrorism, invasion, rocket fire, suicide bombings, and existential threats since its establishment 78 years ago, affecting virtually every family in Israel. While many nations have experienced wars in their history, Israel has faced continuous conflict from the very day it was established as the Jewish homeland after nearly two thousand years of exile. Hamas’ invasion of southern Israel on Oct 7^th, was only the latest manifestation of the barbaric terror carried out by our Palestinian neighbors, let alone the ensuing war on seven fronts forcing Israel to defend herself, against daily attacks by Hamas, Yemen, Lebanon and Iran. Intuitively, this ongoing reality of the endless cycles of wars and terror is a product of the Arab and Islamist refusal to accept the existence of Israel in the Middle East. Yet, the rejection of Israel’s right to exist as the national homeland of the Jewish people cannot alone explain the historical phenomenon of endless cycles of wars and terror.

Judicial overreach in Israel and the butterfly effect of Israel’s judicial system has systematically weakened Israel’s security, empowered anti-Semitism within Israel and throughout the Western world resulting in global anti-Semitism that threatens not only Israel but Jews everywhere. Israel’s “deep state” personified by the judicial system prevents an end to the endless cycle of war and terror, but they are not alone. The four pillars of Israel’s “deep state” includes; the judiciary, the media, bureaucratic civil servants, and progressive political forces. Together, Israel’s “deep state” lead by unelected bureaucrats, legal advisors, and judges have thwarted the will of the people by preventing Israel’s elected government from passing laws, and ensuing policies that in most Western nations are not subservient to legal review or jurisdiction. The political bias of Israel’s “deep state” has influenced all sectors of government allowing entrenched bureaucrats in the military, the police, and Israel’s security agencies to operate with legal immunity by promoting progressive strategic policies that contradict or nullify the explicit laws and decisions passed by Israel’s elected government. Judicial activism and non-elected officials in government ministries, often termed "legal advisors," act as a "super government" preventing governmental ministers from carrying out their duties and fulfilling their political mandate, thereby expressing the will of the people who voted for them. To amplify the “deep state’s” political perspective, they use the media and journalists to control the narrative, influence policy and public opinion in the daily political discourse by disseminating disinformation extensively.

This “weaponized” legal system acts exclusively against conservative or right-wing governments that have rejected the progressive political agenda. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current court trial appearances over the past three years have given the general public a convincing glimpse into how the prosecution and investigative police units have orchestrated a witch hunt against the Prime Minister, many of his appointments of security agency heads, and political aides. Let there be no doubt, these gatekeepers; prosecutors, police, and jurists are not protecting the rule of law against executive overreach, rather they are committed to a progressive agenda that goes way beyond what is politically and morally acceptable to the general public and to the majority that voted in the current government in Israel. The deep state is systemic, it’s malignant, and it’s global. Israel’s “deep state” treats every single act or decision by Israel’s democratically elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the end of Democracy.

It was President Eisenhower who first coined the term the military-industrial complex (MIC). Many scholars describe the MIC as the American "deep state," an entrenched, unelected, and secretive network comprising military, intelligence agencies, corporate defense contractors, and Silicon Valley. This expansion reflects a permanent national security state, rather than just a military-focused industrial alliance. This entity has grown exponentially since World War II, merging with intelligence agencies and Wall Street. Defining the Deep State: The deep state, in this context, is viewed as a "state within a state," where unelected bureaucrats and industry leaders shape policy, sometimes operating independently of elected officials. Many observers maintain that the "deep state" is a real, evolving structure that perpetuates itself behind the scenes of the constitutionally elected government.

The “deep state” poses a challenge for democratic nations throughout the world including the United States, whether during the Eisenhower Presidency or today during the Trump Presidency. Yet, for Israel, the “deep state” has prevented Israel’s democratically elected government from taking the necessary steps to end the endless cycle of wars and terror. Judicial decisions by Israel’s Supreme Court have over the years prevented Israel from concluding waves of terror or wars with a decisive victory. Due to judicial intervention and overreach, ceasefires replaced permanent long term solutions, international diplomacy replaced military successes and decisive victories. Human rights and humanitarian aid for the enemy superseded the sanctity of life for Israel’s soldiers and citizens. Terror organizations were kept on a low burner, weakened but never fully destroyed. Israel’s “deep state” created a culture that espoused a political bias that embraced a progressive agenda: restrain and deterrence is preferable, manage the terror rather than eliminate it, ceasefires will evolve into long term peace or as the motto from the 60’s goes: make love not war.

What Israel’s “deep state” refuses to understand is that wars that are ended without a decisive victory will eventually return whether as terror or as a full blown war. Oct 7^th and the ensuing war has taught the Israeli people that, we should not be expected to accept a reality that no other nation would tolerate. All Democracies make mistakes and not every decision by the current government has been flawless, however Israel’s political echelon has been held accountable and will have to overcome the test of elections within the coming months, something that evades the leaders of Israel’s “deep state”, they will not only be held unaccountable, but their objective of having the final say will be unattainable sooner rather than later.

Germany's Secret Nuclear Assistance to Iran

During this time of the year, we in Israel commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and then exactly one week later, the nation commemorates Memorial Day. On Memorial Day, we in Israel mourn our fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, halting everything as the sirens blast (cars stop, pedestrians stop, the nation literally comes to a standstill). These past weeks and months, given that Israel’s sirens were prompts to rush to bomb shelters, one can only imagine the anxiety and accompanying stress, should one of those sirens have coincided with a memorial siren.

The common denominator between these two pivotal historical events namely the Holocaust and the Iranian attack on the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and Israeli civilian population centers, is Germany’s intentional involvement and compliance. Nazi Germany’s responsibility for implementing the Holocaust is an undisputable historical fact. Yet few associate Iran’s current nuclear and military capabilities with the very same nation, namely Germany, a nation responsible for annihilating 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. Germany played a key role in the early development of Iran's nuclear program decades ago that jump-started the Iranian nuclear capability by providing German nuclear technology, training, specialized components, and machinery. Key details regarding German involvement included providing Iran with specialized equipment such as high-strength aluminum, vacuum pumps, numerical controlled machine tools and frequency Converters: critical frequency converters for thousands of Iran’s centrifugal machines.

Historically, Germany was a primary technological partner for Iran, particularly in infrastructure and energy: This transfer of technology of actual components by Germany has over the years enabled Iran to advance and transform its nuclear weapons industry to weapons grade enrichment. Despite international sanctions, approximately 77 formal agreements were initiated over the years between German and Iranian higher education institutions. These involved student exchanges and joint research in fields like physics and IT. A major treaty was signed between the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the West German Ministry for Research and Technology. This paved the way for the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, originally designed and partially built by the German firm Kraftwerk Union (Siemens), a core installation for Iran’s enrichment program.

Iran has relied on dual-use German nuclear technology to enrich and produce weapon-grade uranium enabling a nuclear threshold capacity. Iranian leaders being confident that their advanced nuclear weapons industry would deter any external attempt to prevent their nuclear ambitions, interpreted the West’s apathy over the years to this emerging threat that a nuclear Iran would pose for the world. This indifference has enabled Iran to spread her tentacles of Islamist terror through her proxy Islamist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Today, the United States and additional Western nations have come to the realization that Iran poses an existential threat beyond the borders of the Middle East, with Israel being just the first step within its overall plan.

Iran’s existing constitution, formed in 1979 and subsequently amended in 1989, outlines a vision that is fully incompatible with Western principles and has guided and empowered the Islamic leaders of Iran throughout its forty-seven-year existence. It also gives meaning to what has often been mistaken for mere hyperbolic cheerleading: "Death to America" and “Death to Israel.” While America was built on notions of liberty, individual freedoms and limited government control, the Islamic Republic of Iran is based upon a global totalitarian vision. Essentially, it seeks a one-world Islamic government derived from Koranic principles and Sharia law. It set out to help all similar revolutionary efforts across the world, justifying its support for its proxies such as Hamas and other Palestinian terror factions in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Islamic terror cells throughout Europe. In addition, it was hoped that this Islamist vision of world domination would be realized by the end of the 20th century, which certainly explained Iran’s unquenchable appetite for nuclear weapons as the optimum, most accelerated pathway toward overtaking all other forms of rule.

Germany has also provided the Islamic Republic of Iran, whether intentionally or not, an additional motivational path to use their nuclear ambitions to achieve their goal of world domination. The Aryan myth closely associated with German Nazi society during the 1920s and 30s, is one of the fundamental pillars of Iranian Islamist nationalism. Iran’s Islamic leaders have used their sense of self-acclaimed Aryan superiority to demand parity with Europe and dislocate Iran from the perceived backwardness of the Islamic Sunni world. Born in early nineteenth-century Europe, the Aryan myth was a product of linguistics, of racial anthropology – a pseudo-science that today is totally discredited. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933, they began to legislate on the basis of their racist worldview. A central goal of Nazi policy was exclusion and, ultimately, the annihilation of Jews. It often claimed to empirically demonstrate the inherent superiority of Europeans over the non-European subjected ‘races’. It later became a fundamental component of Nazi ideology.

Believing in the Aryan kinship of Iranians, German Orientalists and cultural emissaries introduced the Aryan myth into Iran in the first half of the twentieth century. The convenient intellectual device produced from this curious importation is well known: Iranians are part of the Aryan race and thwarted from their glory by religious and cultural miscegenation with Semites (in this case the Jews, and Sunni Arabs). The Nazis were careful to use ‘Aryan’ themes. Erwin Ettel, a German ambassador to Iran from 1939 to 1941, emphasized the use of such themes in his “general guidelines for propaganda to Iran” while he also insisted that “Germany’s battle against World Judaism” should also be directed “against the Jews in Iran, who want to force the Aryan Iranian people under their yoke”. In 1951, Sumka, the Iranian Nation-Socialist Party, was explicitly modeled on the Nazi Party and, alongside other far-right groups such as the Pan-Iranian Party, it sponsored attacks on local Jews and leftists in Iran while boasting about the ‘Aryan’ race that the majority of Iranians supposedly belonged to. It is remarkable that although both terms ‘Aryan’ and ‘race’ have fallen into disuse in the West, they are a fundamental component of modern Iranian political thinking among Iranian leaders.

Since 1952, when diplomatic relations were established between the Federal Republic of Germany and Iranian Islamic Republic, diplomatic relations were close and resulted in numerous technological, cultural, and industrial bi-lateral agreements. However, the volume of trade has decreased significantly in recent years as a result of the sanctions against Iran, primarily from the United States’ withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the sanctions unilaterally imposed by the United States. Nevertheless, there is still considerable interest in bilateral cultural and academic exchange between the two countries’ civil societies. One can only conclude that had Germany NOT been forced to end their close bi-lateral relations with Iran due to American sanctions, not only Israel but the whole of Western societies would be under the existential threat posed by Iran on the world.

Israel’s generation of heroes

While walking down the streets of Israel, one is literally surrounded by heroes; modest and anonymous civilians who a moment earlier were on the front lines. Over the past 40 day war our heroes fought against the Islamic Republic of Iran and her proxy forces in the air, on the sea, and on the ground creating a new reality not only in the Middle East but no less for the United States and Europe. One of these many heroes who I personally know is a pilot who flew alongside his fellow pilots thousands of missions under operational conditions that are truly inspiring and unprecedented in modern combat aerial history. I wish to thank you and your comrades for your service, for your fearlessness and modest audacity to complete “mission impossible”. I also wish to thank the hundreds of thousands of ground forces that have been on the front lines for over the past two years and have paid the ultimate price and sacrifice.

As the late Rabbi Saks has written: Throughout modern history, nations of the Middle East have sought to justify their hatred of Israel and of the Jewish nation. In the middle ages, it was religion. In post enlightenment Europe it was science. Today, it is human rights. This is why Israel, the only fully functioning democracy in the Middle East with a free press and independent judiciary is regularly accused of the five crimes against human rights; racism, apartheid, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and attempted genocide. Despite this blood libel that has enlisted millions of supporters throughout the world, Israel has been able to be a partner within a coalition that understands the danger that Iran poses not only for Israel but for all of Western civilization. The current 40 day war with Iran will be entering a period of cease-fire, the number 40 has special significance in Jewish history; the Jewish nation wandered in the Sinai peninsula for 40 years before entering the Land of Israel. Moshe went up to Mount Sinai for 40 days before coming down with the holy tablets and the Ten Commandments. The number 40 has always symbolized throughout Jewish history a leap, a springboard for better days and a fulfillment of our historical destiny.

The current war against Iran is a direct, predictable, and almost inevitable continuation of Israel's wars throughout history. This is not new, this is not the first time, and it will not be the last. Ever since the days of Jabotinsky's "Iron Wall" and Ben-Gurion's security doctrine, Israel has relied on three basic principles: warning, deterrence, and decisiveness. It is no coincidence that the word is "decisiveness" — not "victory." Since the 1920s, Israel has operated from a difficult but consistent premise: final victory is not an option. It is frustrating, it is corrosive, and it is not intuitive — but it is not Israel’s fault either. Ben-Gurion said at the Mapai Council in 1948: "The Arab enemy can lose once, twice, three, ten times — and still exist. He will live on his land, he will lick his wounds, he will try to mobilize new forces and be able to fight again. Our victory does not solve the question. Even if we strike them with a decisive blow, they will remain in their place, the hatred will not cease and they will wait for the next opportunity... We are a small people, we are currently in the country of six hundred thousand people. Facing us stands an Arab world of thirty million. The ratio is one to forty. We can strike them, but we cannot conquer them. We can defeat them again and again, but we cannot destroy them. They will always remain there, and they will always be able to come back and try again. Our victory cannot be final in the sense that it will eliminate their existence or their desire to fight us, because the small settlement does not have the power to subdue an entire world."

Some will say that this has been a consistent failure of the Israeli leadership for generations; unable or unwilling or not knowing how to translate a military achievement as decisive as it is into a political achievement. And some will say — and to a large extent rightly — that it takes two to tango. As Ben-Gurion said: "We know that our will alone is not decisive, neither in the entire world nor in the corner of the world where we live." Israel can want peace as much as it wants, but as long as hundreds of millions of people in our region are raised on an educational, religious, and cultural infrastructure that presents Jews as the devil and an existential enemy — lasting peace simply will not be achievable, no matter how much we want it”.

Therefore, the achievement of the 40 day war against Iran should be measured not against theoretical fantasies of "total victory" — which is not at all achievable, at least according to the greatest leaders and thinkers of Israel throughout the ages — but against realistic alternatives. And from such a perspective, there is no doubt that today is strategically significantly better than yesterday. Yesterday we faced a coordinated existential threat: tens of thousands of terrorists in Gaza, tens of thousands of terrorists in Lebanon, thousands of terrorists in Judea and Samaria (Aka the West Bank), thousands from Syria, and thousands of heavy, fragmenting cluster missiles from Iran — in a coordinated surprise attack. That was the plan. This was the alternative. This alternative was replaced by the reality of a defeated, humiliated, weak, and marginalized enemy. From such a realistic perspective, which distinguishes between real alternatives, one can draw a lot of encouragement.

Our modest and anonymous heroes on the front lines in the skies, on the seas, and on the ground, with the people of Israel proudly standing behind them exhibiting never-ending resiliency have had the privilege of being part of creating this reality. Our heroes have shown not only our enemies but the nations of the world sitting on the sidelines, what it means to be Jewish, what it means to be a proud Israeli, what it means to be a true military professional, and what it means to be the best at what you do. This is a historic moment — a moment that will shape the character of Israel for decades to come. While I look at the world and see countries crumbling, identities being erased, nationalism becoming a dirty word — in Israel the opposite is happening. Our sense of mission, the understanding that we only have one country the State of Israel, and the knowledge that we are all in the same small boat — have made us stronger than ever.

Iran’s plan to threaten the existence of Israel from seven surrounding fronts has backfired, but the Iranian campaign is far from over. The 40 day war has dealt a heavy blow to Iran’s nuclear project and ballistic missile capacity, exposed Hezbollah’s strategy in Lebanon and underscored Israel’s regional clout — but these gains will emerge further down the line, yet the next round is already taking shape

“The common enemy of humanity”

This past week, we were given a stark reminder of the link between classic Nazi ideology and today’s Palestinian related anti-Semitism as expressed by a senior representative of the United Nations. The outrageous and reprehensible remarks of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories who spoke at a recent conference in Doha, in which Albanese argued that "Israel is a common enemy of all humanity." This conspiratorial and dehumanizing contempt is based on a viewpoint that perceives Jews as the embodiment of absolute evil, similar to what the Jews symbolized according to Nazi ideology, who regarded Jews as subhuman.

It is important to keep in mind the role of Francesca Albanese who is employed by the United Nations, and fulfills an official position that allows her to speak as a purportedly qualified and respected UN expert. Albanese is entitled to disseminate press releases, and reports that are reproduced and made accessible online to governments, academics, the press, and legislators throughout the world. Albanese has denied that Israel has the right to self-defense against Hamas even after the October 7^th invasion of southern Israel by Hamas terrorists who committed countless acts of terror in a litany of brutality and inhumanity; babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated, children burned alive, women raped, parents executed in front of their children, children in front of their parents. Since October 7^th, Albanese has consistently and repeatedly attempted to shift the blame and responsibility for the massacre of 1200 Israeli civilians from Hamas terrorists on to the State of Israel.

Albanese, a committed and vocal supporter of Hamas, and the Palestinian cause echoes the sentiment not only of the Palestinians but also of millions of their supporters throughout the world; Muslims, radical Islamic movements, radicalized supporters in Western Democratic countries in the United States, Europe, Australia, and so forth. The idea that Jews and today’s State of Israel are the “common enemy of humanity” did not originate with Albanese, or with Hamas, or even a contemporary Iranian politician, Ahmadinejad, who has claimed at every opportunity that "the Zionist regime will be wiped out and humanity liberated". The link between Nazi ideology and todays’ pro-Palestinian anti-Semitism as expressed by Albanese did not begin in 1948 or even 1967 but was has its roots in the 1930s of the previous century. In an official Nazi directive of that period: "The extermination of Jewry throughout the world is the precondition for an enduring peace".

The desire to purify the world of Jews has been bequeathed by the Nazis to Hamas terrorists and their Pro-Palestinian supporters. The murder, torture, mutilation of bodies and sexual assaults against innocent Jewish children, women, men and the elderly are nothing less than a pogrom reminiscent of the Holocaust and the Nazi’s genocidal war against the Jewish people. Since its inception, Hamas has openly and consistently declared its determination to annihilate Israel and murder Jews. Their charter quotes a disputed hadith stating explicitly: “The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: ‘O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’” Hamas’s ideology echoes classic European antisemitism and Nazi ideology, which incited the genocide of the European Jews. The Hamas terrorists are modern day torchbearers of Nazi ideology.

The common desire for the total destruction of Jews is shared by Hamas, Albanese, their pro-Palestinian supporters and Nazi ideology. The Nazi’s embraced an anti-Semitism of annihilation called “redemptive anti-Semitism”, namely a form of anti-Semitism that explains all in the world by offering a form of “redemption” by exterminating the Jewish race. Pro-Palestinian Hamas supporters express the same rational for murdering Jews and Israeli’s. Hamas, with its “hour of judgment,” embraces exactly the same demented apocalyptic prophesy. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority broadcast daily programs to children and adults glorifying the murder of Jews and promising heaven (redemption) for those that carry out acts of terror against the Jewish nation. “Redemptive anti-Semitism” has become the major Nazi inspired ideological believe that allows for and encourages the upsurge in deadly anti-Semitic violence of recent years against Jews everywhere, whether in Israel, in the United States, the European continent, and Australia.

The export of redemptive antisemitism from Nazi Germany to parts of the Arab world during and after World War II is not merely a supplementary feature of modern radical Islamism, but at its ideological core. All Islamist groups, including Hamas, embrace it, with results that we saw in full on Oct. 7. The connection between the Palestinians and the Nazi regime is direct. A key player was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who personally met with Hitler, as well as representatives of the Nazi SS intelligence arm during the late 1930s. Not coincidentally, he also consulted with Adolf Eichmann, one of the major directors responsible for implementing the killing fields of the Holocaust. Yasser Arafat, who established the Palestinian Liberation Organization, dedicating his life to murdering Jews, was the beloved nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini,

What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. The PLO practically invented airplane hijacking. So, today, at every airport in every country in the world, we all line up for security checks. Jews around the world, make no mistake. What transpired on Oct. 7 is not only a conflict, not only a war, but part of our historical struggle against those who wish to annihilate the Jewish people. Francesca Albanese, is only the latest manifestation of this Nazi inspired hatred.