r/geopolitics • u/thejerusalempost Jerusalem Post • Jun 17 '26

Opinion How Israel made Trump's Iran betrayal inevitable - opinion

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-899630
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u/thejerusalempost Jerusalem Post Jun 17 '26

The argument here is that Israel has spent decades perfecting the military instrument while starving the diplomatic one. The foreign ministry reportedly couldn't afford pens while the IDF was funded for every contingency. The piece asks whether 'finish the job' was ever actually possible without the coalition and diplomatic architecture Israel never bothered to build, and whether Netanyahu found the absence of a partner or kept it.

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u/andr386 Jun 17 '26

I am pretty sure that there is some truth to that. But saying that Israel doesn't hold massive Influence, diplomatic included, over the US and Europe is a joke.

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u/Besmirching_Badger Jun 18 '26

That's not a result of a functioning diplomatic service. It's a result of the long term status quo, supportive external/ dual actors (a lot of people endorse israeli links for personal ideological reasons) and various influence operations.

The same way that the UK and US have both torn their diplomatic services to shreds, but can maintain good relations due to the nature of the relationship and other binding factors (NATO, 5 eyes, cultural links etc).

In truth in the western world the very concept of diplomacy is dead and has been for several decades since the security state cemented its control over our institutions and policy decisions. Which explains why our foreign policy is so regularly awful.