'By deeply sharing the “chosenness” and “manifest destiny”, Israel has always been more than an ally for the US' Opinion | AslinurDuzgun
“I did say, and I say again, you need not be a Jew to be a Zionist,” US President Joe Biden said during his recent visit to Tel Aviv, driving home the centrality of Israel in American diplomacy in the Middle East.
With the defeat of Egypt, Israel became more important to the US, even if it meant prolonging the suffering of Palestine, which is now in the 57th year of its existence in shackles and slavery. Biden embarked on his three-day visit to the Middle East from Israel. Speaking at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport ceremony, Biden mentioned President Richard Nixon's first visit to Israel in 1974, a reference to the age-old ties between Washington and Tel Aviv.
Civil religion, the political religion of the US, has always led US presidents to be at Israel’s elbow regardless of their beliefs. Biden, however, did not refer to Obama, under whom he served as Vice President. This could be because Obama did not visit Israel during his first presidential era, his rhetoric against the West Bank occupation of Israel and his frosty relations with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But despite the cold vibes, there was no significant departure in the Israel policy of the US during Obama’s two terms.
All these Puritanical myths are now the secular rules of the American state’s civil religion, and Israel is an important part of this civil religion. For this reason alone, Israel is sometimes called the “51st state of the US”. Then he underlined the ever-deepening bonds between father and son and the military support provided, the US support for the Iron Dome shield and Israel’s new laser-enabled defence system called the Iron Beam. Biden then mentioned he was in favour of supporting Israel's integration into the Middle East.
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