13.06.2026
Panic rises in the chests of both Netanyahu and Trump. The panic goes even wider. It takes root in both the Israeli State and Israeli society as a whole, and also in the entirety of the USA’s “permanent state” apparatus, the bit that is always “there”, even as elections come and go.*
The European leaders, by contrast, remain oblivious that their own collapse may come earlier than that of Israel as a regional power and that of the USA as the sole super-power. They are so caught up in their own mad anti-Russia hysteria that they voluntarily sleep-walked into an auto-destruct route, starting with their energy supplies, then collapsing their productive basis, and now on a political level suffocating free speech mercilessly. All the while Europe attacks another country in Europe: Russia. Europe goes headlong, Gadarene swine style, for the cliff of a European war to end all Europeans wars, a war “amongst themselves” to quote the way they speak of other countries’ differences. By the time the leaders of Europe realize their need to panic, they will panic even more still than the Israelis and the American leaders. By then, they may be over the cliff edge.
In any case, in Israel, the USA and most of Europe, you are either criminally in jeopardy or civilly liable to lose your job as a journalist or academic, or your place at a University if you, believe it or not, oppose a genocide.
Talk about barbarity in the heart of the Western empire. See where the heart of darkness actually is. And Joseph Conrad hinted as much. He chose very carefully and slightly strangely to start his novel in the Thames in London and in Brussels in Belgium, the real hearts of darkness: Europe’s capitals. Today, it would be Washington. The Congo was what made the protagonist realize the darkness in the heart of the colonial enterprise.
The most virulent supporters of the genocide outside the leaders of Israel and the USA are indeed the chiefs of Germany and France, the two main perpetrators of the European genocide against the Jewish people and the Gypsies in the 1940’s. For Germany, worse still. After their genocide 125 years ago against the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia, and then against Jews, Gypsies and Slavs 80 years ago under the Nazis, they now bankroll and arm the Israeli genocide, even as it spreads beyond Palestine, into the Lebanon and Syria. It is as though they are impervious to the obvious historic repetition of such abominable crimes by their own State. No wonder the German candidate was voted off the UN Security Council last week.
The cause of the West’s panic is five-fold. At least, five-fold. And all interlinked.
The USA and Israel have lost the war they started against Iran on 28 February. And when hegemony cracks, it tends to start a slow-motion process of shattering. This is what we are living right now. As we write, the USA and Israel start up the 40-day war that had slowed down since the so-called ceasefire of 8 April. It is as if they cannot do anything else. The Israeli leadership needs the war. Trump cannot escape it. So, getting into a war they cannot win, meaning they will lose it, is the first cause of panic. It means also that their war propaganda is even more deceitful than the usual lies of war.
Second, the war comes on the heels of their genocide. Once the people of the world, like us all, see genocide, we cannot, simply cannot, un-see it. The slaughter and hounding off the land of Palestinians by the joint actions of Israel and the USA has been exposed. Israel and the USA and the Western leaders with them are now not just a long line of Emperors standing there with no clothes on, their original sins, so to speak, exposed, but a vast majority of people world-wide abhor them for their cruelty, and recoil at their blindness to their own foul nakedly exposed image as genocidal maniacs. This reputational catastrophe causes panic, as the West takes cognizance of its irreversibility.
Third, the “war aims” of Israel and USA – in the whole of West Asia – have begun to diverge in full public view. The USA just wants to hang on to its already lost role as a uni-polar “full spectrum dominance” guy, while Israel is hell-bent on expanding its non-defined borders into its “Greater Israel” Project, not just to complete the expulsion and/or slaughter of Palestinians, but to effect military take-overs of the now splitting-up countries of Lebanon, Syria, and they hope Iraq and Iran. They do it by corrupting as many sub-groups of every country that they can infiltrate. To “galfat” the split in the aims of Israel, on one side, and the USA, on the other, they resort to weird means. We will come to the weirdest at the end of our argumentation: the plan to merge their respective armed forces!
Fourth, the secret service aspect of the Epstein scandal is continuing to expose more and more links between the US and Israeli Mafias and USA’s and Israel’s traditional oligarch bosses and its political ruling class.
What a sordid, evil, greedy sight that makes, as documents are made public, and analyzed in detail. With worse still to be exposed.
Fifthly, and mortally, they have all just lost the 75-year propaganda war that Israel has the right to exist by displacing Palestinians or killing them. More vastly, the facade of the West’s 500-year pretense during colonization of being on a “civilizing” mission is, at the same time, collapsing. It is exposed as having been constructed on genocides, slavery, colonization and military domination all along. The facade even of “democracy” has worn thin, as Britain locks up thousands of old people and youngsters for carrying a pancarte reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action,” or American universities fire staff for opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. The Western mainstream media, which has helped maintain all the lies over the past Century or two, has been discredited, year after year, and now totally discredited for being part and parcel of a live-streamed genocide. This final dishonour has now come and discredited their entire past histories, too. The USA’s fire-bombing of Dresden and Tokyo, and atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now exposed as genocidal. The wiping out of the first peoples of the USA, Canada, Australia and massacres all over Asia and Africa, including one million people in Indonesia where the biggest ever gold mine was being kept secret, are all now being made clear by the chilling cold-heartedness towards the gentle people of Palestine, whose resistance fighters have again and again had to mount huge efforts just to say the simple words: “We, the Palestinians, live here! Stop pretending we do not!”
So, the USA and the entirety of its European lackeys, as well as Israel, itself, are desperate. They panic.
Do they now up the ante? Or do they find a way to back down and out of the Middle East altogether? They are on the verge of deciding. Or may have already decided to sleep-walk, like the Europeans did, into their own destruction. At the massive cost in other people’s lives and whole civilizations.
Meanwhile, all the little corrupt monarchies set up by the British to control the oil wells in the region and that are now occupied by the USA military bases that protect the oil wells, have found that the said military bases have been made more-or-less inoperable.
Iran just targeted its missiles and drones directly at the USA military bases on their land because it was these bases that attacked Iran in June last year’s 12-day war. And now, Iran has again, in retaliation, started attacking the US bases again: in Kuwait, Bahrain and, now adding, Jordan.
We are referring to the petro-dollar dictatorships i.e. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Israeli vassal state of the UAE (including Dubai and Abu Dhabi). So, they are no longer the allies to the USA and Israel that they used to be. They realize that the USA’s military bases on their territories, like on Mauritian territory of Diego Garcia, are not a source of protection, but rather, as a magnet, they bring disaster upon you in the form of retaliation against the USA’s constant wars of aggression.
Europe, meanwhile, is in total disarray, including the UK. Europe had always also been a clear, if morally flabby, ally to the USA and Israel in their aggression against Palestine, the Lebanon, Syria, and now Iran, not to mention Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, while carving up Sudan and Somalia. Now, Europe has found itself still hanging on to the trouser legs of this disgraced USA-Israeli debacle.
Not only did the USA-Israel lose the war.
Now a survey has confirmed something even worse. Not only is their moral high-ground gone, but statistics prove it. This makes their panic mode total.
The “Global Country Perceptions / Democracy Perception Index” of 2026 that polled nearly 90,000 people in 98 countries world-wide has just been published. Israel is the country with the worst perception, the most negative perception, of all countries in the whole world. It is the most hated country in the world. It is rightly seen as a state carrying out genocidal carnage, in putrid lack of morality, flagrantly flaunting international law.
The USA, itself, is FIFTH most negatively viewed! It, too, is seen as a threat to the world. The USA has dropped 38 points in just two years, as people world-wide have watched the genocide and the war against Iran.
Taken together with the latest surveys of Americans’ own opinions of Israel, the status quo of US Government backing for Israel’s crimes can no longer hold. The Pew Research recent poll found 60% of US adults, six out of ten, have a negative view of Israel, and more Americans now support the Palestinians than the Israelis. The younger people are the more they hate Israel.
So, all the financing by the Israel lobby, all the propaganda, is not working anymore in relation to the people, even of the USA.
As the classic analyst of war Carl van Clausewitz put it: there are three levels to war: the military power being flexible enough to seize opportunities presented by chance, the coherent political support for war’s strategic aims, and the peoples’ agreement to suffer because of the war’s aims. In Iran, the USA-Israel tandem have none of the three: their militaries are inflexible, and a whole armada has to park 1,000 kilometres away from Iran’s coast to keep away from its missiles; there is no political strategy – they had counted on a 4-5 day blitzkrieg and believed the Iranian government would fall, and it would be game over, and this did not happen – so they flounder into decisions, flaying around, and flapping their sleeves in the wind like scarecrows. The people of the USA are not prepared to have any martyrs to the opaque cause their Government has tried to draw them into. Even the Israeli soldiers no longer want to fight. Many have PTSD, or shell-shock. Many others commit suicide. Hundreds of thousands just pack up and leave Israel.
So, the future is uncertain. The mightiest military in the world is thwarted by Iran’s calibrated, defensive strategy. And yet Israel keeps pulling the USA deeper and deeper into the quagmire.
All the propaganda put out by the Western so-called “democracies” has evaporated in the face of the reality seen on our screens.
The savagery of the Western Empire is on full display, and the people world-wide have seen it. We cannot “un-see” it. We have witnessed the Israeli-US killing of babies in cold blood. Bombing peoples’ houses and apartments as if it were a war-game. Flattening Gaza. Shelling ambulance drivers to death. Sniping doctors to death. Bombing Beirut to smithereens. Setting rabid settlers on poor sheep farmers in the West Bank, hounding them off their ancestral land. Starving people in Gaza on purpose. Bombing their water and waste-water plants, to hurry their deaths. Already “Wanted” for war crimes, as Benjamin Netanyahu is, by the International Criminal Court, he is also on trial for corruption in his own country. And then the USA is putting the ICC judges of this Court under “sanctions”, so that they cannot use their own banking services, or catch airplanes or book hotels, or order food. Already Israel has been found by the ICJ to “plausibly” be committing genocide in an interim ruling.
In Europe and the USA, not to mention in Israel, the answer is to suppress any speech that criticizes Israel, and to quell any protest against its policies. In a word: repression at home. The most barbaric repression. In Britain, it is illegal for an old lady to hold up a bit of paper that reads: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action”. One’s thoughts on a bit of paper are deemed illegal. Judges are instructed not to allow juries to know what the context was of the Palestine Action’s destroying of arms-for-genocide. Police arrest little old ladies, and blind men, by the thousand, haul them before the Courts for this opinion. France gets Europe to confiscate the gentle commentator Jacques Baud’s right to use his credit cards where he lives in Belgium, and even made it illegal for anyone else to order things like food to be delivered to his house! He has no freedom to move from country to country in Europe. The USA has banned criticism of Israel from all college campuses! Students get suspended, staff discharged. These countries do not even look after their own citizens when Israel kidnaps them in acts of piracy on the high seas, and tortures them, beats them, breaks their bones, rapes them, for taking part in a peace flotilla taking medicines to Gaza. The Governments of most of Europe prefer to collude with genocide. The barbarity is mind-blowing.
So, now there is a new phase. In order to get around the unpopularity of the war on Iran, the genocide on Palestine and the aggression on Lebanon, there is a move in the USA to “integrate” its military apparatus with that of Israel. This way, they intend to make the collusion “invisible”. The USA will not have to “give” Israel the weapons. Israel will become part of the USA’s own military, so they will already be Israel’s.
Right now, the House of Representatives in the USA, in its annual budget vote for “defense”, at Section 224, seeks to integrate the USA military and the Israeli military.
Here is what former US State Department officer, Josh Paul said: “What Congress is trying to do now is find different ways of entrenching the relationship so deep in America’s own defense industrial base that it’s impossible to root it out.” Some Congressmen have already vowed to get this Section struck out. Josh Paul also said this section “would give Israel unprecedented access to American technology and would force the United States military to integrate Israeli defense technologies into our own critical military supply chain, giving Israel incredible leverage over America’s own defense priorities.” Biden’s State Secretary, Anthony Blinken gave a long description of this kind of tactic to “tie in” other countries. It is like the way Lilliputians tied Gulliver down. By a million tiny threads. It is how Velcro works. A thousand little loops.
And what is Mauritius doing at the same time?
Allowing the USA to build and soon open a huge military-style barracks, built in re-enforced concrete, spanning six or seven buildings, when all the USA has ever needed was two shabby floors of the modest Rogers building. And not only that, the USA is pushing Mauritius to sign to link its mighty military to the puny Mauritius Police Force by “a million threads”. And, even as this is happening, Trump lets it be known via The Telegraph in London that he may just “buy” Chagos to keep its base in safe keeping. Talk about the mind-set of a “kolon tablisman”.
No wonder Prime Minister Ramgoolam and Attorney General Glover are beginning to talk about sovereignty being sacrosanct. It is about time. In fact, it is time to suspend all bilateral talks, and to rely on principled stands, and on international law. Both “principles” and “international law” will have to be reconstructed, given the severe inroads that Israel, the USA and the whole of the West have made into both these “standards” of ethical behavior. The past gains must be built upon, not discarded. The attacks against principled behavior and international law must be repudiated.
Lindsey Collen, for LALIT
NOTES
*Bear in mind that the USA’s permanent state is an interlocking network of powerful private corporations (military, petroleum products, pharmaceutical, agro-chemical, data, banking, real estate, insurance and so on), combined with the CIA or dirty tricks out-of-control section of the military, the criminal Mafia in the “National Crime Syndicate” in Las Vegas that united the notorious two worst American Mafias, the Italian and the Jewish, and majority of the politicians who were just bought and “owned” by the corporations and their lobbies and Mafia ties, and all having important political co-ordination from the White House.
Also bear in mind, that the whole bang shoot in both countries – the USA and Israel – are in panic mode. Netanyahu and Trump both have elections coming up that will define their future, including whether they will get locked up or not in jail in their respective countries. Israel, as a Jewish State has put itself under existential threat by opening up wars on seven fronts, wars its own military cannot fight, according to the military chiefs, themselves. In March, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir warned the Cabinet, “I am raising 10 red flags before the IDF collapses into itself,” and proceeded to list the reasons for the impending collapse. Trump, who tried to take on the American “deep state” and end forever wars and not ever start one, has found his hands tied by his huge corporate donors – almost all Zionist fanatics – and his Christian Zionist base with their cock-eyed views, as well as probably being blackmailed by things hidden in the Epstein files – he was after all Epstein’s best friend for a couple of decades – and/or things about his wife Melania whose best friend Amanda Ungaro, has said publicly that she was introduced at Trump by Epstein while working for him as an escort girl.