Primary Audience: Israeli Leadership and Public

Secondary Audience: American Jews​

1. Israel's subjugation to the US compromises Israel's sovereignty

2. The perception of Israel by the American people has changed

3. Israel lacks self-awareness of above and makes tone-deaf mistakes

4. Israeli foreign policy must adapt accordingly
    

1. Sovereignty: As addressed in multiple interviews, the control of the US over Israel foreign and domestic policy has reached levels where Israeli's standing as a sovereign nation is arguable. Cases of Israeli reversal of a publicly-stated policy on account of American reaction (at times by mid-level bureaucrats) may be found in areas of defense, diplomacy, judicial reform, cabinet appointments, housing infrastructure, internal policing, banking, and more. American overreach may be linked to wartime decisions counter to Israel's security. Rhetoric by US officials match language used in calls for regime change in hostile nations.

2. Perception: ​America has changed, socially, culturally, and politically. Israelis (and American Jews), whether by denial or ignorance, have yet to internalize such changes. America today, and more so tomorrow, based on demographics, is hypersensitive to matters of race, equity, and oppression. Merits aside, a growing number of Americans view Israel as the White oppressor of a depressed Brown Arab populations.

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3. Self-Awareness: As Israelis and American Jews lack the appropriate self-awareness of the above perception, they are tone-deaf in their pleas of victimhood and cries for sympathy. Israel (and the American Jew) is viewed, at best, as powerful, wealthy, and privileged. As such, acts of  weaponized rape and the taking of child hostages fall on deaf ears. Similarly, brutal religious terrorism is cast as freedom-fighting.

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4. Policy: Israel requires a more robust international presence garnering respectful relationships from several world powers. Past and recent approaches of capitulation and appeasement are increasingly futile as the world perceives Israel with the disgust of an apartheid state. Moreover, such policies have emboldened foreign actors, including the US, Europe, the UN, enemy states, and terror organizations to test Israel's nonexistent red-lines.