THE AMERICAN-ISRAEL ALLIANCE AND WAR IN GAZA

Abstract

This paper examines the alliance between the United States and Israel in prosecuting war in the Gaza Strip. Deploying a comparative analysis of sources and primary data, the review of relevant literature this study explores the roots of war prosecuted by the United States and Israel. The goal and objectives of the paper are to gain a proper understanding of what policies the US have employed throughout its history towards native populations of North America and why it is backing the current Israeli war on Gaza. By analyzing sources and literature, the study aims to identify the role of theological and political concepts in motivating imperial policy of the US and the current Israel’s onslaught in Gaza. The results of our study show that current unequivocal American support for Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinians is rooted in their shared hatred of Islam. Like the United States, Israel was founded upon ethnic cleansing, and displacement of indigenous populations of historic Palestine. Furthermore, the foundational ideology and intellectual underpinnings of these two settler colonial entities are predicated on the colonial discourse of civilization vs barbarism, ethnocentric, ethnoreligious, cultural and racial superiority of the colonizer over the colonized. Like the United States, Israel is a settler colonial project in the Mideast backed by the collective West, which is designed to expand its frontiers at the expense of indigenous peoples in the Middle East. From this perspective, the study concludes that the shared history and values between the US and Israel allow us to understand why the United States is consistent in its support for the ongoing war in Gaza.