Israel "WON'T SURVIVE" Without The United States - Professor John Mearsheimer

Israel "WON'T SURVIVE" Without The United States - Professor John Mearsheimer

July 26, 2025

ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Katie Halper

Professor John Mearsheimer explains why Israel’s genocidal campaign is strategically rational but immoral, and how so-called liberal Zionists help enable it.

00:00 Israel’s strategy is rational but not moral
01:00 From the beginning European Zionist leaders have had expansionist goal to create a large Jewish state across more and more territory
04:01 Mearsheimer used to think Ben-Gurion was a moderate but came to see he just used softer language
04:59 Menachem Begin was more honest, admitting the 1967 war wasn’t self-defense or a preemptive strike but a war of choice
06:29 Four tenants of the core Zionist strategy: land expansion, remove Palestinians from population, destabilize neighbors, and secure U.S. backing
08:37 Israel needs the United States (to fund, arm, and diplomatically shield them) to pursue their ambitious agenda
09:02 A policy can be rational and genocidal; morality has nothing to do with strategic logic
10:40 Even Hitler was rational - the danger isn’t irrational, evil leaders but strategic ones with immoral goals

John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago and the author of "Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics," "The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities," and co-author of the controversial and ground-breaking "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."

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