BEIRUT- Given the fluctuations in international and regional variables the Zionist regime’s colonial ambitions are a matter of concern as Benjamin Netanyahu considers aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people an existential war.

Since its inception, the Zionist project has been linked to the growth of imperial colonialism. It has been viewed as a means to extend hegemony in West Asia, a strategic region that connects the most prominent trade routes in Asia with Europe and Africa. 

Following World War II, the Zionist project was premised based on the extension of the British Empire. The United States as an Anglo Saxon country inherited hegemonic policies as a colonial empire that is fiercely competing with Russia, China and Iran.

The Rothschild historical influence 

Since the 18th century, the Zionist project has been linked to the expansion of capitalist feudalism led by secular Jewish families, specifically the Rothschilds (a wealthy Ashkenazi family originally from Germany).  As the wealth of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a German court official, expanded, his 5 sons established banks in Paris, Frankfurt, London, Vienna and Naples, and dominated the European financial system. 

The Rothschilds, based in France, financed Napoleon’s wars. After the failure of his campaign in Egypt, he was encouraged to establish a Jewish entity in Palestine, believing that it would preserve French influence in the Levant. 

For their part, the Rothschilds were influenced by the Protestant movement that restored the Old Testament in defiance of the Catholic Church. They were also influenced by the positivist school that focused on the material dimension in science, which led them to consider the Old Testament as a book of the history of the Jewish people. 

The 19th century witnessed a social movement that helped the Jews to leave the ghetto and integrate into European societies, contrary to the interests of the Jewish financial bourgeoisie. This class considered itself distinct from the surroundings due to its elite financial status. This openness turned into a secular nationalist movement seeking to establish a national homeland for the Jews, the basis of which was the concept of the “nation state.”

Following the failure of Napoleon III’s dream of establishing a dominant empire in mainland Europe – due to his defeat by the Germans in 1870 – the Rothschilds decided to establish themselves in London, where Baron de Rothschild promised the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour, to establish a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Rothschilds moved their centers of influence to the American market, where they allied with the Protestant Morgan family. 

There, Ashkenazi Jewish families from Europe also came to the fore, mainly Goldman and Schiff, who established – in 1913 – the Federal Reserve System to become a system to protect Jewish capitalist interests. This coincided with the British occupation of Palestine, and its facilitation of the passage and settlement of Jewish settlers. 

With the end of World War II, the influence of the Zionist movement expanded in the world through the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, coinciding with its control over the entire land of historical Palestine. 

 In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the expansion of the influence of the unipolar American system, the role of capitalism escalated. In parallel the Zionist intentions to control all of West Asia were revealed, not least what Netanyahu declared at the beginning of the ongoing war. 

BRICS currency threatens Netanyahu’s dreams 

Currently, Netanyahu’s colonial project, which he serves in his capacity as a US colonial proxy, is being obstructed and challenged by Iran, along with the peoples of the pro-Resistance axis, as well as Russia and China, who are determined – especially after the establishment of the Shanghai and BRICS organizations – to challenge the US financial hegemony. The US is the main pillar for shielding the West’s top colonial military base called “Israel”. The US is also the primary financier of its failed ambitions in the region, including the current genocidal campaigns in Palestine and Lebanon.

Indeed, the decision at the Kazan Summit to launch BRICS common currency threatens Netanyahu’s dream, who is well aware that his functional colonial entity’s dependence on the hegemony of global financial capitalism is no longer secured. Observers believe that this imminent threat is what drives him to more exterminations. Whatsoever, the blood of the oppressed have always triumphed over the Merkava, the Iron Dome, the THAAD and the entire Western advanced intelligence and military weapons.