Zionist expert: After 77 years, we are still dependent on foreign aid.
Shirley Golan, a Zionist expert, wrote in a report on the release of Aidan Alexander by the US government: “How we longed to be new Israelis. We wanted to be free from exile and the feeling of being an exile, but it seems that developments have taken a different path.”
He wrote about the Trump administration’s release of Alexander because he had an American passport: Last week, in a deal that was negotiated directly between the Americans and Hamas, without Israel’s involvement, a captive, Sergeant Aidan Alexander, was repatriated. 77 years after the establishment of the state, a foreign passport saved this brave Israeli soldier, who had come to Israel without his parents to serve in the army. He returned, and we all breathed a sigh of relief, a small one. Why small? Because in a cruel and absurd twist, what saved Alexander was his foreign passport.
The Zionist journalist wrote about the regret of Zionist immigrants over the revocation of their foreign citizenship: It is impossible to imagine how the parents of the captives who are still there must feel now. They regret not having a foreign passport. How terrified they are by the realization that the lack of such a passport may determine the fate of their loved ones. How they must cheer the American envoy Steve Witkoff’s visit to the hostage square, his repeated promise: “I promise you, the president will accept nothing less than the return of all the hostages home.”
And now, Shirley Golan concluded, it seems the Americans are even filling the government vacuum. Perhaps a new day could be inscribed on the Hebrew calendar: the day we officially became a protectorate.