The AFUCK Coalition
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first American president to directly court the Jewish vote. This was about domestic politics. But it was President Truman who caused an earthquake on the international stage, when in rapid manner, he offered Israel diplomatic recognition after the 14 May 1948 declaration of independence. The State Department and our Pentagon were not in favor of this move. But it was a vision-made-reality; an idea whose time had come. The Jews achieved a sovereign state. It was hoped that this sovereignty would provide not only security, but survival for the Jewish people. But because location is everything - this location - presented with unique challenges.
Approximately five months after the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181, Egypt mounted an attack on Israel. The ink of independence leached and turned to blood on Israel's young soil when Egypt bared her teeth with a wolf pack of Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Iraqi, and Syrian forces. Israel managed to muster 20,000 combatants and turned her opponents into a humiliating "one testicle" spectacle.
In 1967, Egyptian president Abdel Nasser boldly proclaimed an offensive that would be a "mortal blow of annihilation" against Israel. The glee was short-lived. Six days later, Israel gained the Sinai, Golan Heights, and West Bank as booty of war.
Egypt decided to try again. Why not? This is the land of the Pharaohs. Anwar Sadat struck on Yom Kippur (1973). The whole thing turned sideways on him and it was a complete cluster fuck. It was Henry Kissinger who placed our military forces on a global alert. A truce was achieved. But the cost of U.S. involvement was heavy. OPEC bitch-slapped us into the next county by boosting their prices seventy-percent.
So let's skip across the timeline to September 21st, 2025. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, three of the "Five Eyes" wobbled and went cross-eyed on us. President Macron followed suit and the AFUCK coalition was birthed. It is a non-sequenced acronym, but the letters are all there.
This coalition, does not give a fuck about how their actions effect the United States. They are pugilists in the ring but they scarcely understand that which they are shadow boxing against. All four are cognizant that the United States has been forced (once again) into the tiring/tireless position of mediating the quick sand politics which plague Muslim-majority nations and their relationship with Israel. They don't give a damn. Because there is something in it for them: minus the sweat. My gut tells me the wobbly eyes retain analysts who have Arabic fluency, but only a handful who understand Qur'anic signals. France? The whole damn thing is just a joyride for President Macron, a weak man who currently has an approval rating of 17 percent.
The playbook for the Palestinian authority dates back to the seventh century. Only the political actors on the stage change. All else, remains the same.
PM Starmer, PM Carney, PM Albanese, and President Macron - lacking the basic neural pathways for processing Islam - capitulate and recognize a fictitious "Palestinian State". Not only are they snubbing their noses, but they are picking their noses right in front of our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. Little boys. Little boys, the four of them. But they are leaving the United States with the job of cleaning up the mess of their own anti-hero policies.
President Donald J Trump should take to heart the blow-back we must now deal with because our allies are incompetent on the international stage. What they have accomplished is to assure there will never be peace in the Middle East. And without peace, all involved will continue to suffer.
Tammy Swofford
swoffordwrites@gmail.com
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