SAEDNEWS: Israeli strategist Amos Yadlin’s “Post‑Iranian Middle East” is less a roadmap to peace than an unapologetic manifesto for dismantling West Asian sovereignty, critics warn.
According to Saed News, Amos Yadlin’s recent Foreign Affairs essay epitomizes a securitized worldview that treats West Asia as a chessboard for Israeli and Western interests rather than a mosaic of sovereign peoples. Retired from the Israeli Air Force and military intelligence, Yadlin casts Iran as an existential menace, advocating a “new order” premised on Israeli hegemony under the guise of defensive necessity.
Critics assert that Yadlin’s framework negates the fundamental right of regional states to self‑determination. His proposal offers no genuine mechanism for collective stability; instead, it presumes that only Israel and its Western patrons may wield decisive power. Long‑standing tactics—propaganda campaigns, preemptive strikes, and unilateral interventions—are repackaged as prudent strategy, while the lived realities of sanctions, blockades, and occupation are obscured.
Iran, meanwhile, portrays its nuclear and defensive measures as legitimate responses to sustained external threats. Tehran’s foreign policy, proponents argue, emphasises mutual respect and non‑interference, contrasting sharply with Yadlin’s demolition‑driven paradigm. For millions across the region, sovereignty is not an abstract doctrine but an existential bulwark against dispossession.
True stability, analysts suggest, demands a paradigm shift: recognising each nation’s right to territorial integrity and fostering inclusive dialogue. As recent conflicts have exposed the limits of military supremacy, the region stands at a crossroads. Unless sovereignty is embraced as a shared principle rather than a casualty of power politics, cycles of violence and fragmentation will persist.
