Earlier this month, the President of the US visited the occupied West Bank, this marked as his very first trip to the region after being elected as the President of the US.
Biden's predecessor, Trump, was a known supporter of Israel having passed 'deal of the century' which was highly in favour of Israel and it didn't take into account the Palestinian grievances. Biden, a President known to be less conservative than Trump, too made clear his stance on the matter.
Biden on speaking to the Israeli officials after landing in occupied West Bank said, "You don't need to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist" thus making it clear that he is a supporter of apartheid and he advocates settler colonialism because that is what Zionism promotes.
Biden was also heard saying, "The connection between the Israeli people and the American people is bone deep. Generation after generation, that connection grows. We invest in each other, we dream together."
Biden thus made comparison between Israel and the United States of America. What could it have meant for the two states to be alike? Where does the deep connection stems from? It is no secret that America supported the Balfour Declaration in 1917, a document that held a keystone in the establishment of the ethno-national state, Israel. US and Israel have been close allies with the former providing $3 billion in annual to the latter since 1985 excluding the military aid and the loans.
So are the two actually alike?
US was built after ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, it marginalised and segregated Black people/POC, carried out transatlantic slave trade. Bombed the Middle East and Pakistan among others. Incarnated Japanese people in Intermittent camps. Colonised Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc. It's said that US was responsible for Mexican financial crisis.
I can see a lot of mirroring between the two. In their establishment, war crimes, racism, segregation and nature of existence among others.