Joe Biden who is Vice President of the United States of America was in Israel recently where he repeated what every American official has been programmed to repeat by AIPAC on occasions like this. Speaking Yenglish which is a language made of English words and Yiddish exaggeration and absolutism, he said the following about the American-Israeli relationship: "The cornerstone of the relationship is our absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel's security. Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security." Well, this stand must change now because it has become an expression of pornography so extravagant that even Yenglish exaggeration and absolutism cannot adequately describe it.
The purpose of speaking in Yenglish is to convey the notion that as far as America is concerned not a single condition will ever be attached to anything that Israel asks for whatever provocation this country will commit. When the Israeli or AIPAC officials say that something is good for Israel, America will automatically and robotically wear the suicide belt and detonate itself along with the interests of its own people to accommodate the wishes of those Israeli and AIPAC officials. And the reason they all give for speaking in terms which are this exaggerated and this absolute is that without such a stand on the part of America, someone out there may be tempted to test that country’s resolve to defend Israel and may attack the poor little thing thus drag America into a conflict it wants to avoid. And so, when America speaks Yenglish and everyone knows there is no space between it and Israel, America buys the insurance policy that protects it from the folly of those who may have unresolved issues with Israel. The intent here is to let everyone know that to take on Israel will also mean to take on a superpower that is wearing a suicidal belt and willing to detonate it.
Why is this stand so pornographic? To understand the argument relating to this question we need to be aware of a saying used by young American men when they want to belittle someone. They say that he still needs his mom to hold his penis for him when he urinates. Well, America has been holding Israel’s penis well past the time that it takes to toilet-train a child. But Israel is not a child anymore and what comes out of that penis may not always be urine. In fact, Israel has wrapped all matters relating to its security in the cloak of potent manhood not that of helpless childhood, and when Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton or the US Congress stroke the Israeli habit of taking America for granted, they stimulate more than urine out of that penis. And this is the pornographic spectacle that the rest of us are made to watch and be disgusted by.
What must happen, instead, is for Israel to grow up emotionally, culturally and intellectually. And the best way to do this is to mix with the other nations on an equal basis so as to learn from experience that life does not mean having to make a choice between controlling the world and dying in a gas chamber. There is a position called live and let live, one that the Arabs have lived by for hundreds of years. It is the reason why there has never been a holocaust or a pogrom during their fourteen hundred year rule, and the reason why Christians and Jews were able to live in peace and security like no one ever lived under another rule. And when Israel was formed and the Jews in the Arab countries bought the fantasy that they can lead a better life going there, they left the Arab countries on their own accord, taking with them all that they cared to take without being hassled by anyone. Unlike what happened in the old Soviet Union where the Jews were asked to pay the back taxes they owed to the state, pay for the free education they received and pay for the training and the skills they acquired at the expense of the state, the Arabs asked for nothing from the Jews, and they let them go without throwing a single condition at them. The result has been that no Jew stood in front of an Arab embassy in a foreign country to chant: “Let my people go” as the Jews and their supporters did with regard to the former Soviet Union. In sum, the Jews lived with the Arabs in dignity and they left in dignity; no one can ask for more than that.
And this begs the question: What is this Arab maxim which says live and let live? Simply put, it is a philosophy that says you take out of life as much as you put into it and learn to be satisfied with that. You also let the others live in accordance with their contribution to life without interfering with their right to enjoy what life is giving them. For this to work, you put down rules that every member of the society lives by and where the violators are stopped cold before they go too far. To understand the significance of this philosophy, we need to contrast it with those that sprung up in many parts of Europe. The philosophies in these places have generally been to the effect that you observe your neighbor and see if (a) there is something you can grab from him when he is not watching (b) something you can exploit him for when he is not aware what you’re doing to him or (c) something for which you may team up with him and go against a third party. In short, the philosophy of the Arabs tends to limit the excesses of the individual early on so as to prevent them from becoming accepted precedents while the philosophies of the Europeans employ a permissive attitude that encourages the individual to experiment with the view of joining him if he succeeds or feeding on the wreckage if he gets all smashed up.
When we grasp the principles underlying these two philosophies we see why the Jews did not give in to excess while living among the Arabs and thus lived in peace and security with them. We also see why things developed so badly in Europe that the people in there concluded each and every time that a good Jew was a dead Jew thus launched a pogrom or a holocaust to get rid of all the Jews. The important thing to remember here is that the Arab societies as a whole did not collude with the Jews or anyone else to cheat, exploit or subjugate a third party. Yes, a handful of Arab individuals tried to conduct themselves in this manner but they were “eliminated” in no time at all whether or not an elder issued a fatwa against them. By contrast, the Europeans colluded with the Jews both as individuals and as a society to go against a third party only to discover that they were outwitted by the Jews each and every time which is why the Europeans turned against the Jews over and over again.
In more modern times, the relationship between America and Israel has been a curious mix of exploitation and make believe. Under this regime, Israel was plugged into the bloodstream of American economic life where it is now leading a nationwide life of Cadillac welfarism while the American people -- forty million of whom live on donated food and no health coverage -- are asked to believe that this situation enhances their security. To nurture the charade and keep it going, the frontline states that came to the aid of the Palestinian victims when the Jewish hordes butchered them with savage delight were designated potent enemies of America and demonized. And the designators were none other than Israel and her AIPAC allies in America. But with time, the credibility of this designation began to wear thin and the circle of enemies was widened to encompass the Arab core. This brought into the circle of enemies the oil rich Arab states that proved to be easier to demagogue. But this too wore thin with time and the circle of enemies had to be widened once more to include all the Muslim nations whether they were of Arab or non-Arab origin. And this is when the American people began to realize that they have been outwitted by the Jews upon which the inevitable happened; the people began to ask if the time had not come to reconsider their stand with regard to this escalating outrage.
The charade collapsed and the animosity toward the Arabs and the Muslims abated as the American people understood the role that Israel is playing in the Middle East. They now see Israel’s actions as being no different from what the Nazis did in their heyday. In the same way that the Nazis saw progress in matters concerning Europe’s security by grabbing more and more land, Israel and AIPAC had programmed Joe Biden to define progress as being something related to security. This done, they pushed the envelope further by demonstrating with words and with deeds that security means the grabbing of more and more land. And what dismays the people of America most, as shown by their responses and their blogs, is that they see these actions as becoming increasingly more intertwined with their country’s interests.
Just look again at the words uttered by Joe Biden: "Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security." But what happened after these words were spoken? You guessed it; Israel announced another project to grab more Palestinian land. Biden reacted to the outrage by pretending to be shocked but he did not insist that the project be cancelled. And neither did the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she had the opportunity to do so in a later conversation with the Israeli officials. On the contrary, she reiterated that the ties between America and Israel were durable and strong.
Still, while more Americans are having a better understanding of what is happening in the Middle East, they realize that they continue to be saddled with a Congress made of male hookers and pimping madams in the business of gridlocking America’s pressing needs and fastracking Israel’s capricious demands. This disgusting situation more than anything is turning the saga of the Jews in America into an episode that will most certainly end up in the way that previous episodes have ended elsewhere. It will be a tragedy that will hurt the innocent Jews who do not realize what is being done in their name, destroy America itself and shake the rest of the world as the latter will fail once again to prevent the events from running their full and horrifying course.
To avoid this kind of ending, we must accept the reality that Joe Biden has not yet learned all that he needs to learn about the people he is dealing with, and that his education must continue. If truth be told, Joe Biden must continue to learn not at the hands of the Israeli or the AIPAC crowds that have programmed him in the past but learn by exercising his own logic and applying it where it needs to be applied. Given that no progress has occurred in the Middle East despite his hypothesis even though everyone knew there was never a space between the United States and Israel as he has asserted, the existing arrangement between these two countries must now be replaced by another. And Joe Biden will have shown that he exercised his logic and that he learned enough of what needs to be learned when he will publicly declare that America will no longer support Israel anymore than it supports any other country because Israel must fashion its own security by getting along with its neighbors and thus prove to the world that it has been toilet trained at long last.