Israel has again asked America for money and America seems to have agreed to help so I ask this simple question: What is going on? Not long ago the central bank of Israel was raising the interest rates claiming that the country had survived the recession which was brought about by the meltdown of the world financial system, and had come out of the crisis almost intact. Well, if the Israeli economy is doing this good, why ask for 205 million dollars from a country that is on its knees and could deliver the aid only if it borrowed the money from say, the Chinese or the Arabs?
You don't understand says the mysterious voice, the money will be used to develop and deploy a system of defense that will protect Israel from rockets fired from the Gaza Strip and from Lebanon. It is not that Israel is about to default on paying loans it took previously or anything like that. Yes, these loans were guaranteed by the US government, a fact that will compel America to pay Israel's creditors if the latter defaulted but this is not what is happening here. No ... No, it's not … Not really. Well then here is another question for you: Is it not true that having trumpeted the glorious magnificence of the Israeli economy, it would be a mortifying scandal to have to bear by the spin doctors in Tel Aviv and New York if the mask were to drop and Israel were to be revealed as the bankrupt entity that never had a real economy? That is, Israel never had an economy that can function without donations, holocaust payments, phony compensation settlements and welfare appropriations from America? But never mind answering these questions because the thing has become redundant and boring to the extreme.
Let us also forget about the mysterious voice that tries to explain the inexplicable, and let us look instead at reality in the face. The meltdown of the world financial system and the recession that followed made it hard for all donors, be they governments or individuals to sustain Israel's consumption economy. In fact, the Israelis went to the Germans and tried to extort from them a billion more Euros but this time the Germans told them to take a hike, having to bail out half of Europe as it is. This being made clear to Israel -- and made in no uncertain terms -- the central bank of the Jewish state raised the interest rate in the hope of attracting money to the country but the trick did not work. Not only that, but the depositors who were keeping monies in Israel started to withdraw them and deploy them in the booming economies of Asia, Africa, South America and the MENA region. And the central bank of Israel which put out the lie that it was raising the interest rates because the economy was doing well responded to the withdrawals by fabricating another lie. It said it was the one that decided on the necessity to reduce the money in the commercial banks because there was too much money in the country. Oh yeah! Why then ask the Americans for 205 million dollars if you have more dollars than you know what to do with? But don't bother answering this question; we've had it up to here with your belabored answers. You bore us to death.
Let us now look at the system of defense that is supposed to protect Israel against incoming rockets. Is it not the one you once called the “Iron Dome,” the one you promised with fanfare, with pomp and with ceremony will be operational by June 2010, a few days from now? Given that it takes decades to develop a system like this and a few more years to test and deploy it -- which Israel claims to have done already with super glowing success -- why the need to ask the nearly bankrupt America to borrow money to give to Israel at this stage of the game? Answer this one if you can or maybe not because, really, no one cares anymore. We are bored.
No. This hogwash will not wash in the mind of any thinking person. The truth is that Israel is once again on the brink and it is doing what it always does when it finds itself in this situation. Either it uses the US Congress and the New York courts to extort money from the Germans or the Swiss or someone, or it uses American weapons to go on a killing orgy and get paid for the morbid display it puts on. This time, Israel first tried the German option but was told to get out of there. It then floated a balloon about the Arabs owing the Jews more money than there ever was money in the Arab lands where the Jews once dwelt but the idiotic attempt at mugging the Arabs was shot down before it produced any traction. The angry Israelis then broke out in their spontaneous dance of the eunuch where they rattled the sabers at the Iranians and promised to unleash a hellish war on them. The bluff was called, Israel chickened out and this had the effect of chopping half of Israel's manhood. The Israelis then waved the remaining half of their manhood at the Syrians but this half was chopped as well. Now penniless and penis-less, the Israelis realized there was no option they can take to rescue their economy but to go hat in hand to the Americans and ask for help. In turn, the Americans agreed to go hat in hand to the Chinese and the Arabs and ask for 205 million dollars to be added to the trillions they took out already. And what a pathetic looking spectacle this has been! If the political leaders of America deserve to be kicked in the pants for being this low and this degraded in their outlook and behavior, it must be said that the American people deserve something better than this sickly looking crowd.
What made the spectacle even more pathetic was the charade in which it was wrapped. The narrative thus far has been that Israel and the Jews are so perfect, nothing they touch can ever go wrong. But the reality being that everything they touched has gone very wrong, it was explained that the Israelis live in a tough neighborhood full of evil people who keep messing things up for the Jews. It followed from this explanation that the neighbors must not be given the satisfaction of knowing that Israel was deficient in anything at all. In other words, Israel must always be portrayed as the perfect country that is doing everything perfectly well no matter what the thing looks like in the eyes of an observer. But since Israel alone cannot make this claim and remain credible for any length of time, America must play along and give Israel cover by rolling with it in the mud of lies, ambiguities, deception, double-talk, imprecision and all the filth you can imagine.
This charade has been going on for a while but nothing good came of it because the reality remains that instead of America pulling Israel out of the mud and the filth, it was Israel that pulled America into the mud and the filth, and has kept it there during all these years. In the meantime, not the neighbors of Israel and no one serious in the world has come to believe that Israel is anything like it is portrayed in the English media. The fact remains that most people now believe that Israel is the biggest threat to mankind and that America has become more menacing to the civilized order than it has ever been. And the world shakes its head in sorrow seeing the once beloved America push itself deeper into the Israeli pool of mud as it uses the power of the veto at the UN to protect Israel from the consequences of the criminal acts it commits by habit, by culture and by religious belief.
So then, what is there to do? The answer is to be found in the wisdom which says that there is no better way to fight a nearly invincible opponent than to turn his weapon against him. The Israelis and the Jewish organizations have used a number of techniques to control and subjugate the feeble minded in previous American Administrations and Congresses, and these very techniques must now be used against the Israelis and the Jewish organizations to weaken them, defeat them and do away with them. For example, the Israelis used to say that this Arab leader or that one must be humiliated. The thing to do now is to humiliate the Israeli leaders. They used to say that Yasser Arafat must be rendered irrelevant. The thing to do now is to render Benjamin Netanyahu irrelevant. They used to say that the United Nation had become irrelevant in the scheme of things. The thing to do now is to render Israel and the Jewish organizations irrelevant in the scheme of things ... and so on and so on and so on. In the end, making these people and these organizations drink from the cup of their own evil will render them less evil and will turn them into a lesser threat to the world. And America will be rehabilitated in the eyes, the minds and the hearts of human beings everywhere because the Administration and the Congress will be seen as having regained the power to think for themselves.
And there is no better way to begin this process than for the Congress of the United States of America to seize the opportunity and be the first to say: Enough is enough, Israel shall get the 205 million dollars it seeks over our dead bodies. And just think of the consequences if this idea came to pass. It has been said that the stories of the Middle East are among the greatest stories ever told. Given that there never was a great story which did not contain a great reversal, imagine what a reversal on the part of the Congress will do to the old narrative. The stories that will flow from such a move will truly be the greatest stories ever told, and they will do something else; they will once and for all kill the notion that the Final Solution is the way to go.
Yes, instead of having an endless stream of pogroms and holocausts brought on the Jews by their self-appointed leaders, we shall have one ultimate solution that will be humane and civilized. It will bring about the sought after happy ending because a country that has supported the Jewish aspirations as much as America has will be saying: I am tired of you but I shall not turn against you as they did in Europe of old. Instead, I shall show you how to live among the good people of the Earth without you believing that you have a special relationship with God. You will understand that you cannot do anything you want in the belief that God will come to your rescue or that He will deputize someone like America to support you till you fall flat on your face, something you do all the time. The trouble is that your system of beliefs has often led you astray. Instead of taking you on the road to salvation, it made your journeys end on a sour note. Such endings came about because those who promised to come to your rescue did an about face and sent you to the gas chambers and the crematoria instead. America will not do this to you but neither will it allow the status quo to go on for ever. On the contrary, America will act through its Congress and will do the right thing which you may call tough love but we call saving mankind from a hideous ideology that has plagued it for centuries.
And all the Jews will be thankful for that, and they will cooperate with the new order by publicly denouncing the self-serving Jewish organizations that did nothing for the Jews but send them to their destruction over and over and over again.