At the height of the cycle of hysteria such as these moments come and go in America, and where the anti-alien demagoguery has reached a fevered pitch, Dorothy Rabinowitz who is a member of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal has joined the fray and published a rather lengthy article on June 9, 2010 under the title: “The Alien in the White House” and the subtitle: “The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.” In fact, she ends the article by stressing the existence of that distance, so here is an edited version of the ending: “The truth about that distance is now sinking in … A country … needs every infusion of reality it can get.” But you ask what is this reality she is talking about? To find out we look at the first paragraph of the article. It goes like this: “The … disenchantment with Barack Obama … about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill.”
Can you believe it? The woman is making no secret of the fact that she is delighted about the oil spill which is now devastating America and will continue to devastate it for decades to come. And she is gloating, she explains throughout the article, because the pain that the spill is causing has at last revealed the existence of a rift between President Obama and the American people. But is that all she is saying? Did she go through the anguish of writing an article of this length only to suggest that if oil is spilled again, the President may wish to express a more powerful sense of urgency? No, not exactly. Actually, there is more to what she is saying, and you get a sense of that when you see the full version of the paragraph that ends the article. Here now is that full version: “A country governed by leaders too principled to speak the name of its mortal enemy needs every infusion of reality it can get.” So this is it, folks, the woman is speaking of a mortal enemy. In reality then, she is saying it serves America right to suffer the devastation of the oil spill because its leaders have neglected to appreciate the threat of a mortal enemy, one that is also an alien and whose existence is ignored by the alien in the White House – which is what makes him an alien in the first place. Get it now?
So then who is the alien that is a mortal enemy? Well, Rabinowitz says the enemy is something that the president identifies with but she hastens to add this: “...a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his [the President's] birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.” Okay, this is what it is not but what is it? Actually, it gets a little murky to answer this question because you recognize the situation she describes as being a classic case of ambiguity, something that is common to people of the author's ilk. First, she says this about the President: “...he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class.” She then devotes several paragraphs to slam the “...indisputable Islamist identity of the enemy...” which she says the President and his Administration avoid offending at any cost.
Baffled but eager to get inside the brain of the woman to understand how she thinks and what it is that she is trying to say, you go over the article several times and look for the nexus that may tie the President's ideological class to which she accuses him of belonging with the tolerance that he exhibits for the Islamist identity which she accuses him of harboring. But you find no nexus. In fact, Rabinowitz does not say the President is a Muslim and neither does she say he was born outside of America like says the demented fringe, but nowhere does she make the effort to explain what she means by ideological class in the context of what she says is his tolerance for Islam, that which makes of him an alien in the White House. So much complication and yet so little explication.
And because she fails to explain, you try to come up with an explanation yourself. What you do is theorize that she wants to have it both ways. She wants to say she is not of the demented fringe but -- without saying it outright – she wants to lead you to conclude on your own that because the President sympathizes so profoundly with the Muslims, he might as well be one of them. Now confident that this will gain considerable traction at a time of high anti-alien anxiety and demagoguery, she openly expresses her delight at the oil spill because the pain that the calamity is causing the people of America has at last identified the President of America as an alien in the White House who tolerates the Islamist enemy.
But do not think for a moment that we have reached the end of the story, dear friend, because I assure you this is only the beginning. And to see how the rest of the story may unfold, we go to a place that has long been the soft underbelly of America where ideas are tested before being unleashed in the home of Uncle Sam. The place is Canada, my own home sweet home. Get this now, dear friend, some fifteen or twenty years ago the Jewish organizations tried to duplicate in Montreal -- a city in the French speaking Province of Quebec -- the events that were unfolding in occupied Palestine. Far away across one ocean and one sea, the Jewish settlers over there were trying to create an enclave around the city of Hebron in the heart of the Palestinian territories, and make the enclave a part of Israel which is miles away. And in that exact same manner, the English speaking Jewish minority in Montreal wanted to carve out a piece of that city and make it a part of the English speaking Province of Ontario which is miles away. And some members of that minority forcefully agitated in favor of the plan, traveling as far away as New York to articulate their cause and collect money to fund the effort.
While most of the people who heard of the plan, be they French, English or neither, laughed at the idea, a good part of the Jewish residents in Montreal were horrified. They were horrified because part of the argument that the advocates of the plan were advancing was to the effect that the Jews had lived happily in that part of Montreal for decades but are now made to feel alienated in a city and a province that were becoming increasingly French speaking. Therefore, they argued, the Jews have the right to make their part of the city an enclave and have it join English speaking Ontario – which they admit may be miles away -- but will make them feel comfortable again like the good old days. This argument did not sit well with the horrified group of Jews because they saw in it an invitation for non-Jews to never want the Jews to come and live in their midst again lest the latter decide someday to carve out an enclave and make it a part of somewhere else. That is, they will want to hebronize the place.
And if you take all the arguments made by Dorothy Rabinowitz and you advance them to where they will go, you'll find them to be moving on a track that leads to a similar sort of vision. In fact, the author does not only want to hebronize a piece of real estate called the District of Columbia; she wants to hebronize the entire American government and have it annexed, in a virtual sense, to a system of governance that would be controlled by someone else. But who might that someone be? Well, the woman is mad at the whole world because she says the President went to foreign lands and lectured to the people over there about America's moral failures, its arrogance and insensitivity. Also, she does not trust the American people who failed to see how destructive their President has been, the reason why she gloats about the calamitous oil spill that hit them. Well then, this leaves the Jewish organizations as the only candidate to take over America and run it. And come to think of it, these organizations would be the best suited to conduct the war against the Muslims whom she says are the enemy within.
We got inside the brain of Dorothy Rabinowitz to see what makes it possible for her to reason and to argue that the oil spill is a good thing for America and the world, and we discovered a few disturbing realities. First, she fashioned a springboard by combining a recent catastrophe (the oil spill) with the old American trait of hostility to new immigrants. Loath to let this opportunity go to waste without exploiting it, she used the springboard to demonize the sitting President of the country by morphing his image with that of an enemy she calls mortal. She then suggested that the President is at last being isolated if not ostracized by his own people, something she says is all to the good.
We immediately understand that the aim of the whole exercise, as articulated in a more subtle way, has been to push forward the idea that America and the world must now be wrenched from the grip of the President and the grip of his Administration to be handed over to the Jewish organizations to control and to run. It is further understood that such organizations will discharge their responsibility with superior intelligence by mobilizing the resources of the nation to fight the Islamist enemy to the bitter end thus save humanity from the folly of cozying up to the dreaded enemy. This is an enemy that was left to roam the world freely, and has now been found to roam America itself and worse, found to inhabit the White House, she says.
What is not surprising in all of this is that Rabinowitz said not one word to damn Ronald Reagan who created the Mujahedeen (those who practice the Jihad in Arabic), and not one word to damn Israel that created both Hisbullah (the party of God in Arabic) and Hamas (the enthusiasts in Arabic). These are the kids she calls mortal enemies who are shunned by their own people precisely because they were created by America and Israel to fight, yes the Soviets, but also the Arabs and the Muslims. However, all of this is beside the point.
What is to the point is the fact that this thing about isolation and ostracism is exactly what has happened to the Jews throughout their history. Like her predecessors who led the Jews by self-appointment, Dorothy Rabinowitz is making the bed where her people will sleep again. The hope is that she will not become too enthusiastic (Hamas like) and go as far as dig the grave in which she will end up burying her people which is also what has happened to the Jews throughout their history.
May God save the Jews from themselves.