Apparently a speaker of the US House of Representatives by the name of John Garner said that the position of vice president in America is not worth a bucket of warm spit. Some people dispute this and counter with the argument that Garner never said such a thing while others dispute it and counter with the argument that Garner went further than that and said that the position was not worth a bucket of warm piss. Well, spit or piss, warm or cold, this is better than being worth less than a condom of dog syphilis, be it warm or cold, which is what the position of thinker in some American think tanks has been reduced to these days. And I have the proof.
On April 26, 2011 Josef Joffe who was a German journalist but is now an American think tanker wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal under the title “The Arab Spring and the Palestinian Distraction” and the subtitle “Arab peoples aren't obsessed with anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism. It's their rulers who are.” Joffe begins the article by hitting you in the face right off the bat with this opening sentence: “In politics, shoddy theories never die.” He goes on to say that: “This zombie should have been interred...” And guess why he is doing this. He is doing it because he is about to revive a shoddy theory that has just died and was interred by the events currently sweeping the Arab Middle East. And lest you notice that he is bringing to life the zombie that has served him and served people like him enormously well for several decades, he begins the argument by attacking the practice and by accusing someone else of adhering to it. Nothing can be more Yiddish than this.
The truth that came out of the latest events in the Middle East is that the Arabs who are too busy living their lives are not really obsessed with anything. Another thing that came out is that the description of the Arabs as being obsessed proved to be the obsession of Joffe who is a former editor-in-chief and of people like him. These characters flooded the marketplace with motivations they invented themselves and attributed to the Arabs. They, in fact, cooked up unmitigated garbage and fed it to their own readers to stir the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments. They did what they did by stationing their reporters in Israel and by forbidding them from traveling to the Arab countries where they could have seen the truth for themselves. Instead of this, the reporters were handed phony press reports and the daily fabrications of the Israeli propaganda machine to which they were “requested” to add a personal touch and submit for publication. The Jewish reporters did so wholeheartedly; the non-Jewish ones did it reluctantly because if they did not, they would have been eased out of a job, slipped into the blacklist and banned from the profession for life.
Then came the momentous events in the Arab countries, and the editors were forced to send the reporters there. The latter saw the truth for themselves and reported on it. They saw that there was no obsession among the Arabs at this time anymore than there was one at any time before. And they learned of the true reason why the Arab countries were convulsing. What the reporters learned was that when the Arabs had reached a reasonably elevated level of industrial development, their populations started to tell the ruling classes they have matured enough as an industrial society to want to negotiate a new social compact with the rulers. This being a typical event that happens to all nations at this stage of their development, it was the turn of the Arabs to experience it and go through the convulsions that accompany this coming of age.
To spin the new situation in a way that serves Israel, Joffe realized that he must first repudiate the false image of the obsessed Arabs which he and the sickos like him have been painting for decades. To this end, he said it was never the idea of the Arab peoples to be obsessed; it was the idea of their rulers to obsess them. At first, it looked like the new spin had given Joffe the opportunity to revive the zombie that had just died and been buried. But what he did not realize was that he was telling a new lie that was as obvious as the one that died. This is because the truth has always been out there and was to the effect that the Arab rulers were saying to their people – truthfully or not -- that the choice was between them who are moderate and al Qaeda which adheres to an extreme form of Islamic rule. Thus, the truth has always been that a call never went out from the Arab rulers to their peoples to be obsessed about someone or to hate them. On the contrary, the obsession was the creation of the Jewish hate machine that went on and on like a perpetual motion machine telling the people of America that the Arabs hate them so much, they should stop buying oil from them. And the perpetual hate machine of the Jewish sickos kept on spewing this garbage with such ferocity that the pile reached a level high enough to bury the highest places in America where even the president of the republic was caught repeating the saying that America buys oil from people that hate it.
When you read the Joffe article, you see that he is still promoting the two objectives that have powered the old thinking for ages. He is pushing the idea of trivializing the holocaust that is inflicted on the people of Palestine living under Jewish occupation; and he is pushing the idea of exaggerating the threat posed by Israel's chosen enemy of the day which today is Iran. And this is a ploy that is designed to get the Americans to do Israel's never ending dirty work while the Israelis continue to kill the Palestinians and loot their homes then sit back, relax and let the Americans protect them from world condemnation by casting a veto at the Security Council. With this performance, America tells the world it is prepared to go to war if need be – which is what the use of the veto means -- to allow Israel to perpetuate the ongoing Israeli-American crime against humanity, against the people of Palestine.
To buttress his argument, Joffe does not mention something he saw or heard in the Arab countries but quotes two foreigners who published articles outside of the Arab countries. The first foreigner is the president of Turkey who wrote a piece in the American New York Times; the second foreigner is Brent Scowcroft who wrote a piece in the British Financial Times. Joffe quotes a line or two from each of them not to respond to what they say but to use their writing as a springboard from where he jumps and reaches out to something that is truly far fetched. This would be a well known trick that is so complicated, I must describe it in some detail before I can continue the analysis. To describe the trick the best way that I can, I need to tell the story of the brown shoes worn on a Wednesday.
I was working for a private school at one time where we gathered in the teachers room during the lunch hour. We were all fans of the television series Star Trek and we liked the episodes where time travel was involved. One episode did not involve time travel but looked like it because the star-ship Enterprise found itself embroiled in the problems of a planet where evolution had taken it into a period resembling the era on Earth when parts of America were run by organized crime. Talking to one of the Mafia bosses on that planet, Captain Kirk was trying to entertain, impress and gain time while Spock and Scotty were preparing something. At one point, while improvising as he went along, Kirk said to the crime boss something to the effect that he can play a game by doing this or that which surprised the boss and froze him. To take the edge off the moment, Kirk quickly retorted with the smart ass remark: “Except on Wednesdays.” This was funny because it was completely absurd yet the mafia boss had no choice but to accept it because it added to his confusion. To us, the teachers in that school, Kirk's performance came to symbolize the way we felt about the owner of the school whose habit was to disregard the cause and effect relationship that exists between events yet see a nexus between events where no nexus can exist.
And so one day something happened while we were discussing a hard to find nexus between events that the owner insisted was there. Frustrated by the uselessness of the discussion, a teacher spontaneously echoed Captain Kirk's retort by saying: “Maybe this thing happened because today is Wednesday and I am wearing brown shoes.” And ever since that time, the reference to brown shoes worn on a Wednesday came to mean that the situation is so absurd, it is not worth pursuing it much further. Decades have passed and I now see that much of the Judeo-Israeli arguments can be dismissed by the retort: “It has to do with the shoes on a Wednesday syndrome.” And this is how I feel about the Joffe article in the Wall Street Journal.
The fact is that the Arab rulers, like their counterparts everywhere else in the world, do not easily admit to a problem or a deficiency at home. Therefore they do not blame what is not there on someone whose existence they do not acknowledge with enthusiasm if acknowledge at all. But matters can go so far as to threaten the regional setup or the international one. And this is when some foreigners, including Americans of goodwill, begin to sound the alarm. They do not sound the alarm to alert the Arab rulers that something is threatening them; the Arabs know this well. Instead, the foreigners sound the alarm to alert the American leaders to the effect that the Jewish perpetual hate machine is feeding them poisoned garbage that is threatening America and the world. The best way they can do this is to write about the situation in general terms then pick on one or two items of the type regularly mentioned by the Jewish hate machine and discuss the items in detail. This is what the president of Turkey and Mr. Scowcroft did in the articles cited by Joffe. But to him, this is what he needed to carry on with a debate that has nothing to do with the reality on the ground in the Arab countries.
In fact, most of the points brought out in such debates have little to do with the Palestinian people who see their lives stolen from them every day, and see the lives of their loved ones extinguished by savages who are armed with the deadliest of American weapons. In addition to this, the Jewish machine that propagates hate in America is kept in full throttle mode making false nexuses between the proverbial brown shoes worn on a Wednesday in the Arab countries and the necessity to keep killing the Palestinians and keep looting their lands. And if you want to know how all this is held together and made to work ceaselessly, read the Joffe article in the April 26, 2011 edition of the Wall Street Journal. It is a classic right out the demonic school of satanic distortion. Nothing can be more Talmudic than this.
The problem facing the Palestinians is that they were invaded by a savage regime that stole a good chunk of their land and called it Israel. Still hungry for more land, the regime has adopted an expansionist policy and has joined hands with a brutal setup in America called the Jewish lobby. Working together, the savage regime and the brutal setup used a false argument as bait to draw the rest of America into the scheme. The argument was to the effect that the Middle East was rich in hydrocarbon resources and that Israel should be supported financially, militarily and diplomatically to guarantee that America will always be supplied with cheap oil. The rulers of America swallowed the bait because the think tanks in America were respected institutions at the time and were conned into working for the promotion of the Israeli arguments.
But true to form, the Israelis and their Jewish supporters escalated their demands for more American support. And they never stopped escalating the demands to a higher and higher level at each and every occasion. By the time the old timers in the think tanks had realized what was going on, they were surrounded by a group of new hires that was larger and younger than they. Feeling that the future had slipped out of their grip, the old timers looked around to ascertain what they were seeing and discovered that each individual in the new group was hand picked by the Jewish hate machine and instructed to make America stop serving its people to serve the interests of Israel. With sorrow and a heavy heart, the old timers concluded that the only dignified thing for them to do now was to ease themselves out because they could see what the future held.
We now see what that future looks like. It is that the American think tanks kept sinking into deeper absurdities to justify more help going to Israel. The think tanks are now populated with characters worth less than a condom of dog syphilis. At long last Josef Joffe now feels at home in a setup he can call his natural habitat. Good luck to him.