They never say it better than when they say it in a panic. The Wall Street Journal have done it again; they are showing how a gang rape operation is planned for, constructed from the bottom up and executed from the top down. They did it on May 11, 2011 when they unwittingly displayed the entire operation in an editorial they titled: “Engaged to Hamas” and subtitled: “The cost of the Palestinian Authority's 'unity' with terrorists.”
Actually, the call to gang rape comes near the end of the editorial in an infamous paragraph that contains three sentences. The first sentence is this: “Even if Hamas did let Mr. Fayyad keep his job, donors will have to reassess support.” Here, the editorial writers of the Journal call on donors around the world to join the gang and participate in the policy that was put into action by Israel decades ago aimed at starving the Palestinian people to force them into submission or to take flight. This Israeli policy -- which is unprecedented in history -- is the social equivalent of raping an entire people. Luckily, the Palestinians have managed to castrate the Jewish attackers more often than the attackers have succeeded at raping the Palestinians.
The second sentence in that infamous paragraph is this: “Twenty-nine Senators, in a letter organized by two Democrats, have called on President Obama to cut off aid to any Palestinian government that includes Hamas.” Here is where there is a fun story to tell. When it became evident to the American legislators that the world was beginning to see them as pimps and prostitutes, madams and gigolos, they decided they were not going to let the Jewish members among them use either house of the Congress or the rules pertaining to voting without a quorum to hold a session with a handful of members then tell the World that the US Congress has unanimously (meaning all 535 members) voted in favor of a resolution supporting Israel. And so, the Jewish lobby came up with an alternative plan which they put into action with regard to this matter.
What they did was to implement a plan of division of labor. Working with the House of Representatives, they had the chair and the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations write a letter to Mr. Abbas warning him of the consequences of uniting with Hamas. A short time after that, they had 8 Democratic Jewish senators and 1 independent who sits with them find 2 non-Jewish Democratic senators each to team up with them and thus form a gang of 27 senators. And the purpose of this formation would be to sign a blackmail letter to the President demanding that he forcefully oppose the proposed unity government in Palestine or else.
And this whole thing was done so hush hush that even the mighty Wall Street Journal did not get wind of it in time. But the rumors were flying around and some people used them to put two and two together except that they counted wrong. They knew there was 2 of one kind and 27 of another kind which adds up to 29, and this is how they published the story. Since everybody copies from everybody else in this dirty business, everybody talked about 29 senators when, in fact, there were only 27. What made the matter even more confusing was the fact that 2 senators were picked by the Jewish lobby to be the initiators of the letter to the President which is the customary thing to do. As a result of this, the panicky Wall Street Journal deduced that there were 27 senators plus the 2 initiators for a total of 29. But they did not even know that all of them were Democrats and so they ventured to call Democratic only the two initiators of the letter which they designated as having “organized” the letter to the President. End of this story.
The third sentence in that infamous paragraph is this: “The U.S. provides $550 million a year.” Not so. This amount is money that was promised to the Palestinian Authority but has not gone yet -- not this year and not before -- although some US money has gone to the PA in the last couple of years.
Now, why is it important to know these things? Because it tells you that this editorial -- like most editorials of its kind in American publications -- are not good enough to be used as a handkerchief, to use an Oriental saying. If you want to know why, look at the first paragraph of this editorial: “Before the ink dries on last week's deal ... the Obama Administration is trying to suggest it's no big deal. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the door remained open ... Other officials suggested that Hamas might change...” Here you see how much the people who have no idea what they are talking about pretend to speak with an authority that surpasses that of the Administration which they criticize.
Having established a fake authority on the subject, they now use their fake accomplishment to generalize it so as to encompass not just the Palestinian question but the entire Arab and Muslim worlds. Just look at the gall they display in this passage: “So some things haven't changed in the post-bin Laden, Arab Spring Middle East. A Palestinian leadership ... continues to think ... And the West sounds willing to indulge them, fearing that any other response could jeopardize their near religious pursuit of the peace process.” The trick here is that having associated the Palestinian question with Bin Laden, they now use what they consider to be their great scoring of a magnificent point to accomplish what Israel and the Jewish organizations have been trying to accomplish for decades: Kill the peace process while pretending to promote it.
And having attributed to themselves all these glorious characteristics and capabilities, why stop here? Why not go on and establish themselves as an authority on Mahmoud Abbas who is President of the PA, on many Europeans and on some Americans? Look how they did this: “By agreeing to form a 'unity government' with Hamas ... Mahmoud Abbas may think he can boost his popularity ... Many Europeans and some Americans will buy the argument that Israel's reluctance to negotiate peace forced Mr. Abbas's hand.” And if they can do all this, they can also predict the future. Here is a taste of that: “Yet the engagement won't be easy to ignore. Pending agreement on a new cabinet ... the ... group that's now confined to the Gaza strip will have access to billions in foreign aid. There's no way for any donor or for Israel ... to ensure that money won't be used by Hamas...”
In their eyes this would be a bad thing to happen because as they put it: “Hamas leader Khaled Meshal makes no secret of [his] intentions ... He said on Sunday that Hamas may continue to fight Israel even after the formation of a Palestinian state. Speaking to the New York Times last week, Mr. Meshal said that the goal was 'a Palestinian state in the 1967 lines with Jerusalem as its capital, without any settlements or settlers, not an inch of land swaps and respecting the right of return' of all Palestinian refugees and their offspring to Israel itself. This leaves little room for discussion.” Here again they try to kill the idea of resuming the negotiations while blaming it on the Palestinians.
What is generally accepted and what the editors of the Journal deliberately ignore is that before negotiations begin or resume after a halt, each side state their maximal position and go from there. Meshal has a position and he stated it. Israel also has a maximal position but it is not stating it yet because it wants to establish a few more of the “fait accompli” it is known to do when no one is looking. In fact, it has not stated a position since the beginning because its goal has always been a greater Israel that extends from the Nile to the Euphrates. To state this position now is to commit suicide. To state a lesser position is to lock itself into it and never hope to expand beyond that. So then, what to do? Well, the thing to do is choose ambiguity. You do this and you get your mouthpieces such as the Wall Street journal to attack the Palestinians. These people have all the legal rights on their side but are willing to compromise. Israel wants no compromise because it wants the whole thing and so you paint the Palestinians as evil and the Israelis as angels.
But there is one thing wrong with all this: It makes people everywhere on this planet sick of Israel and of America.