Imagine you are the parent of a teenager. One day, it occurs
to you that you should check to see what your kid is learning in school. You
spend an hour with him only to come out of the experience totally puzzled. All
you can tell is that the kid's head is being stuffed with a great deal of
something but you're not sure what that something is. It all sounds like a
bunch of tangents going in a million directions, but the kid knows not how any
of that connects, or that something is supposed to connect at all.
You go see the principal of the school and ask her to let
you sit in the classroom so as to see for yourself how the teacher teaches the
lesson. The principal grants you the request, and you go sit at the back of the
classroom where 20 students, including your child, are taught. At the top of
the blackboard, you see the inscription: Creative Ambiguity. Below it, you see
a question with 4 possible answers marked A,B,C and D from which to choose one.
The teacher asks the students to raise their hand if they
know the correct answer. A few hands are raised and the teacher points to one
of them. The student says the answer is A. No, says the teacher, look at answer
B. Hands are raised again, and the teacher points to one of them. The student
says the answer is B. No, says the teacher, look at answer C. A few hands are
raised, and the teacher points to one of them. The student says the answer is
C. No, says the teacher, look at answer D. Hands are raised, and the teacher points
to one of them. The student says the answer is D. No, says the teacher, you all
missed the point of this lesson. Class dismissed.
You come out of there thinking to yourself this is not a
learning institution but a mental institution where the inmates pose as
educators and teach not creative ambiguity but authentic madness. Well, my
friends, this is exactly what the rabbis did when half a century ago, they
started posing as teachers. They set out to “educate” the North American public
on Jewish sensitivities, then branched out to give lessons on everything that's
in the universe of politics, religion, history, geography, motivation,
clairvoyance and what have you.
The offshoots of those rabbis are now in total control of
the North American media or close to that. Like their rabbi mentors before
them, they pretend to educate the public about Jewish creative ambiguity and
everything else which goes with that. Some of the offshoots even teach in real
universities where they lecture on the moral clarity to be found in going in a
million directions and get nowhere. One of these so-called professors is Ruth
Wisse who has a teaching position at Harvard
University
Her latest article is titled: “What the 'Lobby' Knows About
Animus for Israel ”
and has the subtitle: “The Jewish state, as the 'little Satan,' is a stand-in
for the 'big Satan' and Western values.” It was published in the Journal on
January 17, 2013. The first baffling thing you encounter in this article is
right there in the title. At long last, Ruth Wisse admits she is writing on
behalf of the 'Lobby,' something that was vehemently denied by the writers who
used to take up the Jewish causes. They all pretended to be not an organized bunch
but free thinkers motivated only by a morality that compelled them to get
involved and clarify the ongoing narrative.
The approach that Wisse takes at the start of her article is
that of: “No, the correct answer is not A but look at B.” Here is how she does
it in her first two paragraphs: “The … process … to guide American … policy can
… be used to clear up … confusion, What's at issue is not … affection for Jews
or for Israel … The ... imputation of … Jewish influence … is less worrisome
than [the] failure to recognize why the 'Lobby' exists … Never mind the Jews:
Opposition to Israel camouflages … hostility to America.”
Great, you say to yourself, the rest of the article is
undoubtedly meant to show how opposition to Israel
camouflages hostility to America .
You are eager to see how the author will demonstrate that the issue is not
affection for Jews or for Israel (which was answer A) but that the correct
answer may possibly be that opposition to Israel camouflages hostility to
America – which would be called answer B. And so, you go on to read paragraph
after paragraph hoping to encounter that magical moment when the elusive
connection will pop up.
Alas, it does not happen this way because the author goes
into a million different directions on a million tangents never to show how
opposition to Israel
camouflages hostility to America .
To be sure, there is in what she writes everything you might encounter in the
universe of politics, religion, history, geography, motivation, clairvoyance
and what have you. But what you do not encounter is the reason why the
Palestinians oppose the occupation as hinted by the author, if not promised by
her.
The suggestion has been that the Palestinians do not see the
occupation as a bad thing for them. Thus, it must be that Ruth Wisse is asking
us to believe that the Palestinians oppose the occupation only as a way to hate
America .
If so, it must be that hating America
is something that the Palestinians – if not all the Arabs do – to satisfy an
unexplained genetic defect they were born with. After all, the rest of humanity
has inherited the genetic defect of antisemitism, a phenomenon that remains
unexplained to this day.
But unlike the mythical teacher we started with – the one
that dismissed the class without drawing a final conclusion – Ruth Wisse draws
the following conclusion in her last paragraph: “Chuck Hagel does not have to like Jews, but if he expects to defend the
United States , he needs to
understand the nature and scope of the war against Israel .”
What she is saying
is what all of them in the Lobby have been saying for decades: It's not about America ; it's Israel , stupid.
So says the
handwriting done by a she-Satan on the payroll of Harvard University