Thursday, May 23, 2013

What The Wall Street Journal Is Missing


If you want to know what is wrong with the Wall Street Journal, the answer is simple – the Journal employs editors in America and Europe who do not think some of the time. They act mindlessly when it comes to advancing the causes they believe will serve the interests of Israel but they do the opposite of that each and every time.

They may advance some interest in the short run but that would be to boost the ego of the handful of leaders running the joint. In doing so, they hurt the common people of Israel as well as the Jews everywhere else in the world, including America.

Those editors are displaying the fruits of their latest folly in an editorial they published on May 23, 2013 in the European edition of the Journal, republished in the American edition under the title: “Palestinian Peace Message” and the subtitle: “A Palestinian leader makes a promise.”

What is foolish about this piece of work is that it prompts people everywhere in the world to respond today in the manner that they have responded throughout the ages: “and the Final Solution will be taken off the table only when the Jews and their cohorts stop this sort of nonsense.” But what is the nonsense? It is expressed in the last paragraph of the current editorial like this: “A two-state solution will be at hand when Palestinian leaders endorse it – consistently, in Arabic, to the Palestinian people and to the Arab world at large, in children's textbooks and at their summer camps.”

The formula of saying they will end an act considered to be unlawful or criminal only after someone else does something that is trivial, nonsensical, impossible or irrelevant is like computer hackers saying they will stop hacking the US Government computers only after the American politicians will stop saying one thing to one audience and another thing to another audience. Well, the habit of the Jews has always been to predicate their adoption of a normal sort of behavior on someone else doing something that is none of their business. And the response has always been: “See you at the entrance of the gas chamber.”

This time, the apparent rage expressed by the Wall Street Journal editors was prompted by this event: “The 'peace process' marches on, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.K. Foreign Minister William Hague in the Holy Land again this week to give it another try.” In other words, they are saying the “peace process” which they place between quotation marks, should be shelved till something happens. And what is the thing they complain about? It is this: “so it goes with a Palestinian leadership bred by Yasser Arafat, who made an art of delivering different messages to different audiences in different languages.”

The editors do not seem to assign much weight to the message itself perhaps because it echos the one that was delivered by a former foreign minister of Israel when he said he wants to drop an atom bomb on the Aswan Dam in Egypt. In any case, I do not have the Arabic version of what the Journal says the “Palestinian politician said in Arabic [mainly] that, the resistance is still on the agenda … if we'd had a nuclear weapon, we would have used it this morning.” The editors do not say what happened that morning which forced the Palestinian to use that metaphor, but I know what happened that prompted the foreign minister of Israel to use his metaphor.

It is this: Do you remember when time after time after time, the Israelis and their cohorts in America begged President Obama to visit Israel because they said the move will contribute to their “feeling good” about themselves – so much so that they will sit with the Palestinians and sign a peace treaty? Well, they did the same thing with the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak who did not accept their invitation. And this is why the foreign minister of Israel said he wished he could nuke the dam, flood Egypt and kill millions in the process. Would he have bombed the Hoover Dam in America, had President Obama not visited Israel lately?

By the way, what do the editors of the Journal say the Palestinian politician said in Hebrew? This is what they say he said: “a man who a few years ago recorded a Hebrew-language television ad assuring Israelis 'I am your partner.'” Well, that was a few years ago. It was an event that the editors of the Journal did not report or comment on. Had they done so then, instead of mentioning it only now, they could have contributed to making the partnership he was offering a reality. It could have brought the peace process they now reject to a fruitful conclusion. Perhaps. But they never tried because these people are never interested in peace with the Palestinians or anyone else in the world. Not now, not in the past, not ever.

They could not care less then, and they care enough now only to reject the peace process made elusive by the very character of their Jewishness. It is now apparent that these people will never have peace with the human race unless and until they reject their Jewishness.

This is my message to them: Don't ask someone to do something first, do what you have to do yourselves, and everything else will fall into its proper place.