Look at this passage: “The time has come for the West to
stop obsessing about the risks of stopping the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran , and start
considering the consequences of not stopping them.” It is how Daniel Nisman
ends his article; the one he wrote under the title: “If Hezbollah Wins Syria ” and the subtitle: “Unchecked, Tehran and its ally will
emerge more aggressive than ever.” It was published in the Wall Street Journal
on June 19, 2013. Oddly enough, we begin to understand what is going on here by
harking back to the women's liberation movement of long ago.
There was a time before the movement to liberate the women
of America when some of those who felt they were neglected or counted as
irrelevant, resorted to pulling tricks that made them feel relevant and
desired. They did so by fantasizing about situations that never happened. In
fact, some of those fantasies were so powerful, they spilled into the open in
that the women accused some of the men of sexually harassing them; accusations
that in most cases, turned out to be false and so proven in the courts of law.
But the truth be told that these women exhibited nothing
worse than a normal human reaction to an abnormal situation. Theirs was a
behavior that is manifested not only in sexual relations but in all sorts of
human relations. It can be seen at the individual level, the group level and
even the national level. An example of this is the behavior of the men and
women who think of themselves as working for Israel and the other Jewish causes.
What happens here is that operators headed by a master trickster such as Tom
Friedman and others – including the Daniel Nismans of this world – channel
their energies to make Israel
appear so relevant in the eyes of its neighbors and those of the world, they
all obsess about it.
You can see this approach when you review the body of work
done by Friedman, for example. You will learn that he made a career out of
running around and telling his audiences, verbally and in writing, that the
Arab leaders used to blame their poor performance on a shiny object – meaning
Israel – which kept them from giving a better performance. But the fact is that
no Arab leader ever admitted to giving a poor performance. Most of them plastered
big pictures of themselves on the walls of large buildings to convey to the
public and to visitors the message that they are so much larger than life, they
provide their people with the best of everything. And this is why those leaders
have maintained that the people loved them and were happy to be led by them.
As to Israel ,
neither the leaders nor the people wanted to know then or want to know now that
the thing even exists. They don't have Israel on the maps they draw of the
region; don't have it in their conversations and don't have it in their
writings. To them Israel
is worse than irrelevant and worse than invisible; it is non-existent. So you
ask yourself, who is it that the Friedmans of this world and their Nisman
imitators are trying to deceive? In answering this question, you realize that
it isn't the Arabs or the Muslims. Who then? It can only be their American
audiences. And the question is: To what end? There is only one end; to make Israel 's neighbors the shiny objects by which to
scare the American people and their leaders about little Hitlers rising in the
Middle East, and setting off mushroom clouds over Europe and America – a
group of nation they call the West.
And this is how the masters in the circus of make-believe
make their American audiences believe that the Arabs and the Muslims are
dangerous to them. This done, they advise that America must continue to pay the
price, and continue to shoulder the responsibility of helping Israel stay on
its feet, rise above its neighbors and sabotage every effort they make to
self-develop. Thus, while Israel
is ignored by its neighbors, the Americans are made to believe that it looms
large and shiny in their eyes. And while the neighbors want nothing more than to live and let live, the Americans are made to believe they think of nothing but
of ways to hurt the West.
This has the effect of motivating the clowns in the American
Congress to act in such fashion as to hurt the Arabs and the Muslims for no
apparent reason but to please the Jews. The clowns admit this much then hang
their weird behavior on electoral exigencies which they say allow them to
commit horrible crimes as long as they commit them in the name of democracy
where the electoral exigencies are protected. When this happens, no response usually
comes from the Arab or Muslim governments. And this is what prompts the young
individuals in those places to do what militias normally do everywhere in the
world. They spontaneously rise up and defend themselves, their families, their
homes and their people anyway they can.
And so, in the Jewish tradition of describing the others by
what they see in themselves, and describing the self by what they see in
others, Friedman, Nisman and company have over the years called just about
everyone they disliked as being obsessed or irrelevant. But this is the first
time, as far as I can determine, that one of them has called the West itself as
being obsessed.
Something big must be brewing, and we should all keep our
eyes and ears wide open.