This discussion is about an article written by Charles
Krauthammer but I wish to start with something that may sound unrelated at
first but actually has a connection, if tenuous, with the subject that Krauthammer
is tackling in an article that came under the title: “The truth about Gaza” and
the subtitle: “Rarely does international politics
present a moment of such moral clarity.” It was published on July 18,
2014 in National Review Online.
It may have been a coincidence but it was under the Jimmy
Carter Administration that America
developed the neutron bomb – Carter being a nuclear physicist and also a
pacifist. But these are the contradictions under which the world sometimes
operates, a puzzle that is rendered all the more perplexing by the fact that
the neutron bomb is a device which kills people but leaves all installations
intact.
The connection between that reality and what happens in Gaza
at this time is that America – which shoulders one hundred percent the
responsibility of the horror that is committed there – is now urging the
Israelis who are using American-made explosives and the means to deliver them,
to do the reverse of what it would have done had a war erupted between NATO and
the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. America
is now telling Israel it is
okay to destroy the installations in Gaza
but not kill the people.
There is a reason for this reversal, of course. It is that
the standoff between the two camps during the Cold War was seen as one between
equals whereas the current standoff between the Palestinians and the Israelis
is seen more and more for what it really is; a struggle between the
dispossessed people of Palestine on one side, and superpower America operating
under the control of World Jewry conniving with the powerful Jewish lobby in
America, on the other side.
And whereas the realities of the situation in Europe during
the Cold War were to the effect that the Soviets were occupying Eastern Europe,
the realities in the Middle East today are to the effect that the Zionists are
occupying a good chunk of Palestine and looking forward to grabbing more of it.
Thus, an America that could legitimately plot to kill Soviet troops while
maintaining all installations intact for the indigenous people of Eastern
Europe to retake what belonged to them; that same America could not make a
similar claim today or help the Zionists add more to their criminal activities
while standing on America's shoulders.
And this is why Charles Krauthammer who is as smart if not a
little smarter than his peers has looked into the mud of international politics
and thought he was seeing moral clarity. His problem in understanding what is
happening in Palestine
has many sides, and he expresses one of those sides this way: “Apologists for
Hamas attribute the bloodlust to the Israeli occupation and blockade.
Occupation? There is not a soldier, not a settler, not a single Israeli in Gaza .”
Yes, Charles, there are no Jews in Gaza since the Palestinians kicked them out
of there. But Gaza alone is not all of Palestine . The truth is
that the government that is in place in Gaza
today was elected by all the people of Palestine
and given the mandate to liberate every inch of the land … which includes the West Bank . And as long as there are soldiers, settlers or
Israelis in the West Bank, the first duty of the government is to work for the
liberation of all Palestine ,
and fight if necessary.
As to the blockade, Krauthammer says this: “Israel wanted
this new Palestinian state to succeed. To help the Gaza
economy, Israel
gave the Palestinians its 3,000 greenhouses that had produced fruit and flowers
for export.” The truth is that Gaza is a part of
the land of milk and honey and a part of the Fertile
Crescent , renowned since the beginning of time. And this is
because the land is situated in the right place, producing the right kind of
crops. It does not need greenhouses. The reason why the settlers built the
greenhouses was to produce the kind of crops that would sell in Europe and the
rich nations of Asia such as flowers and
herbs. These being crops that the people of Gaza had no use for; they did not need the
greenhouses. They took them apart to make use of the land on which they stood.
The government in Gaza
had a better idea with regard to the economy it wanted to build. It was one
that had the earmarks of a hybrid between Singapore
and Dubai . And
the rich Arab countries were preparing to finance this Palestinian dream when
the Israelis understood it will cause a revolt among the inhabitants of the
West Bank where they will demand to be free so as to become like Gaza . Thus, Israel started
a program of periodically destroying what the Gazans were building, even
instituted a blockade to prevent them from conducting commerce with the rest of
the world.