There was a time, following the explosion of an atomic bomb
by the former Soviet Union, in which the self-designated Free World began to worry
that the Communist regime in the Union and its
Warsaw Pact satellites will come under severe economic pressure and fall. This
prediction came true, but the worry that the Pact of the “Eastern” bloc will
unleash its military on the world before dying, turned out to be “Western”
paranoia.
What happened instead, shortly before the fall of the Berlin
Wall, was that the leaders of the Soviet Union
and its former satellites began to realize that their centrally planned
economic system was not efficient, and they should liberalize it before it
crashes – an event that will cause the state itself to implode. And so, the
Communist leaders allowed for change to come into their system. In some cases
they even asked the West to help them smooth out the transition.
Looking at the world today, the saying that applies most
aptly is this: The shoe is on the other foot. In fact, from the looks of it,
the members of the Free World are coming under increased economic pressure
while those of the 'Second' and 'Third' Worlds are experiencing the sort of
high growth that has allowed the 'First' World to begin industrializing a
couple of centuries before the rest. And the question is this: Should humanity
worry that sensing it might implode, the so-called Free World of the NATO
alliance will unleash its military on the world before dying?
Right now, a small segment of the intelligentsia in those
countries – calling itself Right Wing – is advocating the use of the military
to solve problems it has not yet identified. But in all of this, what cannot be
ignored is the paradox of the Right Wing in America
being mostly populated by Jewish members, whereas the Right Wing in Europe is mostly populated by anti-Jewish members. How
the interaction between these two will end is anyone's guess, but the one thing
that remains glaring is that religion will continue to play a large role in America .
In fact, there is in America a religious movement
calling itself Evangelical, which can better be characterized as political
Judeo-Christianity. It boasts several million voters, which is why everyone
running for office on the Right seeks to woo these people. However, instead of
carrying a card that says they are members of the ideological faith, the
candidates who seek office go before the group and declare allegiance to it.
They do so by shouting out their infinite and eternal love, as well as their
dedication to Israel
and to its Right Wing leaders.
One of those – apparently running for office – is closer to
being a religious figure more than a politician; and he goes by the name Mike
Huckabee. It happened that a week ago or thereabout, he published a written
piece and a video in which he said something to the effect that when you deal
with Political Islam, you're dealing with rattlesnakes. He recommends that you
take their heads off with a shotgun before they bite you – because the one
thing you can be sure of is that snakes will bite you if they can. He included Iran in what he
described as Political Islam of the rattlesnake variety.
This conjured up the image of Palestine being the paradise that remained
heavenly for almost twenty centuries, but was then rattled by a movement of
Political Judaism calling itself Zionism. This happened because of what people
everywhere see as the Zionist snake that came to dig itself a pit in Palestine , and turn it
into the nest out of which horrors of biblical dimensions will be unleashed on
the world.
But of course, a snake pit of this kind requires that
someone be there to nurture it, protect it and feed it. Call him a snake pit
attendant, that's exactly what Mike Huckabee has been to Israel . Whereas
other devoted fanatics have worked to transfer money, money, money from America to Israel , Huckabee realized that
residents of a snake pit cannot live by money alone.
What he realized was that the Jews of Israel required
protein on which to live. And so, while he joined other attendants in bringing
money, money, money to them, Huckabee went beyond all that, and brought them
protein. Yes, my dear reader, Mike Huckabee organized for plain loads of
American youngsters to be transported to Israel, from whom blood – real blood
out of their arms, not metaphorical blood – was drawn to feed something or
someone in Israel.