The most important prerequisite to becoming a nominal rabbi
or an ordained one, is that a Jew must be able to tell a lie so expertly that
he (now also she) would convince a large number of people of a big falsehood,
and make it stick for a long time. Of course, the larger the number of people
who are deceived, the bigger the lie that is told, and the longer that it is
made to stick, the more valuable the aspiring rabbi becomes in the eyes of the
Jewish clan that records everything he or she says and does.
Writing a column in the New York Times, Thomas (Tom) L.
Friedman stood for a long time as one of the frontrunners in the contest to
mess-up the heads, hearts and souls of the American people by filling them with
the moral syphilis that has guaranteed an American artificial “love” for
Israel; a love that was proportional to the hate for the Arabs he has been able
to generate over the years. But he seems to have lost his way this time, and
may have damaged himself by telling a big lie that can be proven false big
time.
He wrote “A Good Bad Deal?” which is the title of his latest
column, published on July 1, 2015 in the New York Times. On the surface, the
subject he discusses concerns the nuclear deal that's being negotiated between Iran and six
other nations. In it, Friedman rehashes the talking points that have been
cycled over and over again by hundreds of other writers in the print media, and
by the numerous talking heads that have appeared on the audio-visual media to
repeat the same things.
Because there was no opportunity for him to make a
meaningful lying contribution – thus remain in the line-up of the frontrunners
– Friedman created an opportunity for himself that, unfortunately for him,
backfired and sank him to a level from which he will find it difficult to climb
up again. He began the article with this: “Sometime after the 1973 war, I
remember seeing a cartoon that showed President Anwar el-Sadat lying flat on
his back in a boxing ring. The Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir, wearing
boxing gloves, was standing over him, with Sadat saying to Meir something like,
“I want the trophy, I want the prize money, I want the belt.”
With him indicating: “I've been thinking of that cartoon as
I listened to Iran 's supreme
leader...,” he means to say that a comparison exists between that scene and the
nuclear negotiations now ongoing between Iran and the other six. But then,
he goes on to say this: “it is stunning to me how well the Iranians have played
a weak hand against the United
States ...” Does it mean that Sadat was
negotiating with Meir, and does it mean that he won something from her which
continues to stun Friedman 42 years later?
Most probably not. What is obvious is that Friedman wanted
to make a statement – currently a recurring theme in Jewish writing – to the
effect that Israel was once a strong military power despite the fact that it
cannot now beat 1.6 million unarmed women, children, old men and young fighters
in Gaza who have nothing to fight with but their bare hands and a few homemade
firecrackers, against the billions of dollars worth of warplanes, helicopter
gunships and cluster bombs that America has been pouring into Israel's arsenal
free of charge year after year after year.
Well, that is a blunder but it is a small one … not big
enough to deny Tom Friedman a place in the line-up of the frontrunners. The big
blunder is that history has now been written about the 1973 Egyptian
counter-attack. What it shows is that Moshe Dayan, then Israel 's
defense minister, had a nervous breakdown and was taken to hospital. He never
recovered from that bout till he died not long after that.
As to Golda Meir, she reached out to the poison she had set
aside to kill herself in case the Egyptians reneged on the pledge they made to
the Americans that they will not cross the border to invade Israel. They had
made the pledge not because they were pressured, but because they did not want
to be responsible for the bloodbath that would have resulted from their
destruction of the Israeli army. There are plenty of people out there who are
eager to do to the Jews what the Jews have been doing to them year after year
after year.
This history being out there, and neglecting to mention it
in favor of discussing an important event of the time by recalling a cartoon
that was drawn then, has stripped Tom Friedman of the credibility that would
have maintained his rank as a potential rabbi … to be so nominated or to be
ordained according to his wish.