When an individual, an institution or an establishment is
caught with its pants down, you see the people connected to it scurry like
chicken that had their heads cut-off, all trying to whitewash the ass or asses
that became exposed for all to see.
Getting caught with their pants down is what happened to two
Israeli individuals: Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman; two
institutions: the Israeli military and the Israeli intelligence apparatus; and
the Tel-Aviv/New-York Jewish establishment of disinformation. And what you see
scurry, trying to whitewash those asses, are the headless residents of the
Jewish/New-York-Times chicken coop.
Their spokesman – or rather their keyboard banger – is Ronen
Bergman who wrote: “Israel's Army Goes to War with Its Politicians,” an article
that was published on May 21, 2016 in the New York Times. What happened is that
a number of realities concerning the above mentioned players came to light, and
this prompted the residents of the chicken coop to come out in force, and
whitewash those who made an ass of themselves.
What leaked out for all to see were the following facts: (1)
France and Egypt launched an initiative to help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict. (2) Netanyahu responded by appointing to the cabinet Avigdor
Lieberman who wants to throw the Palestinians out to sea and into the desert.
He also threatened to bomb the Aswan Dam if then President Mubarak of Egypt
continued to refuse visiting Israel. (3) Fearing prosecution a la Nuremberg
trials, Israeli generals started to realize that they and their society cannot
keep behaving like Nazis and be excused just because Jews were gassed and
cremated by the Nazis long ago, somewhere else.
So damaging were the declarations of Avigdor Lieberman in
the eyes of the world that the first priority of the New York Times chicken
coop was to lie about what he actually said. Thus, Bergman decided to
misrepresent what happened in this file, but waited till the end to do so. In
the meantime, however, he worked on setting the stage to paint a picture of the
goings on in the Israeli establishment as being no worse than a normal feud inside a
normal family that’s living a normal Jewish life – which means doing things
opposite of the way it's done elsewhere.
So, he starts the article like this: “In most countries, the
political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders
… In Israel, the opposite is happening.” He goes from there to narrate the
details of the story as it has unfolded around the various players … and then
asks the question: “What caused the army and the intelligence agencies to
become doves while the politicians have become hawks?” And he answers that it
was the specter of a Nuremberg-style trial.
Throughout the narration, Bergman makes sure to thoroughly
whitewash the military and the intelligence apparatus – after all, he firmly
believes that Israel's existence depends on them … and them only. Since this
necessitated that he should paint most political people, especially Netanyahu
and Lieberman, as being the arch-villains of this saga, he does not hesitate to
do just that. But there is a caveat.
Because the responsibility of the pronouncements and actions
initiated by politicians, falls on the shoulders of the entire nation – even a
simple entity like Israel – Bergman felt compelled to whitewash what Lieberman
had said about the Palestinians and Egypt's Aswan Dam. And so, he came up with
the following passage:
“What would the army and intelligence chiefs do if the new
minister [Lieberman] issued instructions, as he has done in the past, that
Israel assassinate Hamas leaders if they do not return the remains of fallen
Israeli soldiers, or 'conquer Gaza' or 'bomb the Aswan Dam,' as he has said
Israel would do if it ever faced war with Egypt”?
And that, my friend, is the sort of noise that the
Tel-Aviv/New-York Jewish establishment of disinformation – led usually by the
likes of Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times – puts out to suppress the
truth by smothering it with noisy garbage.