Sunday, March 19, 2017

Will it be Charlton Heston or Liberace?

The reason why writers sometimes resort to the fantasy genre to describe a real situation is that some situations do approach or even exceed the unreality of the fantasy. The difference between the two, however, is that a real situation would be surrounded by mud and noise that hide its true nature. What the writer does, therefore, is remove the mud and the noise to expose a naked reality resembling the fantasy – usually to a high degree.

This said; let's try to write a fantasy. Imagine a serial rapist that has the entire village up in arms against him. He hires a two-headed lawyer who employs both heads to defend and protect him. One head is dedicated to telling positive things about the activities of the rapist no matter how dishonorable they are. The other head is dedicated to describing the town people as being so evil, there is no telling what they'll do if the lawyer admits that his client did something wrong. This is why the rapist must always be portrayed as being a most perfect model of superlative virtues no matter what he does or to whom he does it.

That was the fantasy. We now switch to the reality of the situation. It is the story of a Jewish establishment that's living in a global village where the Jews are welcomed by one family or another till such time that the family discovers the rape tendencies of the fanatic Jew. In fact, time after time, he proves to be addicted to rape, assaulting the little ones in the family every time he has the chance. Eventually, the Jew was deemed to be an incurable serial rapist, and shunned by everyone.

The two headed lawyer that's taking up the case this time is Jonathan S. Tobin who wrote: “More than Just Another Anti-Israel U.N. Farce,” published on March 17, 2017 in National Review Online. True to form, Tobin begins by throwing an insulting broadside at all of humanity. Here it is: “A new United Nations report libels Israel, promotes hatred, and makes peace even less likely”.

And here is how Tobin chose to portray the rapist: “The difference between [apartheid] South Africa – where a tiny white majority denied all rights to the black majority – and Israel, a Jewish-majority country [is that] the Arab minority has full rights, including suffrage, representation, and equality under the law.” What you see here are the three ingredients with which the most toxic Jewish propaganda is made. But before we get to that, it must be stressed that South Africa remained a black majority country because – unlike the Jews – the whites of the world did not bribe the losers among them to go settle in South Africa and turn the place into a white majority country.

The first toxic ingredient used by Tobin is the deliberate confusion. It is that he makes no distinction between the Arabs who live in what is called “Israel proper,” and the Palestinians who live in the West Bank. This allows him to misrepresent reality, which is the second toxic ingredient. Yes, the Arabs who live in Israel proper have some rights, but as shown in the UN report, they are only a fraction of the rights enjoyed by the Jews. To say that the Palestinians have “full rights” is to tell a blatant lie, which happens to be the third ingredient.

An even bigger lie is that Tobin relies on both the confusion and the misrepresentation he created, to make it sound like the Palestinians who live in the West Bank enjoy the real and fictitious rights enjoyed by the Arabs in Israel proper. But the reality is that the Palestinians have zero rights, living as they do by the rules of a savage military occupation which makes biblical horror stories sound like happy talk.

As to the portrayal of everyone but the Jews being evil, Tobin did it by slandering the Palestinians, disparaging the American authors of the UN report, and slamming the UN for representing a human race he portrays as being incapable of ridding itself of anti-Semitism.

Here is his attack on the Palestinians: “The report's findings will make it harder to persuade the Palestinians to compromise and finally accept the necessity of giving up its war on the Jewish state … the standoff in the West Bank is the result of Palestinian unwillingness to recognize Israel's right to exist within any borders”.

And here is his attack on both the UN and the human race: “The report will provide aid and comfort to those whose anti-Zionist incitement provided a thin veil of legitimacy for the growth of anti-Semitism across the globe”.

It is no secret that Donald Trump likes to project impressive images of America to the world. It can be said that picking Rex Tillerson – who is an imposing man – to manage America's foreign policy, fits that tendency. This being the case, if our story is to be made into a movie, the lead role will have to be played by someone built in the image of Charlton Heston.

The trouble is that physical appearance aside; the people of the world want to see an American approach to foreign policy that matches the masculine ruggedness of Charlton Heston. In other words, they want America to tell Israel that carrying it for seven decades is much too much already.

The world wants Rex Tillerson to admit that the more America protects Israel, the more Israel goes on a rampage, creating more problems that end up in America's lap. To rise to the expectation of the world, Tillerson will have to make the following declaration: This sickening charade ends here and ends now – period.

The world expects to see and hear Tillerson do that, not by whispering words in Netanyahu's ear, but by saying the words loudly in a public forum for everyone to hear. Unless this is done, the image of the man – no matter how impressive he may be physically – will transform in the eyes of all human beings from the rugged look of a Charlton Heston to the soft flamboyant look of a Liberace.

The world is waiting to see which one it will be.