First, imagine a child born with physical challenges. His
parents, the extended family and their friends pamper him as he grows up to
compensate him for what he is missing and other children take for granted. To
him, the normal state is that when he desires something, he asks for it and
someone will be there to get it for him.
And then, one day as a teenager, the boy discovers that
neither he nor his parents can get everything they desire or ask for. In fact,
his father has difficulty getting the promotion he believes is owed to him. His
mother has difficulty getting the insurance company to pay for some of the
bills. And he has difficulty convincing his teachers he deserves better grades
than they are giving him. Reality has dawned on this boy.
Second, imagine an employee that suffers an accident on the
first day of his employment. He was sitting at his desk when the roof collapsed
on his head because the room above was not meant to be used as storage space
housing the copying machines and such that were stored in it. After a stay at
the hospital, the employee returns to his job, and gets everything he asks for
because the idea is to make it easy for him to do his work efficiently despite
his reduced physical abilities.
And then one day, when he looked fit and the medical reports
were saying so, the company started denying him the extraordinary amenities he
still asked for. Reality has dawned on this employee.
Third, imagine an Israel
made of Jews that were hunted in Europe, and fled to Palestine where they hid and felt safe. When
enough of them had accumulated in that place, they asked the world to have pity
on them and recognize Israel
as a bona fide jurisdiction, and the world did just that. For several
generations after that, their leaders went from country to country begging that
they be granted extraordinary considerations to compensate them for what hey
suffered ... and some countries gave them much of what they asked for.
And then one day, someone realized that the Jewish beggars
were charlatans masquerading as inheritors of benefits that were as remote to
them as would be compensation claimed by modern Christians on the grounds that
the Romans of ancient times fed Christians to the lions.
In fact, this is the message that the mob of Jewish pundits
is beginning to receive in America
these days, and the members are huffing and puffing, pretending not to
understand why this is so. You can detect such reaction by reading the article
which came under the title: “Trump follows Obama's lead and gives Iran just what
it wants,” written by Benny Avni and published on November 14, 2017 in the New
York Post.
Accustomed to seeing Israel
at the receiving end of the gravy train, Avni begins by praising President
Trump for reevaluating the Iran
nuclear deal – something that Israel
always wanted – but then chiding him in the same breath because Trump “took two
steps back with his new deal with Russia
over Syria .”
What now for Israel ?
All indications are that what's ahead for Israel and the
Jews will not be pleasant. Look at it this way: a child that grew up pampered
by his parents and relatives will learn from them that compensation was given
to help him adjust to life despite his challenges. But now that he has achieved
this, he must rely on himself because those who helped him in the past will not
be there to help him forever. And the boy understood the message.
In a similar way, the employee that needed extraordinary
accommodations when he was debilitated was told by those who pampered him, he
reached the point of functioning normally without the need for further
assistance. For this reason, he must now be treated like any of his colleagues.
And the employee understood the message.
But who will tell the Jews of Israel and those of America that
the gravy train has reached the last station, and can go no further. It was a
fantasy to believe that America
owed them anything at all, when in fact, it was America that rescued them from the
fires of the Holocaust. For them to believe that America must continue compensating
them for something it did not do, is the kind of mentality that sent their
ancestors to the proverbial gas chamber again and again.