In the world of fashion, they say that “everything old is
new again,” and so it is with the Jewish ‘fashionable’ habit of trying to
legitimize their never ending quest to live on what belongs to someone else.
The name of the game they used to play was 'fait accompli,'
which is French for 'accomplished fact.' And the new name is 'recognize
reality,' which is English for 'I robbed you. What was yours is now in my hand.
You won't get it back without a fight'. And make no mistake, my friend, the two
names refer to one and the same game.
Using an old snake oil sort of argument, the Jews conned the
Trump administration into recognizing Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel ,
and called their act 'recognizing reality.' The reality being the fait accompli
of an Israel that has annexed Jerusalem in contravention of international law
formulated by the United Nations Security Council with the active participation
of the United States of America.
As to the snake oil argument, it consisted of bastardizing
an old saying. The actual version goes like this: “Insanity is doing the same
thing and expecting a different result.” The lesson being that if you want a
different result, you must do things differently. And so, the Jews told the Trump
administration that the Middle East peace
process was going nowhere because of one reason and one reason only. It's that America did not recognize Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel .
Recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel , said the
snake oil argument, and peace will happen instantly not only in Palestine but over the entire Middle
East . America
bought the argument and made the announcement. The result was that nothing good
happened. Peace remained as elusive as ever, but the Jews went back to square
one, celebrating with the chant: reality finally recognized, reality finally
recognized. It replaced the old chant: see it as a fait accompli, see it as a
fait accompli.
Unlike America
that bought the new version of the snake oil argument –– thus compounding the
problem it was trying to solve –– Poland that had been consuming the
old snake oil for decades finally rejected it in favor of adopting a more
realistic attitude toward its responsibility for what happened during the
Second World War. And that move proved to be the change that brought about a
different result. However, having discovered a correct method by which to
effectuate a change when change is sought does not mean that we can
automatically solve all of our problems, or that we can solve them in an
instant.
An article that shows the potential difficulties ahead, came
under the title: “Do Israeli Students Need to Visit Auschwitz?” It was written
by Shmuel Rosner and published on February 14, 2018 in the New York Times. This
is how Rosner starts the article: “Poland decided to outlaw claims of
Polish complicity in the Holocaust.” And this is how he ends it: “What I
believe we Israelis need is a realignment. Let's not confuse ourselves by
making Auschwitz the axis of our culture and
the culmination of our civic religion”.
Between the start and the end of the article, Rosner wrote a
thousand words expressing ideas that say in effect: even though a breakthrough
was achieved, the road ahead will not be easy to navigate. Some of the words
are his own, some are quotes that belong to others. But they all came in
response to the Polish decision, and they all point to difficulties that lie
ahead. And that's not all because what was left unsaid is equally disturbing.
The following is a sampling of what was said: The law is
baseless. One cannot change history. The law is spitting in the face of Israel .
Hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered without ever meeting a German
soldier. The blood of Polish Jews cries from the ground and no law will silence
it”.
And here is the passage that achieved the breakthrough: “But
with crisis comes opportunity. Israel
should take this chance to change its relationship not with Poland but with
the Holocaust. Each year young Israelis visit Poland . They visit the sites of the
ghettos, the cemeteries and the death camps. It is time to end these trips”.
What was left unsaid is mention of the Palestinians. Rosner
asked the question: “Why end these trips?” And he answered: “A healthy society
cannot be defined by the memory of a tragedy. Israel
is not a compensation for Auschwitz . Jewish
youngsters would do better to focus their energies on the site that all
generations of Jews have wanted to make pilgrimage to: Jerusalem ”.