If you define tragicomedy as being a story that
starts as funny, unfolds in a funny way throughout its run but flashes the occasional
hint that something serious may happen to spoil the fun, and finally ends with
a tragic scene, you can say that Jewish life has been a chain of tragicomedic
episodes that ran for centuries.
If you're so puzzled at this reality that you
can't help but wonder how something like this is allowed to happen in real
life, you'll have the opportunity to study the phenomenon and come to
understand it. All you have to do is read the editorial of the Washington Times
which came under the title: “The fragile Putin-Netanyahu friendship,” published
on September 30, 2018.
However, you must first recall that in their
effort to cultivate friends for Israel, Jews from America, Europe and Israel
used to tell every world leader who would talk to them: “We are alike, and
we're so different from the Arabs who are Israel's neighbors.” Well, the two
countries they desperately wanted to turn into friends of Israel being Turkey
and Iran, you can see for yourself that the result of their effort tells a sad
story about their approach. It has been a dismal failure of such dimension, it
never happened before, and will never happen again.
But instead of this reality deterring the Jews
from repeating their blunder, and forcing them to develop an entirely new
approach, they only tweaked the one that proved to be a useless flop, and used
it again. That's what you'll discover to your amazement when you go over the
editorial of the Washington Times.
In fact, to inject a dose of realism (which they
were told was missing in their old approach) into the way they now tell their
story, the Jews dropped the idea of calling love, the cordial relationships
that develop between the leaders of two countries. In fact, being proud that
they learned this lesson well, they decided to show off at the start of their
editorial. This is how they did it: “Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu
share certain similarities, though the comparison can't be taken very far.” It
is their new way of saying to someone: We are alike and very different from
Israel's neighbors, but we're not in love with each other.
The one thing the Jews did not alter even by a
smidgen, is that which makes them so very Jewish and so very disposed to being
repulsive to members of the human species. That thing is the component in their
Judeo-Yiddish culture which says this: You get to make someone love you by
making him or her hate someone else.
Motivated by that saying, here is what the editors
of the Washington Times say connects Putin and Netanyahu at the hip, and
connects Russia and Israel at the diplomatic level. First, Putin has grabbed
and occupied “with methods no way gentle, Crimea from [gentle] Ukraine.”
Likewise, Netanyahu is inflicting hard-edge policies against the gentle
Palestinians he has under occupation. Do you see the similarities, my friend?
Second, Russia and Israel are similar in that they both have reason to hate and
fear the same group of people: the Muslims.
But like everything artificial, an engineered love
affair wears down eventually and falls apart. When it is based on false
pretenses, it falls apart with a thud. This is what happened to the
relationship which the Jews fantasized was going to be eternal between Russia
and Israel. But instead of budding, what's there now is this: “The two nations
are in a diplomatic snit, and Israeli-Russian relations are at their lowest
state in more than a decade”.
What's taking place as a result of the rift, is
something that's unlikely to be rolled back any time soon or ever. It is that
Russia has started supplying Syria with the most sophisticated air-defense
system it has in its arsenal. And given the history of the Middle East, what
will happen next is that the Jews will run to the Executive and Legislative
branches of the American government, and ask that Israel be given something to
counter the Russo-Syrian development. Thus, as far as Mideast arms race is
concerned, it is “here we go again” time.
What is encouraging in all of this is that the
natural process of good beating evil has once again intruded on an artificial
situation created by the Jews and neutralized it. What is ironic but not
surprising is that the editors of the Washington Times see something wrong with
the failure of the fake love affair, despite the fact they learned a valuable
lesson.
Look how they closed their argument: “A rift
between Russia and Israel is risky. Both are elements of stability. The risk of
Messrs. Putin and Netanyahu is that when they go against each other, things get
ugly in a hurry. The rift demonstrates that nations have no permanent friends,
but permanent interests”.
Now they know they'll never cultivate bosom
buddies of the kind they can count on to protect them on a cold rainy day.
That's a start.
What they need to learn next, is that a military
occupation which causes young men to be cut down by bullets, and that aircraft (military
and civilian) to be shot down from the sky, are not a sign of stability but
evidence that hot tempered leaders are elements of instability and not of
stability.