The best way for an investigator to
establish if someone is trying to con him or her, is to be so lucky as to
stumble on the information that debunks the work of the artist who is trying to
con the investigator.
A story of this kind began to unfold on
April 4, 2019 when Shoshana Bryen tried to spin her American readers into
believing they must think of the “Gaza Rebellion as the Arab Spring,” which is
the title of the article she wrote, and had it printed in the Jewish
publication, Algemeiner.
But then, lucky for us readers, Matthew
Reisener who is a disinterested observer, came up with an article in which he
discussed the same subject just 3 days later, on April 7, 2019. The title of
his article being: “Gaza Has Become a Pawn in the Middle East's Great game,”
published in the National Interest. What follows is a condensed version of what
Reisener says is the story of Gaza:
“Identifying Hamas as the sole cause of
the economic unrest in Gaza ignores multiple factors which have sparked this
crisis. Policies by Israel and the US made such protests and the economic
crisis that sparked them inevitable. Israel's decade-long blockade of Gaza has
strangled its economy, resulting in GDP losses above 50 percent. Repeated
attacks by Israel have damaged homes and businesses. Israeli airstrikes have
destroyed water infrastructure, and the blockade has slowed the delivery of
material needed to repair the damage, resulting in 97 percent of Gaza’s water
being undrinkable. Hamas responded to the blockade by utilizing tunnels into
Egypt to move goods in and out of Gaza. At first, Egypt tolerated this
underground economy but then, in 2014, cracked down on the illicit trade. The
US bears responsibility for Gaza’s current crisis. In 2018 Trump ended
America’s support for UNRWA, an organization that provides social services to
Palestinians in Gaza. The US and Israel both desire to see Hamas weakened;
however, there is little evidence to suggest that this strategy is working.
Hamas remains popular in Gaza”.
And what follows is a condensed version of
what Shoshana Bryen says is the story of that same Gaza:
“Palestinians demonstrate on Fridays along
the Gaza-Israel fence. This is a diversion from the Palestinian revolt against
Hamas. The people are complaining about dire living conditions, the brutal
nature of Hamas rule. Some people have cried, 'We want to live' Others said, 'I
have nothing to live for.' An Arab civilian rebellion against a repressive Arab
government calls to mind the Arab Spring. Eight years ago, a Tunisian vegetable
vendor with an illegal cart was being harassed by a police officer. It was a
perfect storm of money and humiliation for the man, who set himself on fire.
Arab governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan fell or were
overthrown. The Palestinians should be different. As a group they are
well-educated, secular, and entrepreneurial. If there was a test-bed for the
construction of Arab democracy, this should have been it. But it was not to be.
After decades, the Palestinians still lacked infrastructure for a viable
economy. Hamas hopes to focus its people away from the disaster of its rule and
back onto an external enemy, Israel”.
Of course, no one that reads these two
versions will escape the reality that the differences between them are so wide,
they cannot be legitimate views held by two honorable people with different
opinions. It must be that one of them went out of his or her way to deceive the
audience. But why?
To answer that question, we try to figure
out who lied, as well as what the lie was about. And like the old saying goes:
Tell me a lie, and from what the lie is trying to cover, I'll know what the
truth is. So let's begin the process of uncovering what the ultimate truth
might be.
Because the story is supposed to be about
Gaza, and because Shoshana Bryen went on a tangent in all directions talking
about other Arab governments, she practiced the deceptive art of calling the
Palestinians guilty by association. This being the cheapest kind of
intellectual dishonesty that's often used by charlatans, we find Shoshana Bryen
to be a charlatan of the first order.
From there, we can tell that she did the
cheapest thing a charlatan can do. It was to blame the Palestinian victims for
the aggression inflicted on them by the Jews in occupied Palestine, and by
their backers in America and elsewhere. Got it. But what's the ultimate truth?
The truth is that corruption in Israel has
reached the highest level of government where no president or prime minister
has escaped being proven a thief. They all got into the business of asking
foreign governments to pay charity or compensation to Holocaust survivors. When
the money came in, the presidents and prime ministers stole it and spent it on
themselves. They got caught eventually, and were sent to jail.
To compensate for this loss, and in
solidarity with the character that gets on the Fox News Channel and begs
Christians to donate 25 dollars each because the Jews of Israel don't have
enough food to eat, or money to buy matzoh this Passover, Shoshana Bryen made
her contribution to the business of sucking American blood and injecting it
into the dying body of a crime syndicate that's coming to its limit.