Imagine you had a close friend in a money-making club
to which both of you belonged at one time. Something went seriously wrong among
the members of the club, resulting in its dissolution. You went on with your
life and did well, but your friend was not as lucky.
In fact, you had a hand driving him into poverty,
which you did by slandering him openly and behind his back whenever he landed a
good deal. You thus caused him to fail time after time. It is that you meant to
keep after him for a reason that materialized at the closing of the club. What
happened was that you took the group's computer which contained a program that
could unlock untold riches.
The problem is that you cannot run the program because
your friend has the password, and he will not give it to you. However, having
pushed him to destitution, you now realize that having nothing to lose, there
is nothing more that you can do to extract the password out of him. What do you
do now?
Well, if you're a devious con-man, you allow your
friend to improve his life somewhat. You wait long enough till he gets used to
his improved condition. When you see he is enjoying the newly acquired comfort,
you warn that you'll push him back into destitution if he doesn't give you the
password.
And that, my friend, is what Dennis Ross, the dean of
all master con-men, is proposing to do with the Palestinians who were driven to
destitution, and have nothing to lose. In fact, unable to get their consent to
legalize the Jewish theft of Palestine, Dennis Ross is proposing to improve the
lives of Palestinians somewhat, and when they get used to their new situation,
pressure them again to give their patrimony to the Jewish squatters –– or face
being sent back to the old misery.
This is the message that's contained in the article
which Dennis Ross wrote under the title: “A steep uphill climb: Why Trump's new
Mideast peace plan will likely harden the Israeli-Palestinian divide,”
published on February 2, 2020 in the New York Daily News.
Now that the Palestinians have rejected the Trump plan
for solving the occupation of Palestine, which is maintained by the American
equipped Jewish forces, and now that the Arab League has supported the Palestinian
rejection, Dennis Ross sees the possibility of a return to the dreaded prospect
of Israel being pushed into the one-state solution, and he is frightened.
He wants to wiggle out of the situation but sees no
way of doing it except by maintaining the status quo for now while improving
the lot of the Palestinians somewhat in the hope that the trick will bring them
to trade their patrimony for immediate relief.
Here is how Ross expressed his fear: “When one state
is the only outcome … BDS will appear like child's play at that point, and
those seeking to delegitimize Israel will be given a great boost.” And here is
how he proposed to allay those fears: “Why not begin collectively to work on
the economic part of the plan designed to allow the Palestinians to build a
prosperous state? Work on them now would change the climate and create a sense
of hope among Palestinians, making them far more amenable to negotiating an
outcome”.
But how to sell his idea (1) to the Jewish rank-and-file,
especially the hardliners among them, such as the settlers; (2) sell the idea
to the Palestinians and (3) sell it to the Arab League? If you want to know,
this is where the con artistry of the master comes in handy. Attributing to the
Arabs, thoughts and sentiments they never expressed, Ross made it sound like
they agreed to something that's not there. And here is a montage of the way
that he expressed his thoughts:
“The answer is for Israel to stop building outside of
the settlement blocs –– preserving the option of physical separation from the
Palestinians in the form of two states. This is logical, but hard politically,
because the settler movement will oppose any such limitation on settlement
building. Palestinians understandably see several poison pills in the plan
therefore their rejection is not surprising. But the absence of Arab rejection
is. The key Arab states –– Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Morocco –– did
not embrace the plan but did not criticize it. They simply did not comment on
its content. For the first time, there is, just maybe, a ray of hope there.
That key Arab states aren't willing to simply accept Palestinian rejectionism
anymore”.
What should be said is that unlike the Jews who change
their posture like a windbag, depending on which direction the winds of
opportunism blow, the Arabs made their position clear long ago, and have not
changed it one iota since that time.
If Dennis Ross believes he can read the Arab mind by
the way they toss and turn every time that America or Israel comes up with an
idiotic idea, Dennis Ross must understand that when the Arabs mean to tell
someone they are bored by his performance they “simply do not comment on the
content” of what he is saying. They do not toss and they do not turn.