A version of the proverb you
see in the title of this piece was uttered throughout time and space, from the
ancient Chinese to Machiavelli's Rome to a Hollywood Godfather movie.
In one form or another, the
wise men and women of the modern world have adopted that proverb as their
motto, and have done well protecting themselves because it kept them from being
blindsided by an enemy when they were not watching. In fact, I still remember the
headline of an article I read in an Arabic newspaper decades ago. It went like
this: “e3lam 3addoak” which translates into “know your enemy.” This was a
United Arab Emirates publication discussing Israel.
What brought back that memory
at this time, is an article I read in English under the title: “Israel-UAE
agreement has major potential for a political realignment in the Middle East,”
written by Abraham Wagner, and published on August 21, 2020 in The Washington
Times. Obviously, when writing his article, Wagner was not thinking about that
proverb, or the one that says, “blood is thicker than water”.
The point of the Wagner
article is summed up in the title itself. It shows that the man is dreaming the
typical Jewish dream of seeing Jews get into a hate pact with someone (it does
not matter who) and go after someone else (it does not matter who) to beat them
up and loot them. In fact, this has been the most prevailing feature in the
long legacy that the Jews have left behind, and nothing of what they do now
indicates that they wish to change their ways.
And this happens to be the
substance of the Abraham Wagner article. Here is his conclusion as it appears
near the end of the article: “The Israeli-UAE deal is an attempt to establish a
group in the Middle East and achieve a regional realignment based on
confronting Iran and avoiding any real notion of solidarity with the
Palestinians.” He dreams of the Arabs hating the Palestinians and the Iranians
and loving the Jews instead. Will someone remind him that blood is thicker than
water!
To understand what's really
going on out there, we need to understand the Arab mentality. And the first
thing we need to do to understand the Arabs, is to reject the childish notion
which the Jews have about everything boiling down to who loves whom and who
hates whom. When you do that, you’ll begin to understand why a few months ago,
the idea of America organizing the Arabs into a hate-Iran pact, sank like a
stone into the cesspit of Jewish morality.
In fact, it has been seven decades
since the colonial powers, and then America tried to organize the Arabs into a
hate-somebody pact, the most notorious being the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact. But
they all sank ingloriously, letting the hapless organizers know that the Arabs,
unlike the Jews, do not recognize hate as a worthy currency to own, to trade
with or even pretend to have.
A noteworthy occurrence that
can serve as a key to understanding the Arab mentality is what happened shortly
after the Israeli Pearl Harbor style sneak attack on its neighbors in 1967.
Having gained the notorious “Jewish leverage” from that attack, the Israelis
said to the Arabs, “let's negotiate,” and the Arabs gave the famous three
“Nos,” one being no negotiation. In 1973 the Arabs counterattacked, smashing
the Bar Lev Line and liberating the Sinai. They gave the Israelis enough time
to effectuate an “orderly” withdrawal of their troops and equipment from the
rest of the Sinai, as requested by America's Henry Kissinger who spoke in the
name of President Richard Nixon.
When this was done, Anwar
Sadat, who was then President of Egypt, said to the Israelis something to this
effect: “Now that we have the upper hand, we shall not do what you do, which is
to use the advantage as an Arab Leverage. What we'll do instead is show you
what Arab magnanimity looks like.” He added that he would go talk to them in
their own Knesset, and he did. This, my friend, is what it means to be an Arab.
Throughout the ages, that Arab
mentality has worked to keep their friends close and their enemies closer. But
time after time, the Jews made the mistake of not seeing Arab magnanimity for
what it was, seeing instead every goodwill gesture made by the Arabs as a
response to the Jewish leverage they only imagined they had most of the time.
And so, the Israelis erroneously responded in a way that turned off the Arabs
and sent their relationship back to square one.
With regard to the current
situation, it must be said that the Arabs are a patient people and will give
the Jews plenty of time to come to their senses and end the occupation of
Palestine. But as long as you see Netanyahu allude to the possibility that he
might someday annex parts of the West Bank, you should know that the burgeoning
relationship with the UAE and the rest of the Arab World, will remain on shaky
grounds.
And you can be certain that
there will always be a Netanyahu in Israel who will work to prolong the misery
of the Jews as long as there will be influential American Jews, such as Abraham
Wagner, who will continue to utter nonsense in America such as the following:
“The so-called occupied
territories in the West Bank and Gaza ... The Palestinian issue has gone
nowhere and is highly unlikely to go anywhere in the future ... The UAE and
other Gulf states have decoupled their support for the Palestinian cause from
their own interests ... A Palestinian state or the 'two state' solution that
was the mantra before Trump”.
As long as they have influence in America and as long as they get
enough taxpayers' money to live on the high life, characters such as Abraham
Wagner, will continue to hang on to the politico-diplomatic game they now play.
They are playing it in the way that a normal person hangs on to his profession,
except that the Wagners of this world make a living at the cost of inflicting
horror, pain and death on millions of people of all races and all religions.