Thursday, September 17, 2020

A chance to rediscipline the self-destructive

 To get a sense of how enormously idiotic the debate on the Middle East has unfolded over the decades and is being added to, now that an illusion seems to have changed something, we need to imagine a silly little scene that wouldn't even make it as a cartoon video clip for small children. But it comes close enough to illustrating how low into the well of absurdity America's democracy as sunk at the hands of Jews.

 

Imagine a malfunction of the time machine transporting twin brothers from the Stone Age into a library of the twenty-first century. It is night, there is no one else in the library, which is nevertheless lit with nightlight. Wondering what this place is, the brothers open some books and see pictures of people in them. One brother argues that these people are asleep in their beds and will wake up and walk out after a while. The other brother argues that these people are dead and buried in these catacombs forever.

 

Now tired, the twins fall asleep on the second floor of the library. They wake up hours later when people start coming into the library on the first floor. Looking down at them, one twin says he was right in believing they were asleep and would soon wake up. No, says the other twin, they were dead and were resurrected to lead a new existence in the afterlife.

 

This story demonstrates that people see life through the lens with which they are equipped, and a mentality that was shaped to interpret what they see in a manner that fits a predetermined point of view. Until they see the smallness of their confinement and break out of it to fly into the vastness of the real world outside, they can only go from one silly interpretation of the changes they observe to another silly interpretation. What they do, in effect, is jump out of one pool of ignorance into another pool of ignorance. This has been the pattern of American debate on the Middle East for several decades.

 

Something appears to have changed in the Middle Eastern situation, and the same twins that put out garbage in the past, are putting out garbage now, though garbage of a slightly different kind. But there is so much of that stuff, it would be a monumental waste of time and effort to pick each piece of garbage and discuss it. For this reason, it is better to just describe what the clean slate ought to look like, and let the readers determine for themselves how much garbage has been dumped on it.

 

Here is the clean slate. Less than a year after 9/11, Saudi Arabia unveiled an initiative to solve the problems of the Middle East according to what the Jews of America and Israel had said were their requirements to end the occupation of Palestine. The Jewish response to the Arab initiative was typically Jewish in that they played the waiting game to get all that the Arabs were offering without giving, in return, the end of the occupation they had promised. The Jews could wait, hoping to have it both ways because someone else, called America the sucker, was paying the price of Israel's insolence.

 

It then happened that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. He is an individual whose upbringing and life experiences taught him that to survive as a real estate developer in New York, he must hone his skills so sharply as to out-Jew the Jews, or he'll be eaten alive by them. When he became President, he made a deal with them on the Palestinian issue according to which he gave them everything they wanted as long as it didn't cost America anything. That is, he blessed every robbery the Jews committed in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Golan, which were in their position to begin with. But Trump also did something else; something that saved America some money. He cut off the aid that America was giving to the Palestinians to alleviate the savagery that American settlers, American money and American weapons were inflicting on the Palestinians. And he thought that compared to others, he was the smartest thing that ever lived for doing what he did –– it's not even close according to him.

 

Having done all of that for the Jews of America and Israel, Donald Trump told them to go ahead and write the scheme they wish to implement for solving the problems they created in the Middle East when they couldn't get along with anyone throughout the globe. The condition was that the scheme had to be acceptable to the Arabs whose initiative was still on the table and requiring a response. The Jews came up with a scheme that wasn't good enough to serve as toilet paper, and was immediately rejected by the Arabs.

 

To understand what happened next, we need to recall something about Trump's frame of mind before he became President. He was thinking that the Saudis had too much money and oil wealth they did not deserve to have. It was therefore the duty of Americans to go into Saudi Arabia and take the money and the oil by force of arms. After all, Israel was doing the same sort of thing in Palestine and getting away with it.

 

But when as president, Trump was told this cannot be done in any practical way, he changed from being belligerent toward Saudi Arabia to kissing up to its rulers, and seeking to sell them weapons for their cash.

 

This helped forge Trump's view on how to solve the Middle Eastern issues by cultivating the friendship of the Arabs rather than antagonize them. But what else was there that could be done to resolve the issues of the Middle East? This question lingered unanswered for a while until something earthshaking happened. It was a worldwide pandemic that was given the name COVID-19. And everything that was in favor of Trump getting reelected began to dissolve before his eyes, and he panicked.

 

With the Evangelical movement that used to be the backbone of his support now turning into a sick joke, Trump had only one thing he could count on to pull the October (or September) proverbial rabbit out of the hat. It was a foreign policy triumph that will look like a big accomplishment. And so, Trump called on the Bibi of Israel and gave him an ultimatum he could not ignore. He gave him 3 hours to accept the Arab initiative of 2002 or the Trumpian hell will break loose on him and Israel. The Bibi knuckled under but said that while it's okay with him having a big signing ceremony at the White House to elevate Trump's image, he wants everything else to be done quietly lest the settlers be turned into an active hornets' nest and spoil everything.

 

So, the question is this: What is the “everything,” that Bibi is afraid of? It is what's expected will be accomplished during the upcoming negotiations between the Arabs and the Jews. Stripped to its essence, the plan that’s negotiated aims for an exhausted America to hand the baton of keeping Israel afloat financially to the Gulf Arab states which are in full industrial ebullition paralleling the one that's ongoing in North Africa. This means the Jews will no longer have the moral prostitutes of a decaying democracy to play with as they do now. Instead, they will remain under the watchful eyes of those who see them as the little brats that need to be disciplined for their own good, and coached into the civilized way of life –– or the aid will be reduced if not cut off when they misbehave.