For many decades you felt that the operators running the American security apparatus were doing such a lousy job, you wish that one such operator would come out and express himself in writing so that you may see for yourself how these people think, thus put your finger on why America has been lurching from one cesspool of dreadfully destructive ideas to another cesspool of dreadfully destructive ideas.
Finally, someone that was once
chief financial officer of the Defense Department and was undersecretary of
defense at another time, answers your wish. He is Dov S. Zakheim who wrote,
“Sorry, Palestinian: It's Not Your Dad's Middle East,” an article that also
came under the subtitle, “The Israel-Palestinian conflict is no longer the
Middle East's central crisis.” It was published on September 6, 2020 in The
National Interest.
Because you expect that
someone who once held positions as high as did Zakheim, should be capable of
thinking at a level of depth that goes beyond the daily gossip peddled by the
two-bit repeaters of the echo chamber, you are horrified to see that Zakheim
has waited till after the echo had taken its run on the subject of the
understanding between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, to then come
onto the scene and contribute his own shallow repeat where he should have shown
depth of thinking.
The Judeo-Israeli wish has
always been to the effect that the settlers in Palestinian lands, many of whom
are Americans, will someday see the Palestinians abandoned by the world so that
the Jews can do to the rest of Palestine worse than Hitler did to the
Sudetenland and get away with it. Whereas Hitler annexed the land and embraced
its people, the Jews of America and Israel wanted to annex the land of
Palestine, and ethnic cleanse it of its Palestinian population. They thought
they would not feel like Jews if they did not outdo Hitler.
And so, for several decades,
every time that something happened in the Middle East, the echo chamber that's
dedicated to the affairs of the region, would come out and repeat the echo that
this can only be proof the Palestinians have been abandoned by someone, and
that sooner or later, the Jews will be in a position to gobble up Palestine and
kick the Palestinians out of there.
This is what Dov Zakheim is
repeating in his article, showing not the slightest hint that he understands
the thinking that's ongoing in the Arab domain, Europe and the rest of the
world. And yet, it's all there seen and heard by those who know where to look,
and what to make of what they hear. Here is what's going on:
With their initiative of
almost two decades ago, the Arabs had called the Jewish bluff which used to say
that Israel will feel secure if most of the Arab nations would agree to have
normal relations with it, thus Israel would end the occupation of Palestine.
The Arabs came up with the initiative offering to recognize Israel and have
normal relations, but the Jews reneged on their pledge.
That development started a
worldwide grassroots movement aimed at pressuring Israel to end the occupation.
Unable to withstand the pressure despite the help it receives from the
treasonous politicos of America, Israel has been trying to provoke a war with
its neighbors ever since so as to drag America into the fray and bring the
situation back to where it was before the Arab Initiative.
The Arabs, especially the
Syrians, the Lebanese and the Gazans, made sure not to play in the hands of the
Israelis because they figured that an escalation of skirmishes at the borders,
could trigger an all-out war in the region; one that will crush the Israeli
military in hours. But then what? Legally speaking, everyone that was involved
in the war, be it voluntarily or by necessity, will have the responsibility to
protect, feed and accommodate the millions of Jews who will be without a
government or army to protect them. The Arab governments will have to do it and
so, made clear to everyone that they do not relish taking on this responsibility.
Hence the frozen situation as it was before the deal between the UAE and
Israel.
When that deal happened, one
group of thinkers in the Arab world saw it as allowing the Jewish bluff to work
for Israel. A second group reasoned that calling the Jewish bluff via the Arab
Initiative has worked well for the Arabs in that it mobilized the whole world
against Israel and its sole supporter, the treasonous politicos who would
damage their own America to give Israel the pleasure of outdoing Hitler.
And it is to these politicos
that the UAE deal speaks, says the second group of Arab thinkers. They explain
that it is obvious the Americans chose not to be persuaded before. Well, they
should be persuaded now to stop encouraging the Jews who would continue the
occupation and do worse than that.
The expectation is that when
all will be said and done, the Arabs would have accomplished what is just and
civilized while avoiding a Middle Eastern war that might or might not have
triggered a world war, but would have caused millions of deaths, as well as
tens of millions of refugees no one would want to take, or pay to have them
resettled somewhere.
The lesson that America’s politicos must learn from this episode is that the day when someone in the American security apparatus will develop this level of depth in their thinking, will be the day that America will rise to the level of the Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Iranian or Venezuelan operators who brilliantly defend their countries against the childish tricks of the Americans.