Imagine yourself as head of the anthropology department at a university, and you hear about a site in a remote area of the country where somebody is said to have discovered what looks like remnants of a settlement that may go back hundreds of years if not go back to prehistory.
You call on one of your
researchers to form a team and go work on that site. You authorize the
university to make available to him all that's necessary in terms of equipment,
rations and funds for the team to spend several days in a sparsely populated
and desolate region of the country doing diligent work, which you expect will
shed much light on the history of that part of the country.
A few days pass, and you get an
emissary, sent by the leader of the team. He gives you a preliminary report
that says the place is a treasure trove full of items that will revolutionize
our understanding of prehistoric life. There is so much in that site, he says,
he must remain a few more days to complete the work he came to do. But to do it
efficiently, he'll need more funds and more provisions to sustain a team that's
working hard.
Excited by this revelation,
you pressure the university to appropriate more money for the project, and the
university acquiesces to your request. A few days later, you get another
emissary, sent by the leader of the team to hand you yet another preliminary
report that says the same thing as the previous, and requesting much the same
thing as before.
You try to pressure the
treasurer of the university to appropriate more funds but the refuses,
suggesting instead that you go with him to the site and see for yourselves
what's going on out there. You agree it's a good idea, and you both go to the
site. Once there, it takes you only a minute to establish that this is a modern
landfill containing garbage that has accumulated for many years before the site
was abandoned decades ago. Ashamed at the ignorance of your researcher, you
walk back to your vehicle and head home.
Well, my friend, consider this
story to be a metaphor because in a manner similar to that, the so-called
Foundation for Defense of Democracies is trying to pull a fast one on its
readers. This foundation is a comical outfit that should not be dabbling in
geopolitical matters, but there it is, doing just that. It should be ashamed of
Tzvi Kahn, a so-called researcher in its employ that keeps coming up with
reports so dumb, they should be called comical skits but they are also absurd
to such extreme, they make you weep, not laugh.
Kahn's latest absurdity came
under the title: “As UN celebrates 75th anniversary, dictators still dominate,”
an article that was published on September 25, 2020 in The Washington Examiner.
The author is attacking the United Nations (UN) because he says that the world
organization, which created Israel in the first place, has two faults: It hates
Israel and loves its enemies of the day … which happen to be most of the world.
And so, to justify his attacks
on the UN, Tzvi Kahn says that the world body is full of dictators who suppress
their own people––which is the wrong thing to do according to him––whereas
Israel suppresses and kills someone else's people––which is the right thing to
do––all the more so because they are Palestinians.
As to the reason why there is
a Palestinian-Jewish issue in the first place, is that there has been a
confusion as to what the Jews represent. Are they remnants of the ancient
Hebrew tribes who were genuine to Palestine in the same way that the
Palestinians are, having never left the land? Or are they recent multi-ethnic
dumps, considered refuse by the Europeans who discarded them into a landfill
called Israel?
Even if the Jews are the
authentic remnants of the ancient Hebrew tribes that roamed the region, and
even if they can prove they have not intermarried so often as to dilute the
Hebrew side of their ethnicity, they still would have no legal right to go to
Palestine and tell those who never left the place to go away because the
so-called Jews are back to their ancient homeland. They cannot do that anymore
than America's Irish can go back to Ireland and replace those who never left
the land. The same is true of the Italian-Canadians, the Spanish-Australians
and so on and so forth.
But if the so-called Jews have
nothing to do ethnically with the ancient Hebrews except that they stole their
identity by converting to their religion, then Jews must be considered the
refuse that the Europeans got tired incinerating, thus decided to dump them into
a small part of Palestine they called “Jewish Homeland,” whose borders are
delineated by the 1948 UN Resolution.
This being the reality of what's unfolding in the Middle East today, someone ought to tell Tzvi Kahn he is doing the wrong kind of research, and that he can be more useful to humanity if he spent his excess energies recycling the refuse that his city is throwing away. If lucky, he may someday stumble on a treasure: perhaps a box of jewelry someone discarded by mistake.