Wednesday, October 7, 2020

They treat their Audiences with utter Contempt

 Suppose you're a businessman who runs an engineering firm doing custom-made infrastructure projects for big clients, ranging from oil companies to governments. You got a contract for a big installation, and I was one of the subcontractors you retained to do the mainframe that would hold the entire installation together.

 

I got paid along the way, and by the time I finished my part of the installation, I had received half the money, expecting to receive the remaining half after 30 days. But it happened that before we got there, the mainframe that my employees had erected, proved inadequate to hold together the full installation, and the whole thing collapsed.

 

Instead of running to the airport and catching an airplane that would take me to a remote country where I could hide and feel safe, I come to you and demand that you pay me the balance you owe me. In my defense, I explain that yes, we all knew this thing was going to collapse before we finished it because the signs were there that it will. But the collapse still came as a surprise to everyone because we expected the thing to hold even though we all knew it wasn't going to.

 

Unable to determine if I am a swindler trying to chisel you, or a retard that's unable to think at the logic level of a child, you call the police and ask them to take me to jail or a mental institution –– whichever one they determine is more suitable for my condition.

 

Too flabbergasting to be true, you say? Well, let me assure you this is the kind of people the security apparatus of the United States retains and depends on to build the mainframe around which America's foreign policy and security net are held together. They are meant to keep the country relevant in world affairs, as well as capable of defending its so-called democracy against cyberattacks and other attempts. Perhaps you can see now why America is in such a mess.

 

You can verify all of that yourself by reading the article that came under the title: “A Catastrophic Intelligence Failure in the Yom Kippur War,” and the subtitle: “Refusing to modify preconceived ideas in the face of hard evidence is a dangerous habit, for Israelis and also for Americans,” written by Edward N. Luttwak, and published on October 5, 2020 in Tablet Magazine. Here, in condensed form, is what Luttwak has blathered about being surprised by what was known will happen:

 

“A fragment of intelligence that was just released casts more light on the sudden attack in great force of the Egyptian army that started on Oct. 6, 1973, and which came as a complete surprise. Because the sudden attack of the Egyptian army was necessarily preceded by a very large buildup of forces that could not possibly have evaded detection––more and more troops, tanks, and guns assembled day by day in full view of Israeli frontline troops––a huge controversy exploded: How could Israel's intelligence have failed so abysmally?”

 

This prompts the question: Why do the Jews always talk like that? The answer is that they want to project an image of themselves that is superlatively unblemished. That is, even when their loss is apparent, they still want to be thought of as always right and never wrong, always winning and never losing, always the top dog and never the underdog, and so on, and so on to infinity and beyond it.

 

And this is what obligates them to lie. In fact, they tell stories they know can easily be verified as contrary to the truth but they don't care; they continue to lie. All it takes is for one of them to find it convenient telling a new lie, and they all take it up and repeat it a day later, a year later, a decade later, and all the decades after that, knowing full well it isn't so.

 

The more ingenious among them do something that's known in economics as value added. This is when you take a product that's already in circulation and make it better. But that's the point: you make the product better by adding value to it. What the Jews do, however, is add an extension to an existing lie, which devalues the product, not add value to it. Here is what Luttwak did along this line:

 

“The report that arrived at 16:45 on Oct. 5, 1973, just over 21 hours before the Egyptian surprise attack that overran the line of defenders. The message was pure gold: Soviet military advisers with their families were rushing and scrambling to board aircraft flying out of Egyptian airfields, very obviously to avoid being caught up in the fighting that was about to break out”.

 

This is pure fantasy. The truth is that the Soviet advisers left Egypt in June of 1972, fully 16 months (not 21 hours) before the attack that obliterated the Bar Lev Line, causing America and NATO to rush to Israel's rescue. But Luttwak's fat lie is his contribution to the Jewish style value added that adds nothing good to their non-stop propaganda.

 

You might at times encounter a piece that claims it was Henry Kissinger who engineered the ouster of the Russians from Egypt when in reality, Kissinger was involved in Asian affairs at the time, and did not get involved in the Middle East until the start of the war.

 

And that, my friend, is why America is viewed with contempt around the world, and why the Jews are coming close to the well-known dreadful ending of what has been their cycle of misery.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

They wish to control who says what and where

 Look at the following title for an article that was published in the Jewish News Syndicate: “Claims of Israeli ethnic cleansing have no place in a student paper, or anywhere.” Such title tells you these people wish to control who can say what and say it where.

 

And that's not the end of the story because there comes the subtitle which reads as follows: “An article in the 'Columbia Daily Spectator' and too many others like it call us to improve our tactics and long-range strategy to combat abhorrent false charges against the Jewish state”.

 

Thus, having made it clear as to what can be said and what cannot, the lords and ladies of the Jewish News Syndicate, now say they need to improve their tactics for achieving those goals. Note that these are just the headlines of the article that Jennifer Roskies wrote and had it published on October 1, 2020 in the online magazine, Jewish News Syndicate.

 

The occasion for writing the article is that Roskies was prompted by another article that was written by two Jewish college students and published in the Colombia Daily Spectator under the title: “A Jewish Argument for Divestment.” The writers tell how, as toddlers they were inculcated into believing dogmas, they found untenable as they grew older and began to think for themselves. Jennifer Rosikes is not responding to the students' article, but having said that it should never have been published, she went on to suggest what can be done to silence those who disagree with the views of the Jewish News Syndicate.

 

Here is what the students, Eve Glazier and Yaniv Goren have said under the title: “A Jewish argument for divestment,” an article that was published on September 23, 2020 in the Columbia Spectator:

 

“We write from a Jewish perspective to address false claims that the BDS movement is antisemitic. These claims aim to suppress Palestinian dissent. Jewish voices advocating for Palestinian rights are told they have internalized Jew-hatred, or a desire to see antisemitism persist. Within Jewish institutions in the US, this notion is dogma instilled in children from a young age: Israeli flags hung in synagogues, Israeli soldiers as counselors in Jewish camps, and the conflation of all things Israeli with Judaism. The truth is that Zionism is a distinct political ideology akin to other nationalist ideologies of 19th-century Europe. Famous Jews like Hannah Arendt and Noam Chomsky, who identified as Zionists earlier in their youth, came later in their lives to disparage Israel. Albert Einstein once insinuated that Menachem Begin's beliefs were akin to Nazi ideology. It is odd that campaigns like BDS have been panned as antisemitic. We believe that the accusation is itself antisemitic: It equates Jewish people with Israel; plainly the 'dual-loyalty' trope”.

 

And so, at a time when right-wing Jewish organizations – as numerous as grasshoppers – have invaded the campus landscape, tearing their hair, beating their breasts and blowing their entrails out of their bellies while falsely claiming that freedom of speech is muzzled on campus by members of the Left, here you see captains of the Jewish News Syndicate, who are icons of the Jewish Right, wailing, tearing their hair, beating their breasts and blowing their entrails out of their bellies because of an article that did not suit their taste, was publish in a campus newspaper by students.

 

No, no, no, says Jennifer Roskies, people who express that kind of viewpoint must never be allowed to publish their opinion “in a student newspaper or anywhere.” Instead, she offers the same old menu that has been rejected time after time by people who think for themselves. That's because the menu is of the kind that's suitable for the sewer. When you look at it closely, it unfolds in the manner of a bank robber that mugs the manager, molests the teller, takes the cash and gets caught by the cops on his way out.

 

Now handcuffed, the robber protests being singled out. He cries out that the city is full of characters who mug, molest and rob, but are not pursued like he is. And no matter how much you explain to him that he is punished for the crimes he commits and not those of others, he still doesn't get it. This is what's reflected in the Jennifer Roskies article. Here is a sample of that:

 

“[With regard] to refugees, Israel's foes wasted no time in calling for the return of Arab refugees, and they continue to do so to this day, whereas it took decades for the Jewish world to mount campaigns for awareness of the equal number of Jews who were driven from their homes in the Muslim world during the same period”.

 

Even if it is true that an exact number of Jews were pushed out of Arab countries at the exact moment that the Palestinians were driven out of their homes at gunpoint by the Hagenah and Irgun terrorists, the Jews of the Roskies mentality should make their claims against the Arab countries they say mistreated the Jews, and not try to swap the real pain of Palestinians for the made-up pain of the Jews; which is what the Israelis did and said to the Palestinians: Hey, it's even Steven.

 

To set the record straight, when the Jews realized they were going to be a minority in the territory between the River and the Sea, they embarked on a program to bring Jews to Israel from where they were concentrated. They found them in large concentration in the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, Yemen, and found them in smaller concentration in the MENA region from Morocco to Iraq.

 

Israel wooed them all and got different reactions from each place. Those of Ethiopia and Yemen were too poor to pay their way to Israel, and so Israel arranged to have them airlifted to Israel.

 

As to the Soviet Union where they had free education from kindergarten to postgraduate studies, the government demanded that Jews who want to emigrate, pay for the education they received. That's when the Jews organized the: “Let my people go” shtick that embarrassed the Soviets enough to let the Jews go.

 

When it came to the Arab countries, the Jews were treated as well as everyone else. But in the same way that the Jews have been migrating from the poorer countries to the richer countries throughout time, they freely and willingly migrated out of the Arab countries to other places … never in droves or panic.

 

Like Jennifer Roskies says, the Jewish world mounted campaigns for awareness trying to extort compensation money from the Arabs, but all it managed to produce –– while the accusers were making their rounds and talking to lawyers, journalists and sympathizers –– were cracked-up bellies that could not stop laughing upon seeing the kind of scam that the Jews were trying to pull.

Monday, October 5, 2020

How to be unchosen and live a normal life

 It took the combined effort of the rabbis to conquer America and turn it into a Jewish colony, starting six decades ago. It looks like the process of quiet intifada has started to free America from the grip of the rabbis who overplayed their hand during the decades, and don't know how to change course to stay in command.

 

Whereas the Jewish rank-and-file has begun to see that Moses lied to them about going up the mountain and meeting God who told him of the decision to make the Jews his chosen people, the rabbis are desperately trying to convince the rank-and-file that the promise is true, and the day will come when God will send his messiah to hand the deed of ownership for the entire planet, to the Jews.

 

One rabbi has gone all out, trying to take the flock on the path to nowhere. He is trying in vain to take it back to the four-thousand-year old beaten path that has shown the Jews they were chosen, not by God but by the rabbis who gave them a miserable life of global isolation and permanent rejection.

 

The rabbi in question is Pini Dunner who wrote a desperate article, appealing to the rank-and-file not to lose hope in the promise of someday owning the planet. His article came under the title: “We Should Embrace Being the Chosen People,” published on October 2, 2020 in the Jewish publication Algemeiner.

 

What you see in the title of the article is the message of the rabbi. He decided to amplify it because the quiet intifada of the rank-and-file continues to gather momentum and attract new recruits. This is happening because the generation of Jews that can no longer be fooled by the religious gobbledygook of the rabbis, has said enough is enough, and is pulling out of the game.

 

That generation no longer wants to see itself as chosen by God or Moses or the rabbis. These are young people who want to live a normal life like everyone else without being reviled by the human race for hanging on to a false belief that they were chosen for something they don’t understand, and don’t want to understand. In fact, they want to be unchosen of whatever the thing is, and wish the rabbis would leave them alone.

 

And that's precisely what got rabbi Pini Dunner to try a new tack in the effort to woo the young rank-and-file back into the fold. To that end, he started the discussion by quoting John Lennon's song, “Imagine.” He pointed out that the song was, “without doubt the best-known 'peace' song of the 60s and 70s, preaching universal love, equality for all, non-violence, and of course, world peace”.

 

And then, in the clumsiest effort ever seen to pull a tour de force and score a knockout blow, rabbi Pini Dunner started a process by which he inadvertently dismantled the very premise upon which Judaism was erected. Here is how he started that process: “There is a part of us that wants to buy into the core message of this song. Lennon gave us a glimpse of what a perfect world could look like. Well actually, I'm quite sure he didn't. Let me contrast the lyrics of 'Imagine' with a prayer we [Jews] say numerous times over the festival period”.

 

Here is that prayer: “You chose us from all the nations; you loved us, you desired us above all other people, you sanctified us with your commandments, you drew us near to your service.” For emphasis, rabbi Pini Dunner went on to explain that, “the prayer is a celebration of the fact that God turned the Jewish nation into His Chosen People”.

 

The rabbi calls that prayer the “foundational aspect of our national identity,” and admits that the message of exclusiveness inherent to it, flies in the face of Lennon's universal God. So, how to reconcile the two and convince the rank-and-file it is a good idea to embrace being the chosen people, and get back into the fold?

 

This is where the rabbi failed, and in the process, inadvertently demolished the very premise of Judaism. What he did is invoke two analogies. One is the parent-child relationship. The other is the husband-wife relationship. To explain why God chose the Jews to be His children at the exclusion of everyone else, and why He chose them to be His wife at the exclusion of everyone else, rabbi Pini Dunner gave this gobbledygook explanation:

 

“Chosen-ness means responsibility. It means something is expected of us. And it requires a consciousness that is reflective and on the ball. This is the chosen-ness that explains what it means when we say that the Jews are God's Chosen People”.

 

Once he gobbledy gooked you into believing why God has loved, desired, sanctified and drew the Jews near to his service at the exclusion of everyone else, the rabbi went on to explained that the relationship is the same as that of a parent being closer to their child than any other child. It is also the same as that of a husband being closer to his wife than any other woman. If that does not convince you that Jews are privileged, nothing will.

 

You see, my friend, it all flows out the gookishness of the rabbis. The more they press-on with the message that people find difficult to believe, the more they chip away at the notion of modern Judaism being an authentic religion.

 

Rabbi Pini Dunner has just stabbed Judaism in the back believing he was establishing its supremacy.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Becket Adams barking at Ilhan Omar yet again

 Let's all agree that at the core of playing politics, is the reality that it is an engagement in hypocrisy.

 

For example, Donald Trump was playing politics, which means he was engaging in hypocrisy, at the time that he ordered the flag to be flown at half-mast when Ruth Ginsberg, a Jewish Democratic opponent of his, died. He did so, having previously attacked John McCain, a fellow Republican even after he died because he voted the wrong way on healthcare. Trump also did it, having previously mocked a Gold Star family because it was not white enough for his taste.

 

Recalling these realities should help us determine if Becket Adams was sincere in writing his latest piece of work, or if he was engaged in political journalism, which means engaged in hypocrisy of the worst kind. The piece in question is an article that came under the title: “Ilhan Omar takes a victory lap after Trump tests positive for COVID-19,” published on October 2, 2020 in The Washington Examiner.

 

Mind you, Becket Adams is only accusing Ilhan Omar of taking what he calls a victory lap after learning that Donald Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. This is a far cry from being accused of worse sins such as those committed by Bette Midler who mocked Trump with this: How can a HOAX infect anyone? That's a new one on me. And Dominic West who said that he felt joy at the news Trump had caught COVID-19. And Zara Rahim who said she hopes Trump would die.

 

Still, the question is whether or not Ilhan Omar deserves to be so accused? Or is it that Becket Adams is nothing more than a lowlife journalistic predator going after someone he feels is by far superior to him and to his kind with her repeated display of class, poise, intelligence and dedication to her political calling?

 

So, let's see what Becket Adams says Ilhan Omar did that is wrong in his eyes. He admits that she expressed sympathy toward Trump when she said the following: “As someone who lost my own father to this virus and seen the pain it causes, I do not wish it on anyone.” Well, as can be seen, there is no victory lap here. However, according to Becket Adams, Ilhan Omar went on to say the following:

 

“Over 200,000 people have died while this Administration actively ignores public health guidance and suppresses science. For months, we have been hoping for a simple acknowledgment from the President to hear the words, 'We will get through this together' [but] now, we hear those words when it is about him, not the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives, and the millions whose families have been touched by it because of his malfeasance … The President and Republicans in Minnesota are spreading a deadly virus. They are a risk to the public health of my constituents and our country”.

 

And this is what Adams calls victory lap. But how, why and where does he see a victory lap? He sees it in his own interpretation of what Omar has said. Here is that interpretation:

 

“After her opening statement, the congresswoman went on to ridicule the president, his allies, and his supporters, calling them anti-science and menaces to Minnesota and the country … Most decent people would not use such occasion as an opportunity to score-settle and spike the football. Then again, no one ever accused Omar of being decent”.

 

But what score does he believe she is settling? Is it the fact that she was born and lived the first few years of her life in a country that Trump has called a shit-hole? Or was it the fact that he accused all Mexican migrants of being criminals who bring drugs to America where they commit crimes such as rob, kill and rape? Or was it the fact that he tried to ban Muslims from entering the United States?

 

But if what Omar has said makes her indecent in the eyes of Becket Adams, what do the words uttered by Donald Trump make him in the eyes of Becket Adams? How about obscene? Will that satisfy Adams? But then again, if someone is obscene, why is it that pointing out his obscenity is indecent?

 

Do you see what just happened, my friend? In trying to revile Ilhan Omar, Becket Adams has highlighted the grotesque nature of Donald Trump who did more than insult people left and right. What he did and what he neglected to do resulted in thousands of dead Americans of the Left and of the Right.

 

Ilhan Omar being an American elected official in charge of protecting the health and well-being of her constituents, simply pointed to them and to the rest of the country that not wearing a mask, like Trump and his Republican cronies are saying, can lead to life threatening consequences.

 

If this means taking a victory lap, it is the most noble victory lap anyone has ever taken. It takes someone of the Ilhan Omar caliber to make it and someone like Becket Adams to bark at it.

Saturday, October 3, 2020

A perfect Storm gathering over America

 The expression, “perfect storm” is used to describe a situation in which several disruptive factors converge on a setup that was doing reasonably well up to now, and shake it up.

 

In fact, a perfect storm is now converging on the United States of America. It is ironic that the neocon speechwriters for George W. Bush stole the expression from Winston Churchill and fraudulently used it against Iraq's Saddam Hussein who was causing no storm at all, let alone a perfect one.

 

Still, the speechwriters had W. Bush say that Saddam's work in producing weapons of mass destruction was a gathering storm that will culminate in mushroom clouds going up the skies of cities around the world, including those of America. And so, he attacked Iraq with all the might of a superpower. But as it turned out, time made liars out of the speechwriters because nothing of what they predicted happened. However, a storm of a different kind resulted from the attack on Iraq, and is now delivering to killer blow to America.

 

All of this happened because the neocon warmongers that had a plan ready to attack Iraq for a decade, got Bush to give the order for the attack to happen. No weapons of mass destruction were discovered because there were none, which is what Saddam was saying, and the neocons were contradicting him. He turned out to be the honest party, and as usual, they turned out to be the intellectually dishonest Jews.

 

But this part of the story turned out to be small potato compared to the ramifications that ensued as a result of America's Jewish-inspired criminal adventure in Iraq. It is that life in the entire Levant has been disrupted, resulting in nearly a million dead people, and millions more who were displaced, some of whom migrated to Europe where they caused life to be disrupted there too.

 

As to America, its current involvement in the wars of Afghanistan and the Levant, is resulting in many factors gathering over it like a perfect storm that's about to deliver a severe killer blow. But you wouldn't know it because the same propaganda machine that lied to the American people about a Vietnam War that, in reality, was going so badly, it ended in disaster for America –– is lying again. The machine is now doing the same thing with regard to America's involvement in the Muslim World from Syria to Afghanistan.

 

You can see how that trend plays itself out when you read an article that came under the title: “Evidence demands America end the Afghan war and withdraw now,” and the subtitle: “McMaster and the generals are wrong.” It was written by Daniel L. Davis and published on September 30, 2020 in The Washington Times. Here, in condensed form, is what Daniel Davis says the deceptive propaganda machine is saying and doing at this time to lie to the American people:

 

“H. R. McMaster claimed that President Trump cheapened the sacrifice of the 2,300 Americans who died in the war. McMaster's claims expose the bankrupt thinking in Washington. His comments follow the path set by Trump aides, grumbling about the desire to withdraw. But is that criticism accurate? An assessment of available evidence suggests it is not. We must evaluate Washington's track record on the war. Every US general claimed the war was going well, that things were getting better, and that with more time, we would win. Each general's assessment proved disastrously wrong. Gen. John Allen claimed we had won the war. Gen. Joseph Dunford praised the progress he had seen. Yet, all these claims of success cannot obviate the reality that the opposite is true. Now, the Taliban controls more than at any time since 2001. Civilians continue being killed at record rates. The government ranked the fifth most corrupt in the world. Afghanistan produces 84% of global heroin. As the president, the public and the veterans know, our military operations in Afghanistan should be terminated immediately because it is in our security interest to do so now”.

 

This shows that the perfect storms to hit America since the end of the Second World War, were generated internally. What happened was that buoyed by a series of successes it scored during that war, America thought of itself as the policeman of the world. Its involvement in the affairs of other nations, worked for a while when the world was really in “disarray,” and needed someone to restore order.

 

That kind of American work in the world could have gone on for a while longer. But the trouble is that when America opened the door for interfering in the internal affairs of other nations, it invited groups of foreign descent within America itself to work on plans of their own.

 

They pushed for American involvement in countries where they had a stake or a gripe or a personal score to settle with someone. The sad and incomprehensible part is that America did no due diligence before getting involved in such situations, thus got itself into a hell of a mess each and every time.

 

It's been three quarters of a century since the end of WW II. It is time for America to go home and do some housekeeping.

 

Patriots such as Daniel Davis want what is good for America. They must be respected and listened to. Traitors such as H.R. McMaster want what is good for Israel. They must be disrespected and never listened to.

Friday, October 2, 2020

It's not the reality stupid; it's the implication

 It looks like Jonathan S. Tobin did not read the memo instructing him to stop playing the game of life as if there was a substitute for God out there; one that's looking after the interests of Jews.

 

It is that Tobin remains under the impression he can convince humanity that Jews are the chosen children of God, and should be treated differently from the rest. Thus, when someone speaks as if to equate something which relates to Jews with one that relates to humans, Jonathan Tobin blows his stack.

 

The premise that keeps Jews of the Tobin mentality huddled together and around their leaders is that they believe they are so different from the rest, the suffering they feel for things that did not happen to them is greater than the suffering which ordinary humans feel for things that did happen to them.

 

An example of this is what transpired in Canada a few years ago and ended in court where the record it has generated will sit for future generations to see and learn all about the kind of idiotic time in which we lived during these decades of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

 

Here is the Canadian story in brief. A woman that was angry with her husband killed him a slow deliberate death to make him suffer as much as possible, as long as possible. The trial judge that sentenced her said something to the effect that the husband must have suffered a horrible personal holocaust before he died.

 

And this was enough to bring the Jewish organizations out of their rat holes and complain that the judge was so insensitive he did not realize that the suffering of Jews (real or imagined) cannot be equated with any other suffering. They hounded the judge and the legal profession so intensely the judge was disbarred.

 

This was done to appease the Jews of North America that lived well, and suffered no real pain but claimed to have felt a virtual pain inflicted on them by the judge's words. In addition, they wanted the world to believe their pain was greater than the one felt by the husband who died a horrible death. Go figure.

 

Of course, everyone knows this cannot be real, but why do the Jews of the Jonathan Tobin variety keep making such claims? They do because they want the government to substitute for God and do the work that He is supposed to be doing but is not. His duty is to be here on Earth, constantly reminding the human race that He created the Jews as a separate breed apart from and above the rest. But He is not here whereas the government is and so, it is doing His work for Him looking after the Jews.

 

And so my friend, when you take these realities into consideration, and you read the latest piece of work that was produced by Jonathan Tobin, you realize how far into the realm of the absurd, the North American societies have been pushed by their governments and institutions to accept the Jews and treat them as the superior beings among them. And that's a good reason for you to blow your stack.

 

The latest Tobin piece of work is an article that came under the title: “Antisemitism Watchdog Winks While Biden And Democrats Smear Trump As A Nazi,” published on September 30, 2020 in The Federalist. Here is what happened that got Tobin to blow his stack this time around:

 

“On September 25, 2020 during a diatribe in which he blasted Trump the former Vice President Joe Biden crossed the line Trump had in 2017. He responded to Trump's claims that Democrats were pushing the United States toward socialism, saying, 'He's sort of like Goebbels. You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge'”.

 

Goebbels being the Nazi minister of propaganda, to say that what he did to the Jews decades ago can be equated with what's being done to non-Jews today, is to imply that non-Jews are equal to Jews; and this is the blasphemy. In the eyes of Jonathan Tobin and those like him, this is the kind of implication that diminishes the Jewish claim they are apart from the rest of humanity and deserving special treatment.

 

And so, whereas the memo from the watchdog is telling Jonathan Tobin to wink this time and let the events take their normal course, he is acting as if he did not read the memo. Instead, he is going gangbusters attacking everyone that should have done something to make things right but did not. Here is a passage that shows how he reacted:

 

“Tying Trump to Nazis is bizarre. It was equally scandalous for the National Jewish Democratic Council to double down with a web ad that reaffirmed the argument that Trump was encouraging a drift toward a new Holocaust. This is the point where the antisemitism monitoring group would normally step in to uphold the principle that the Holocaust is not an analogy to be bandied about. The Anti-Defamation League was equally muted about the incident”.

 

And so goes the battle between the Jews who no longer believe they are a cut above the rest, and wish to live like normal human beings, and the Jews of the Jonathan Tobin variety who ultimately want the government to act like a God and impose the Jews on society. 

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Abstract View ignoring Reality on the Ground

 Jeffrey Mankoff has impressive credentials, and what he writes carries weight. But Mankoff lives in an intellectual milieu that allows him only a certain amount of leeway in how he approaches the subjects he tackles, and how he parses them.

 

Mankoff's latest article came under the title: “How Will Russia Respond to the US-China Cold War?” The article also came under a long subtitle that basically says this: “Russia's interests are more aligned with those of China than those of America. The latter's confrontation with China enhances the relationship between it and Russia.” The article was published on September 29, 2020 in The National Interest.

 

Most of what the author says makes sense, but you can see why it is bland and superficial. It is that these views are widely shared among his colleagues as shown by the large number of links which send the reader to other publications for confirmation, additional information or verification. In fact, these referrals are what provided Mankoff the creative material that has allowed him to put together his own creation.

 

What is missing in Mankoff's piece, as it does in all such pieces, is a highlighting of what America's rivals are saying and doing right now. Airing such sayings and exposing such doings are necessary because they would give the author the chance to offer an informed interpretation of what they mean, as well as suggest what future actions might follow, and what these actions are meant to accomplish.

 

Here are the signals I see the Chinese leaders are sending out. They consider Taiwan to be a breakaway province, and like every self-respecting country, they want it back in the family. To do so is even more critical for a China that has reached the status of superpower. Under normal conditions China would have blockaded the island of Taiwan by sea and by air, and demanded the governing body to peacefully surrender or face destruction, capture, trial for treason and the harsh treatment that comes with that.

 

The trouble is that these are not normal circumstances. It's because the leaders of Taiwan are encouraged, armed and protected by America, which is the other superpower in the world; one that is powerful militarily even if it began to decline in other ways. Thus, whichever way the Chinese intend to deal with Taiwan, they must take into consideration how America might react, and prepare to deal with that.

 

Enough is said and done every day by the leaders on both sides to allow Jeffrey Mankoff and other authors, who write about these matters, to highlight what is meant by the sayings of those leaders, and what message the military maneuvers in the Pacific are supposed to send out. What the writers must also do, is offer an informed interpretation as to what all of this is supposed to accomplish for the antagonists, and how it might affect the region and the whole world.

 

Clearly the Chinese are prepared to go the full distance to bring Taiwan back into the family. But given that they also have an ambitious program to organize the world according to the principles of peaceful coexistence among the nations and the different political systems, they intend to put in motion some very tricky plans. What could they be? Well, there can only be one way to do these things. It is the following:

 

The Chinese will go ahead with the plan to blockade Taiwan by air and sea, but they will do it simultaneously with another massive plan to deter the United States from interfering. To achieve this, China will first build up its forces in such a way as to be able to hit every American target in the Pacific –– whether it is on dry land or at sea –– with conventional warheads or small tactical nuclear warheads depending on the size of the target.

 

The Chinese will let the Americans know what they put in place, and warn them that if as little as one round is fired at them from a rifle, all of America's assets in the Pacific will be wiped out in one fell swoop. And the Chinese message to the Americans will end with this friendly advice: You're too smart to start World War III after all of your assets in the Pacific have been wiped out. And America will have been deterred.

 

Seeing that America has been immobilized, the government of Taiwan will have no choice but to surrender. To the relief of the human race, this will solve the problem that should never have been in the first place. But having pushed the world to the brink of disaster, America will officially have relegated itself to the rank of a second-rate power … an irresponsible power at that.

 

Of course, an ending such as that can be avoided. The way to do it is for the Americans to decide as soon as possible, to go to the leaders of Taiwan and let them know that America will no longer act in a way that suggests Taiwan is not a province of China. As well, any communication that Taiwan will want to have with America must go through Beijing.

 

America will also inform Beijing of this decision. The Taiwanese will be upset, of course, and will take some time to think about it. But in the end, they will see that it is better for them to negotiate a peaceful solution with mainland China than try to defy it.