On Friday June 20, 2008 the New York Times ran a story about Israel conducting military exercises which the Americans described as a rehearsal for bombing Iran. No one in his right mind believes that this was a journalistic scoop on the part of the New York Times much less a scoop that turned into an international sensation by the merit of its content.
In fact, it is in keeping with the new trend in American journalism for the NY Times to have allowed itself to be used by Israel. This charade has the hallmark of a story that was planted in the publication with the connivance of its editors and publishers, and with the participation of high officials at the State Department of the US government. And this is exactly the sort of atmospherics that the World Jewish Congress is expert at organizing.
Looking closely at the story, one cannot help but remember the decades of the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies. Those who were adolescents then and who rebelled against their elders are middle aged now and they are playing the games that their elders played except that the progenies have added two more elements. Instead of playing the game just on the home ground, they are now playing it on the international stage and they are mixing the games that their elders played with what they played as adolescents.
The games the elders played were described as sexual politics where it was said that nothing happened unless you slept with someone or got screwed by someone. The response of some youngsters at the time was to resort to the language of the gun which itself became a symbol of the phallus. But to understand the transition from the mentality of then to the mentality of today, we must recall a television show that was titled America with a K.
America is spelled with a C but in those days a television show was born and was given the title Amerika with a K where the K was meant to signify that the spelling was Russian. In fact, this was the story of an America that came under Soviet occupation.
What prompted the making of this show was the production of another show done by the same network. That was ROOTS which was based on Alex Haley’s book by the same name. What happened after Roots was hailed for causing a sea change in American attitudes was that some fringe characters in America were infuriated.
These characters considered the show too liberal to go without a challenge and so they asked for the sort of balance that only they were able to conjure up. The network understood their distress and produced America with a K.
Before DNA had made it possible for individuals to trace their roots, Haley could only trace the roots of African Americans as a group, and he did it through the tale of their painful journey into slavery. The tale was fiction but the underlying story was true. Even then, the dramatized form of the story so unsettled the lunatic fringe in the politico-cultural Establishment that the network was forced to restore the psychological balance of those poor souls by giving in to their neurotic impulses and playing out their fear of being enslaved by the Soviets.
And there is a message in the way that these events unfolded. It is that when ROOTS symbolically liberated Black America, some folks felt shackled as if they had come under alien occupation. To these people, their own freedom cannot coexist with the freedom of others because they view the situation as “it is either me or it is you but it is never both of us.” This twisted logic was not an isolated case but was the evolutionary result of a process that was in the making for decades.
In fact, before there was the phobia about the Soviets there was the one about America and the World coming under occupation by aliens from outer space. The irony is that the space aliens were meant to symbolize the Communist infiltration of America as feared by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
But then the Soviet empire collapsed and someone realized that without a new phobia and a bogeyman on which to beat up, the same maladjusted fringe will lapse into a psychotic fit from which they may never recover. Thus Islam and the Arabs were fashioned into a bogeyman on which to beat up and release the tensions of daily living.
Enter stage right the Israel/Jewish propagandist who asserted that he changed his stripes and now sits to the right of Attila the Hun, having abandoned his once comfortable place on the left of Joseph Stalin. “Let me join you in beating up on the Arabs and the Muslims,” said the big mouth “I know these people and you will do well to watch me savage them as I turn them black and blue all over their bodies.”
The novelty was irresistible to those Americans who live and die by novel things. They let the self declared Jew do his number while the stoic Arab stood motionless and took the beating without uttering a sound. Realizing the absurdity of the situation, some Americans asked for time out to reconsider the whole situation. This is where we stand today, and so it is fair to ask: Where will things go from here?
I am obliged to answer by discussing the sexual connotation of the drama at play here. In fact, the most poignant moments in America with a K were those scenes when the commander of the Soviet forces entered an American home, picked the daughter of his choice, took her to the bedroom in front of the family and had sex with her.
Expressing this sort of sexual fears was not new to the Americans. In fact, the daily language of America is full of sexual expressions and vulgar connotations, and no less than President Lyndon Johnson used to say he feared the Communists would “come into your house and rape your wife in your bed.”
This is what prompted a Jewish friend of mine to speak up as he was old enough to remember the McCarthy era when the words Jew and Communist were synonymous. My friend was fearful of the Americans whom he thought were fickle enough to turn on a dime, and was fearful of the Jewish Establishment which he thought was too self-serving to be trusted with the lives of ordinary Jews.
My friend once cried out from the heart: “One day, the Americans will wake up and believe they were screwed in the head, screwed in the heart and screwed in the soul by the Jews who led them by the nose to the ruin of their nation. When this happens, watch those Americans grab their two hundred million guns (all symbols of the penis) and cut down the Jews into little pieces.” In reality, my friend did not mention the penis and he did not use the word screw. Instead, he used the word that begins with the letter f.
I learned from all of this that as long as the New York Times and the other publications will allow themselves to be used by Israel, they will deteriorate. As long as the American government will mortgage America’s prestige and credibility to play the game of Israel’s cohorts in America, the country will suffer. As long as Israel will play a dangerous game in the Middle East, America will pay the price.
Thus, in that charade about bombing Iran, no one in his right mind believes that the 100 planes which Israel could field against Iran from nearly a thousand miles away will scare that country when America which can field up to 4,000 planes from near and from afar did not scare it.
Besides, Israel never won a battle that was not a sneak attack conducted when those at the target sight were asleep. Let the Israelis get into an honest fight with someone half their size and they will be crushed like a bug under the feet of an elephant. They always lost a fight that was not a treachery after which they bellyached their usual cries of being so vulnerable and so much in need of more American aid.
The only conclusion that can be drawn from all this is that the reason for staging Israel’s exercise and for dragging into the charade both the NY Times and the State Department was to play the adolescent game of showing off a sexual prowess that neither of the players has. The reality is that in the region where the Arab and Muslim bogeyman resides, America and Israel have come to be regarded not as a case of the blind leading the blind but a case of the emasculated Israeli walking with the castrated American looking for the Studhouse.
If the fears of my Jewish friend come true and the day of reckoning comes knocking at the door, the Arab and Muslim bogeyman may take a beating but he will not vanish from the scene anymore than the Afro-American has vanished from Africa or from America. These people will always be here as they have been from the beginning of time despite all the phobias that came and went over the millennia. But those who will vanish are the myth makers whose sole talent is to exist at the expense of the suckers who listen to them.
Never did these people eradicate someone but were nearly eradicated themselves each time they tried to pull their gruesome stunt on someone. And it happened to them not by the enemies they chose to challenge but the friends they chose to exploit. And this is because in the end, everyone realized that with friends like these they did not need enemies and so they took care of the situation the only way they knew how.
Before this happens again, we the Arabs of Christian and Muslim persuasions must make it clear that we have nothing to do with this unfolding drama or the tragic ending anticipated by my Jewish friend. Do not blame us if and when all this comes to pass. We sounded the alarm but no one listened, least of all the Israel/Jewish Establishment which is the author of the drama and the architect of the tragedy.