Those of us who engage in debates practice something to
which we rarely admit. When arguing a point that is too difficult to drum into
the head of an interlocutor, we take the point to an absurd extreme thus expose
its weakness. If we succeed in convincing the interlocutor of that, we build on
the success by discussing the other points which make up the rest of the
argument.
The American president, Barack Obama, must be aware of that
technique because he went to Israel
and gave a speech there to a young audience on March 21, 2013. As it turned
out, the speech was so full of extreme absurdities, it could only mean that Mr.
Obama was trying to signal something more profound to people who were not there
– people who may be naturally incapable of following simple logic. You do not
have to rake your brains trying to guess who these people might be; they are
the members of the odious Congress of America.
Obama's strategy was simple and clear. He asked the Israelis
in the audience to stand with him against their own leaders knowing full well
that this will not happen. When this point will have been illustrated, he will
turn to the members of the American Congress who chomp the flesh off each
other's back as they compete to be first at genuflecting in front of every
visiting Israeli – and tell them they are a bunch of treasonous dogs that ought
to be treated like a bunch of treasonous dogs.
Until this happens, Mr. Obama begins to list the absurdities
with a description of Israel :
“[It] has built a prosperous nation – through kibbutzeem that made the desert
bloom.” Well, kibbutzeem being the place where Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann
was infected with the mental disorder that turned her into the odd creature
that she is, the President is here signaling to the Congress that he is talking
to it and not to the Israeli audience in front of him.
This done, he gets into the subject of security and points
to “the largest program ... help[ing] you retain your qualitative military
edge.” To highlight the absurdity of this situation, he takes up the effect
that it must have on the region. He does so by talking about the children.
Without mentioning the Palestinian children who regularly get slaughtered by
the American weapons in the arms of their mothers in their bedrooms in the
middle of the night, Obama draws the contrast with the children of Israel “who
went to bed at night fearful that a rocket would land in their bedroom.”
Do you detect the ruse here, my friend? If not, let me tell
you about it. For countless years, the Judeo-Israeli propaganda was vehement
about the horror of Palestinians launching rockets in the morning when the
Israeli children were going to school because they did not have the bombs that
were precise enough or powerful enough to go through the roof and kill someone
in their bedroom. For the President to come now and tell the story of children
being bombed in their bedrooms, he could not have been talking about these
children. In fact, he was talking about the children of Palestine who were bombed by the powerful
American precision bombs that came into their bedrooms not to kiss them
goodnight but to blow them to smithereens. See how clever is this man, Barack
Obama?
What else do you talk about having shed this much light on
that kind of absurdity? Well, you tell what effect it must have on people –
that's not just the people who are directly affected by it but people everywhere
in the world. Here is how the American President put it: “You live in a neighborhood where many ...
have rejected [you] … Your parents lived through war after war … Your children
grow up knowing that people they have never met hate them … that sense of an
Israel that many in the world refuse to accept it.”
So you ask: If everyone in the world hates what they see unfold in that
region, has all of humanity gone nuts? Or is it that the situation as it stands
today is totally absurd, being maintained in that condition by the nature of
the Zionist entity that was dumped on it, and by the unlimited support it gets
from the American Congress? Then you hit on this other question: What was the
President trying to communicate to the treasonous dogs back in the Washington
Beltway?
The debating magician that is Barack Obama now pulls another
trick from his sleeve. It is called the onion effect because it piles the
absurdities on top of each other like the layers of an onion. Look at the
following passage, assembled with quotes taken from several paragraphs: “You withdrew from Gaza and Lebanon, and then
faced terror and rockets ... you have extended a hand of friendship, and ...
have been confronted with anti-Semitism … It can be tempting to put aside the
frustrations ... particularly when an Iron Dome repels rockets … But peace is
necessary given the demographics west of the Jordan River [and] given the
frustration in the international community. Israel
must reverse an undertow of isolation … As more governments respond to popular
will, the days when Israel
could seek peace with a handful of autocratic leaders are over.”
Well, my friend, that is a treasure trove. The response to
all this is that no, Israel
did not withdraw voluntarily from Gaza or Lebanon ; it was
kicked out of there by Hamas and Hezbollah respectively. It did not face terror
and rockets; it faced retaliation when it terrorized the Palestinian and
Lebanese peoples. No, it did not extend a hand of friendship; it bit the hand
that fed it. It was not confronted with anti-Semitism; its leaders called
themselves not Semites but Europeans, and then tried to convince the Europeans
and the Americans that the Semitic Arabs were inferior. They even paid an
American SOB a million dollars to go to Israel and say so.
The magician adds new layers to the onion by stating that
the Iron Dome repelled rockets when the evidence is to the effect that it did
not intercept or blow up a single rocket, let alone “repel” them – whatever
that means. But while this statement is a grotesque falsehood, it highlights
the reality that Israel does not make peace because it wants peace; it makes
peace when it is defeated by force of arms as it happened in Gaza and in
Lebanon, or it is defeated by demographic means as the American President has
warned will happen sooner or later.
To get around this,
says Mr. Obama, Israel must
end its isolation because it can no longer count on America maintaining autocratic
leaders around it – leaders who will defy the democratic aspirations of their
people thus protect the aspirations of the bloodthirsty Zionist entity that is
at their doorstep. This being a powerful condemnation of all the disgusting
lies that were uttered about democracy and the rule of law being practiced in
America and Israel but not the Arab States, Mr. Obama seeks to soften the blow
to Israeli sensitivities by resorting to yet another absurdity.
Here is how he did
it: “The days when they [Arab States] could condemn Israel to distract their people
from a lack of opportunity are over. Now is the time for the Arab World to take
steps toward normalized relations with Israel .” To begin with, how can
someone claim that the autocratic leaders who protected Israel also
condemned it? Well, he can because this is the sort of Jewish absurdity that is
relentlessly drummed into the heads, the hearts and the souls of Americans. Not
only that, but while Israel
was benefiting from that autocracy, its running dogs in the American media and
political circles pretended to condemn it. Go figure.
As to the normalized
relations between the Arabs and Israel ,
the reference here is to the Arab Initiative (now more than a decade old) to
normalize relations with Israel .
No, said the Israelis, they don't want it now, but maybe later on. It does not
take a genius to figure out why. It is that the Israeli leaders want a
continued state of war for themselves and for America because it is how they will
continue to live off the American taxpayer. Normal relation with the Arabs
would mean business and industry and this in turn would mean that Jews who want
to eat will have to work. However, many of them live on welfare not because
they are handicapped but because they study the Torah, they say. They don't
exactly get manna from the sky; they get handouts from America , and
that's sweet enough for them. Hallelujah! Pass the dollar, the ammo and praise
the Congress!
The American
President goes through all of the above to come to the most important part of
his speech which is the following paragraph:
“It is not fair that
a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the
presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every
single day. It is not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes
unpunished. It is not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands;
to restrict a student’s ability to move around the West
Bank ; or to displace Palestinian families from their home. Neither
occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their
homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land.”
And he ends the speech by reassuring the audience that America will stand with Israel to the
end. But the end is what the Israeli leaders and their cohorts in the Jewish
lobby and the Congress of treasonous dogs don't want to see. They want a
permanent state of war during which the Israelis will live like leeches on the
body of an America
that can no longer support itself, let alone support them.
Well, we can only hope that the onion of absurdities
introduced by the Magician of debates, Barack Obama will do the trick.