Thursday, June 6, 2013

How To Log Four Millenniums Of Failures

In modern times they have been advising each other not to let a crisis go to waste without exploiting it, but this habit has actually been an old one, having roots that go back thousands of years. Indeed, exploitation is what the Jews have lived by throughout history; and the exploitation of every opportunity is what brought successive calamities on their heads. Therefore, rather than benefit from that ill-conceived advice, the Jews have used it to turn themselves into the eternal losers we know them to be.

Tom Friedman who is a columnist with the New York Times demonstrates in his latest piece how this enterprise of horror works. The column came under the title: “Israel Lives the Joseph Story” and was published on June 5, 2013 in the New York Times. Of course, he did not set out to say things explicitly but the example of self victimization is what the reader will discern when looking closely at how the author approaches the subject matter he pretends to discuss.

The column is about the Middle East, a region of the world that is made of several Arab and Muslim nations which happen to be undergoing a collective transformation at this time. They are changing from one form of governance to another by repeating a pattern of natural progression of the sort that the world has witnessed before. Such pattern has happened to other regions throughout history, most notably Western Europe, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe. The transformation comes to each nation by following a pattern that is sometimes referred to as a domino theory. That is, when change begins in one nation, the effect tends to be duplicated in a neighboring nation, going from there to the next and so on.

As to Israel, being an alien entity transplanted in the region by force of arms, it has had a history that was separate from that of the neighbors. After an initial expansionist policy that saw it grow to four or five times its current size, and having been kicked out of most of the areas it occupied, it is now left with what is called Israel proper and some lands it still occupies. These are a sliver in the Western Golan Heights which belongs to Syria, and the West Bank of the Jordan River which belongs to the Palestinians.

In fact, it happens that two and a half million Palestinians or so live in the West Bank, being the original indigenous people who were invaded, robbed of their possessions and kept in dire conditions. They never accepted the occupation, had two popular rebellions called “intifada” so far; and warn of more to come. The rebellions will come as certainly as night follows day unless Israel implements one of several alternatives, neither of which seems acceptable to the Jewish leaders who govern Israel. And so, this state of affairs and that history make of Israel a powder keg that is ready to explode yet again.

With this backgrounder in mind, you read the Friedman column and see how he exploits the current situation to continue to “bring the bacon home” to an Israel that could not remain afloat more than six months if America stopped feeding it, arming it and supporting it diplomatically in world forums. You see what he is up to in the opening paragraph: “Now even Turkey is in turmoil … there goes the neighborhood. The good news for Israel is that in the near term its neighbors [will not] think about threatening it. In the long run, though, Israel faces two serious challenges.”

What he is hiding here is the fact that every time Israel ran out of money and could not get the American Congress to send it a lifeline fast enough, it hit a neighbor by surprise in the middle of the night to create an artificial state of emergency and the opportunity to cry “existential threat,” thus force America and other supporters in Europe and elsewhere to come to the rescue by sending it money, money, money. But given the fact that the neighbors are too busy now to respond – as demonstrated when Israel hit Syria the other day and got no response – what is a columnist to do? Well, he talks about two serious future challenges which is what Tom Friedman did.

He calls one of the challenges the Stephen Hawking Story – the famous British scientist who declined an invitation extended to him by the President of Israel to visit that country. But why did the famous man decline the invitation? Well, my friend, you will not believe how Friedman answers this question. Are you ready for it? Here it comes: “a reminder that in this age of social networks, international public opinion matters … in Israel's case, it is creating a powerful surge that Israel is a pariah state because of its West Bank occupation. It is not a good trend for Israel, making it more dependent on America alone.”

Well, well, well, it was said that social media were instrumental in starting the Arab Spring which seeks to transform the Arab and Muslim Middle East. Now the same people say that social media were also instrumental in locking in the image of Israel as being the pariah state it has always been. Did they really need social media to tell them what was obvious all along?

In any case, that's a bad thing for a Jew to have to say about Israel. So how does he get out of this second challenge? Lucky for him, there is the Jewish trick they call balancing the truth with a bag of lies. To do that, he must find a story that nobody can verify. He finds one that goes way back into antiquity. It is: “a version of the Biblical 'Joseph Story'” upon which he builds a contemporary case for Israel. To start with, he tells that – like ancient EgyptIsrael has had 40 good years but is about to have some bad ones. Great, you say to yourself, he is going to talk about the occupation of the West Bank, and how Israel can solve this matter thus cease to be a pariah.

Well, he kinda does something like that, and he does not get there right away. Instead, he takes several paragraphs to say basically that the neighbors of Israel are bad now because they have always been bad in the past. At the same time, Israel is good now because it has always been good in the past. And so, he concludes that the neighbors will be bad in the future because that is their nature. At the same time, Israel will be good in the future because that is its nature. This being the case, Israel should work to show the neighbors how to be as good as Israel. Does that mean end the occupation of the West bank and cease being a pariah? Yes or no?

Well, here is his plan: “Israel, if it partnered with the Palestinian leadership, has a chance to create a state where Christians and Muslims would live side by side next to Jews. And the world would not begrudge Israel keeping its forces on the Jordan River if it ceded most of the West Bank and Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.” And then, he comes up with a parting shot that is very much in the Jewish style: “Israelis and Palestinians actually have the power to model what a decent, post-authoritarian, multi-religious Arab state could look like.”

So you ask yourself: Is this the first time someone came up with a solution of this kind? No. It came up many times before. Will it work this time? No. Not anymore than it did before. Why is that? Because these people cannot do anything honestly. If they really want to end the occupation and live like everyone else, they can do it in a minute – which is what happened many times before when they were beaten in the Sinai, Eastern Golan, Gaza and Southern Lebanon.

Once again, Tom Friedman did what they always do which is to exploit the situation as it exists. Now, like before, he got into an extravaganza of intellectual masturbation aimed at getting money, money, money out of America, knowing full well that Israel will give nothing in return. All this talk about creating a model for someone else to follow is moral syphilis aimed at keeping the American Congress contaminated with the Jewish disease that keeps it paralyzed and unable to serve America.

These people have been failing for thousands of years, and they will fail again because the only way they will get out of the Easter Golan and the West Bank is when they will be kicked out. Only then will there be hope that America too will be liberated.