If you want to be astounded and then galled by what lawyers
can do when they use the two sides of the mouth to articulate a cause, read “The Outlaw Vladimir
Putin,” an article that also came under the subtitle: “Moscow's flouting of
treaties, international law and the Geneva Conventions is raising world-wide
dangers.” It was written by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, and was
published in the Wall Street Journal on April 9, 2014.
These are two lawyers who put together a strong case showing
that Vladimir Putin is breaking the law in his handling of the Ukrainian
situation. But in the case of at least Mr. Rivkin who is a senior adviser to
the outfit that calls itself Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the reading
of the article will go from astounding you to galling you given that the
arguments used are the same as those being said about Israel with regard to its
handling of the Palestinian situation – things that the Foundation of clowns
has always rejected while defending Israel's actions and promoting its
aspirations.
Go over the article and apply the ideas you encounter in it
to the Palestinian situation, and you will have a piece that looks like one
written by a lawyer promoting the cause of the Palestinian people. So you ask
yourself: How could Rivkin and Casey have written an article like this, knowing
full well that the readers will see through it, and determine it is something
they could not possible believe in … Or do they actually believe in what they
say but that there is something else going on in here?
In fact, there is something else going on in here, something
I would have amply illustrated if twenty or thirty years ago I had the
opportunity to write as much as I do now. I would have been deciphering the
hundreds upon hundreds of articles that were written by Jewish pundits, and I
would have been interpreting the activities of Jewish lobbyists whose task at
the time was to disseminate and to firmly establish one bewildering concept in
the heads, hearts and souls of the American elite and the American public.
That concept was to the effect that the Americans have in
the name of all humanity, accepted the principle that nature and God have
decreed that the Jews are a special breed of people endowed with privileges to
which no one else is entitled. In fact, more than the return to Mount Zion
To wit, the Jewish leaders would just as well have settled
on a “Jewish Homeland” in Uganda
as first proposed, or one that would be established anywhere else in the world
for that matter. This was an idea they felt comfortable with because their
“Jerusalem” was not the physical Jerusalem that is situated in Palestine but
the ethereal one in the sky; the portable Jerusalem they imagined in their
heads and surrounded with an elaborate mythology, all of which they carried
with them everywhere they went, anywhere they lived.
The recorded history of the Jews being that they were a
nomadic people not associated with a piece of real estate, and having to live
off the charity of those more powerful than they, as well as the spoils they
looted from those weaker than they, the Jews developed the idea that they are a
chosen people with rights that superseded those of everyone else. Thus, in
their mind, they deserve to be fed by those who would feed them voluntarily,
and fed by those who would agree to feed them under coercion.
The argument of being a chosen people became such a strong
part of their religious belief, they used it to justify their stealing of Palestine when – by some freak combination of historical
events – they found themselves swarming that country instead of Uganda or some
other place as originally planned. And things were never easy for the Jews as
they encountered a host of problems for choosing to settle in the wrong country
to begin with, and because the idea of grabbing someone else's country was dying
off in a world that was beginning to realize that colonialism was no longer
acceptable.
This is when the Jews invented new excuses not only to stay
in Palestine
but also expand. And this is where the quack foundation pretending to defend
the democracies got to work articulating the special privileges it believes the
Jews have to flout international laws and treaties – without saying so openly.
But to do this and get away with it, the lawyers had to use both sides of the
mouth.