Every time you come to believe that these “whatever they
are” appear ready to join the human race in that they have developed a
rudimentary understanding of what is considered acceptable behavior, one of
their self-appointed leaders pops up and says otherwise. For decades we lived
with the spectacle of an Alan Dershowitz telling us that normal means Israel can do
to the Palestinians anything savage that someone has done to anyone on this
planet. And now, comes Norman Podhoretz and says that normal means Israel can
inflict any suffering it wants on the Palestinians as long as there is an Arab
suffering somewhere else on this planet.
Podhoretz says so in the article he wrote under the title:
“Pity the Palestinians? Count Me Out” and the subtitle: “Thousands of Arabs are
dying in Syria and South Sudan . Where's the outrage on behalf of those truly
suffering?” It was published in the Wall Street Journal on April 10, 2014. And
so, the author goes on to make a confession to the effect that he has no
sympathy for the suffering that Israel
inflicts on the Palestinians, having first performed the ritual of crucifying
John Kerry, the latest peacemaker that tried to bring peace to them.
Having done this, Norman Podhoretz rehashes the talking
points that were put out by people like himself and his son, John Podhoretz –
points that were made many times over and responded to on this website and
others. He then writes: “With this, we come to the main reason I believe that
the Palestinians do not deserve any sympathy.” And what he does after that is
what his son has been doing for a while now which is to construct the sort of
insidious arguments that go into the subconscious mind of the readers, and tell
them that the Jews beg to be exterminated. They want a final solution, and will
not rest till they get it.
The first point he cites as to why the Palestinians do not
deserve sympathy is that “they have never ceased declaring that their goal is
to wipe it [Israel ]
off the map.” He calls this an evil intent to commit genocide, and says it
should be condemned by all descent people. He goes on to say, it is because of
this declared evil intent that Israel
defends itself; a response that he says is “obsessively condemned at the U.N.
and by the anti-Semites who call themselves anti-Zionist.
Wow! He says that the Palestinians never cease declaring
their intent – something that he and presumably others like himself hear – but
something that no one else hears; not at the UN where the whole word assembles,
and not any place else where there should be at least one lone individual that
is not an anti-Semite calling himself or herself anti-Zionist. So the question
that comes to mind: What is going on? And the answer is that we have on one
side the false accusation of a Palestinian intent to deny the Jews a homeland,
but have on the other side the reality that the Jews are denying the
Palestinians the home where they lived since the beginning of time.
And this is the insidious concept that slowly filters into
the subconscious mind of normal human beings, and says to them that in the same
way Podhoretz is not moved by anything bad happening to the Palestinians at the
hands of the Jews, he wants mankind not to be moved by anything bad happening
to the Jews at the hands of someone, be that in the past or in the future. And
this translates into the Podhoretz call: Bring back the Final Solution, and
make sure that this time it is truly final.
The second point that Norman Podhoretz cites as to why the
Palestinians do not deserve sympathy is that these people continue to harbor
the evil intent of committing genocide by the “modest objective of politicide –
that is, to get rid of the Jewish state by transforming it, through various
'peaceful' means like the 'right of return,' into a state with a Palestinian
majority.” This is the Palestinian intent, he says, for which these people
should be treated as badly as they are. But the reality is that the Jewish
“peaceful” means for the “right of Jewish return” is not just intent but
something tangible that exists in the here and now.
And the consequence should be that if the Palestinian intent
– provable or not – is getting what it deserves, the Podhoretz message must be
saying that the Jewish reality begs for what it deserves which is this: Bring
back the Final Solution, and make sure that this time it is truly final.