John Bolton is at it again describing the world that matters
to us as being one of illusions. Here are his words: “the world of illusions
that Obama and Kerry inhabit, a world populated with many leading figures in
the American and European political, academic and media elites.” He writes
these words in his latest article which came under the title: “The takeaway
from the languishing Middle East peace process.” It was published on April 13,
2014 in the Pittsburgh Tribune.
To understand how he and his people think and operate, it
helps to be familiar with the mentality of teenagers, and the way that they
treat each other in a high school courtyard, for example, or a strip mall. They
will pull pranks on one another, even double-cross each other, and then deny
they did such a thing. They will go as far as protest they are offended by the
accusation they are capable of committing such a cowardly act. And they will
maintain the posture of denial till the victim of the prank has been so
diminished, he or she cannot retaliate. And this is the time when the offending
predator finally admits they pulled the prank that succeeded so well.
In that same manner, the Israelis and their Jewish
supporters and mouthpieces in America who have been denying they were opposed
to the idea of re-establishing the ancient state of Palestinian, are beginning
to come out and admit what they felt about the subject, what they thought about
it, and how hard they worked to pull off the job. Sometimes they admit to their
deed openly and clearly; sometime they admit to it in a more subtle way. John
Bolton is doing so now in his own peculiar fashion.
The first thing he does is announce “the negotiations'
impending failure.” Later on he writes that “the sustained myth for decades has
been that a lasting solution rests on creating a Palestinian state.” Further
down, he tells why this can never happen: “Pursuing Palestinian statehood
ignores the reality that no Palestinian institutions possess legitimacy, nor do
they have any discernible capacity for sustained adherence to commitments and
compromises.” Thus, the Bolton admission is in; he and his people never wanted
to see the establishment of a Palestinian state, and they saw no manner by
which this could happen.
And this admission has ramifications. It says that the
negotiations between them and the Palestinians – those that were repeatedly
sabotaged – were sabotaged by them. What they did after that was to whine,
protest and blame the collapse of the talks on the Palestinians. But would they
take credit for the failures, now that they decided to tell the truth? No they
would not. Instead, they shifted the blame from the shoulder of the
Palestinians to that of the Americans: “Our competence and influence are under
question, Israel has been undermined and by misallocating our priorities, we
have impaired our ability to resolve crises.” Conclusion: when dealing with
Jews, everyone is to blame but they for the acts that they alone have
committed. And if you try to pin a little blame on them, they accuse you of
being so antisemitic; you undermine the glory of Israel.
And so, John Bolton recommends that the American
Administration must now forget about “give peace a chance,” also forget about
the borders between Israel and the Palestinian state – an entity they will
never allow to rise. And they want the Administration to concentrate on the
kind of government that should be in charge of what is called Palestinian
territory but will soon cease to be Palestinian given that Jewish settlers from
all over the world are stealing more and more of it under the protection of the
American equipped Israeli army.
So you want to know what the bottom line is for John Bolton.
And he tells what that is – or at least he tries to. He begins with the notion
that negotiations require the judgment of “cost-benefit” analysis. He says the
cost of failure in the Palestine negotiations will be enormous because
America's friends and foes will make a judgment based on what they see as a
weak US presidency – the consequences of which the foreigners “understand far
more clearly than Americans,” he says. And he mentions a list of other trouble
spots in the world which, he insists, are being neglected. He does so oblivious
of the fact that neglecting the world to some extend and concentrating on
America's needs is what the American people are clamoring for.