Every culture has its fads, and the Jewish culture is no
different. The thing that is unique to the Jews, however, is encapsulated in
what the Yiddish language is all about. It is about half-assed quips meant to insult
everyone and everything that stands in the way of the Jews accomplishing
whatever their project of the day calls for.
If you begin with this notion, you'll have an easy time
navigating your way through the article written by professor of Yiddish literature
Ruth R. Wisse who wrote: “The Abyss Between Two Heinous Episodes,” a piece that
also came under the subtitle: “Now will come assertions of equivalence between
Israeli and Palestinian societies. But are the situations comparable?” It was
published on July 7, 2014 in the Wall Street Journal.
The central point that Wisse is tackling here is expressed
in this passage: “Now that Jewish suspects have been apprehended in the murder
of a 16-year-old Arab, there are those who would cite the parallel between this
heinous crime and the recent murders of [3 Jewish boys] as proof of moral and
political equivalence between the two societies.” And Wisse says no, there is
no equivalence between the two because in 1957 Golda Meir said that peace would
come “when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
What did Golda Meir mean? To get a sense of what the answer
to that question may be, we go back to the time when she said it. It was a few
months after the 1956 attack on Egypt
by the British and French forces who took the Israelis with them to show them
how to do these things in the future. In the meantime, the American President
Dwight Eisenhower who had liberated Europe only a few years before – including Britain and France – was not happy with the situation.
He ordered the clowning trio to go home and never do that again.
And while the UN was assessing the damage caused to Egypt by the tripartite aggression, an American
delegation went to Israel
to assess the future intentions of the Israelis. When the UN report came out
saying that most of the 30,000 dead civilians that Egypt
had suffered in the attack were children, Golda Meir uttered that infamous
half-assed remark to mean that more Egyptian children will die if the
government of that country refused to give Israel what it wanted. And this, my
friend, is how a psychotic woman steeped in the Judeo-Yiddish culture
blackmails a neighbor. Now you know.
So we ask: How much do the Jews love their children? Well,
before they occupied the West Bank, they had borders with Lebanon , Syria ,
the Palestinian West Bank, Egypt
and the Palestinian Gaza. Their preoccupation at the time was to steal Arab
waters, especially those flowing North of Israel's border at the junction where
it meets Syria and Lebanon . What the
Jews proved to the world at the time was that they loved Arab waters more than
they loved their children. They offered proof by building kibbutzes near the
borders where they attacked Arab villages on the other side to invite
retaliation so as to film traumatized Israeli children, even dead ones, and
thus hope to win the propaganda war they started, and get international support
for stealing Arab waters. To these people, stolen Arab water if not thicker
than the blood of Jewish children is at least sweeter.
But now that the Israelis occupy the West
Bank , they do not make much use of the kibbutzes. Knowing that the
occupied territories are a war zone, they send their own children and the
children of American Jews into that zone while provoking the local population
in the hope that children will be killed. When this happens, they use the
incidents to make half-assed remarks by which they hope to win the propaganda
war, and also reject the idea that there can be a moral and political equivalence
between the Palestinian and Israeli societies.
But they are not after Arab waters now; they are after
something else. Convinced that they have once and for all succeeded in
torpedoing the peace talks, they expect that a new approach will be initiated
to resolve the issues they have with the Palestinians. The thing they dread the
most being that the two sides will be treated equally – as these things happen in every juridical setting – they want it to be understood before they start
that: If all animals are considered to be equal, the Jewish animal must be
viewed as being more equal than his Palestinian counterpart.