Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Seers are many but one stands out

Since the start of the latest showdown between Hamas and Israel, many pundits in America spoke or wrote about the subject. They placed the blame for starting the fight on Hamas, but each pundit saw a different reason why Hamas would do such a thing when it is no more than a group of lightly armed fighters. According to the pundits, they took on the American equipped Israeli military which is armed to the teeth with the deadliest of weapons – for reasons that do not foresee a military victory.

But the reality is that Hamas did not start the fight this time. The record shows that the fight has been ongoing since the day that the Palestinians of Gaza relied on their bare hands, their slings and the rocks they could pick up on the ground to eviscerate the Israelis from the Gaza Strip. What Israel did after that was blockade the territory from the air and the sea with weapons against which Hamas had no defense. And this was an act of war that Israel never ended. Moreover, the Israeli leaders used Gaza like the eunuchs who would wear rubber dildos and pretend to rape someone helpless just to give the impression that they are studs and not the ostracized eunuchs that the world made them to be.

In real life, the Israeli leaders demonstrate their diseased mentality by periodically staging shows which are even more savage than rape in that their outcomes are always murderous. It is that every time an Israeli official visits America, or that an American official visits Israel, the military of that demonic entity does what they call target killing. This is the practice of sending American built helicopters into Gaza in the middle of the night, equipped with missiles and smart bombs ready for launch.

Once there, they blow up a house or two that would be full of sleeping children and their parents. The purpose of this exercise is to send what they call a “strooong” message to the American Administration, to the effect that Israel wants America to keep financing it and supplying its military with the deadliest of weapons ... or else the Jews will go to the Congress of emotionally rattled cockroaches, and moan to them the Jewish disappointment for the less than welcoming treatment the Israelis have been receiving in America lately. And they will demand – as they always do – prompt remedial action.

This time, the castrated Israelis went too far showing off their fake manliness, and the Hamas fighters decided it was time to once again tear that artificial dildo off the pelvis of its wearers. And this is when the pundits started the ritual of blaming Hamas for everything that goes wrong under the sun. This can be seen in the article written by the pundit who stands out the most when it comes to such matters. He is Daniel Pipes who wrote: “Why Does Hamas Want War?” an article that also came under the subtitle: “It knows it will lose militarily, but hopes to win at the bar of public opinion.” The article was published on July 11, 2014 in National Review Online.

Essentially, Pipes does two things in this piece. But what happened which he did not expect is that they acted like components of a philosophical binary bomb that exploded in his face. The first component is the list of the propaganda points he says Hamas stands to gain from losing the hot war to the superior Israeli military. An example of this would be the sympathy that Hamas will gain in Europe for championing the cause of the Palestinian underdogs. The second component of the bomb is the association he makes between the events currently unfolding in Europe, and the internal politics that pertain to the American scene.

It should be noted that at the heart of America's political system rages a battle between what is called the Left and what is called the Right. The two are so much at each other's throats; they have paralyzed the business of the nation because there is nothing about which one side will agree in the Congress that the other side will not work against. They are like two groups stuck in a sinking ship, each side preventing the other from doing the necessary repairs lest it take credit for it.

And so, talking about previous clashes between Hamas and Israel, Daniel Pipes writes that they: “inspired Europeans to impose harsher sanctions on Israel [and] opened the international Left's spigot of vitriol against the Jewish state.” But the fact is that the vitriol has come not from the European Left but from the Right which has always argued that the Jews must be expelled from the Continent because they aim to turn the European nationals into the new Palestinians in their own lands. Kaboom.

This is where the binary bomb exploded in the face of its maker. It happened because Pipes has pursued two courses that do not mix quietly. First, he said that the Left in Europe has sided with Hamas, which is only half the truth because the majority of people from both sides of the political spectrum sided with the Palestinians of Gaza, and they include Hamas.

Second, the act of describing the struggle in Palestine in terms that remind the American people of the paralysis they suffer at home shifts their attention away from the Middle East to the misery they have in America itself. And many are beginning to resent the fact that the Congress freezes when it comes to working for America but sets itself on fire when it comes to working for Israel. They see this as treason practiced openly, in-your-face and in defiance of the American interest.

When you realize it was the sense of being betrayed by the leaders who tried to curry favor with the Jews, that led the Europeans – especially those on the Right – to feel they are being turned into Palestinians in their own countries, you get the sense that the same phenomenon is developing in America thanks to the Daniel Pipes of this world.

Watch out because, given enough time, a philosophical bomb always turns itself into something more physical.