William Kristol is a funny man –
maybe not a pantomime kind of clown – but a funny man nevertheless. The trick
he likes to play to make people laugh is a form of Russian roulette that goes
something like this: He points the gun at his head and pulls the trigger
several times … and nothing happens. He now tells the audience he will prove
there is at least one bullet in the gun. He points it at his foot and shoots,
putting a hole in the foot.
William Kristol shot himself in
the foot once again writing an article that came under the title: “With Israel,
Against Terror” published in the online edition of the Weekly Standard on
November 24, 2014 and the December 1, 2014 issue of the print magazine. He says
he is pleased that the New York Times did not do this time what it never did as
a matter of fact. And that is that the Times did not blame Israel for the
retaliatory acts mounted by individual Palestinians in response to Israel's
continued terror attacks against them and their families.
Sidestepping the fact that it
wasn't the Palestinians who went looking for Jews to terrorize, kill and rob
them of their land, and sidestepping the fact that it was the Jews who went
looking for Palestinians to terrorize, kill and rob them of their land, Kristol
cherry picks a handful of incidents from among the millions that have unfolded
over the decades, to build a case against the Palestinians. And he calls that –
get this now – all. In fact, he doesn't even say it in English; he says it in
French: “tout”.
But that's not all, because to
give credence to what he said about the New York Times, he quotes a French
saying, and modifies it to suit his purpose. Instead of “To understand all is
to forgive all,” he turned it into: “To understand all is to condemn all.” This
done, he launches an attack on what he calls the corruption of modern
liberalism for being unable to condemn. He then asserts that the American
people comprehend, condemn and wonder why we can't also act.
What he does not do is say what it
is that the American people said they comprehend, what it is that they said
they condemn, and what action they indicated they want to see taken. And he
does not say where or when they made these sentiments known to him. To fill the
gap in his argument, he fills-in for the American people, expressing his own
opinions as if they were those of the American people – excluding those
corrupted modern liberals, of course.
That kind of talk leads William
Kristol to propose a solution. It comes in three parts this time around. First,
move America's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Second, suspend funding the
Palestinian Authority. Third, don't lift any of the sanctions now imposed on
Iran. He does not say how that will solve the problem but that does not matter
because, in fact, this is where the Russian roulette part of his number ends.
And this is where the process of shooting himself in the foot begins.
Having sidestepped – up to now –
the reality that there would not be a Palestinian-Jewish clash today were it
not for the fact that the Jews came looking for trouble where the Palestinians
have been living since the beginning of time, Kristol reignites and amplifies
the Jewish crime against humanity that is at the root of the problem. He does
that by turning the facts on their head, asking two questions based on false
premises. The first turning of the facts comes in the form of accusing the
administration of adding fuel to the fire by denouncing Israel for continuing
to steal Palestinian land. The second turning of the facts comes in the form of
accusing the State Department of inciting violence when it calls on Israel to
respect the law instead of provoking the world and most American institutions
into delegitimizing it by boycotting it.
Here is
where he points the gun at his foot: “building in a neighborhood everyone
agrees would be part of Israel if there were to be a peace agreement.” And here
is where he pulls the trigger: “Congress can tell the administration to stop
making things worse with the 'peace process.'” Bang! “If there is a peace
agreement but quick, kill the peace process.” The Jewish terrorists continue to
have terror – and not peace – on their mind.
The
ongoing trick is to provoke Palestinian kids who were born under occupation and
lived under it all their lives into responding the only way they can against
organized and well armed Jewish terrorism. When this happens, Jewish money from
gambling moguls pours into the occupied territories to accommodate more Jewish
settlers on Palestinian looted lands. And the cycle is repeated over and over
again.