The Wailing Wall has a new Look

The real wall where the Jews go to wail whatever they feel deserves to be wailed at, is made of stone and situated in occupied Jerusalem … somewhere out there in the Middle East. But in this modern electronic age, wailing walls of a different kind are springing up almost everywhere a Jew lives or works.

These are computer screens made of plastic, and where many a Jew bangs at the keyboard to wail at the fate that their self-appointed leaders wrought for them. The sad part is that the Jewish rank and file does not realize they suffer what their leaders are doing to them; nor do the leaders admit their shortcomings, let alone move to change their ways and stop inflicting more pain on what they call their people.

And because history has a way of coming full circle without repeating itself in the exact same manner, the once cocky leaders who presented themselves to the rank and file as saviors who will take them to the promised nirvana of a Jewish homeland – are themselves wailing the fate that hit them by surprise. Instead of meeting the Jewish glory they thought will shine so bright that heads from the four corners of the world will turn in their direction, they find themselves empty-handed and wallowing in lamentations and self-pity.

This is what Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz of the comical troupe calling itself Foundation for Defense of Democracies, are expressing in their latest creation; the one that came under the title: “Iran's Negotiating Triumph Over Obama and America” and the subtitle: “The U.S. is surrendering control of verification to the United Nations, where our influence is weak.” It was published on April 4, 2015 in the Wall Street Journal.

Whereas human beings are wired to see that mutual destruction is a lose-lose situation, and see compromise as a win-win situation, the Jewish ideology that motivates the Jewish leaders says that compromise is a zero-sum game where one side wins all, and the other loses all. That Jewish position is expressed in the first sentence of our two authors: “Obama believes that the nuclear framework is a historic achievement. Iran's Zarif says he believes the same. Those two positions are incompatible.”

In trying to make it look like America and the world lost what Iran has gained, Gerecht and Dubowitz begin by unleashing a diatribe against the Iranians so as to establish that they are the bad guys who deserve only to have bombs rain on their heads. This done, they avoid having to explain in detail why the framework negotiated with them is a bad deal for America or the world, saying only that because the Iranians are as bad as the actors that came before them, they too will cheat on the agreement.

And, of course, the two authors would not be Jews if they did not make predictions that never come to pass. Here is one set of predictions: “billions of dollars of Iranian trade starts to flow to European and Asian companies … The US will be dealing with a UN even more divided, and more incapable of action.” Here is another set: “The UN's IAEA can do good work when the Security Council is unified. Its utility plummets when the council is divided … It is perverse to think that the IAEA can now serve as a safeguard against future Iranian cheating … the president's 'snap-back' sanctions will also surely fall victim to the Security Council's politics and human greed.”

Still another set of predictions: “the deal will fracture the Western alliance. We will lose the French. Faced with other countries rushing to the Iranian market, the French will abandon us, as they did with Iraq 20 years ago. Without them, economic sanctions on Iran would never have had much European bite.”

When you get to this point, you ask yourself a simple question: What ultimately do these people want? Ironically, you find the answer in the question that the two authors ask. It is this: Are you willing to threaten war to get a better deal, and preventively strike?

And that, my friend, serves neither America nor the world. It serves Israel, only Israel and no one but Israel. For this reason the Jewish authors call on: “the putative leader of Senate Democrats, Charles Schumer [the Jew] to walk away from the president's handiwork, and oblige [that American] to threaten war?”

In the meantime, they continue to wail at the computer keyboard, now serving as the new Wailing Wall for the Jews: “In all the framework's details, the senators will find hope like a pilgrim in the desert looking at the horizon and seeing a mirage.” Let them wail away the sorrows they have inflicted on their followers for centuries.