Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Arguments of an upside-down Brain

Michael Oren who used to be Israel's ambassador to America has made a plea to reconcile the two countries because, he admits, without America, Israel is dead meat (to use schoolyard slang). He wrote an article to this effect which came under the title: “How Obama Abandoned Israel” and the subtitle: “Netanyahu and the president both made mistakes, but only one purposely damaged U.S.-Israel relations.” It was published on June 16, 2015 in the Wall Street Journal.

Oren goes on to say that without Israel, America will have lost a state that is unreservedly pro-American. He stops here when he should have continued: having previously been unreservedly pro-British, unreservedly pro-French, and unreservedly pro-Stalin. Not to mention the current Israeli attempts to become unreservedly pro-Chinese and unreservedly pro-Indian in anticipation of the possibility that the parasite and its host may never reconcile; a reality that reflects the historical pattern describing the Jewish experience through time and space.

Something else makes it imperative for the two to reconcile, says Oren. It is that when searching for dependable allies in the Middle East, America will discover that dependability is a rare commodity in that part of the world. At the same time, however, America will find that Israel is located as strategically in the region as any of its neighbors. All of this should work in favor of Israel, says the author, if you can ignore the fact that this is a small piece of real estate containing a small population that is occupying a still smaller population.

And that's not all, says Michael Oren, because the small thing is militarily robust. What he does not say is that this is due to the fact that Israel has received more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of military equipment, training and spare parts from America over the past half century. To maintain the thing strong, America must continue to appropriate more aid thus encourage the neighbors to arm-race Israel … which is not an ideal situation, but no matter because that's that.

More importantly, says Michael Oren, Israel “remains democratic,” without elaborating any further. But what he neglected to say is that the Jews over there continue to haggle over everything as people do everywhere else in the region. And this is happening despite the fact that Israel is populated by many American Jews of the kind that shredded the First Amendment in America. In so doing, they started a Jewish civil war between those who spawned the behemoth known as “political correctness” and those who holler that the beast has brought an “end to discussion” in what used to be the oldest democracy. This is clearly a case of haggling for me, and no democracy for thee. But no matter because that’s that.

And so (having 'compaaaared' the balance sheet as to what each side gains from a continued business-as-usual relationship between the parasite and the host, and what each side might lose from a deterioration of the relationship between them) the former Israeli ambassador to America found it opportune to blame the American President for “purposely” damaging the U.S.-Israel relations.

And the proof of this, he says, is that on two occasions, Israel inadvertently (that's inadvertently) announced the expansion of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem at the very moment (that's the very moment) when Netanyahu was meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. And the writer wonders how this innocent coincidence could be anything but a forgivable Israeli blunder that should not have coincided but that must be forgiven.

The long list of forgivable Israeli blunders continues but none can be 'compaaaared' to the “calculated mistakes [made] by President Obama,” says the former ambassador. The most important of these being that he disagreed with Israel openly when the protocol between the parasite and the host has always been to the effect that there should be no public display of disagreement between the two.

So you want to know how President Obama may have disagreed with Netanyahu in public. Did he, for example, lecture Netanyahu in May of 2012 about the Jewish settlements and the peace process in the Oval Office or anywhere else? No, no, says Michael Oren, that was not a calculated mistake. It was not even something that Obama did. It was a legitimate and forgivable disagreement made by Netanyahu in complete innocence. After all, he is the Jew and Obama is not. He never has “bad intentions” because this sin is the acknowledged specialty of non-Jews.

Besides, the writer goes on to say, even Palestinian negotiators had acknowledged that those settlements might be allowed to remain part of Israel if a deal between the two parties can be concluded, signed, sealed and delivered. But why should Israel go through all that hassle when it can pocket the Palestinian generosity, torpedo the negotiations and end the hassle here and now?

Why? Is America not the friend of Israel precisely because it has the duty to back the Jews when they display such superior negotiating abilities? Are the Jews not given this advantage by America which arms them to the teeth while keeping the Palestinians disarmed and helpless? Why is this happening but to let the Jews plunder the Palestinians and kill them when they protest and resist?

C'mon guys, straighten your thinking by turning your brains around inside the skull, says Michael Oren. Be like us, or at least try to be, he goes on to say.

And I imagine my old Jewish friend turning inside the grave, raising his arms and crying out: Light up the oven.