You may view this story as that of a sore loser who behaved
like a happy warrior as long as he thought he was winning. But when he realized
that the early success he thought he had scored was nothing more than an optical
illusion, he fell into a state of manic depression.
But the story is more ominous than that because the man in
question is Benjamin Netanyahu – though a trivial character in his own right –
has the ear of a number of highly placed people in America . We must therefore view the
shrill and angry speech he delivered at the UN General Assembly on October 1,
2015, not as a single event, but one in a series that took him from a state of
jovial certitude to that of his descent into madness.
Netanyahu's symptoms are typical of someone living a paradox
he does not try to resolve because to do so would strip his existence of the
meaning he lived with all his life. You can see how he danced around that
paradox in the speech he gave to the members of the UN General Assembly. On the
one hand, he attacked Iran –
a country that did nothing to hurt him or hurt Israel . On the other hand, he
praised Israel
despite its genocidal treatment of the Palestinian people whom it keeps under
military occupation.
As to Iran ,
the reason why Netanyahu attacked that country is because it embarked on a
nuclear program which he says threatens Israel 's existence. This has been
his preoccupation for many years, and the agent that's responsible for his mood
swings as they tracked the ups and downs of his drive to convince the world Iran must be
bombed for trying to modernize. His big worry stemmed from the fact that he did
not trust the American led negotiators doing a good job at placing enough
constraints on the Iranian program. As we shall see, distrust of everything and
everyone is at the root of his mental disease.
But now that a deal has been reached, Netanyahu resigned
himself to it, acknowledging that it “does place several constraints on Iran .” But he
goes on to reveal that it is Iran
he does not now trust. For this reason, he shamelessly tells the world how to
deal with that country from here on ... he who has been so wrong assessing the
ability of the negotiators to negotiate a good deal – and lived to eat his
words.
What this says about the man is that he is totally devoid of
any sense of logic. And given that logic is a trait that's exclusive to the
human species, being devoid of it makes him operate at a sub-human level. This
explains his attitude with regards to the Palestinian question. Here is what he
says about this subject: “I am prepared to resume peace negotiations without
any preconditions whatsoever … because I remain committed to a vision of two
states in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state.”
This prompts the question: what human being (however
uneducated or young he or she may be) would fail to see that (1) specifying
Palestine as being a demilitarized territory and (2) recognizing Israel as
being Jewish – are the preconditions he says he will negotiate without? Yet,
this has been the mentality with which the Israelis have “negotiated” for two
decades.
And that's the reason why the Palestinians said enough was
enough, opting instead to do what logical human beings have been doing since
the beginning of time: to ask a third and neutral party – such as an elder or
the United Nations – to adjudicate the dispute.
No, no, no, says Netanyahu and all those like him; this
cannot happen, they said, because the UN is prejudiced against Israel . To earn
the right to handle this case, the world body must first accept the
precondition of seeing things Israel 's
way, or it too will continue to be distrusted by the Jewish clan.
Now that he brushed aside the UN, he talks directly to
Abbas, the Palestinian President. He says this to him: “we owe it to our
peoples to try … not use a Palestinian state as a stepping stone for another
Islamist dictatorship in the Middle East .” In
other words, Netanyahu says he does not trust the people of Palestine doing the right thing. Once again,
it is his mental disease that's dictating his behavior.