If you want to know why the media and the politics in
America are screwed up to the extent that they are, there is a good place for
you to start the self-teaching process on this subject. It is the editorial page
of the New York Times where you'll find two telling articles published lately.
One article came under the title: “The Israel Defense Forces
vs. the People of Israel,” written by Shmuel Rosner, and published on May 11,
2016. The other came under the title: “The Arab Withering,” written by Roger
Cohen, and published the next day, May 12, 2016.
Rosner is an Israeli who lives in Israel and writes
regularly for the readers of the American publication the New York Times. He
tells them all about the good and bad things he witnesses in Israel. Being a
master spin doctor, he specializes in letting the American readers know how
superior the good things are in Israel, and how trivial the bad things are.
Imagine what used to be a Palestinian Garden of Eden called
the West Bank of the Jordan River, now turned into a hellhole occupied by
Jewish settlers that came mostly from America, a superpower that regularly
supplies the Israeli army and the settlers with weapons galore. Worse, this
happens at the same time that the same America makes sure the people of
Palestine remain unarmed, unable to defend themselves and totally helpless.
After half a century of life in this Jewish-American snake
pit, the Palestinian kids whose grandparents could barely remember the days when
they were a free people, started to do what kids under occupation normally do:
they resisted the occupation. But how can they fight a murderous animal they
encounter in the kitchen; one that comes equipped with night goggles, a radio
to call for air support and a machine gun? Well, the kids have learned to be
creative. They grabbed kitchen knives and fought the Jewish animals to scare
them away.
Mindful of the Nuremberg Trials of yesterday, and of The
Hague Criminal Court of today, one Israeli general sought to cover his ass by
distancing himself from that horrible situation. He said he saw “similarities
between Nazi Germany of the 1930s and Israel today.” He criticized Israeli
soldiers emptying a magazine “at 13-year-old girls holding scissors,” and criticized
the practice of shooting “wounded Palestinians in the head as they lay on the
ground.” But Rosner noted that such actions were approved and encouraged by 82
percent of the Israeli population. There you go; the animals are found in the
kitchens and everywhere else.
So then, how does Shmuel Rosner spin all that and make the
American readers continue to believe that all is well in Israel? He does it by
brushing aside the whole thing, thus erase the negative impressions that were
created. He also makes a comment to the effect that “the army has become
politicized.” This done he builds on all that in an effort to turn the
resulting negative image into a positive one.
That's how he does it: “As politicians turn the army into a
political football, the center – that is most of us – watches in horror.” Nice
try Shmuel but your math does not add up. If, like you admit, 82 percent of the
Israelis are on the bloodthirsty side, it leaves only 18 percent for both the
center and the sober side. Assuming you split that 9 percent for each, how does
a center of 9 percent represent what you says is “most of us”? Out here in the
new world where I live, we still adhere to the old math which says that 9
percent is only 1 in 11, and cannot be viewed as “most of us”.
So much for the Jews telling their story. Now to the Jews
telling the Arab story. Roger Cohen begins to tell it with a preamble that
describes the start of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Before letting his friend
Robert F. Worth – that wrote a book on the subject – tell the rest of it, he
repeats a fantasy that the Jews had developed about the Arabs. It is one of the
fantasies that enabled the Jews to exploit America financially, militarily and
diplomatically. It tells of the Arabs suffering from a festering “humiliation
[that] would have been replaced by empowering dignity,” something that did not
happen because the Revolution – known as the Arab Spring – stalled or turned
into something nefarious.
Smart enough to realize that if he mentions Israel or the
Jews at this point, he would flush his presentation down the toilet, Roger
Cohen uses the “West” as surrogate to convey the notion that if the Arabs are
not letting the Jews do to their legislatures what they do to the American
Congress, it is because the Arabs have a problem. He put it like this: “The
West might escape its conspiracy-fueled place in the Arab mind as the
hypocritical enabler of every iniquity”.
That is, the Arab Spring has failed, he says, and the people
did not get “the meaningful citizenship” they hoped for. What this reveals is
that in the eyes of the Jews, no country that does not let itself be taken over
by the Jews, can claim to give its inhabitants meaningful citizenship. Because
no Arab country has done so, it must be that most if not all have abandoned the
Arab Spring in favor of the ISIS Caliphate.