Nothing is more human than to wish
doing to someone what he did to you. If someone gave you a hand when you were
at the lowest point of your life, you wish you'll someday be in a position
strong enough to pay him back. If someone has done you harm, you wish you'll
someday be powerful enough to return the favor, and see to it that justice is
done.
You encounter similar scenarios
everywhere in life … nowhere more glaringly than during the American
presidential campaigns. You will see that these campaigns always start on a
civilized note but then deteriorate when a staffer in one of the campaigns
commits a gaffe saying something insulting about the other side. That's when
the other returns the favor, thus starts an escalation that may go as far as
recreate the sexual politics of the 1970s, and lead to the barrage of insults
which make allusion to the size of genitals.
You also see something like it
happen on the international scene where the language of escalation can involve
the repositioning of nuclear missiles and naval fleets. It happened during the
Cuban missile crisis long ago; it is happening now in Europe and the Eastern
Mediterranean involving the NATO forces and the new Russia . And it is happening in the
waters of the Western Pacific involving China
on one side and the United
States with its allies on the other side.
It has also been happening for
ever and ever in the very convoluted ways, with which anything that is Jewish
or Israeli begins, develops and never ends in a peaceful way. In fact, it is
happening at this very moment, and you can get a glimpse of it in the editorial
that came under the title: “Hating Jews for sport” and the subtitle: “Iran 's leaders
pretend a Holocaust cartoon contest isn't what it obviously is.” It was
published on May 8, 2016 in the New York Daily News.
The idea behind someone in Iran staging a cartoon contest involving the
Jewish taboo of the Holocaust is an obvious response to the Jews in Europe and North America encouraging everyone that wants it to
exercise their freedom of speech by drawing cartoons involving the Muslim taboo
of depicting their prophet. This Iranian response is a normal human behavior.
The problem is that the Iranians
are as human as they get, but not the Jews. The latter come from a human stock
like the rest of us; but once they adopt that religion and embrace the tenets
that come with it, they set themselves apart and ask to be treated so
delicately, it is impossible to touch them without provoking the cry that
you're hurting them. That is, one way or the other, they convey the message:
Single me out when superlatives of commendation are handed out but don't single
me out when adjectives of condemnation are handed out.
You can see in the editorial how
the Jews create convoluted techniques to convey that message and confuse the
audience. They begin with the cry: “annihilation of six million Jews” and then
go into this passage: “The event grows from the malignant culture of ...
call[ing] for wiping Israel
off the map and whose missiles have born the legend “Death to Israel .”
As can be seen, the editors first
insulted the Iranian regime and then buttressed their view with two deceptions.
The truth is that the Iranians only called for a regime change in occupied Palestine , something that
Jews do all the time about everyone they don't like. Also, the Iranians
normally utter “death to whomever” by cultural habit in the same way that we
tell someone annoying to drop dead. Only a pansy would be irritated by that …
and Jews love to be irritated by that and by many other things.
Sinking as low as when the
presidential campaigns start referring to the genitals, the editors of the
Daily News engage in their own form of intellectual masturbation. Here it is:
“He [Foreign Minister Zarif] said so just as Iranian courts sentenced four
journalists to prison;” they, being journalists who are usually “supportive of
the government.” But what is it that Zarif had said? He said this: “The Iranian
government has nothing to do with the competition.” What? What the hell is
that?
What is the connection between the
holding of a Holocaust competition, and journalists being sentenced in a court
of law? Nothing except that it is a smart aleck trick used here to help the
editors pave the way for finishing the editorial on the following meaningless
note: “Zarif's statement was not just a lie. It was a Big lie, one that would
be bitterly felt by the four journalists imprisoned in Iran .” Again,
there is not here even an attempt to show what connects the two incidents.
That's because there is none.
But how do the editors of the
Daily News hope to serve their Jewish and Israeli causes? They help in two ways
by juxtaposing that presentation with subtle insinuations that supposedly speak
for themselves.
The first insinuation is this:
“Zarif became Kerry's buddy. The two speak regularly as Tehran
demands that U.S. convince
the world to trade with Iran .”
The message here is this: stop helping Iran live a normal life.
The second insinuation is this:
“The sponsor asked why the Palestinian people should pay the price and their
territories be occupied by the Zionist regime?” The message here is this: The
Palestinians must be made to understand that the Jews are the chosen children
of God. When they want something, they take it and no one can object to that.