Imagine you're walking in the street and see people hastily
move away in every direction from something. You look closely at the thing and
find it to be a man. He is throwing his arms up and down, and gesticulating
them back and forth as he shouts: they are ganging up on me; they are ganging
up on me.
Confused by the discrepancy between what you see and what
you hear him say, you approach the man to find out what's going on. That's when
you discover what the people were moving away from. It is that the man smells
like a toilet that hasn't been flushed in a week.
You hold your nose and ask him questions to find out how it
is that the people are ganging up on him when in fact; they are running away
from him. He says they are conspiring to delegitimize his existence and this,
according to his philosophy, amounts to ganging up on him. Unable to take
anymore of that, you join the crowd and participate in the act of
delegitimizing the stinker by running away from him … and taking a deep breath
of fresh air.
That's the story which came to mind upon reading the article
that came under the title: “Israel
reduces relations with 12 Security Council countries,” written by Rebbecca
Kheel and published on December 26, 2016 in The Hill.
So here you have an entity with which nobody wants to
associate under normal circumstances. Still, a few nations held their noses and
began to deal with it – though at arm's length – because the circumstances at
this time are not normal or because they were pressured by the United States of America
to do so.
Then something happened, and they all – including the United States of America – ran away from the
stinking entity calling itself Israel .
But what did the entity do in response? It did this: “Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who was infuriated by the vote, handed down the order,
according to the reports.” The vote mentioned here is the one taken at the
Security Council of the United Nations. It condemned Israel
for the settlements policy it is pursuing in occupied Palestine in defiance of international law.
What did Netanyahu's order entail? It was about him meeting
only with the Jewish ambassador of the United States whereas the
ambassadors of the other countries were summoned to meet only with foreign
ministry officials. This was meant to be their punishment. Well, it may have
been punishment in Netanyahu's eyes, but the foreign ambassadors must have
thanked the heavens for being spared the ordeal of living through a stinking experience
in the name of protocol.
And that's not all because Netanyahu also ordered the
curtailment of relations between Israel and those countries. Now, my
friend, you know – as did the whole world – how angry Netanyahu was with the
way that the Security Council vote went.
In fact, this happens to be the message that the Jewish
propaganda machine has been trying to convey. It began with CNN telling the
Jewish rank-and-file and the rest of the world about Benjamin Gulliver
Netanyahu being so angry, he decided to punish the Lilliputian Security
Councilors by not honoring their ambassadors with his presence. Whether or not
the rank-and-file or the world was impressed with this performance is another
matter.
But that's what brought to my mind an old Egyptian saying I
haven't heard in sixty years. It is a give and take that unfolds between a
small boy who thinks he grew old enough to be independent, and his father. It
goes like this:
SON: Father, I am not going to sleep in the same room as you
anymore.
FATHER: Thank you my son. You just relieved me from the
affliction of your nightly farts.
And that's what the world is saying to little Netanyahu …
the one who thinks he is a Gulliver, and wants the world to believe it.