Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Not a strong Alliance but a strong Boot

You harvest what you plant; everybody understands that. What is incomprehensible, however, is someone repeatedly planting the same thing despite the fact that each time, the harvest turns out to be poisonous.

This is the sort of malady America is suffering at this time, stemming from the collection of cultural sorcery that the Jewish lobby has weaved all around it. Like a fly wrapped in a spider's web, America is left with no room to maneuver but to keep mumbling that Israel is a strong ally. The fact that's obvious to everyone, however, is that the only thing strong America is getting from Israel is a mighty boot up its rear end.

I leave it up to the reader to define what would determine the strength of an alliance, and delve instead into the business of showing what a strong boot delivered to America's rear end looks like at a time when the latter was expecting something different. The reference on which I base my argument is an editorial that came under the title: “A Vultures' Peace in Syria” and the subtitle: “Russia and Turkey divide up the spoils amid U.S. irrelevance.” It was published on December 31, 2016 in the Wall Street Journal.

The subtitle reveals that America was made to feel irrelevant, so you look through the editorial to see what Israel, as a so-called ally, has been doing to alleviate the feeling but discover that Israel was not mentioned once or even hinted at in the editorial. In fact, the piece has nothing to do with America's alliance with Israel or anyone else for that matter, but everything to do with Russia's new alliance with Turkey, as well as its new popularity in the Middle East.

Well then, if not the role of Israel in a part of the world that should seriously concern an American-Israeli alliance, what have the editors of the Journal discussed? In fact, we already mentioned what they said about America's irrelevance, but the context in which that reality is unfolding is wider than what comes out at first blush. To understand this part, we look at the following condensed version of the events that led to the current situation:

Turkey and Russia announced they brokered a cease-fire between the Syrian regime and the opposition. The truce took effect on Friday … The announcement is a sign of diminishing U.S. influence … For the Turks, this means squeezing Syria's Kurds … Mr. Putin can show others that Russia stands by its friends – unlike the Americans. Russia also enhances its growing status as a Middle Eastern power. Putin will get military bases too. Iran also gets credit, stretching its influence West to the Mediterranean”.

While the world is rejoicing for the fact that the people of Syria are finally enjoying a moment of peace that promises to become permanent, what do the editors of the Wall Street Journal say they feel? Believe it or not, they say they feel so bitter, they cannot rejoice for the gift that Russia and Turkey gave the people of Syria. Instead, they want to blame someone for the fact that America was left out in the cold.

It must be that they are really mad at an Israel that's supposed to be a strong ally of America but turned out to be a bloodsucking leech that shows up only at dinner time and never when the going gets tough. Are they not? Oh no … no, no, no, no, no say the editors of the Wall Street Journal, they are not mad at Israel. They explain that they view what happened in the Middle East as being “news that's another insult to President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who have become irrelevant.” It’s that same old song again.

They end their piece with this metaphor: “The tragic lesson of Syria is that when the eagle flies away, the vultures move in.” It is intriguing to think this may be happening in nature even if no one has documented such an occurrence. Alternatively, we may think of a metaphor that occurs too often in real life in such places as an office or a shop floor.

When a supervisor has nothing to fear, he runs the office or the shop he's responsible for like a Swiss watch. If a weasel digs up dirt on him, he'll tell him how to run the place, and how to treat everyone else. Before long, bedlam and paralysis will result, and productivity will plummet.

A weasel will also take advantage of the situation and behave in a similar fashion if he sees two supervisors that can be played against each other.

The two metaphors accurately represent the level to which America's democracy has sunk. The country used to run as efficiently as a Swiss watch; it is now closer to being paralyzed.

The reason is that the Jewish weasel has infiltrated it, and is playing people against people; party against party, and the branches of government against each other.

The net result is an America whose standing in the world has sunk to the level of an Israel seen by the rest of the world as a can of bloodsucking leeches.

And that's a strong boot in America's butt.