Friday, May 19, 2017

Moaning to Monetize a fake Moment

You engineer a fake incident with the view of exploiting it but the events take a life of their own and develop differently from what you had in mind. You quickly rearrange the chips to exploit the new moment.

Instead of the quid pro quo you were aiming for, you now have a situation in which you can play the victim and gain as much as you originally wanted or maybe even more. What a lucky Jew you are!

This kind of scenario can only play itself in America, and the actors can only be the usual suspects. They would be Israel playing the role of the bloodsucker, America playing the role of the pushover, and the four stooges being played by The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Weekly Standard.

Scene One opens on May 17, 2017 with each of the last three publications relaying one aspect of the story. Writing an op-ed in the New York Times, Yossi Alpher lays out the background like this: “[2 days ago] The Washington Post reported that President Trump had disclosed highly classified intelligence to senior Russian officials.” He says this much in an article he wrote under the title: “What Israel Makes of Trump's Intel Gaffe,” published in the New York Times, of course.

As to Jenna Lifhits, she reassures the diehard rank-and-file that has not yet defected to the ranks of the BDS movement, that “Trump Disclosure Unlikely to Harm Intel Cooperation with U.S.,” an article that was published in the Weekly Standard. And last but not least, you have none other than the editors of the Wall Street Journal who instruct President Donald Trump and warn him that “Loose Lips Sink Presidencies.” It is an editorial that also came under the subtitle: “The Russian intel story shows the price of Trump's lost credibility,” published in the Wall Street Journal, of course.

Since Yossi Alpher served in Israel's Mossad, and since he directed a center for strategic studies, what he reveals about this matter tells more about Israel; about what it wants and how it goes about getting it – than what the Wall Street Journal or the Weekly Standard or the New York Times can ever reveal. After all, these publications as well as the Washington Post were the stooges that Israel used like umbilical cords to suck America's blood and treasure.

But considering that Yossi Alpher intended all along to derive maximum benefit for Israel from what happened, how did he spin the argument? Well, the first thing he did was to cast a wide net of ambiguity over the event. Look how he did that: “Islamic State plots to blow up airliners with bombs planted in laptops … The specific accuracy of these press reports is a secondary issue. The primary issue is the affront to protocol...”

In other words, he first asserted that this was an important event because lives could be affected by what happens next. He then added: But you know what; nothing of what was said may turn out to be accurate.

Having produced a confusion he can exploit, he now seeks to create a fake moment he can dance around. To this end, he tells what else came with the affront to protocol. It is this: “...as well as concern for the safety of the intelligence source, which was compounded by the impression that the leak came from a witless leader oblivious to the gravitas of his office.” Wow! There is enough here to turn even a paraplegic into a Fred Astaire.

Not only did Alpher engender sympathy for the intelligence source that may or may not exist in a dangerous zone, he also denigrated the President of the United States whose light weight intellect is no match to the weight of his obligations, says Alpher.

But having admitted to “Israel's considerable dependency on American support,” why did he take a chance insulting the President of the United States so viciously? He did it because there is nothing more powerful than to moan: “I have been victimized by one of your own, America; one that's so demonstrably stupid, you should have kept on a leash”.

In fact, this is what allowed Yossi Alpher to end his article with these words: “No question, Mr. Trump has caused totally unnecessary damage. But does that mean he now owes Israel a favor that Mr. Netanyahu can call in?” You bet Netanyahu will do just that. But the useful question to ask is this: Will Trump listen to him or will he tell him: not one red cent till you get out of Palestine.