Imagine yourself walking in a wooded area alone and getting
tired. You see a clearing in the landscape and a boulder in it that is just
right to sit on and take a rest. You do that and suddenly hear human voices
emanate from somewhere. You look around but there is no one there.
You ponder for a few moments and then do the unthinkable;
you look down to see if the ground is talking to you. And lo and behold, you
see a hole in the ground the size of a rabbit from which the voices are
emanating. You discern three distinct voices; one that speaks for itself, and a
chorus of two other voices saying the same thing together. And you wonder if
this is the hole that swallowed Alice
and sent her to Wonderland.
You listen to what the voices are saying, and judge the
experience to be so unreal in the universe where you live, you conclude that
the voices must be coming from a different universe, or maybe from another
dimension in the same universe. Whatever the case, you pull a pad out of your
pocket, and instead of sketching the natural landscape, which you came to do,
you take notes of what you are hearing.
Okay, you say to me, so what's the real story, Fred? And I
say that one of the voices belongs to Dennis Ross. He wrote an article under
the title: “The price of selling out the Kurds,” and had it published on
November 8, 2017 in the New York Daily News. The other two voices are those of
Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky. They co-wrote an article under the
title: “Reckoning in Saudi
Arabia ,” and had it published on November 9,
2017 in The National Interest.
Desperate to inject life in the dying cause of Kurdish
independence, Dennis Ross who almost single-handedly transformed the Middle
East peace process from a piece of cake to a lump of horse manure, has tried to
pull a rabbit out of a hat in his article. Guess what he did in that regard. He
gave advice to the current administration in Washington , but did not present it as his
own. The reason is that he knew if he did so, the advice would be used to
fertilize the trees in the White House garden. And so, he did the following
instead:
“In the eyes of my Arab colleagues, even if the Trump
administration tried and failed to dissuade Barzani from taking this step, the
U.S. could not afford to allow the Kurds to be defeated in such a manner … For
them, the Kurds were an American partner … We stood on the sidelines. My
friends noted the contrast with the Russians, who had stood by the Assad
regime, and secured it … Even the Israelis get this. 'Look,' I was told, 'how
many times Netanyahu has gone to Moscow '”.
Knowing that the only thing to represent an existential
threat to the Arab World is the partitioning of the nations it is made of, when
you hear Dennis Ross say that his “Arab colleagues” whispered in his ear
anything that is not a total condemnation of the Jewish-American attempt to
partition Iraq, is like hearing Dennis Ross say that Netanyahu has asked to be
buried in a grave adjacent to that of Hitler.
Well, my friend if this performance did not blow your mind,
look what Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky did. They too have decided to give
advice to the current administration in Washington .
And so, speaking of the new king in Saudi Arabia , they wrote the
following:
“A young man with limited experience in governance is making
an unprecedented bid for control. Still, the United States would be wise not to
attach itself to Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) like a barnacle to the side of a
boat lest its own Middle East policy go down with the ship … MBS is the
opposite of King Midas … everything he touches leaves a hot mess behind … And
now that he has taken a wrecking ball to the Saudis' decision-making process,
he'll operate within even fewer constraints … The fact is Trump and MBS have a
lot in common. Both are authoritarian personalities; both are inexperienced at
governance, particularly in foreign policy matters; and both have inflated egos
that get in the way of the prudence and wisdom required for wise governance”.
In other words, this pair of “wise” Jews are telling
President Donald Trump that the new king in Saudi Arabia is a jerk but no less
a jerk than Trump himself. And so they want the latter to stay away from the
former lest his jerkiness rub off on the president, on the presidency and on
the American nation.