Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Look what they are doing to you, America!

Three articles that appeared in The Washington Times on three different days tell a story about how America is played, and how it is sucked dry by those who pretend to be her friends.

Daniel Pipes wrote: “How the Dubai miracle was realized,” and had it published on December 6, 2017. Cheryl K. Chumley wrote: “On Jerusalem, let 'em rage,'” and had it published on December 9, 2017. Jed Babbin wrote: “Good Luck, Jared Kushner,” and had it published on December 10, 2017.

Using different words from what I'm using here, Daniel Pipes confessed that he did the very Jewish thing of making a list of the sins that differentiate the Jews, then turned around and accused the Arabs of everything on that list. But he said he must now retract his words because his predictions did not come true. He then threw a very Jewish caveat in this form: The predictions did not come true not because I, Daniel Pipes the Jew, was wrong but because the Arabs discovered they were wrong and corrected their mistakes.

Here is how Daniel Pipes said all that:

“I lambasted Dubai in a 2009 article for suckering outsiders with Ponzi-scheme real estate deals. It appeared to be only a matter of time until the whole edifice collapsed. But that did not happen. The leaders learned from their mistakes and oversaw Dubai's roaring back bigger than ever”.

He did not stop here but went on to explain how the leaders of Dubai did it. But again, Pipes did so in the very Jewish fashion of insulting those leaders, denigrating their economic model, associating it with those of bad actors such as the Chinese, and concluding that despite the Dubai success of having devised a viable model, it is regrettably not as good as the one followed by the Judeo-Christian West. Here is how Daniel Pipes put it:

“This is capitalism where the state plays a major role. Dubai's leaders have directed the economy through a strong hand. Thus, Dubai fits the Asian model where the tigers grew rich with government involvement in the economy. Then came China [where] the Communist Party maintained four decades of remarkable economic growth. The success of its state capitalism has proven so impressive that regimes [elsewhere] have emulated China. Dubai boisterously fits this new model, which fits a well-established and regrettably viable model”.

As to Cheryl Chumley, having no big story to tell, and no head on a silver platter to offer the Jews who just got rewarded with a diplomatic victory, she thought she could get in the good graces of her bosses by performing the Salome dance of triumph and jubilation. Thus, on the occasion of the announcement that America will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, she threw mud in the face of “the United Nations, the European Union, the Catholic Church, the political ranks of progressives, the globalists and the Islamic apologists” while undulating to the rhythm of the ancient precursor to the modern belly dance. 

And she sang, of course. She sang not someone else's verses but her own. They went like this: Let 'em. Let the moaners moan, the wailers wail and the protesters protest. The problem is that she was so fixated about pleasing her Jewish bosses; she failed to realize that her intent was misconstrued. Because the Jews wanted Jerusalem to get close to the Wailing Wall, her audience thought she was mocking the Jewish wailers at the Wall, and moaning the lot of the protesting Israeli women who were prevented from getting near the Wall by rabbis that think of them as inferior creations.

As to Jed Babbin, he did the very Jewish thing of looking at the situation, locating imaginary dots in places that do not exist, and connecting said dots in such manner as to reach the inescapable conclusion that peace will come to the Middle East if America were courageous enough to trample on the rights of Palestinians, and give the Jews of Israel what does not belong to them. Here is how Babbin argued all of that:

“[Because] the Arab nations care about securing themselves against Iran; the Palestinians could be forced to agree to a deal with Israel if Kushner and Greenblatt play their cards right. It's a long-shot. If Trump were to change the position he took with Putin and require withdrawal of all Iranian forces from Syria, he could put Hamas on the spot for its alliance with Iran. Mahmoud Abbas would be in a very weak position that the Saudis, Jordanians and others could help us leverage into a deal”.

Well, someone should tell this guy, Babbin, that if this is the kind of game yielding result in the Washington Beltway, it will not work with the Arabs who can see through it, and will reject it off hand.

In fact, this is how the Arabs were able to prevent the Jews among them from getting out of control. The result has been that the Arabs never had to use pogrom or holocaust on the Jews.

It is an Arab approach that the Europeans failed to emulate; one that the Americans must learn or see themselves repeat the European mistake.