Can you imagine the gall of a serial rapist who offers a way
to protect others from his addiction? How do you think he'll approach the
discussion? Will he begin by admitting he is very sick and in need of therapy?
Or will he blame his victims for what he'll describe as self-inflicted wounds?
Because serial rape does not always have to be of the sexual kind, you'll find
it practiced in other fields as well; and there are stories to tell in this
regard.
If you want to know what a seriously afflicted rapist of the
politico-diplomatic kind will say, read “Hopeless in Gaza,” an article that was
written by Clifford D. May and published on February 20, 2018 in the Washington
Times. To spin a story that will make the rapist – in this case, Israel
– look good, and make the victims – in this case, the Palestinians – look bad,
Clifford May did two things. He dipped into his old bag of spun assertions, all
of which were debunked dozens of times on this website and elsewhere, and he
relied on the sayings of others.
Now, my friend, guess who were those others. Well, there was
David M. Halbfinger, a Jew that happens to be the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times.
There were David Makovsky and Lia Weiner, two Jews of the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy. There was Michael Oren, an Israeli Jew who used to be Israel 's ambassador to the United States ,
and is now deputy diplomacy minister in the Netanyahu government. And last but
not least, there was the late Golda Meir, a Jewess who served as Prime Minister
of Israel.
To avoid being redundant, we'll have to set aside what
Clifford May has fished out from his old bag. Set aside the contribution of the
New York Times for, it too has been debunked many times before. The same goes
for David Makovsky and Lia Weiner whose Washington Institute becomes useful
only when there is a need to wipe the floor. And set aside Golda Meir who got
her reward when she came as close as the width of a hair to committing suicide
when, in her old age, she discovered how wrong she had been all her life.
Let us concentrate, instead, on the sayings of Michael Oren.
Clifford May tells us that the Israeli deputy minister offered a suggestion on
what to do about the situation in Gaza .
It is that “Israel should
take significant steps to alleviate the crisis in Gaza –– expecting nothing in return,” he
said. But why did he say that? He said it because there is now the promise of a
breakthrough in the Palestinian situation thanks to the effort that Egypt is
putting into resolving this matter.
If the breakthrough is realized, Israel wants to say it participated
in making it happen. And you can be certain that a year later, most
publications in America , and
most politicians will be running around mouthing off that Israel did it alone, and did it against the will
of the neighbors, especially Egypt .
Some of the trained monkeys in the Washington Beltway will even blather that Egypt
played a destructive role trying to sabotage the Israeli effort, but failed to
stop the Jews from doing the great humanitarian work they are famous for.
Serial rapists sink to the level of animals and do this sort of thing, you
know! It is how they increase the pleasure they derive from rape.
But what is the excuse that allowed Michael Oren to suggest Israel should alleviate the crisis in Gaza ? Clifford May tells
us that Oren explained it this way: “Abbas wants Hamas to start another war
with Israel –– one that
would end with Israel
defeating Hamas and expelling it from Gaza .
Israel
would be accused of war crimes and Abbas would benefit twice: He would be
hailed for having dealt Hamas a final blow, and would be revered for defending
the Palestinians from the Zionists”.
Given that there have been three wars between Gaza and Israel ,
and nothing of the sort came close to taking place, you can tell this is not
the suggestion of a sane man. A good advice to give Michael Oren is that he
should keep his day job as deputy minister in Netanyahu's government, and quit
moonlighting insane ideas.
Having rejected Oren's fantasy, we look at Clifford May's
imagination to see if there is anything there. Here is what he said: “Imagine
Hamas stops spending millions of dollars building missiles and digging tunnels.
Imagine that in response Israel
stops building an anti-tunnel system costing $1 billion. Israel offers to spend those funds to assist the
people of Gaza .
Imagine Gazans have clean drinking water, electricity and a modern sewage
system. Do you not think Gaza
would become much more attractive to job-creating investors?”
That solution being as fake as a three dollar bill, Clifford
May would do better suggesting to his cohorts in Israel they should let the
industrious Gazans rebuild the airport, the roads and the buildings that Israel
regularly destroys using American weapons. If this happens, Gazans will not
have to spend their energy building defensive missiles or tunnels.
As to the means of financing all of that work, Israel should
let Gazans develop – among other things – the gas field they have in their
territorial waters. Investors are lined up right now wanting to develop this
field and explore for more gas and oil in Gaza ’s
waters. All they need to know is that the Israelis will not yet again behave
like savage and cowardly animals by getting in the way of completing those
projects.