Looking from a thousand feet up, it seems like a cowboy is
riding a horse, going toward the house on the hill straight ahead. But when you
swoop down and get close to the action, you see a monkey riding a jackass,
going to the house of ignorance. What the hell is that about?
It's about a piece of writing that the editors of the New
York Times have decorated with mascara and lipstick thinking it will be
acceptable to a moderate audience. The trouble is that the editors made two big
mistakes. To pile up on the metaphors, it can be said that the story turned out
to be that of know-nothing amateurs mistaking acid-based coloring material for
cosmetics. Using it, they created a monster fit for next Fall's Halloween
whereas the intent was to beautify Cinderella and prepare her for the opening
of next Spring's festival.
Those who are familiar with Middle Eastern issues will form
mental images of that sort when they read the editorial that came under the
title: “Israel Courts Catastrophe in Gaza Protests,” published on April 3, 2018
in the New York Times. The first mistake the editors made came early. It is
this: “For more than a decade, Gaza has been
blockaded by Israel and Egypt .” The
second mistake came near the end of the piece when the editors turned a
humanitarian catastrophe into a tool they deployed to blame the victims. And
that's how they neutralized the little criticism they seemed to level against Israel 's
leaders.
Aside from all that, what took the editors down to the level
of jackasses is that they did not stop and think what it means to say that Egypt – like Israel
– is blockading Gaza .
Before making a statement of this gravity, a human being would have defined the
word “blockade.” He would have tested it against what Israel is doing and why; and he would have
tested it against what Egypt
is doing and why. He would also have tried to establish both the legality and
morality of what each side was doing. Only then, would he pronounce himself as
to whether or not there was equivalence between the two. But the editors of the
New York Times did none of that. Instead, they equated the two using the
conjunction “and,” thus made it sound like the blockade of Gaza
was a joint venture mounted by Egypt
and Israel .
The reality, however, is that Israel implemented an air,
land and sea blockade around Gaza, preventing most everything from going in or
out of that place of misery. The first thing it did after it was kicked out of Gaza was to use American bombs, rockets and warplanes to
turn the Gaza
airport into a pile of rubble. The next thing Israel
did was to launch savage air assaults on Gaza 's
vital infrastructures such as water, power generation and sanitary
installations. In addition, Israel
boarded civilian ships headed toward Gaza ;
and on one occasion killed Turkish relief workers who were taking food and
medicine to people that needed them badly.
By contrast, what Egypt
does is protect its border with Gaza no
differently from how it protects its borders with Libya ,
Sudan and Israel . What
the animals of Israel have
been doing for decades, however, was to shell, bomb and machine-gun the Gaza population to force it to flee into Egypt 's Sinai.
The aim of these animals is to establish in the mind of their counterparts in
the American Congress the notion that Gazans should move into the Sinai and
leave Gaza for Israel to annex. It is another of
their long term projects aimed at establishing yet another fait accompli. It is
the Jewish beastly way of riding on the back of the Jackasses, and lead them to
the house of ignorance. That's where they meet the likes of the New York Times
editors; the place where they all gather to blather in each others' ears the
lie that Egypt – like Israel – is blockading Gaza .
As to the second mistake committed by the editors of the New
York Times, it begins with their braying a high pitched hysterical shriek that
sounds like this: “Palestinian leaders have also failed their people.” It is
obvious that nobody told these brainless jackasses that when you've lived an
act of war inflicted on your people for half a century, your priorities look
different from those of others. This is true even if the others are the very
people whose taxes are used to encourage, arm and finance the savages who are committed
to exterminate your people and rob them of the spoils they leave behind.
No, Hamas has not started the ongoing war with Israel ; it was America that armed the Jews and
sent them to wage war against the Palestinians. If the differences between
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority––brought about by Palestine ’s
unlucky situation––make them look bad, then the differences between the Left
and the Right––which exist despite America ’s good luck––make them look
odious. To expect impeccable correctness from a people under occupation for
half a century, is to show mental deficiency of the most Jewish kind.