In a column that came under the title: “Palestinians have
mail,” published in The Washington Times on July 3, 2018, Clifford D. May wrote
830 words of preamble before telling his readers what he is getting at. It was
this: “Over the days ahead, President Trump's peace processors are expected to
unveil a new plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestinian
leaders have said they will reject it.” This last part is a lie.
In fact, the preceding 830 words were meant to pave the way
for injecting a semblance of believability in the lie that was to come. So the
question is this: How did Clifford May pave the way to tell a lie in the hope
that he'll get away with it? The answer is simple. He did it the Jewish way.
That is, he used every trick in his tool box to convey the message that the
Israelis are fundamentally decent people who only wish to grab what's not
theirs and nothing worse than that, whereas the Palestinians are indecent
people for not joyfully handing to the Jews what they came to rob them of … and
then thank the Jews for being a lovable thieving bunch.
This being a powerful message – if you believe in the power
of Jewish logic – it came at the start of the presentation and came down as
hard as a sledge hammer knocking the message into the heads of readers. Here is
how May did it: “Ample evidence suggests that most Israelis long for peace and
would toss out any leader who stood in the way of a real deal. Palestinians
don't have that freedom. The last time they voted for a president was 2005.”
Okay, Cliff but what does it mean to you?
It means that in his eyes, there are 4 actors playing their
roles in that scene. They are the Israeli population, the Israeli leadership,
the Palestinian population and the Palestinian leadership. May asserts that the
Israeli population is the most descent of all – so much so, it “would toss out
any leader” that would stand in the way of peace if there was a real offer on
the table; which there hasn't been. This fake excuse explains why Netanyahu,
the avowed archenemy of ending the occupation, is still Prime Minister of
Israel.
As to why there hasn't been a peace offer, Clifford May says
is because the Palestinians, who are under occupation, refuse to delude
themselves into believing they love the feel of the Israeli boots on their
necks. They also refuse to act as if they were an independent state that's
nevertheless yearning to be independent. Do you know what this is like, my
friend? It is like asking why General De Gaulle did not become President of
France while heading the French Resistance fighting the German occupation of
his country; he waited till liberation was completed before running for the
position and getting elected. There are also similar stories concerning Nelson
Mandela of South Africa and Robert Mugabe of Rhodesia-cum-Zimbabwe who did not
do politics while engaged in the business of liberation.
To be effective at telling the readers (1) how decent the
Jews are despite their repeated display of indecency as they keep electing
Netanyahu, and (2) how indecent the Palestinians are for refusing to buck the
De Gaulle, Mandela and Mugabe trend – Clifford May used a book written by the
American born (now Israeli citizen) Yossi Klein Halevi, to give his fake
narrative an aura of authenticity. The Halevi book came under the title:
“Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor”.
The content of the book consists of Halevi's message to the
Palestinian people among whom he lived for a year to understand them, feel
their pain and learn how to communicate with them. Clifford May quoted very
little from that book but when he did, it was to achieve two objectives. The
first was to show how impartial the Jewish American has been – Halleluiah!
Praise the Jew. The second objective was to pinpoint something he can use to
show that the Palestinians are not worthy of praise.
Here is what Halevi said:
“One of the main obstacles to peace is an inability to hear
the other side's story. By the end of my year-long journey I had come to love
Islam. I cherished its fearless heart, especially in the face of death.
Westerners often try to evade an encounter with one's own mortality. Not so
Muslims. To Jews: I have no intention of denying your claim or your pain. I
only confront the wrongs done by our side and acknowledge the Palestinian
narrative of invasion, occupation, and expulsion. To Palestinians: my presence
here is part of the return of an indigenous, uprooted people, and a reborn
Jewish state as an act of historic justice, of repatriation”.
And here is what Clifford May said:
“Halevi's letters will appeal to
Palestinians who dream of the day when their children will not be taught to
hate, nor groomed to become martyrs. But there also are Palestinians for whom
the problem is not the non-existence of a Palestinian state. Their problem is the
existence of a Jewish one. They consider it their religious duty to fight and
destroy such an entity. If that costs them their lives and those of their
children, so be it. That, too, is an expression of a fearless heart. I'm
describing Hezbollah, Iran's rulers and others we call jihadists and
Islamists”.
Did you catch all the nuances in
that passage, my friend? The writer started talking about the Palestinians,
went on to say horrible things – all of which contrary to what Halevi had
observed – and then ended by disclaiming himself with this: “I'm describing
Hezbollah, Iran's rulers and others we call jihadists and Islamists.” But the
damage to the Palestinians was already done in the minds of the readers.
And then there is what came to be
known as the incurable Jewish disease. It was expressed in May's article as
follows: “Those for whom the problem is not the non-existence of a Palestinian
state. Their problem is the existence of a Jewish one.” What this indicates is
a mentality that cannot perceive the pain it is inflicting on others. That is,
in the very diseased mind of Clifford May, the Palestinians do not suffer
because they are being denied a state of their own; they suffer because the
Jews have a state of their own.
You know who else does not
perceive the pain it is inflicting on others? Animals don't. And every time the
Jews display this part of their character, they are thought to be animals. In
fact, they have been treated like animals by humanity since time immemorial –
gassed and incinerated like dreaded pests. Will they ever make the effort to
rise to the level of human beings?