The two pieces of quackery upon which Israel has relied for
two decades to suck America's blood and stay afloat, were ambiguity and
bluster. Call them the A and B of Israel's immorality play.
When someone speaks of ambiguity in relation to Israel, what
usually comes to mind is the charade about Israel staging all kinds of
theatrics to make the onlooker believe it has an arsenal of nuclear weapons but
will not acknowledge it. But that's not the only ambiguity by which Israel
lives. Another and more important ambiguity is the charade it is pulling on
America's governing elites and America's governed.
This ambiguity consists of playing the double and
contradictory game of projecting weakness and strength simultaneously. Israel
projects itself as weak, prompting America to defend it lest the Jews living in
Israel suffer a second Holocaust. Israel also projects itself as strong to say
that what it receives from America is peanut compared to what it does for
itself. Thus, America's people and politicians must not think they can treat
Israel as the beggar they can push around and tell it what to do to earn
America's charity.
So much for ambiguity. As to bluster, when Israel shoots the
hot air or stages a pompous scene, it is not trying to scare its big Arab
neighbors. That's because it knows they are not buying its theatrics given that
–– despite what America gives it –– Israel cannot even beat the million and a
half unarmed kids of the city state known as Gaza. Rather, Israel is trying to
make its supporters in the American Congress, as well as its dwindling
followers among America's Jewry, believe that it is still a viable entity; one
that could use their moral support and deserves their continued financial
support.
This reality makes up the bedrock of the unchanging status
quo in the Middle East because no big Arab country has ever wanted to invade
Israel or destroy its war machine, which any one of them could do in a flash.
The reason is that such act would trigger a ton of responsibilities
encapsulated in the saying: “You break it, you own it.” And no one wants to be
responsible for the fate of a now defenseless 6.5 million Jews.
Can you imagine what will happen to these people if they
lose the protection of a Jewish army? Surrounded by the millions of neighbors
that Israel has turned into refugees or kept under a brutal occupation, the
Jews will stand no chance. Only the invading Arab army that destroyed Israel's
war machine will be in a position to protect them. In addition, because Israel
relied on others to feed its people, the onus will now fall on the Arab army to
feed the 6.5 million Jews it is protecting. The task is a nightmare no one
wants to live through.
This is the reality of what Israel has made of itself in
seven decades. And the consequence is that Jewish kids in America who grew up
feeding exclusively on Judeo-Israel propaganda, mistakenly believe that
Israel's policy of ambiguity and bluster is a winning formula that can work for
America as well as it did for Israel. And they are counseling the sufferers in
Washington to implement it. You can see an example of that in: “Why NATO
Matters,” which is the title of an article that also came under the subtitle:
“The Atlantic alliance is crucial to American deterrence,” It was written by
Matthew Continetti and published on July 21, 2018 in National Review Online.
What follows is the passage in which Continetti tells the
folks in Washington all about what he thinks has been Israel's winning formula,
having rejected the notion that the Middle East status quo is maintained
because no Arab country wants to smash Israel's war machine once and for all,
and because America prolongs the artificial entity the world has created out of
pity for the plight of the Jews, and now regrets doing it. Here is the passage:
“Deterrence relies on the perception of strength. The
tougher one's adversaries perceive you to be, the less likely they will move
against you. Collective security in NATO bolsters this perception of strength
through greater numbers. Would NATO invoke Article Five if Russia moved into
Estonia or Latvia or Slovenia? We don't know. But Russia doesn't know either.
It is [ambiguous] and risky”.
Continetti goes on to offer this logic: Because Nazi Germany
invaded a badly defended Europe in the past, Russia will invade a badly
defended Europe today. To defend against this eventuality, look to Israel that
is emulating the Nazi formula of growing by war and annexation, and prepare to
defend Europe rather than let the Europeans, led by the Germans, defend
themselves.