Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the deadliest of them all?
This is the question America's National Security team must be asking itself at
this juncture. That's because America finds itself caught in an “entre les
deux, mon coeur balance” kind of situation.
One of the two (les deux) is Turkey, which is allied to
America by the NATO treaty. The other is Israel, which is a leech that glued
itself to America's body, sucking blood from the host in return for toxic ideas
that keep America in a permanent state of “moral” dependency.
Turkey purchased American-made F-35 fighter jets that have
not been delivered. In contrast, Israel was given, and has received F-35s free
of charge. It makes you wonder: Have the Americans ever bumped into the word
“priority”? If yes, do they know what it means?
Turkey is in NATO because it was once a close ally of
America. Also, for some weird reason, Israel was considered an ally of America.
This made Turkey –– if not a de facto ally of Israel –– at least a de jure ally
in the sense that in-laws are considered related even if they are of a
different blood line. But the problem here is that the Turks and the Israelis
had a serious falling out with each other. The situation should not, in principle,
affect the relation that each has with America. But exceptional circumstances
intruded and voided that principle.
It happened that the two so-called friends of America could
no longer maintain the appearance of compatibility between them, so opposed to
each other being their cultures. What dragged America into the dispute was that
Turkey began to see America as being obsessed by the Israeli Zionist mentality,
considered by the Turks to match Hitler's supremacist obsession with the Aryan
race. This sealed the dilemma for America, and led to the question: What next?
Well, the debate regarding this issue has begun in earnest
as can be seen in the article that came under the title: “Are we giving fighter
jets to a friend or foe?” It is the latest of Benny Avni's column, published on
August 1, 2018 in the New York Post. The first sentence being a question that
Avni uses to establish America's dilemma, you do not need an answer to realize
you're watching a real-life burlesque play itself out.
Benny Avni, who passes for an American but whose heart and
soul make him Israeli through and through, has asked this question: “Is Turkey
still a friend to keep close, or an enemy to keep closer?” This says that at
least for now, America is keeping Israel closer, which means it should be an
enemy. But that's not what the rest of the Avni column implies ... hence, the
burlesque quality of the situation.
As if to prove the Turkish charge that America is obsessed
with the Israeli Zionist mentality, Benny Avni saw fit to ignore a geographic
reality and inserted the following sentence in the article: “Like Britain and
other European partners … Israel is a staunch US ally.” The fact is that Turkey
is so close to Europe, a chunk of its territory is actually situated on the European
continent, whereas Israel is all-around Asian.
Whereas Europe is reluctant to accept Turkey's membership
into the Union because of its non-Christian religion, the Israelis – who also
are non-Christian – consider themselves European despite their claim to also be
Afro-Asian Semites. And yet, no formal or informal rejection came from Europe
to Israel's claim it enjoys a European identity … and this too adds to the
burlesque quality of the situation.
But all of that pales when compared to a couple of other
realities that turn this burlesque production from a comedy to a tragicomedy.
One reality is that the Americans are refusing to deliver the jet fighters to
Turkey because the latter is purchasing a Russian air-defense system. The
argument is that the Russians could learn how to defeat the attack capabilities
of the F-35.
That is a fallacy because for this to happen, you must
assume that the Turks will make the warplane available to the Russians for them
to reverse-engineer. This did not happen, and will most likely never happen.
What did happen, however, is that Israeli spies stole the design of the first
American stealth fighter, and sold it to the Chinese who then built their own.
The other reality is that Benny Avni quotes a Turkish defector
as saying: “Erdogan [of Turkey] feels comfortable among kleptocratic regimes.”
Well, it looks like this defector has a lot to learn about the situation in
Israel where money that's sent to survivors of the Holocaust from abroad, is
regularly stolen by the highest officials in government, including almost every
prime minister since the creation of the crime syndicate they call Israel.
And that creation is the tragedy the United Nations (UN) has
lived to regret making in 1948. This was the year the UN agreed to the
establishment of Israel as a homeland for the Jews on Palestinian territory.
Since then, the problem has proliferated to become America's
number one headache. And the reality is that America is keeping Israel so close
to its skin, it is not realizing how much the leech is plugged into its veins
from where it sucks American blood like there is no tomorrow.