Like
the fish that is spawned in one spot on the globe and spends a lifetime roaming
the seas and oceans of the Earth only to come back to its birthplace and spawn
the next generation of the species, the Jews feel the urge to return to their
designated point of departure when it is time to reiterate their fidelity to
obnoxiousness.
Nearly
4,000 years into the odyssey aimed at subjugating the human race and ruling
over it, renewal for present-day Jews has come to mean keeping a tight grip on
the levers of power in the United States of America. They sense they are losing
that grip, and are getting feverish about refueling the mechanism by which they
maintain a tight grip on the power centers of America.
Like
salmon which lets no barrier, no waterfall and no hungry bear stand in the way
of the journey to its birthplace, the Jew becomes so fevered by the urge to
impose his views on America, he lets no absurdity, no trivial talk and no sense
of shame stand in the way of spewing what he thinks will work on government
officials that have a hand on the levers of power. He wiggles his tail like a
salmon on steroid to convince the officials that their first concern can only
be how best to serve Israel, always Israel and no one but Israel.
The
one development the Jews fear more than getting caught in the jaws of a hungry
bear, is detecting a change in the American support for the idea that the Jews
must be singled out for a treatment that's more luxurious than anyone else can
ever receive. More than that, they feel that such treatment must carry with it
the unmistakable message that it is exclusive to the Jews because they are
special.
All
of that is meant to accomplish two things. First, it affirms the Jewish belief
that they were chosen by God to stand above everyone else. Second, it is the
Jewish way to get back at a humanity that sought to humiliate them by forcing
them to wear a yellow Star of David. Now, the Jews want the leaders of America
to humiliate their own people as a way to atone for what the Nazis did to the
Jews almost a century ago in a faraway place.
Bret
Stephens has joined the latest Jewish battle for renewal, doing his part in a
way he never did before. He wrote a two-thousand-word article in which he
stated the Jewish position. In so doing, he made the fatal mistake of resting
the full weight of his argument on a single absurdity that could not carry the
weight of a fly. The poor thing, he spent much effort doing something, and it
was gulped not by a bear, but the salmon he is promoting.
To
get a better understanding of what Stephens did, we need to look at this
analogy: A thief who is also a killer and a rapist, robs a bank. He is
surrounded by law enforcement and questioned before he could get away. He
admits he robbed the bank and committed the other offenses, but says he has a
valid defense. It is that he tried to return the money to the bank twice, but
the manager refused to take it both times because he felt more comfortable not
having the money than taking it back. Well, everybody that hears this story
feels this guy is a devious rascal and should be locked up for the rest of his
life … not once, not twice but several times over.
The
Bret Stephens article came under the title: “The Progressive Assault on
Israel,” and published on February 9, 2019 in the New York Times. Here is the
passage that drove a stake into the heart of the Stephens argument:
“The
occupation of Palestine is an injustice that cannot be ignored, especially
given America's financial support for Israel. Continued settlement expansion
proves that Israel has no interest in making peace. The endless occupation
makes Israel's rule less about Jewish self-determination than about ethnic
subjugation. There's more to the indictment, but that's the nub of it. It would
be damning if it were true, or even half-true. It's not. The Jewish truth is
that Israeli prime ministers offered a Palestinian state in 2000 and 2008, they
were refused both times”.
This
is the argument that renders the two-thousand-word Bret Stephens article dead
on arrival. The fact remains that the indictment against Israel is true, at
least once for every day that the occupation of Palestine is maintained … and
it has been maintained for close to 20,000 days. Anyone that tries to sugarcoat
this transgression is a devious rascal that should never be consulted.