There is vision and there is distorted vision. Even someone that
never experienced distorted vision can make the mental effort to imagine what
it would be like to experience distorted vision. There is also blindness. But
can there be such a thing as distorted blindness?
When speaking of vision or lack of it as a physical reality, it is
difficult to define “distorted blindness” because vision is a binary system:
Either you see or you don't, which means you have vision, or you are blind. On
the other hand, if you can see, you may still suffer from a distortion that
lies somewhere on the distortion spectrum between minimum and maximum.
All of that comes into play when the same event is described
differently by different people. What comes to mind in this case, is the
metaphor of the spectrum that spans the gamut between clarity of vision at one
end and total confusion at the other end. In addition, if we believe that
confusion was created by a deliberate distortion of the facts, we don't just
call that blindness, we call it distorted blindness.
In fact, something happened lately that opens-up the opportunity
to study this phenomenon in depth. What came into question is the historical
relationship between the Jews and Palestine. As usual, the Jews have an
infinite number of interpretations to suit an infinite number of circumstances.
The one that preoccupies them the most at this time, is the reality that the
legitimacy of Israel is coming into question. And so, you find the Jewish
leaders scramble furiously as they try to find an interpretation of history
that will help them create the most suitable set of lies.
All of this happened because the Jews were suddenly reminded that
they are obligated to believe in the biblical interpretation which says that
God said there is room for only one people in Palestine. It is why Jewish
leaders cannot see Israel coexisting with Palestine. This motivates them to use
America's power and prestige to deny the creation of a Palestinian state, a
posture they have maintained successfully up to now. But in so doing, they made
it so that if Palestine's existence can be denied, so can Israel's existence.
This is the risk they took when they decided to oppose the creation of
Palestine, and it is beginning to scare them.
To fix the problem, the Jews came up with a novel way to interpret
history. They based their thinking on three principles. First, if a handful of
Jews settle in a place at any moment for any length of time, any Jew in the
world automatically gains property rights to that place. Second, because some
Jews were allowed into Palestine before the Holocaust, the flood of Jews that
went there after the Holocaust must not be thought of as refugees that fled ill-treatment
in Europe. They went to settle in Palestine because it was God's will. Third,
if the Jews believe that something happened, it must be that it did happen.
Two pieces of writing tell how the Jewish narrative is unfolding
along those lines. One article came under the title: “CNN Fact Checks Tlaib's
Holocaust Comments,” and the subtitle: “She Can't rewrite history.” It was
written by Jack Crowe and published on May 13, 2019 in National Review Online.
The other piece is an article that came under the title: “Fake history,” and
the subtitle: “Rashida Tlaib's grotesque distortion of the making of Israel.”
It was written by Lahav Harkov and published also on May 13, 2019 in the New
York Post. Here is what Jack Crowe has said:
“CNN corrected Rep. Rashida Tlaib's revisionist history of the
Holocaust, pointing out that Palestinian leaders supported the German
extermination of Jews and resisted the creation of a Jewish state. And then,
Aaron David Miller, a guest on the show, castigated Tlaib saying this: Palestinian
leaders were considering extermination of the entire Jewish community,
believing that German forces might arrive in the region after defeating allied
forces in North Africa.
And here is what Lahav Harkov has said:
“Tlaib peddled the lie that Israel was established because of the
Holocaust. The litany of Arabs opposing the work for a Jewish community began
in 1851. The Holocaust took place nearly a century later. In 1917, Arthur
Balfour declared his government in favor of establishing in Palestine a home
for the Jews. They received an imprimatur from the international community
before the Holocaust. The Arabs opposed Jewish immigration. The mufti of
Jerusalem met with Hitler. To his delight, Hitler promised that Germany's
objective would be the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab
sphere. Meanwhile, the British sharply limited the number of Jews who could
enter Palestine during the Holocaust. Ships were turned around and, like in
many Western countries, Jews were sent back to certain death in Europe”.
As can be seen, the fact that a Jewish community was set up in
Palestine circa 1851 despite opposition by the local population, the Jews
thought that every Jew in the world was given the right to go and settle in
Palestine. They went one family at a time till the Holocaust happened, at which
time Jews from all over Europe started to flood Palestine. But do not consider
them refugees fleeing certain death, says the new Jewish narrative ... for
Rashida Tlaib to say so, is to distort history.
As to the Palestinians opposing the invasion of their country by a
flood of Jews, they proved to be evil, say the Jews. This does not include the
Brits who at first came up with the idea of settling some Jews in Palestine,
but then saw that the situation was getting out of hand, and sharply limited
the number of Jews that could settle in Palestine. Ships were turned away, says
Harkov, and Jews were sent back to certain death in Europe. But the evil ones,
were the Palestinians and not the Brits or the other Europeans.
And then there is the idea that a Palestinian cleric did what
Chamberlain and many others did at the time, which was to go visit Hitler. This
too proves how evil the Palestinians were, say the Jews, because they can tell
what happened during the encounter between the two men. At a time when no one
knew that Hitler was planning to holocaust the Jews, Hitler had told the
Palestinian cleric he was going to do just that ... and the cleric was delight,
say the Jews. Hitler went further and told the Palestinian cleric he will
invade the Middle East and ethnic cleanse it of its Jewish element ... and the
cleric was doubly delighted, say the Jews who want you to believe they know
what people think.