If someone is fundamentally dishonest and wants something that's
not his, he can employ any number of tricks to acquire what belongs to someone
else. The reaction to such an attempt will vary depending on many factors,
ranging from mild to extremely severe.
Even without a clear understanding as to what belongs to whom,
disputes over territory, food, mating rights and what have you, are common
among primates of the same species and between the species. The start of a
dispute over such matters may scare a potential foe and convince him to back
off without a fight, or the dispute may degenerate into a fight in which one
opponent injures the other or even kills him. Thus, we recognize that disputes
and the necessity to resolve them are a big part of life itself.
Because we, human beings, are endowed with a trait called reason,
we were able to set-up dispute-resolving mechanisms, and used them to avoid the
violent consequences of our disputes. But the reality is that while these
mechanisms have helped keep the peace among human beings most of the time, they
did not always perform as well as expected. The sad reality is that tragedies
continue to happen at the domestic level even in the households of the most
advanced cultures. Tragedies also occur too frequently at the institutional,
national and international levels –– sometimes with consequences that can be
reversed, and sometimes with consequences that cannot be reversed.
Still, we cannot ignore seeing how much we have developed as a
species since ancient times when litigants in a dispute used to seek the wise
counsel of the village elder for resolving disputes among them. In fact, we can
see, and be proud of the way that we have progressed over the centuries in
setting-up a modern system of justice to handle cases that range from juvenile
delinquency to cases of sedition at the local level, to the skirmishes and the
wars that flare-up at the international level. And we can attribute our success
in this discipline to the part of our brain that developed algebra, invented
the electric motor, established space flights, codified the precepts of human
logic and did much more.
But there are some things in our human culture that continue to
defy logic. You'll find an example of that in the article that came under the
title: “Using the Bahrain strategy as a model for the world,” and the subtitle:
“The United States offered a fresh approach to negotiations that can be applied
to conflicts worldwide.” It was written by Maayan Hoffman and published on July
22, 2019 in The Washington Times.
Hoffman is pointing to a strange attempt that was concocted by
people calling themselves Jews. They are a group that came together from
disparate ethnic backgrounds. Their history since the beginning of time, has
been marred by one colossal failure after another, causing them to suffer one
deadly tragedy after another. Nevertheless, these Jews have managed to convince
America, the superpower of the day, to play the role of village elder, and take
up the cause of mediating between them and neighbors with whom they are having
an ongoing dispute. That's what Maayan Hoffman calls the Bahrain Strategy.
Behaving with their neighbors the way they did throughout history,
it happened that the Jews tried to resolve their current dispute with various
neighbors without a mediator but failed each time. They failed because their
approach was never based on an equitable exchange of concessions that would have
made both sides feel they achieved a win-win situation. On the contrary, the
Jews never sat to negotiate with someone without first obtaining leverage over
the other side. And having gained leverage, they would attempt to dictate a
settlement that would transfer every disputed item to them. And this wasn't all
because the Jews always wanted all of that and still more than that.
In fact, what the Jews crave even more than any tangible item, is
a recognition that they are given the entire enchilada, not because it is the
equitable thing to do by the measure of any logic, but because they are a
people that elevated themselves to the status of “privileged” by the fact that
they chose to adhere to a culture they consider to be a religious belief. And
because no one on Planet Earth has ever accepted this absurdity, the Jews were
condemned to live in the eternal state of misery that refuses to part with
them.
From the looks of it, the Jews have not gotten the message yet.
The proof is encapsulated in their latest attempt –– the one they call the
Bahrain Strategy. It started as the Jewish attempt to have America get into the
business of convincing the Palestinians to give everything to the Jews, and
convincing Israel's Arab neighbors to bankroll the Jews for being so good as to
relieve the Palestinians of their possessions.