Did
you ever hear the expression: “Nero is fiddling while Rome is burning?” It
applies to people who get excited about the small things they see while
ignoring the big things that threaten to consume the small things as well as
everything else.
If
you think of this as a metaphor, you can tell it applies almost exactly to the
Jews who rejoice every time that they see a small disturbance in an Arab or a
Muslim country, while ignoring the big trends which are transforming the region
at a pace never seen before anywhere around the globe.
You
often hear the Jews speak, and you hear them make comments as they joyfully
describe how an Arab or a Muslim official was embarrassed when some little
thing happened to him. You also hear a more muted noise come out from between
the lines. It is the ticking sound of the Jewish brain cells as they yell to
each other: “The messiah is coming; the messiah is coming”.
That's
right, my friend, the Jews have associated the coming of the messiah with
troubles they believe will lead to the destruction of the Arab and Muslim
countries. And so, a disturbance in any of those places, however small it may
be, fills the Jews with the great expectation that what the Arabs and the
Muslims will lose, the Jews will gain.
This
docket is exactly what Clifford D. May is delivering in his latest piece of
work. It came under the title: “Palestinian Islamic Jihad provokes Israel and
finds itself a lonely combatant,” an article that was published on November 19,
2019 in The Washington Times. Clifford May started the discussion by describing
the woes of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) but could not help himself from
sliding down the slope of dragging other Muslim countries into the discussion.
He sees a massive windfall for Israel, even if what's happening in the Middle
East pales compared to what's happening in the Far East or Latin America, for
example.
As
usual, May started his presentation by putting down the ground rule as to how
the readers must perceive what he is saying. The rule being that before
anything else, the audience must begin with the notion that PIJ ought to be
considered a hated entity. The way he did this, was to accuse PIJ of wishing to
burn Israel to the ground even if what's actually happened is that the Jews are
the ones who burned Palestine to the ground. Not only that, but they keep
pouring gasoline on the debris to make sure that Palestine will never rise
again. Here is an example of what tickles the fancy of Clifford May and
everyone else like him:
“Tensions
between the two groups went public when Mahmoud Zahra, a senior Hamas official,
attempted to pay his condolences to the family of Baha Abu al-Ata, a top PIJ
commander assassinated by Israel. PIJ supporters blocked his car, threw rocks
and chanted anti-Hamas slogans. Mr. Zahra's bodyguards hustled him away”.
And
while May and his people are rejoicing over small blessings of that nature,
they ignore the bigger picture that would require them to make hard decisions.
To understand what the big picture is made of, we begin with this statement:
“PIJ fired 450 rockets at Israel, whose Dome missile defense system knocked out
most.” When they say most, they mean 90 percent, which comes to 405 rockets.
Assuming there is some truth in this statement even if the evidence is to the
effect that it's a lie through and through, it would have cost Israel a minimum
of 405 million dollars to intercept 405 PIJ rockets.
That's
ruinous already, but it's only a harbinger of what's to come, given that
Hezbollah has 150,000 rockets. This will cost Israel well over $150 billion
(that's billion with a B) to intercept, assuming that Israel has enough
launchers and enough missiles to do the job. But Israel doesn't have a fraction
of a fraction this number of launchers or missiles or money to blunt a
Hezbollah full rocket assault.
In
fact, this is the view of many Israeli military people who wrote dire scenarios
as to how a war with Hezbollah will cripple Israel, and cause the death of
hundreds of thousands on both sides. That's assuming that neither Syria nor
Iran will move in to settle the scores they have with Israel. But when you add
this to the mix, you get the full picture of the horror that awaits the region.