Those who do not know how to read history repeat the
ghastliest of historical mistakes.
More than anything else, it is the illiteracy of the
Jewish leaders that has caused their followers to live the same historical
calamities over and over through the decades, the centuries and the millennia.
What happened to the Jews in one location was repeated in other locations in
every country and every continent where the Jews went. And there is nothing to
suggest that this cycle is about to stop repeating itself.
It happened to the Jews because they are taught from
birth not to see the past that was and that will remain unchanged. Rather, they
are taught that the past is a prelude to a future that keeps changing with the
changing of today's circumstances. Thus, what happens today tells them what
will happen tomorrow, and this dictates how they must interpret the past … and
reinterpret it with the changing circumstances.
This is why it is impossible for a Jew to play
historian without mutilating history. And when you see someone that's suffering
this kind of philosophical, moral and logical handicap, you expect them to give
the kind of advice that will transform ordinary situations into hellish
situations. This, in fact, is what Moshe Koppel has done with his latest
article. It came under the title: “Save Trump's peace plan,” and was published
on June 23, 2020 in the Washington Examiner.
Burdened with that kind of disability, Moshe Koppel is
giving Donald Trump advice on what to do today to secure a glorious place for
himself in history. Here is how Koppel started his article: “The plan for
Israel and the Palestinians put forward by the Trump administration … getting
this plan across the finish line is a crucial step for building Trump's foreign
policy legacy”.
Moshe Koppel goes on to explain his thinking by
advancing two arguments. One is self-destructive; the other is fundamentally
unethical. Here is how Koppel has destroyed Israel's case by trying to embellish
it to conform with the Trump plan:
“This plan recognizes that the Palestinians cannot be
entrusted with a state so long as they don't disarm terror groups, not pay
terrorists for killing Israelis and remove anti-Semitic propaganda from their
schoolbooks. Skipping this step is a proven recipe for failure”.
The reality is that these conditions were never on the
negotiating table because the Israelis never put them on the table. They never
did because every demand made on the Palestinians would have prompted the
latter to make a comparable demand on the Israelis because they too leave much
to be desired when it comes to how they perceive the Palestinians, and how they
treat them. And so, time after time, having agreed on what was on the table,
and the two sides were ready to sign the agreement, the thing blew up.
What happened was that the Israelis sabotaged the deal
by demanding that one or the other of those conditions be accepted by the
Palestinians without further negotiation or Israeli reciprocation. When they
got the answer which they knew would be coming, the Israelis ran out of the room to
face the press and accuse the Palestinians of rejecting the deal. So now, you
have Moshe Koppel inadvertently admitting that the Israelis deliberately
sabotaged every peace agreement they negotiated with the Palestinians. With
this admission, Koppel has demolished Israel's case.
As to the unethical aspect of Koppel's argument, look
at the following condensed passage:
“Netanyahu has accepted the Trump plan. Based on past
experience, Israelis do not expect that the Palestinians will meet the
conditions. Nevertheless, Israel will give them a chance if Trump ensures the
plan does not blow up in our faces. There is the danger that future US administrations
could revert to granting the Palestinians a reprieve from fulfilling any
condition. To mitigate this danger, Trump should work with Israel to ensure the
immediate application and recognition of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and
Samaria”.
As can be seen, the bottom line is this: “Trump should
WORK with Israel.” This has always meant that Americans should get together
with Jews behind closed doors, and be instructed on what they must do next or
suffer the consequences. As to what the instructions will be, Koppel is
describing a repeat of the old negotiating cycles except that this time, Donald
Trump will green-light the annexation of Palestine, and will make sure that
future administrations will not reverse the decision.
This is the monument that Moshe Koppel is telling
Donald Trump he should erect to represent the crown jewel of his legacy. Well,
let me remind this people of a small detail they might have overlooked. It is
this: The ancient kings of Egypt, known as the pharaohs, erected massive monuments
to represent their legacies. They are called pyramids; they are magnificent
monuments and they survived the passage of time.