The fact that the Jewish
mantra has been, “next year in Jerusalem” for as long as anyone alive today can
remember –– says that the Jews were having deeply rooted fantasies about the Middle
East; so deep in fact, they bordered on the obsession.
Now that the first leg of
their fantasy has been realized with their occupation of Palestine, including
Jerusalem, it stands to reason that their fantasy has not ended. What is adding
credence to that view are the activities and rhetoric in which both Israel and
the Jews engage every day.
In fact, a recent article has
appeared which demonstrates not only that the fantasy is still a factor in
Jewish thinking, but that it has morphed to become a brand-new obsession. The
title of the article is: “Lebanon may be broken beyond repair,” which also came
under the subtitle: “Its debt is massive, its political class corrupt, and
terrorists call the shots.” It was written by Clifford D. May and published on
August 25, 2020 in The Washington Times.
Indicative of Clifford May's
state of mind regarding the massive explosion that recently hit the port at
Beirut, Lebanon, is the opinion he expressed concerning the event. The occasion
was the visit to Lebanon of the French President Emmanuel Macron who reassured
the people of Lebanon that he was there to help them. As if on the couch of a
psychiatrist doing word association, the first thing that came to Clifford
May's mind was to utter these words: “It's doubtful he'll succeed”.
This says that Clifford May
was doing more than just expressing a harmless opinion. It says that he
obsesses about Lebanon breaking up so badly, it will be beyond repair at long
last. That's what May wishes will happen because when a country is in such
condition, it becomes an easy prey for a predator to catch if that's what
Israel wants to do, or become a low-hanging fruit for a lazy opportunist to
grab if that's what Israel has become, given that it has been deterred by
Hezbollah, which is what the evidence suggests.
At a time when street protests
are erupting on a nightly basis in America and Israel, which are Clifford May's
countries of the head and the heart respectively, he speaks of street protests
in Lebanon as if they were a strange apparition, heretofore unknown to Planet Earth
and having the effect of, “shattering Lebanon politically and economically”.
Thus, when done with the
preamble, Clifford May got into what he wanted to say next. It is that
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, it is affiliated with Iran, it is practically
governing Lebanon and running that country into the ground. Hezbollah is also
equipped with deadly weapons that can seriously damage Israel, he went on to
say. For this reason, he wants the world to do something to get rid of it.
For his part, Clifford May
used innuendo to make it sound like Hezbollah was responsible for the massive
Beirut explosion, now that it has been established that the explosion was an
accident. Here is how he formulated the innuendo: “Welders accidentally ignited
materials that detonated ammonium nitrate stored in the port where Hezbollah
has free reign. Ammonium nitrate is useful for agriculture and terrorist
bomb-making.” Not very persuasive, of course, but it’s a try.
Not only did Clifford May
express such opinion, he had his comical Foundation for Defense of Democracies
commission an economist he characterized as “eminent,” and had him write a
report that gave Clifford May and the Jews of his ilk, the kind of conclusion
that sounded like music to their ears. It is that the eminent economist has
concluded the following: “Lebanon today is broke. The entire country has been
picked clean by terrorists, criminals, elites and the political class,”
Clifford May so assures his readers.
To put that view in
perspective, he cited the case of Argentina that was bailed out by the IMF two
years ago. But when you try to determine why the same will not work for
Lebanon, you find that Clifford May has made no connection and no case of any
kind. In fact, his words leave you with the impression that Lebanon can be
bailed out, and most certainly will be. But to hedge his bet that Lebanon
cannot be bailed out, May has added this: “Even if donors were to provide
sufficient funds, it's not clear how the money could be utilized”.
However, as far as Clifford
May is concerned, all of that is nothing more than a sideshow. His real concern
has always been the safety of Israel, and the big threat that's facing it now
is Hezbollah. This is why Clifford May ended his article with the following
lamentation:
“Mr. Macron has said not a
word about disarming or defanging Hezbollah. He doesn't seem to grasp that
investing billions of dollars to save the country [Lebanon] would be a fool's
errand”.
In other words, Clifford May
is asking the world to let Lebanon struggle all by itself so that in the end,
Israel will have an easy time hunting it like a wounded prey, or if it prefers,
stretch its arm up and grab the low hanging-fruit.