Originally, the name “lever” was given to a sturdy stick that was used to move heavy objects. The function of the lever is to transform motion into strength. That is, the lever allows you to move a rock ten times its weight if that’s what you want to do. But the tradeoff is that you’ll move the rock only a tenth the distance.
In time, the popular usage of the word
evolved to mean having the power to compel or coerce someone into complying
with your dictates. In fact, whereas the function of the lever in technology,
is based on the transformation of one form of power into another form of power,
those principles were borrowed by the humanities to achieve analogous results
in virtual domains.
The difference between science and the
humanities, however, is that in science the exchange gives you back as much as
you put into the system, no more and no less. This contrasts with the
humanities where psychology can be brought into the mix, and utilized to do
more than transform the input into an equal amount of output. What psychology
can help you do, is amplify the input into a more massive output. For this
reason, you’ll encounter cases where “hustlers” start with a weak hand and a
big mouth, and bluff their way to great riches. Intriguing, you say, but how
does it work? The short answer is that culture is the secret ingredient here.
Here is how and why this happens. A space
without culture is a vacuum. When culture comes into it, the vacuum fills with
oxygen. The hustlers develop a counterculture that sucks the oxygen produced by
others rather than contribute to it like everyone else. This is how the
hustlers transform a small spark in the hand, into a giant forest-like inferno.
And they reap huge benefits even if the move proves to be calamitous to others.
Jonathan S. Tobin says he is Jewish; a dude
that pretends to worship in the religion of the ancient Hebrews. He may or may
not be trying to do that, but the one thing he cannot do is deceive the public
into believing he is a descendant of the ancient Hebrew tribes. To be sure,
there are Jews who can make that claim but they are few. In addition, they
never left the Middle East where the overwhelming majority of their Semitic
Arab cousins live.
The fake Jews who spread themselves
throughout the world, developed a chameleon sort of culture that temporarily
takes on a suitable color to achieve a current objective. When that is
achieved, the critter turns into something else. To do this, requires the Jews
to suck a great deal of oxygen. It becomes the fuel that enables them to
transform a small spark into a forest-like inferno. In turn, this allows them
to start the game of hustling with a weak hand, and bluff their way into
cleaning the table.
Jonathan Tobin has shown how the game is
played in real life. He did it by writing an article that came under the title:
“Can Biden reverse course and abandon Obama’s policies?” and the subtitle:
“After Afghanistan, the administration may double down on Iran appeasement in
pursuit of a dubious diplomatic triumph. Seeking to expand the Abraham Accords
would be a better idea.” The article was published on August 18, 2021 in Jewish
News Syndicate.
The subtitle shows exactly what Tobin is
trying to achieve. He wants the Biden administration to abandon the policy of
pursuing détente with Iran, while at the same time seeking to bring the Arab
states and Israel into a coalition that will antagonize Iran. So the question
we need to answer is this: What arguments did Tobin use to make his case?
The following is a montage in several stages of
the passages that, in the aggregate, demonstrate how Jonathan Tobin plays the
Jewish game of using a weak hand to bluff his way into achieving the desired
result. Lacking a reasonable argument to make his case, he took the
psychological approach to make his weak hand yield big dividends:
Here is the first stage where Tobin begins by
clobbering the President, making him feel small and worthless, thus too numb to
push back:
“President Biden has tried to shift the
responsibility to just about everyone regarding the situation in Afghanistan,
which is a disaster. Biden has an opportunity to segue from this calamity to
political gold. The problem is that it would require him to pivot away from his
current course. After Afghanistan, the world sees the US as a declining power.
The man who boasted about his diplomatic expertise now finds his credibility in
tatters”.
Next, Tobin speaks of desperation and warns
of doubling down on a bad deal:
“That leaves the administration and the
foreign-policy establishment in desperate need of a triumph. The terrible
pictures coming out of Afghanistan can’t be ignored. That means that Biden is
going to want to do something soon to distract the country from a narrative
about his incompetence.
The most likely option involves doubling down on the desire to revive the 2015
Iran nuclear deal”.
Next, Tobin describes the Iranians as being
tough bargainers who will best the Biden team:
“Rather than accept Biden’s offer, the
Iranians made new demands that range from the implausible to the
constitutionally impossible. Neither is going to happen, though Iran is
counting on Biden being desperate to get a deal, no matter what the price. That
would mean a reinstatement of the old pact with various side deals thrown in to
make it even more lucrative”.
Finally, Tobin warns against this happening,
and speculates on how the Arabs and the Israelis will feel about it if it
happened. He also speculated that this will cause a flareup at the Lebanon and
Gaza borders with Israel. And this is when Tobin proposed the option of
strengthening the Abraham Accords to bring more Arab countries with Israel, and
have them oppose Iran. Tobin also wants the Arabs to give up on the idea of a
two-state solution, that which the Jews have been sabotaging from the start
while blaming the Palestinians for their own cowardly acts.
This has to be the way, says Tobin, or there
will be no peace in the Middle East — he secretly believes — because the Jews
will see to it that peace never happens.
And they will accomplish their goals playing the weak hand of the supplicant, having used psychology to bluff their way into usurping the power and prestige of the donor.