It is inconceivable that anyone who speaks English doesn’t know what the word “revolution” means. Of course, everyone knows that it means uprising of the masses against a tyrannous ruler. It is a kind of upheaval if you think about it. But does everyone know how the definition of that word came to be?
Well, for the benefit of those who may not know, let me tell the story.
Do you remember who Cleopatra was? She was an Egyptian queen whose ancestors
had migrated to Egypt from the Greek province of Macedonia, at least three
centuries before she was born. They came as conquerors but loved Egypt so much,
they decided to make it their home. They even fused the two cultures together,
creating a mix that came to be known as the Ptolemaic period.
The fusion of the cultures created such an explosion of knowledge, the
City of Alexandria became the center of learning in the known world at that
time. One of the subjects most studied was astronomy. At the time, the
astronomers didn’t know as much as we do today, and so they created a system
that put the Earth at the center of the universe, and had the stars go around
it in several concentric circles. This was the Ptolemaic model; one that was as
cumbersome as it was complex.
The accumulation of observations and knowledge over the following 16
centuries cast doubt about the validity of the Ptolemaic model. Clearly, a new
model was needed to make sense of the new observations that had accumulated
over that period. A mathematician named Nicolaus Copernicus was the one who gathered
all the known data and fit them into a theory that was simple to understand. He
stated that the universe was not going around the Earth. It was the Earth that
was revolving around the sun as do all the planets that were known at the time.
Because much of the philosophical, cultural, ideological, religious
beliefs and rituals of the time were based on the Ptolemaic model, the
revelation of Copernicus set the world of the Church, the sages and the gurus
on fire. It was an upheaval that required a name to identified it. Since the
upheaval happened as a result of the Earth revolving around the sun, it was
given the name “Revolution.” From that time onward, the tendency has been to
call every serious upheaval, a revolution.
Now, let me ask you a question: What do you say is the most expressive
sign that would tell a revolution has occurred or that it is in the process of
unfolding? Let me answer the question for you: It is when you see the king
reduced to sweeping his own floor. And that, my friend is what’s happening in
the kingdom known as AIPAC, which stands for American Israel Public Affairs
Committee.
Let me explain. In the same way that an insurance company has
salespeople who go around selling policies, in the same way that a political
party has “foot soldiers” who run up and down the ridings talking to voters, in
the same way that a hotel has a bunch of floor sweepers dedicated to keeping
the hotel floors swept clean, AIPAC had a bunch of advocates whose job was to
solicit Benjamins from those that have it and those that don’t.
The banknotes were swayed side to side near the eyes of the hypnosis-prone
zombies running for office. It is how those braindead things were taught to
repeat the refrain: I love Israel more than I love America. I love Israel. Love
Israel. Yes, Israel, Israel, Israel.
But then it happened that King AIPAC lost his Benjamin soliciting
helpers who used to sweep the ridings for him, and he was forced to sweep his
own floor. Yes, my friend, it happened that AIPAC has announced it was going to
do the work that others used to do for it. If anything, this is indicative of a
modern day revolution now in the process of unfolding.
You can read all about it in an article that came under the title: “Can
AIPAC help lead a new bipartisan surge of support for Israel?” and the
subtitle: “The question isn’t whether the pro-Israel community should support
candidates; it’s whether those contributions will make a difference if one of
the two parties is being led by leftist foes of the Jewish state.” The article
was written by Jonathan S. Tobin, and published on December 2021 in Jewish News
Syndicate.
So the question to ask is this: What are these people trying to
accomplish now, and how are they planning to go about it ? Well, the following
is a condensed form of what Jonathan Tobin had to say about this subject. He
answers that question loud and clear:
“To casual
observers of Washington politics, the news that AIPAC was going to be
contributing directly to candidates by forming two political action
committees came as a surprise. The lobby was focused on mobilizing
activists throughout the nation to influence their local representatives and
senators. The model, sought to build a consensus that stretched across party
lines. And for a long time, it worked. AIPAC activists were mobilized by the
group to lobby Congress; however, the fundraising was someone else’s job. Why
is AIPAC now getting directly involved in the business of contributing to
candidates? In the current hyper-partisan era in which it is difficult for
members of Congress to work across party lines on any issue, the old model
isn’t working that well. The key question is not whether pro-Israel groups
should be actively seeking to help those who are willing to stand with the
Jewish state. The essence of democracy is holding those in power accountable,
and the only way to do that in American politics is by supporting those who are
pro-Israel and doing their best to oppose those who undermine it”.
Think about it, my friend, if it were not for Representative Ilhan Omar,
King AIPAC would still be king, and he would still have thousands of servants serving
him. Instead Omar reduced him to sweeping his own floor.