Can you put a spin so positive on a situation that heralds a looming doom, you make it look like a day of celebration?
The answer is that you can try to do so, but there’s no
guarantee you’ll convince anyone. In fact, it is what Dennis Ross and David
Makovsky have tried to do, and they failed.
Here is how the two authors tried to paint a heavy layer
of lipstick on the pig they worked on with diligence, writing an article that
came under the title: “Israeli Public’s
Commitment to Democracy Shines as the Country Turns 75,” which also came under
the subtitle: “Just as the attempted judicial overhaul
aroused the Israeli public to stand up to defend the democratic character of
the state, we may also see the public act against another threat to the
character of the state—namely, becoming a binational state.” It was published
on April 27, 2023 in National Interest.
And here is the actual situation that the writers have tried
to mask:
Encouraged by the reality that he was elected to govern
as Prime Minister of Israel despite the fact that he used anti-Arab racial
baiting to scare the Jews whom he urged to vote for him to save the “country”
from an assured doom, Benjamin Netanyahu decided it was time to push his luck
up to the limit of his fantasy. And boy, oh boy, how far and how deep that
limit proved to be! As of now, Netanyahu believes that one of two things are
about to happen, and he would welcome either with open arms.
First, Netanyahu sees that the increase in the non-Jewish
population of Israel will eventually encourage the Arabs and Muslims among them
to seek being represented adequately in the “country’s” institutions which are
now filled with European Jews jealously hanging on to their positions by
systemically keeping out all the others. This will cause friction between the
two communities, causing the extremists on both sides to start a civil war —
one to which Netanyahu looks forward, believing that the Jewish military will
massacre the non-Jews in no time at all while the world, especially America,
will watch in silence.
Second, Netanyahu sees the possibility that Arab and
Muslim forces from the outside will intervene to save their unarmed kinfolks
who are massacred by the heavily armed Jewish military. Netanyahu will welcome
this development because he believes it will drag America into the conflict,
which is something he always wanted, knowing that only America has the power to
destroy Iran, his everlasting fantasy for an everlasting adversary.
But whereas such fantasies are swirling in Netanyahu’s
head, the military that will be asked to massacre the non-Jewish population of Israel,
or go against outside Arab and Muslim forces, has revolted even mutinied to let
Netanyahu know it will not commit suicide to fulfill his sick daydreams for him.
When this happened, Netanyahu listened. He heard his generals say that first,
they will not massacre the non-Jewish population because if they do, they will
be hunted to the end of the Earth like it happened to the Nazis who tried to
hide from their wartime criminal activities.
And second, the Israeli military will not want to go
against outside Arab or Muslim forces they cannot take by surprise because 1973
and subsequent Israeli military engagements against the Gaza Strip, have
demonstrated that Israel’s policy of pursuing the ballistic approach of no
correction to its diplomacy, and no plan B in case Plan A fails, has proven to be
disastrous.
In fact, the situation is so critical at this time that
America’s military — which used to enjoy collaborating with Israel when the
time came to test new American weapons against those of the Soviet era — now
view Israel as a backstabbing treacherous rascal that deserves to be left to
his fate, squeezed as it is in the embrace of China where it goes to sell
American high-tech secrets.
So then, what is it that Israel is left with, and what is
it that Ross and Makovsky are recommending?
What’s left is what has always been there: It is either the
one-state solution or the two-state solution. But because there will no longer
be the pretense that Israel is “the envy of the world” in the one-state
solution, the setup will contravene the Zionist dream of Jewish supremacy, and
the approach has been rejected by the likes of Netanyahu, Ross and Makovsky.
What these people did was knocked into their own heads
the idea that European Jews created such a superior Judeo-Yiddish culture, they
deserve to have a country of their own, and deserve to be given a world over
which to rule as they see fit.
As to the two-state solution, the problems which are
plaguing the current situation will remain except that they will be amplified
commensurate with the increase in the non-Jewish population that’s now taking
place in occupied Palestine.
That may suit Benjamin Netanyahu just fine given that it
will lead to a civil war or a regional conflagration, both options being close
to his heart.