There was a time when America did not need someone coming from abroad and telling it that it was a great country. America knew what it was, enjoyed what it represented both to itself and to others, and quietly lived its accomplishments to their fullest, be they great or small.
Now
comes the former American Yael Eckstein, daughter of the late Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, and tries to suck up to America by telling it how great
it is when in fact, America lost much of its greatness due to its association
with Israel, the entity that Yael Eckstein adopted as her new home 20 years go,
and now lobbies for it furiously.
Of
course, sucking up to America by those who ruined it is not done by the little
people only. Big ones such as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, usually
pave the way for starting the next suck up exercise, and the little ones
follow. It is what happened this time, when Herzog went to the American
Congress and using different words, told the attending legislators what amounts
to the following: You and us are the greatest things to have been created, and
we are the hope of mankind.
Herzog
said something else too, something to which Yael Eckstein alluded early in her
piece, and then elaborated on toward the end
of the piece. The allusion came in the form of a direct quote which she
attributed to Herzog. It went like this: “Our bond may be
challenged at times, but it is absolutely unbreakable”. And the elaboration,
reprinted here in condensed form, went as follows:
“Herzog also addressed an issue of importance to
Israelis and Americans: the threat of anti-Semitism. In recent years, we have
seen a deeply disturbing increase in attacks upon Jews, Jewish institutions,
and the Jewish state. The situation is escalating, just as Christians and Jews
have come together in the past to help Jews in need, we will stand together now
in the face of this new challenge. Together we can save lives and let the
Jewish people know that they are not alone, that millions of Christians around
the world care about them and stand by them. The American-Israeli
relationship is vital in times of crisis”.
That negative development being what prompted Isaac Herzog, Yael
Eckstein and their likes to suck up to America, and taking into consideration
that in the past, the relationship between America and Israel looked as sweet
as this: “The bond that has
been the hallmark of US-Israel relations since the founding of the modern
Jewish state in 1948 has held through thick and thin, in good times and bad,”
we ask what happened that turned a sweet relationship into a sour dish almost
overnight?
We find
the answer to that question in what Yael Eckstein has repotted in her article,
and what she has not. What she reported is the following: “the American-Israeli relationship goes both ways. It is not just that
America helps Israel; Israel helps America by sharing intelligence information
and counter-terror tactics.” What she did not report is what Isaac Herzog
reproachfully told the American Congress, namely that a criticism of Israel
must not become an expression of antisemitism.
It is that the deteriorated between America and
Israel, started when the American public began to realize what was going on in
the relationship that bound together the rulers of the two entities, and not
the two peoples as claimed by the rulers. In fact, what the American public saw
was a relationship that revolted them no end, and got worse with the passage of
time.
More
precisely, what the public saw was the gradual transformation of America’s
smoothly functioning system of checks and balances into one of governance that’s
designed to turn America into the proverbial plantation, meant to serve Israel
at the expense of the American people.
No
longer able to tolerate what’s happening to their America, the people reached
out to free speech, the vehicle they used in the past to fix what the political
elites in Washington had broken. To their surprise and dismay, however, the people
discovered that the Jews had appropriated free speech along with everything
else. It was that from this point forward, only the Jews could speak their mind
freely while having a free hand to come down like a ton of bricks on anyone
that dared to exercise their right of free speech and criticize the Jews or
Israel. In response to this outrage, the American people ran to the social
media where they unloaded what seems to frighten Isaac Herzog.
And he
has good reasons to be frightened. It’s because he knows that when you suppress
an anger that bottles up, it will eventually express itself one way or the other,
doing so with a bang that may bring with it the physical violence which
everyone dreads and wants to avoid.
The
trouble is that those who can avoid this outcome are the ones who do the
suppression of free speech thus bottle up the anger that’s liable to explode. They
are high up leaders, such as Isaac Herzog, running Jewish Central from their
headquarter in Israel, and they are low down foot soldiers, such as the Jewish
settlers who occupy Palestine.
They are
also the Jewish politicians, lobbyists, journalists and freelancers in America,
such as Yael Eckstein who believe that God put them on this Earth to
single-mindedly take it directly and without flinching to Armageddon so that it
may burn up — at which time the Jews will be given the opportunity to rebuild it
from scratch.