I do not like writing about his Israeli thing in the Middle East. However, as an incorrigible bleeding heart and human being, I feel obligated to do so because many people insist on resurfacing the topic repeatedly in a tiring, ugly, and demagogic way; perhaps it is the old adage that if you tell a lie often enough it becomes true. Their objective seems to be to make everyone hate Muslims by twisting and turning facts on their head. They never take a rational approach meaning looking at both sides of the issue but reduce the debate to spewing hate. Last night I was not able to sleep trying to figure out why anyone would do this—I have friends on both sides. What possible rational reason can there be for wanting caring people to hate one another to the point that they are willing to kill.
I watched the format of their argument change over the last 65 years but it invariable and irrationally centers on hate, hate, and more hate with the principle focus on Palestinians, then on the 23 Arab states in the region and from there seamlessly transitions to all 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Why they would do this makes no sense. I can understand why Israel wants more land because of the influx of people. I can understand why Palestinians do not want to give up what they feel is rightfully and legally theirs. What I cannot understand is why both sides will not accept a two-state solution. Why do they insist on adhering to the bestial axiom; “might is right”; if can beat you up, I win.
Their insistence that it is both sides presented the first challenge; is it really both sides? In the past, I posted several blogs indicating I feel only Israelis will not accept a “two-state solution”. Am I right? Polls of the people in the region have consistently shown Israeli and Palestinian majorities clearly favor a negotiated two-state settlement. This brings up the obvious question of why with all the hate, why would they not want to solve the problem. The conclusion I reached is a radical element—a minority—in the Israeli government is the problem. However, this does not answer my question of why all the hate, which at first blush, is originating only from the small radical group controlling the Israeli government, which is also seems to be controlling world opinion. It seems incredible that a small faction of a political party, “a few men”, can possibly have such a wide affect. There are 14 factions in the Knesset with the 18 members in the Likud Party, actually, four are women, and 14 are men. Of course, some members of the other 13 factions support the radical Likud agenda. Nevertheless, what about the people around the world who write the articles and post the hate filled blogs? Who are they? Why do they do what they do? Why are they such haters?
To start with, I can only know myself. As a child, I saw the horror of opening the death camps while setting aghast in a theater watching news films (before TV) and hearing about them on radio images were so graphic they induce repeated feelings of nausea and each new revelation. In addition, guilt-inducing and vivid tales started to come out of Europe about the long and ignored suffering of the Jewish people before the Nazi axe fell as told in Victor Klemperer’s book, I Will Bear Witness 1933-1941: A Diary of the Nazi Years. Add to this, the shame of knowing that our governments, as ell as other governments turn around ships filled with Jewish refugees at our and their shores and were not allowed to discharge their passengers. The result was that the idea of establishing a “Jewish” homeland was received with welcome relief—an acceptable solution.
However, the Jewish advocates misled the world; the land was not empty as we were told; however, to tell lies it takes two, one to tell the lie and one to believe it. We were prepared to believe whatever. The truth is that Christian, Jewish, and Muslim people occupied that land, with the Palestinian Muslims clearly in the majority; in truth, both were Palestinians, but rhetoric has shaped the word, ‘Palestinians’, to mean Muslims as well as any other non-Jewish group. In addition, a poor known religious aspect was destined to play a complicated; thus, unsettling part of the impact of religious teaching. The original UN mandate envisioned a land divided into two states; however, that never happened for reasons never made clear. This is still —65 years later—the case.
The Ashkenazi Jews are some of the smartest people in the world and their thinking immediately overpowered the thinking of the resident Jewish population. In addition, this information divide, between those people actually living on site in Israel-Palestine and those of us from around the world, started to develop almost immediately. The Israeli propaganda machine went to work from day one with the idea of celebrating their victory by expanding their hold on the holy land. Many of us were still blindly in their camp because of their suffering, but their behavior slowly eroded support as details of their crimes of suppression of Palestinians in the holy lands started to emerge. Driven by the intense wartime experience and motivated by a finite objective they soon dominated the local scene in terms of local as well as regional governance. Cognizant of the need of world support to carry out their objective, they started a multifaceted and unprecedented propaganda drive to build a following around the world. The task was to make the world believe things are the way they actually are; a true democracy, fair and beautiful for all, and not ugly as it is for the surpassed few. At the same time, they want world support to protect “their country” from the evil burka wearing, head chopping off, rocket throwing, backpack toting “rag heads”. The most logical and simple question people never ask is why Palestinians are throwing rockets into Israel.
I am convinced that what we read on the internet and in the newspapers or what we see on TV is the success of their propaganda drive to recruit non-thinking, headline reading followers. To have a person from some remote town in Midwestern Canada support coldheartedly support killing 1.2 billion people does not make sense without that perspective; In fact, it doesn’t make sense even with that perspective anymore than the history of millions of German people watching while a small group were gassing people. What will history say about this era?
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