Oh no! Chuckle. The New York Times now
favors the extinction of the Jewish state. Shudder. Let’s see.
Sulzburger fought in the Confederate army; then the newspaper virtually
ignored the Ukrainian famine and the Holocaust, then reported that
Fidel Castro was a moderate, then reported Islamist terrorists are
moderates.
That’s a pretty accurate record right?
The headline of this article is
accurate.
Look,
I know the author of the one-state solution article and I can tell you
he’s been pushing this drivel for at least 35 years. People in Israel
don’t want to be turned into a repressive Sharia state from a
flourishing country a model of prosperity and one of the highest world
ratings of happiness.
I
might mention that Israel won every war and has a far stronger army. It
is even the great Arab hope for bashing Iran and an ally of Egypt and
Jordan!
I remember an evening when I was invited to a couple that were well-known anti-Israel
activists.
We
had pleasant enough conversation until late in the evening when I
thought we had agreed on a West Bank- Gaza state living alongside
Israel. Then the guy said, “But of course Israel will not be allowed to
remain as a state.”
You
can tell what your opponents really think if you listen to them. If you
doubt that you should listen some time to what Palestinians say. I’ve
been doing that for decades.
But
of course this is nonsense. And in fact it is an endorsement of de
facto genocide—make no mistake about it. What is true, though, is a
changing atmosphere. The Democratic Convention rejected by a majority
vote that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel (It also voted by a
majority against G-d).
Now
a lot of administration officials,
including Vice-President Joe Biden, are speaking at J Street. You
should understand that this not a liberal, pro-peace group but an
organization created by a former Arab lobbyist to destroy Israel, or at
least support for it. among the American people and especially Jewish
community and Congress.
I will just quote what Jesse Jackson said
several years ago. I don’t mean this to be taken literally, but it a
sign of h the transformation Obama’s anti-Israel views are, except of
course to the majority of American Jews.
Like this one. Can you imagine a foreign policy team more hostile to Israel? Jackson, of course,was not a part of that team, but can see the obvious.
The New York Post just
quoted him as
having said in a French speech in October 2008 that "Zionists who have
controlled American policy for decades" will lose much of their clout
when Obama enters the White House.
Speaking
at the World Policy Forum event in Evian, France--the place where
Jewish refugees were doomed at a 1938 conference--Jackson promised 70
years later--""a"fundamental change.” Jackson "criticized the Bush
administration's diplomacy and said Barack would change that," because,
as long as
the Palestinians hadn't seen justice, the Middle East would "remain a
source of danger to us all." Of course, Palestinians have been given
billions of dollars and offered a state but still staged thousands of
terrorist attacks since then and still denied Israel's right to a state.
It's
called argument through blackmail. Can you imagine what massacres there
would be? How about a one-state army commanded by Palestinian Arab
generals? Jews who most of the Arabs hate
and revile being reduced to the status of minority Christians in the
Middle East. Can this be advocated by anyone serious? Nobody but a fool
or liar (probably the latter) could advocate such a thing,
And
Israel has had nothing to do with the Afghan Taliban, the Iran-Iraq
war, al-Qaida,'the Egyptian revolution, the Tunisian revolution, and the
Syrian civil war.
The
Obama Administration denied Jackson’s words at the time but since then
has proven them. Even an Egyptian government makes no difference if it
wants to fight terrorism and preserve the peace treaty rather than the
opposite policy.
But
then why has the Obama Adminstration kept enthusiastic support from
AIPAC? Because of the strategic situation. The prince is the prince and
Israel hopes that one day--it hopes in vain--that Obama will act against
Iran.
But just for three more years.
Professor Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center http://www.gloria-center.org
Forthcoming Book: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Yale University Press)
The Rubin Report blog http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/
He is a featured columnist at PJM http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/.
Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal http://www.gloria-center.org
He is a featured columnist at PJM http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/.
Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal http://www.gloria-center.org
Editor Turkish Studies, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ftur20#.UZs4pLUwdqU
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