And certain Jewish elements in the Jewish State couldn't be more thrilled
Last week New York's Jewish Week reported that the editor of Israel's
self-described "newspaper of record" asked the US Secretary of State to
rape his country and told her that his erotic fantasy is to watch America
rape Israel.
On September 10, at a dinner at the home of US Ambassador Richard Jones,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with a group of Israeli "elites."
Among the elitists was Ha'aretz editor David Landau. According to the Jewish
Week, Landau "referred to Israel as a failed state' politically, one in
need of a US-imposed settlement. He was said to have implored Rice to intervene,
asserting that the Israeli government wanted 'to be raped' and that it
would be like a 'wet dream' for him to see this happen.
When questioned by the paper, Landau claimed this account of his comments
was inaccurate, but then confirmed saying that 'Israel wants to be raped'
into a settlement and said he told Rice it was his 'wet dream' to address
her on the issue. He added that several people came up to him afterwards
and congratulated him for his remarks, claiming that, "I articulated what
many Israelis feel."
Actually, almost no Israelis feel what Landau expressed. But his views
are shared by his newspaper and by a significant portion of the elitists
who dominate the country.
The pro-rape crowd's influence, which rose after Israel's defeat in
the war with Hizbullah in 2006, became decisive over the past few months
as the date of the publication of the Winograd Commission of inquiry's
final report on the war approaches. The report, set to be issued later
this month, is expected to find Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responsible
for Israel's failure to defeat Iran's foreign legion in Lebanon.
To offset the public's demand for his resignation which the report
will likely cause, Olmert has worked overtime to woo the Landau crowd.
To this end, he courts Syria, advocates Israel's withdrawal from Judea,
Samaria and parts of Jerusalem, refuses to take action against either Iran,
or the burgeoning Iranian-trained Hamas army in Gaza.
Then too, a week before US President George W. Bush's first presidential
visit to Israel, Olmert gave an interview to the Jerusalem Post where he
went out of his way to prove that Landau is right. His government does
wish to be "raped" by the US.
Sounding more like a Palestinian spokesman than the leader of Israel,
Olmert attacked his own country claiming that it isn't abiding by its obligations
to the terror-supporting Palestinians. In his words, "There is a certain
contradiction… between what we're actually seeing and what we ourselves
promised. We always complain about the [breached] promises of the other
side. Obligations are not only to be demanded of others, but they must
also be honored by ourselves."
Olmert argued that Israel must withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines
with minor modifications not because doing so will ensure peace with the
Palestinians, but because if we don't we'll lose our Jewish majority.
The Prime Minister's contention is questionable for two basic reasons.
First, the 1949 lines are not demographic borders but ceasefire lines.
On the eastern side of the line live a half million Jews, and on the western
side live one million Arabs. Second, the ceasefire lines are indefensible.
So while not solving any demographic problem, withdrawing to the 1949 lines
will imperil Israel militarily.
Beyond that, there is the fact that Olmert's dark demographic projections
are based on falsified census data published by the Palestinian Authority
in 1997. As the American-Israeli Demographic Research Group proved conclusively
in January 2005, the PA's numbers were inflated by some fifty percent.
Although demography is a problem, Israel is in no immediate danger of losing
its Jewish majority.
The immediate danger Israel faces stems not from demography but from
the ideology of jihad that has convinced the Arab and Islamic world to
seek Israel's destruction rather than accept it. Shrinking into indefensible
borders will only exacerbate that problem by telling the jihadists that
Israel can be destroyed through violence and terror.
Olmert also argued that Israel must give up its sovereignty over Jerusalem
because Israel's supporters want it to. In his words, "the world that is
friendly to Israel...that really supports Israel, when it speaks of the
future, it speaks of Israel in terms of the '67 borders. It speaks of the
division of Jerusalem."
So in an English interview, the week before Bush's arrival in the country,
Olmert essentially asked Israel's friend in the White House to pressure
Israel to concede its vital national rights and interests.
In the same interview with the Post Olmert acknowledged that his putative
peace partner — Fatah leader and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas — does not recognize
Israel's right to exist and demands the so-called "right of return" for
millions of foreign descendants of Arabs who left Israel in 1948. But,
he soothed, this is not a cause for worry.
Olmert's not worried, because Olmert can see into Abbas's soul. As
he put it, "If you ask [Abbas] to say that he sees Israel as a Jewish state,
he will not say that. But if you ask me whether in his soul he accepts
Israel, as Israel defines itself, I think he does."
For Olmert, intent as he is on securing the support of the pro-national
rape crew, his faith in Abbas's peaceful soul is more important than the
visible reality on the ground. And that reality is not merely reflected
in the fact that Fatah and Hamas are rhetorically indistinguishable from
one another. That reality is also reflected in the fact that the three
Israelis murdered in the last six weeks - Ido Zoldan, David Rubin and Ahikam
Amihai — were all killed by official, Abbas-commanded PA security forces.
The three terrorist murders show clearly that the PA itself, rather
than Hamas, is the most lethal terrorist group in Palestinian society.
And the same PA security organs involved in killing Israelis are funded
and armed by Israel and the US — which together with the Europeans and
the Russians also trains them.
Rather than contend with this sordid reality, the Olmert government
makes excuses for it. On Thursday, Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev told the
Post that while Israel will raise the involvement of PA security forces
in the murder of Israelis with Bush, he took pains to underplay the significance
of the fact that the PA security forces themselves are the ones killing
Israelis. He referred to the killers as "rogue, extremist elements inside
the Fatah machine and the Palestinian security apparatus," and so sought
to distance them from their leaders who encourage and celebrate their behavior.
Through their actions as statements, the Palestinians themselves show
daily that there is no difference between Abbas and Hamas Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh or between Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. None of them
are interested in peaceful coexistence with the Jewish state - whatever
they may or may not feel in their souls. Just as happened in Gaza, so in
Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, any land that Israel transfers to their
authority will be used as a base for operations against Israel. Any Israeli
community relinquished will be transformed into terror training bases and
missile launching pads.
But then, the reality of war doesn't have much to recommend itself
under the looming specter of the Winograd report. The only reality that
interests Olmert is the reality of his quest to survive in office. And
to stay in office, Olmert needs Landau and his friends. And so Israel's
strategic straitjacket grows tighter by the day.
This week, Iranian strongman Ali Larijani paid an official state visit
to Egypt. He met not only with President Hosni Mubarak and Foreign Minister
Ahmad Gheit, but with Egypt's chief cleric, the head of the Al Azhar Mosque
and Islamic University Sheikh Muhammad Tantawi. During his visit he offered
nuclear collaboration with Egypt. He also worked to settle religious disputes
between Shiite and Sunni Islam to facilitate jihadist collaboration against
the common enemies of all Muslims.
On the heels of Larijani's visit, Mubarak broke on his pledge to Defense
Minister Ehud Barak from a week ago not to allow the thousands of Hamas
terrorists seeking to return to Gaza after traveling to Saudi Arabia to
enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing where Israel has no security
presence. Wednesday the terrorists marched across the border unopposed.
Some were reportedly carrying over $100 million in cash which they received
from Iran and Saudi Arabia. Others were returning after receiving military
training in Iran.
The Olmert government had nothing to say about Egypt's open collusion
with Israel's enemies. And how could it? Admitting that Egypt is an enemy
state would harm the pro-national rape gang's peace narrative. For them,
Egypt is the head of the "moderate camp."
Rather than acknowledge this reality, Olmert showers Mubarak with praise.
In his interview with the Post, he said, "When I even think of how things
would be if we were dealing with people other than Mubarak, well, I pray
every day for his well-being and good health."
The truth is that so far, Olmert's gambit has been successful. All
the public's attempts to force him to resign - over Lebanon, over Gaza
and over allegations of Olmert's massive corruption — have been scuttled.
Guarding their man, the pro-national rape camp has given little to no media
backing to popular calls for his removal from office. Landau and his friends
are fully willing to lose wars and be led by morally impaired, incompetent
leaders if doing so facilitates the international rape of their country.
Take Landau's Ha'aretz employee, columnist Yoel Marcus for example.
In his December 14 column, Marcus called for Olmert to be forced from office.
Just one week later, emphasizing the importance of the peace process, Marcus
said that Olmert must stay in power after the Winograd report is published.
There are officials in Washington who claim that Bush is angry at Olmert.
They say that Bush expected Olmert to stand up to Rice when she became
overtly hostile to Israel in the lead up to the Annapolis conference. These
officials argue that if Olmert were just to stand up to Rice, the president
would finally have the opportunity to push her aside and marginalize her.
It is hard to know what to make of this claim. Unfortunately, we won't
see it tested any time soon. Controlled by the rape Israel crowd, Olmert
needs Rice's pressure. And so he told the Post that Bush, (and by extension
Rice), is "not doing a single thing that I don't agree to. He doesn't support
anything that I oppose."
Bush's first presidential visit to Israel could have been a great opportunity
for the country. But in his interview with the Post, a week before Bush's
arrival Olmert made clear that the visit will be a disaster. Whether Bush
wants to or not, ahead of the pubicatio of the Winograd report, Olmert
will leave him no choice. Bush will be forced to rape Israel.
© 2007, Caroline B. Glick
Jewish World Review
January 4, 2008 / 26 Teves, 5768
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