The verminous Bibi is still at it

[Utmager]

That the verminous Pipi is still talking about "surprises" in the peace process and giving up the Land and deporting Jews beggars the imagination! http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=230462



"No man in Israel will be held more to account than Binyamin Netanyahu!" (Prof Paul Eidelberg)

[muman613]

I listen to Paul Eidelberg on Tamar Yonahs show... He gives excellent, clear, concise analysis of the current situation.

http://i-ari.org/

Friends and Enemies

by Paul Eidelberg

Ibn Hazm of Cordova (994-1064) writes: “The height of goodness is that you should neither oppress your enemy nor abandon him to oppression. To treat him as a friend is the work of a fool whose end is near…. Magnanimity is not to befriend the enemy, but to spare them, and to remain on your guard against them.”

    The American government has been bankrolling the PLO to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars—of course for the sake of “peace,” a peace that has cost Israel 10,000 Jewish casualties.

This doesn’t cover the Obama Administration, which abandoned America’s (autocratic) friend, Hosni Mubarak, and did so despite the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. That treaty will unravel if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power. Ibn Hazm would probably characterize Obama as treacherous fool whose end is near. All of a sudden, everyone sees that the U.S. is not a reliable ally. This should have been evident to Israel some thirty years ago when the Carter Administration allowed the PLO to establish an office in Washington. And surely it is no secret to Israeli prime ministers that the American government has been bankrolling the PLO to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars—of course for the sake of “peace,” a peace that has cost Israel 10,000 Jewish casualties.

Let’s face the unpleasant truth: America, the land of the free, has been an episodic patron of terrorism and totalitarianism for decades. What makes this all the more disturbing is that America is commemorating the birthday of the incomparable Abraham Lincoln—the philosophic statesman who called Americans “the almost-chosen people”! Ponder the irony: “From Lincoln to Obama!” It makes any man of taste want to vomit.

America seems to be losing its soul. It has succumbed to a soft from of despotism—not the despotism of Egypt, now in the throes of a revolution, but a despotism of the egalitarian mind, one that requires more than a Tea Party to overcome. Obama personifies this despotism, for his denial of American Exceptionalism is nothing less than a manifestation of his multicultural relativism, an egalitarian doctrine that infected America long before this post-American president entered college. Obama is but an excrescence of an anti-America education, conspicuous among his mentors. Alas, Israel has no shortage of such mentors among its elites.

Couple multiculturalism to the words of Ibn Hazm and presto we have diagnosed the mentality of Israeli prime ministers. But to be more precise, what these prime ministers lack is a serious as opposed to a shallow Jewish consciousness. They think, or like to think—and certainly want others to think—they can make peace with people whose culture, hence whose mentality, is diametrically opposed to Judaism. Even Menachem Begin, Israel’s most Jewish prime minister, succumbed to this false consciousness also manifested in Binyamin Netanyahu mantra of “reciprocity”—perhaps only a cover for timidity. His page from “let’s pretend” is dismissive of Islamic history and an insult to Islamic theology. I see here the tendency of egalitarian or democratized politicians to “mirror-image.” This tendency readily leads to war. It’s a tendency that can only be overcome for a season. Once the bloody season is over, the mirror-imaging syndrome reappears, for now it’s time for peace-making. You pay a high price for egalitarian democracy. To put it another way: For every Churchill there are legions of Obamas ready to treat enemies as friends.