Bringing the Arab-Israeli War Home

The brilliant and at times refreshingly controversial Michael Scheuer wrote (in blue):
 
“If America were blessed with a noninterventionist foreign policy, we could all thank Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for giving President-elect Barack Obama a thoroughgoing lesson in the absolute irrelevancy of Israel and Palestine to the national interests of the United States.”
 

 
“More than a week into Israel 's invasion of Gaza , America is still alive and kicking and none of our citizens are dead, which is the way it should be, as this is their religious war and not ours.”

I wouldn’t be too sure about that, because the statement fails to take into consideration two things. Not only that many Israelis (and, I use the term loosely, American foreign policy wonks) are so-called dual-citizens -having their feet in America and their heads in Tel Aviv and elsewhere- but also that the unacknowledged but de facto state-sponsored and state-supported religion of America, despite the fact that there isn’t supposed to be one, is, or at least seems to be, Zionism. Some US citizens might therefore be wounded or dead and, as long as Zionism is America’s de facto religion, it therefore and unfortunately is our religious war.
 
“If stubborn noninterventionism were our creed – as the Founders intended – the Gaza war could continue for two more days or two more months and we could simply shrug and mutter "Who cares?" America could simply go on its way, rebuilding its economy and marveling over the madness of two religions fighting to the death over a barren sandpit at the eastern end of the Mediterranean .”
 
[tongue-in-cheek mode on]

How unpatriotic!  That’s no way to describe the oil-rich holy land and its surroundings! There are more than two religions, or tribes, Judaism and Islam, Isaac and Ishmael, at war.  One must also remember the multi-racial, seemingly all-powerful, universal, or catholic, lower case ‘c,’ worshippers of mammon (or money). I think, for instance, that petroleum is tasty and delicious and that humans should be forever sacrificed upon its altars to keep it flowing. I predict, for instance, that after the Middle East has finally been made safe for Israeli hegemony and G.K. Chesterton’s “peace of petrol” has been realized, Rothschild Boulevard will extend from Tel Aviv to London and then, upon a vast extension bridge, over to Washington, D.C.  Just think!  There will be plenty of previously unemployed workers here in the States who will be gratefully employed in its maintenance. It will be like the public works projects of the New Deal era, only much, much better.
 
“Unfortunately, America today is run by a political and media elite that is addicted to intervention. This would be bad enough if these men and women had the brains to intervene and produce a result that benefits U.S. interests, but they are not. They are instead – despite their Ivy League diplomas – uneducated and naïve people who still live in the Cold War, foolishly believing that America is the boss of a strong Western/NATO community (which is now in its death throes on Afghanistan's plains); that other nations are eager to do America's dirty work; and, most fatally of all, that the national security interests of the United States and Israel are identical.”
 
Concerning that last sentence, if the interests of the two are not exactly identical, they are at best difficult if not impossible to disentangle.  "We are all Israelis now."  Except, of course, those Gentiles who might want to make awliyah and become active, voting citizens of democratic Israel. 
 
“The American people should be livid, though, with their bipartisan political elite and the Israel-firsters at Commentary, the New York Times, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Washington Post, as well as that hive of anti-American U.S. citizens that fund and lead AIPAC, for involving them in this barbarous mess.”

Hey, Michael, stop being an anti-clericalist wannabe French Revolutionary. You left the CIA for a position at (Jesuit) Georgetown University , after all, and ought to know better than to be a neo-Jacobin. These are the high priests of America ’s state-sponsored religion, Zionism, and their wise and sagacious counsel ought always to be valued rather than reviled. Remember the masses and stop confusing them with your doctrinal rebellion and fitna mongering.
 
“And worse is yet to come. Israel 's Gaza invasion has produced an unusual number of public anti-Israel demonstrations by American Muslims around the United States .”
 
This is just proof of what Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz, among others, have argued: that there are latent terrorist cells in America just waiting to misbehave and cause havoc in the streets. Never forget that the terrorists hate us for our freedom –the freedom, that is, that we exercise whenever we obtain the exclusive rights to their minerals and the deeds to their homes and vineyards. It seems to me that if our leaders had any sense, they would purge Detroit ’s Warren Ave post haste.  A State can ill-afford to pamper its malcontents with too many constitutional rights, a fact which the Patriot Act seems to acknowledge well enough.
 
“The 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war produced similar events, but the current, Gaza-focused demonstrations are angrier and larger in number. How long, one wonders, will it [be] before Israel 's military actions lead to violent clashes in America ?”
 
And when they do lead to violent clashes, water canons and a good, overwhelming dose of DARPA soundwaves ought to be turned upon the belligerents. That way, they will be brought safely –if reluctantly- back into the bleating, contented and I might add docile flock, or fold.  It seems to me that the only tolerance that anyone in America should have for revolutionary politics is for that historically thin margin which occurred between the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention and, of course, Irgun’s bombing of the King David Hotel.   
 
“Once the Arab-Israeli religious war has been brought into the United States and is producing blood in America's streets, the Israel-firsters will claim the carnage proves that secular America and theocratic Israel are in the same boat and facing the same enemies.”
 
They are in the same boat. They are facing the same enemies. Fortunately for Israel , it can piggy-back upon its giant if at times dumbstruck partner’s shoulders and exercise veto power in the UN Security Council.  In so doing, it can remain largely impervious to the same UN -the many tiresome and predictable resolutions of the General Assembly, at any rate- which assisted at its birth.
 
“Flogging this plausible but palpable lie, AIPAC-owned American leaders will consign this country to an unending war against Islam, the same catastrophe that is Israel 's lot.”
 
Oh ye of little faith! I suggest that you stop studying History and that you listen to a few more sermons by the Rev. John Hagee and call us in the morning, after you have recovered.  Oh but wait, not John Hagee, the Protestant, but the more appropriately ultramontane, that is to say Catholic, upper-case ‘C,’ John Neuhaus might be in order.

 

[tongue-in-cheek mode off]
 
Citizen Serv

In the future, everyone will access the same discussion group, but all they will say is “hi.”

Edited by Servetus - 06 January 2009 at 10:25am

Abe Foxman seems dismayed that some outspoken people are saying terribly mean things about Israel:

 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052901.html

   

Serv

but that he doesn't make anything the Arab neither Islamic world, the only thing that they make is to look and they are accomplices of the genocide of the Palestinians

There is a 60 minutes segment that was aired on Jan. 25th in the U.S. on Israeli settlements in Gaza & the West Bank.  You can take immediate action by sending an email of support to the producers to air such segments in the future.  The producer is getting negative comments from anti-Arab/anti-Muslim groups on a daily basis. 


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