{Also published at Jews Down Under.}
Writing in Israel Hayom, conservative thinker Elliot Abrams tells us:
323 housing units."This week the State Department engaged in a remarkable assault on Israel. Both in tone and in content, it marks a new hostility and plenty of sheer ignorance.
The comment, titled "Recent Israeli Settlement Announcements," ran as follows: "We are deeply concerned by reports today that the Government of Israel has published tenders for 323 units in East Jerusalem settlements. This follows Monday's announcement of plans for 770 units in the settlement of Gilo.
"We strongly oppose settlement activity, which is corrosive to the cause of peace. These steps by Israeli authorities are the latest examples of what appears to be a steady acceleration of settlement activity that is systematically undermining the prospects for a two-state solution."
I feel reasonably certain that they are building many more housing "units" than that in my neighborhood of Oakland alone.
Obama's Racism
The Obama administration is both racist and seemingly incapable of learning from past efforts.
The reason the Obama administration is racist (or anti-Semitic) is because they harrass the Jews of the Middle East for daring to build housing for themselves in the very place that Jews have resided for millennia.
Long, long, long before there was any such place as London or Paris or Washington, D.C. there was Jerusalem... and it was crawling with Jews. Why was it crawling with Jews even many centuries before the first Arab showed up to steal Jewish land?
Because Jerusalem is, indeed, the ancient capital of the Jewish people.
The Arabs do not get to come along thousands of years later, take it, claim Jerusalem as "the third holiest city in Islam" - which is nonsense, they might as well claim Walla Walla, Washington as the thirty-seventh most holy city in Islam - insist that they are the actual indigenous population, and then carry out fourteen centuries of non-stop colonial violence against the Jewish natives to the region.
Sadly, however, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party do not see it that way.
They honestly believe that any future state of "Palestine" must be Judenrein and, yet, somehow, against all common sense and basic human decency, they see themselves as anti-racists.
They aren't.
Obama Administration Inability to Learn
Well, either they are incapable of learning from past experience or they are secretly malicious toward Israel and toward the Jewish people.
Whatever it is, Jewish Israelis are not going to let these knuckleheads in the White House tell them where they may or may not be allowed to live in their own homeland.
At least the racist princes of Medieval Europe only tried to impose their wills upon where Jews may be allowed to live in Europe, itself. Obama, in his remarkable arrogance, believes that he has every right to dictate where Jews should be allowed to live in Jerusalem!
And the thing of it is, not only is it racist, but it's entirely counterproductive and has been proven so year after year.
It does not matter if the Jews withdraw from the eastern section of Jerusalem, as well as Judea and Samaria, because the Arabs are not going to cease their efforts to murder Jews. Why should they? It costs them very little in their efforts, because they outnumber us by a factor of 60 to 70 to 1, and they've been engaged in the Jew Killing Project since Muhammad got angry with us for not accepting him as a prophet.
Those stubborn Jews!
Y'know, if we would not accept Jesus as a prophet despite the fact that, one, he was Jewish and, two, he actually carried a message of peace and love, then we're certainly not going to accept someone with the character of Muhammad, who was anything but peaceful.
Muhammad was a caravan raider with a taste for exceedingly young girls and he murdered very many Jews. We're supposed to respect this? I do not think so.
The bottom line, of course, is that kicking the Jews in the head from Washington, D.C. is never going to bring peace. What could bring peace is if the White House and the EU insist that there will be no additional funding of the Palestinian Authority until they cease inciting violence against Jews and demonstrate an actual willingness to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
Short of that the violence against us will go on and our progressive-left anti-racist friends will tell one another how it is that we deserve whatever beating the Arabs care to dish out.
It goes in circles. The obsession with the occupation makes one wonder how smart the "educated" people are, and about the bearings of their moral compass.
ReplyDeleteAnyone with eyes can see that inciting children to hate, glorifying acts of violence and terror, and stealing people blind are taking place, unless one wears blinders. Anyone with sense knows that these behaviors do not promote peace, let alone friendly relations, and the status quo will continue until these behaviors change.
International law speaks of minimum core norms and values to which every person is entitled, yet so many that scream about Israel and others are the actual abusers or look the other way. Humanitarian racism is insidious. Millions of people are under the yoke because of it.
Many educated people are not smart.
DeleteOh they see it alright; they just choose to ignore it or, worse, support it because of their ideological bent.
DeleteAgain though. All this tells me is that Israel is making an error in negotiating this 10 year aid deal. The sword of Damocles the Americans will hold over their heads is too much.
ReplyDeleteAlso and this is important, Obama is pushing hard to remove a clause from the historical package that maintains that 75% of the aid MUST be spent on US companies in the US. He wants it to be 100%. Obama is demanding that Israel hobble its own defense industry. And as Carolyn Glick notes, this whole deal is little more than a bill of sale for Lockheed Martin. It's designed around forcing the fatally flawed F-35 down Israel's throat. While it may score political points against Jew haters to note that all such aid would legally have to be spent on the US in the US and so it's not actually 'aid' per se as in 'we give you Jews everything !!!' the reality of it will be extremely damaging to Israel's own industries.
Moreover as Glick also notes, Obama wants to bottomline all shared development projects and bundle them together. This means that whatever is in the kitty for all shared development programs can never be negotiated or adjusted separately. This is not shared development this is turning your customer into a vendor.
I sincerely hope Israel puts the brakes on this deal until at least next year. While it's unlikely they'll get a better deal under Hillary or even under Trump, it would be better to push off and work toward separate program by program, line by line aid agreements. The leverage that Israel has in the F-35 is that as one partner leaves others are more prone to leave and then the whole thing collapses.