The rubbish bin of hallucinations (Leftist Peace Freak's Bad Acid Trip Alert)

After three days of crowing about the American veto of the UN Security Council's resolution proposal, an almost identical resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly.

The Israeli reaction was swift - a contemptuous statement attributing the vote results, 133 to 4, to the Arab bloc's automatic majority in the UN.

One can, of course, also congratulate oneself for the allies Israel found in the GA vote - the U.S. alongside Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. One can also ignore the regrettable fact that all the European Union states were among the huge majority supporting the resolution, intended to prohibit Israel from harming Arafat. And one can also suppress the bottom line - that the UN gave Israel a diplomatic slap in the face for its government's stupid decision, which was mainly a declaration of intentions without an actual possibility of carrying them out.

A week after the cabinet's hallucinatory meeting, in which it decided to "remove the obstacle" (Arafat), even its ministers admit it was not meant for imminent implementation and that Israel is totally dependent on U.S approval in this matter.

The desire to remove Arafat in one way or another is the most blatant demonstration of the Israeli tendency to evade responsibility and condition everything on imaginary developments on the Palestinian side. Instead of doing what it must do to try to calm the conflict down, Israel is producing action plans for the rival side and demanding that it carry them out. When the Palestinians fail to live up to these expectations, Israel derives renewed confirmation for its belief that there is no partner to peace.

The Oslo agreement was based, among other things, on the demand that the Palestinians change their character and become a democratic society - a wonder that does not exist in the entire Arab world. This condition was fulfilled on the face of it and on its basis Arafat was unanimously elected chairman of the Palestinian Authority. This formal procedure, the likes of which took place in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is now being used, ironically, by Ahmed Tibi and others to claim that Israel's threat to Arafat is foiling a perfectly democratic move. Just how far democratic rule prevails in Palestinian society was indicated by the campaign mounted against Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) when he dared challenge Arafat.

The move that led to Abu Mazen's election for prime minister also exemplifies the Israeli illusion that it could foist change on the Palestinians. So is the demand that the Palestinians produce a leader in the image of David Ben-Gurion, who would be resolute enough to enforce his authority on all the armed organizations. The cabinet's decision to get rid of Arafat falls into this rubbish bin of hallucinations. Neither Israel nor any external body can replace, by force, the internal processes necessary to change Palestinian society's world of references, its game rules and its politics.

Israel must learn to deal with the Palestinian rival as it is. First and foremost it must do its own part to settle the conflict, or rather, do everything it can to cool it down. A Palestinian proposal for a cease-fire is on the agenda. The cabinet has so far refrained from addressing it, except for the familiar argument that as long as Arafat is around, and as long as the PA isn't dismantling the terror organizations, there is no chance of reaching an agreement.

These are unrealistic pre-conditions, even if to Israel they appear justified. They will not be fulfilled without a profound change in the overall climate in which the conflict is taking place. And to make this change happen, Israel must finally reach the awareness that it must give up the territories.

It's a damn tough bullet to bite sometimes finding out who your real friends are, a tectonic revelation for many Jews in this nation who are swallowing a pan full of post 9/11 humble pie. I don't mean "friends" who will give you ideological lip-service and salve your ego with onion skin deep empathy for the sake of your money or your political currency. I mean people who will bleed for you, people who will stand by you when the bullets start to fly.

I suppose it's something of a dichotomy in my own life that my better half is Jewish, yet I campaigned for Pat Buchanan in 1996 mainly on his illegal immigration platform, but I'll admit as well that I liked the fact that he had the balls to stand up to powerful Jews in this nation. We have to do things like that, even if we suffer the worst censure and threats for doing it. This is a democracy, such that it is. It needs maintenance, or it will collapse.

I got 6000 hate mails once, in one day, spammed by the JDL or ADL no doubt. I was a merciless critic of the race-baiting formula so easily enshrined by left-wing institutions like the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL, and the ACLU, all of them so deeply concerned with the basic dignity of the common man that they'll incite internecine riot using the most scurrilous racial politics just to prove it. It shouldn’t seem too out of whack then, that the only Jew who would establish any kind of dialog was Irv Rubin. He accepted my olive branch. The others told me to fuck myself. We weren't that much different in our take on things actually. I admired Irv Rubin. He was a soldier.

For 7 years I've made it a point to e-mail the ADL and Simon Wiesenthal Center reminding them of their more egregious transgressions against human decency, like the Marlon Brando affair, Marvin Hier's pathological hatred of white men in uniform, and now the Passion of course. I got into the habit a long time ago of cc-ing a copy of e-mail I send to them (and to all organizations like them), to the NY Times and LA Times as well. This prevents them from accusing you of saying things they might like to accuse their critics of saying, and keeps government, law enforcement, and ambitious bureaucratic functionaries off your ass. It also forces these bastions of self-righteousness to listen to your criticism without any recourse of unwarranted censure. They hate it.

The ADL isn’t big on answering mail, but The Simon Wiesenthal Center sends me their curt little anecdotal responses if I hit them with some point that really grates on someone's conscience. Usually they’ll just ignore me too. A breakthrough of sorts transpired not too long ago though. Remember back in 1996 when one was a "hate group" if they acknowledged the fact that white gentile male heterosexuals seem always to do an inordinately disproportionate per-capita share of the dying in war? Or in New York City on 9/11....take your pick.

I sent the Simon Wiesenthal Center a link to a DOD list of our KIA and wounded since 9/11, which is overwhelmingly representative of what Pat Buchanan predicted it would be, apprising them of the fact that Rangers in Afghanistan were telling us (the Ranger web ring) that Arab terrorists on interrogation were calling the hostilities a war against the Jews or a war against America interchangeably.

Our military knows that. They have no problem with it either, at least our Ranger units certainly don't. They're decent people with the strength of their convictions after all. That's why they vote 98% Republican. Picking up a rifle to defend the basic human dignity of other people who are not one's own race or ethnicity or religion is what the US military has been all about since WWII. That's why the left loathes the military. That's why they must dehumanize the military.

I was expecting the Simon Wiesenthal Center's standard curt bit of chaff in reply to my latest message, so I guess the deflection shot they hit me with packed enough surprise after all these years that my eyes got a little misty. Our brave American soldiers fighting terrorism were in their prayers it said. I stared at that message for a long, long time. It was good enough for me I always knew, and I’m sure for any young soldier overseas. If people who will pray for you aren’t worth stepping in harm’s way to protect, then who is?

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