Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Count Folke Bernadotte, Would-Be "Internationalizer" of Jerusalem
Yossi Sarid,the Giveaway King
Avi Shlaim now of Oxford
Avraham Burg, now a proud French citizen
The bolder and more pro-Palestinian Barack Hussein Obama gets, the bolder J Street becomes in its relentless pursuit to undo the Jewish State. The latest comes from Yossi Sarid, J Street spokesman, who says of Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem:
"Barack Obama appears well aware of his obligations to try to resolve the world's ills, particularly ours here. Why then undercut him and tie his hands? On the contrary, let's allow him to use his clout to save us from ourselves, to help both bruised and battered nations and free them from their prison. Then he can push both sides to divide the city into two capitals -- to give Jewish areas to the Jews and Arab areas to the Arabs - and assign the Holy Basin to an agreed on international authority."
Notice the messianic qualities attributed to Obama by the staunchly secular - and - now properly marginalized Israeli Left. And of course, numero uno on the list of "the world's ills" is the effrontery of Jewish sovereignty in its own capital, Jerusalem. Apparently, J Street wants to move the hands of the clock back to the glorious days of Count Folke Bernadotte, who, in 1947, wanted to "internationalize" - some say he would have awarded the city to the Jordanians - Jerusalem. Imagine The Western Wall in the hands of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade. There is no doubt that the Palestinians would reciprocate the magnanimity shown by Moshe Dayan and Levi Eshkol when they handed over the keys to the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf in 1967. My guess is that the Arabs would finish the demolition the Romans left incomplete in less than an hour. And, of course the concessions won't end there. Who needs the Golan, the Galilee and the Negev? If left to J Street's blueprint, all that would remain of Israel would be an upscale, small suburb of Tel Aviv so that the Ben Ami family could establish a pied a terre while visiting Hamas headquarters.
In an ad placed in several Jewish American newspapers, J Street spokesperson, Yossi Sarid (the chief architect of the failure of the near 100% giveaway that preceded the 2000 initifada), adopts a nauseatingly condescending tone towards Mr. Wiesel, whose letter served as a reminder of the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish people:
"Someone has deceived you, my dear friend...", Sarid sarcastically intones. He then goes on to essentially accuse Wiesel of treason by "tying the President's hands" by his suggestion that The Temple Mount remain under Israeli sovereignty. Sarid then spells out J Street's absurd plan to "internationalize" the area. What the Palestinian Arabs and 6 Arab armies could not achieve through their aggression of 1948, J Street would now give them through capitulation. Jennifer Rubin of Commentary has more here. The most ominous Obama pronouncement on the horizon is the "imposed solution" scenario. More of that later.
Let's see if we can understand the landscape: Yossi Sarid and the now (hopefully permanently marginalized) Israeli and American Left have had seventeen years to try out their "confidence building measures" (read concession after concession) via their highly touted "Peace Process." The results? Thousands of corpses - both Jewish and Arab - an ascendant Islamic radicalism and Iran about to produce (apparently with Obama's acquiescence) nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them. It's as if Neville Chamberlain had been left in charge of British foreign policy throughout World War II.
When will American Jews wake up to this lunacy? Most of the American Christian communities have figured it out.
J Street and the rapidly emigrating madmen of the Israeli Left have all the answers. Let's pray that they depart Israel soon and that Harvard, UCLA and Oxford grant them tenure as soon as possible.
The Western Left is much more of a threat to Western Peoples than the Arabs, Muslims, and any other hostiles ever will be. Traitors and enemies of Western European Christians (and now Israel Jews) classically liberal capitalist democracies and their cultures and peoples.
They dont even rise to the level of traitor, they are declared enemies hostile to the survival and continuance of Euro Christians and Israeli Jews.
The entirety of the left can be reasonably and responsibly conceived in neo-Marxian or derivative Marxian terms. That's a generalization, certainly and obviously, but the lineage is there to various and sundry degrees.
Isaiah Berlin, in his biography of Marx:
"The manuscripts of the numerous manifestos, professions of faith and programs of action to which he appended his name still bear the strokes of the pen and the fierce marginal comments, with which he sought to obliterate all references to eternal justice, the equality of man, the rights of individuals or nations, the liberty of conscience, the fight for civilization, and other such phrases which were the stock in trade ... of the democratic movements of his time; he looked upon these as so much worthless cant, indicating confusion of thought and ineffectiveness in action."
It is that genesis, that moral inversion, which lies at the heart of so much, and in turn which excuses so much within the left.