David Landau, editor of "Haaretz," invited Condi Rice to join him in "raping" Israel.                                                                         

Some months ago, the American ambassador to Israel invited a group of Israeli “intellectuals” to a private meeting with the Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice.  At this meeting David Landau, editor of the left-wing daily, Haaretz, beseeched Rice to “rape Israel.”  “Israel wants to be raped,” he assured her.  According to reports, many of the others in the room, most of them ageing white males of European extraction, nodded their heads in agreement.
One wonders if the historical parallel flashed through Rice’s mind, if she imagined other rooms, in other times and places, full of ageing white males assuring each other that “they want to be raped.”

Imagine the tableau.  Landau is saying this to a black woman, acknowledged to be—whatever one thinks of her policies—one of the smartest, toughest and accomplished ladies in the United States, a standing reproach to the benighted bigots who enslaved her forebears.  One wonders if the historical parallel flashed through Rice’s mind, if she imagined other rooms, in other times and places, full of ageing white males assuring each other that “they want to be raped.”

Sometimes a single ugly metaphor suffices to illuminate the ethical world of the person who utters it.  David Landau was not just egging Rice on to perform a solo hate crime, he was inviting her to join a gang-bang.  The essence of rape is not merely illicit sexual congress but a denial of the humanity of the victim, an assertion that her right to exist is a function of the rapist’s arbitrary will.  In the sense in which David Landau used the word “rape,” he and his newspaper rape Israel every day.  Every week Landau and “Haaretz” cast doubt on Israel’s right to defend herself, and portray her as evil and inhuman.  Her enemies are always right.  Israel’s indelible fault, her original, unforgivable sin, is the idea that the Jews are a people and deserve a state of their own.

Israel is raped in this sense every day by unelected elites who enjoy excessive access to the levers of political power.  Judges and jurists prevent her from defending herself and give preference to the rights of her enemies over the lives of her citizens.  Professors and publicists express contempt for her traditions, and state authoritatively that she is a tyranny with no right to exist among the nations of the world.  Corrupt and incompetent politicians trade her vital interests for another year in office.  Most of these people feed at the expense of the nation they abuse.The The bitter truth is that the rapists enjoy such power as they have by virtue of the consent of the governed, because of many Israelis’ ignorance about democracy, their inability to understand their true situation, and the brainwashing their masters subject them to, convincing them that the image those masters portray of them is accurate and the contempt in which those masters hold them is justified.
bitter truth is that the rapists enjoy such power as they have by virtue of the consent of the governed

A year and a half ago, at the end of the Second Lebanon War, something in this pattern of domination broke.  All polls show that since that time the Israeli public has entirely lost confidence in its political leadership, its public institutions, and the policies they would foist on Israel.  The public no longer believes its rapists nor trusts them.

True, that is not enough.  A wide gulf exists between loss of trust and the ability and willingness to do something about it.  But it’s just a matter of time.  Once the mythic aura of Israel’s unelected, self-hating elites is broken, liberation from their yoke will come someday.

Viva la liberacion!!