Many are the arguments flying back and forth on the Jews' rights to this or that, and the more absurd the point of origin for those arguments, the larger is their audience. It would be easier to itemize which factions of commentators have no interest or desire to tell Israel what to do - respecting thereby its sovereignty as a democratic state incarnating the will of its people - than to make a list of all the unelected, self-appointed (and most often, unasked) "governments" of those who choose everything except the elective process to make their political wills felt.
Maybe it is just me, but I always thought democracies enacted new policies based upon introduction of new legislation through drafting of bills by members of the constituency, which are then submitted to their duly elected representatives in Parliament, Congress or the Knesset. At that point, the bill would be debated on its merits and faults, modified, re-argued, then put up for a vote in that representative body, and if significant, even put to a public referendum. Am I missing anything here?
So I ask now: when, and by whom, was legislation introduced to allow the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to dictate internal Israeli policy, and when was this put to a referendum before the people of Israel, please? You remember Norway: home to six concentration camps under the Quisling regime, which got along very nicely, thank you, as a principality of the Third Reich; and whose resistance and intelligence efforts on behalf of the Allies were limited to the valiant efforts of exiled King Haakon's loyal troops and the cheerful marksmanship of the last naval coastal artillery regiment (which, with Krupp-made 28-centimeter gunfire, sent the Reichsmarine battleship Blucher to the bottom of the sea before surrendering).
Norway should be more conscious of its own concerns, as now Israel has petroleum and natural gas resources aplenty with which to compete with this meddling adversary and its partners in crime, the OPEC nations. Retribution in the marketplace is far more impactful and longer-lasting than losses on the battlefield.
I ask again: when and by whom was legislation introduced and passed with the consent of the people of Israel for the internal policy of the Holy Land to be dictated by Kofi Annan, whose own homeland is not precisely a paragon of democratic practice to which the whole world turns to view as an example?
And once more, with feeling: who voted for the matrix and rats' maze cauldron of insoluble and murderous madness that is the dynamic of the Oslo War, consisting of the following:
Option A. Give the Palestinians nationhood, the first rocket over the wall from this new nation triggers the condition for the waging of a lawful war under the Geneva Convention; thousands die on either side; then, Sub-Option A1 kicks in, which is a recreation of the exact condition both sides of the conflict are in now, but with yet another generation on both sides exhausted or dead.
Option B. Continue ad infinitum and ad nauseam the current anti-negotiations, continuously draining the brain cells and gene pools of all manner of nations, whose people would find their time better spent engaging in industrial enterprise and raising families than plotting each others' destruction and/or subjugation.
Option C. As a Noahide and Anglican outsider, I see what Jews do not, and hear what they do not, from those in positions to set policy respecting Israel. Charlottesville is traditionally where policymakers and American intelligence and diplomatic types go to escape, raise families and generally take a break and stroll the bistro district. It is very much the pre-WW I Vienna of the USA. The main point I glean from coffeehouse chatter is that no one has any problem with Jews being put under the pressure that they are in Israel.
Why?
Every nation on the planet wants a vigorous, hearty, enthusiastic business and cultural community of Jews. The human relations departments of every major U.S. corporation send "head-hunting" teams to Israel every year to entice recruits to work here to help build our economy. This also is Germany's motivation for enticing Jews from the Russian Federation (why do the press call it "the Former Soviet Union?" No one calls the USA "the Former New England"). Having worked with Russian Jews for three months on a publishing enterprise recently, I have to admit that I am now a Russophile. No people are more patient, self-effacing and diligent concerning others' welfare, yet alert and intelligent. The most despicable racism abroad today is anti-Russian sentiment. We were all strangers once).
No one talks this way with Jews present, but this is the subtext of discussions, and often it comes to the surface. Jews are the only people who look up and see sunlight instead of impending night. For this they are hated, yet desired.
Democracies are horribly inconvenient for people with business to do. It would be so much easier to kidnap Jews or bring them in chains to their countries to perform heavy industrial and scientific work these nations cannot pay their own citizens enough to undertake. So, undermine the Jewish state is the strategy. Make life impossible for the Chosen of Israel, and maybe they will move away to build up yet another nation in which they are less-than-welcome guests, but for the fact that one Jewish worker is worth ten of the other varieties.
Pharaoh wants his slaves back. Well, not this week, not this month, not ever. TTG to you, Ramses. Mr. Bush, Mr. Powell, Mr. Patten, please let the Jewish people choose their own fate, and, only if they want to, join them to us on mutually agreeable terms. Israel does not twist your arms with threats, imprecations and bribes, so do likewise to them.
It is time for the Jews and Gentiles alike to ask themselves: what if we left this tiny, fecund distillation of energetic creativity alone to settle its own affairs for a decade or so? Better yet, why not forever? There are symphonies to write, poems to be crafted, great paintings to create, Torah to study, and not in that order, thanks.
Maybe it is just me, but I always thought democracies enacted new policies based upon introduction of new legislation through drafting of bills by members of the constituency, which are then submitted to their duly elected representatives in Parliament, Congress or the Knesset. At that point, the bill would be debated on its merits and faults, modified, re-argued, then put up for a vote in that representative body, and if significant, even put to a public referendum. Am I missing anything here?
So I ask now: when, and by whom, was legislation introduced to allow the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to dictate internal Israeli policy, and when was this put to a referendum before the people of Israel, please? You remember Norway: home to six concentration camps under the Quisling regime, which got along very nicely, thank you, as a principality of the Third Reich; and whose resistance and intelligence efforts on behalf of the Allies were limited to the valiant efforts of exiled King Haakon's loyal troops and the cheerful marksmanship of the last naval coastal artillery regiment (which, with Krupp-made 28-centimeter gunfire, sent the Reichsmarine battleship Blucher to the bottom of the sea before surrendering).
Norway should be more conscious of its own concerns, as now Israel has petroleum and natural gas resources aplenty with which to compete with this meddling adversary and its partners in crime, the OPEC nations. Retribution in the marketplace is far more impactful and longer-lasting than losses on the battlefield.
I ask again: when and by whom was legislation introduced and passed with the consent of the people of Israel for the internal policy of the Holy Land to be dictated by Kofi Annan, whose own homeland is not precisely a paragon of democratic practice to which the whole world turns to view as an example?
And once more, with feeling: who voted for the matrix and rats' maze cauldron of insoluble and murderous madness that is the dynamic of the Oslo War, consisting of the following:
Option A. Give the Palestinians nationhood, the first rocket over the wall from this new nation triggers the condition for the waging of a lawful war under the Geneva Convention; thousands die on either side; then, Sub-Option A1 kicks in, which is a recreation of the exact condition both sides of the conflict are in now, but with yet another generation on both sides exhausted or dead.
Option B. Continue ad infinitum and ad nauseam the current anti-negotiations, continuously draining the brain cells and gene pools of all manner of nations, whose people would find their time better spent engaging in industrial enterprise and raising families than plotting each others' destruction and/or subjugation.
Option C. As a Noahide and Anglican outsider, I see what Jews do not, and hear what they do not, from those in positions to set policy respecting Israel. Charlottesville is traditionally where policymakers and American intelligence and diplomatic types go to escape, raise families and generally take a break and stroll the bistro district. It is very much the pre-WW I Vienna of the USA. The main point I glean from coffeehouse chatter is that no one has any problem with Jews being put under the pressure that they are in Israel.
Why?
Every nation on the planet wants a vigorous, hearty, enthusiastic business and cultural community of Jews. The human relations departments of every major U.S. corporation send "head-hunting" teams to Israel every year to entice recruits to work here to help build our economy. This also is Germany's motivation for enticing Jews from the Russian Federation (why do the press call it "the Former Soviet Union?" No one calls the USA "the Former New England"). Having worked with Russian Jews for three months on a publishing enterprise recently, I have to admit that I am now a Russophile. No people are more patient, self-effacing and diligent concerning others' welfare, yet alert and intelligent. The most despicable racism abroad today is anti-Russian sentiment. We were all strangers once).
No one talks this way with Jews present, but this is the subtext of discussions, and often it comes to the surface. Jews are the only people who look up and see sunlight instead of impending night. For this they are hated, yet desired.
Democracies are horribly inconvenient for people with business to do. It would be so much easier to kidnap Jews or bring them in chains to their countries to perform heavy industrial and scientific work these nations cannot pay their own citizens enough to undertake. So, undermine the Jewish state is the strategy. Make life impossible for the Chosen of Israel, and maybe they will move away to build up yet another nation in which they are less-than-welcome guests, but for the fact that one Jewish worker is worth ten of the other varieties.
Pharaoh wants his slaves back. Well, not this week, not this month, not ever. TTG to you, Ramses. Mr. Bush, Mr. Powell, Mr. Patten, please let the Jewish people choose their own fate, and, only if they want to, join them to us on mutually agreeable terms. Israel does not twist your arms with threats, imprecations and bribes, so do likewise to them.
It is time for the Jews and Gentiles alike to ask themselves: what if we left this tiny, fecund distillation of energetic creativity alone to settle its own affairs for a decade or so? Better yet, why not forever? There are symphonies to write, poems to be crafted, great paintings to create, Torah to study, and not in that order, thanks.