Israel’s Embarrassing President

Sha’i ben-Tekoa 

The born-again, resurrected Jewish nation is threatened with genocide and accused of committing genocide. That is what the genocide accusation is plainly all about, psychological projection.

 It is what the Mohameddans — as they used to be called — attempted on October 7, 2023 but were stopped by heroic Israeli civilians and soldiers, and so it makes perfect sense that starting the very next day, this generation’s of lunatic Jew-haters started shrieking that it was Israel committing genocide, when the IDF did nothing for two or three weeks, against the allegedly ancient, indigenous nation of “Palestinians” in Gaza with post-religious Israelis clueless at how to respond to this slander.

We also are now witness to an achievement-less president clueless as to the meaning of racism anointing Gadi Eisenkot as the next prime minister because 67 MKs support him – and never mind 19 of them never said a bad word about the behavior of their spiritual brethren in Gaza on October 7, 2023. None are known to have ever publicly respected the right of the Jews to rule themselves in their own independent state as officially Jewish as every one the 56 Islamic states are officially Islamic.

The tragedy of the modern Israeli state is that its founders were adamant that religion play no role in the relationship of their modern Zionist dreams to the the behavior of Hamas Muslims on October 7. Their activities were excellent specimens of that wrong-headed, secular Zionist mindset once again misreading the intentions and soul of the Islamic enemy.

 We live in a state Franz Kafka or Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone might imagine in which the Jews’ second-place vote-winner, Eisenkot, will become prime minister, not the winner Netanyahu. The new prime minister is also all smiles on linking arms with these 19 Arabic-speaking Muslims with citizenship, who identify themselves as “Palestinians” and claim to be the rightful landlords of the country and that the creation of Israel was a war crime. They are Muslims whose Koran is in a class with Mein Kampf for its hostility to Jews.

 Ironically, Islam pays the hateful Jews inadvertent praise because it is nothing but the theft of the Jews’ religion. The Koran contains numerus stories of the biblical Israelites, only repeatedly perverts the narratives. For example, one of the most important of a Believer’s five commandments is to make the pilgrimage to Mecca to the spot where Ibrahim tied up his first-born son Isma’il for a human sacrifice, but Allah stopped it.

And when a Muslim is told the Jews’ Torah records that Avraham bound his second son, Isaac, not his first, and the drama took took place not in Mecca but on Haram a-Sharif in Al-Quds, the Jews’ Torah is called a lie. Grand Mufti Haj Amin (1920-60) said a third of the Koran concerns the Jews who are called a Believer’s worst enemies.

This is the essence of the endless violence here. Today’s Muslims are faithful embodiments of a bitter, angry, hatred of the sons of Israel for receiving the favored status and not the first-born Isma’il. Not only did he lose the privileges of the first-born but was expelled from his father’s house, community and country. His mother Hagar, also expelled, returned to her native Egypt but her son, prophesied to be a “wild ass of a man,” chose to go off with a bow and arrow into the desert of Paran, to spawn a society of illiterate, nomadic bandits lacking all sense of the sin of theft and armed robbery.

 Today, they murderously act out their antediluvian aggression on fire with the fantasy the Jews stole Palestine from the “Palestinian” people and slander Israel for slaughtering them at random, a.k.a. committing genocide against them, which includes intentionally murdering “Palestinian” children.

The president of the state, famous for no accomplishment in life, sees Eisenkot and cohorts as worthy leaders of the State of Israel, when among them is Yair Golan who snidely has compared Israeli Jews to borderline Nazis in their mistreatment of the Ishmaelites (my word, of course). Yair Golan has also said of the IDF in Gaza that its soldiers “kill Palestinian children as a hobby,” and that the president of the state receives him respectfully is disgusting.

 Our president got where he is in life by being a loyal member of the Labor Party of atheists, and because his father Chaim was a former head of IDF, a military historian and former Israeli ambassador to the UN who famously in 1975 ripped up on the podium of the General Assembly the “Zionism is a form of racism” resolution.  His son is the beneficiary of good genes but nothing he ever did to merit the role of chief adjudicator of the party system.

In early 2023, in the name of democracy, the post-religious Jews refused to respect the results of a democratic, properly run election calling for reforming the High Court, with the prime minister woefully mishandling the seditious Ehud Barakians shutting down the tiny country’s principal airport, blocking main arteries, endangering life. Instead of standing up to them, he offered to negotiate with them – and thereby functionally validated their use of thuggish violations of law and order as a legitimate form of liberal democratic political life. The president agreed to mediate and produced a statement unbelievably one-sided and in tune with his fellow leftists in the Labor Party. It was a jaw-dropping exhibition of shameless, one-sided partisanship when the role of president should be standing for national unity. Herzog lacked the impartiality expected of a mediator. His suggestion was to adopt all the Left’s demands.

And now, he has left his mark by trashing the tradition of receiving the parties and their preferences after an election, starting with the one who won the most votes, namely Netanyahu. It was yet another guiltless display of partisanship to go against tradition and start with the smallest parties in order to deny the honor to Netanyahu. Herzog turned the sequence upside down, denying Bibi the respect of being the first for receiving the plurality of votes.

Representing the religious Zionist right were Tzika Mor, father of a hostage son who was a brave hard liner against capitulation to the kidnappers’ demands, his own son’s life not withstanding; Simcha Rothman, champion of legal reform against the obnoxious High Court; and Ministress Orit Strook. She told Herzog her faction supports Netanyahu for prime minister and told him of their opposition to Arab members in the government (Eisenkot’s 19), not because they are Arabs but because they are nationalists who view the founding of Israel as a catastrophe, the Naqba, their Lewis Carrol version of history that reverses the truth. In May 1948, five Arab states invaded the new Jewish state to steal all the wealth the Jews had created since the birth of the Zionist movement, but in the Wonderland of the Muslim mind, the war was all about the Zionists coming to stealing the homes and land of the “Palestinians.”

At some point, our embarrassingly low IQ president, challenged her description of the Arabs who don’t belong in the government, saying, “How do you differentiate between racism and what you’re saying?”

Strook parried, “Israel’s Arab citizens had the opportunity to vote for an Arab candidate who served in the IDF, Yosef Haddad but the Arabs voted for candidates who see the founding of the State of Israel a catastrophe.”

In their colloquy, Herzog, favorably it seems, referred to Yoav Segalklovitz who joined the enemy as No. 2 in the Arab Ra”am Party. Herzog praised this former senior commander in the Israeli police and as a soldier.  Herzog preached to her, “You have to understand, that we live with Arab citizens in Israel. This generalization bothers me a lot.”

“Boojie” Herzog, named for his most esteemed grandfather, chief rabbi in Mandatory Palestine, then lectured Tzvika Mor that, “It is a very dangerous statement to accuse another side of trying to take over the country from within. That is casting aspersions.”

Mor said he is not casting aspersions. “I am simply listening to Mansour Abbas, leader of the largest Arab party, saying that the entire country belongs to them.” We need to state the obvious. This country is first and foremost a Jewish state and alongside that, we are all obligated to love the stranger.”

 Herzog replied, “That is an important statement. It also means knowing how to condemn racism.’

 Mor countered “of course but there is a minority here with nationalist aspirations and that is where need to draw the line.”

Herzog answered.” You can see there is an attempt to reach out a desire to integrate…’

Said Mor, “Integrate for what purpose?…The Arab leadership is not focused on integrating into our society, which could have been a blessing, but rather on promoting Palestinian nationalism and taking control of the land from us.”

 This writer disagrees that what is in play here is “Palestinian nationalism,” but aside from that, notice how the traditional, secular Israeli mind works in refusing to face the truth that these people hate our guts in their guts, and all attempts at friendly equality with them must fail until they literally have a change of heart about Jews. Every peace plan aims to transform the Muslims into friendly, non-belligerent neighbors respectful of the Jews’ right to live free from Islamic domination as Jews lived and suffered under Muslims from day one of this pilfered and distorted version of Jewish history and the Jewish religion. 

Notice in particular how this poorly educated man has no understanding of the very word racism, for race is a biological condition that no human has ever had any control over. No one decides to be born with skin a certain color and no one can do anything about that.

Racism, when you think about it, which pretends to be a scientific ethnological concept, is profoundly stupid because in the skin, there is no brain, no heart. No one is responsible for being the color they are, which color should play no role in judging any human being. A person is judged on his own behavior, with our embarrassingly simple-minded president thinking that rejecting Arabs for membership in the national government is due to an aversion to their appearance?

 No, they don’t belong in the government of Israel no more than during WWII ethnic Germans and Japanese belonged in the governments in London and Washington,

 Yet here is this Israeli fool, this dreamer after almost 80 years of endless violence against us, who holds fast to the belief that Israel can somehow modify the hearts and minds and behaviors of the Muslim Arabs and turn them into patriotic, fellow “Israelis.”

Eisenkot, a product of the IDF, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Left, is on record suggesting a return to the policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of Arabs in Gaza to work in Israel in the belief this will moderate their hostility, raise their standard of living and stop them from murderously hating us. One of the ironic hypocrisies of the Left is hating capitalism, yet their solution to every societal problem is to throw more money at it.

Take the latest news of a small group of Jewish families moving into some buildings in Jericho, and the latest scandal is that they may — or may not — have had IDF permission, with allegations that Central Command Commander Major Gen. Avi Bluth colluded with their “illegal” invasion, with the irritating Times of Israel website reporting that the group doing the occupying was the Nachala Organization, which word in Hebrew alludes to the Almighty bestowing on His chosen people land belonging to the Canaanites, while calling Jericho a “West Bank” city, and never mind Yehoshua ben Nun did not call it that when he led the Israelites over Jordan at Jericho to dispossess the barbaric Hamitic Canaanites, a people as inhumanly corrupt as Aztecs and Nazis.

The Times of Israel site also reported that the IDF sealed off the “West Bank” village of Arabs as a closed military zone in order to prevent the convicted criminal ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert of conducting a sympathy media event with the “Palestinians” who – this is TOI’s language, “who have been the target of repeated settler attacks.”

Earlier on Friday, Olmert accused Bluth of “effectively aiding Jewish terrorism.”

This is simply treasonous, giving aid and comfort to the enemy by portraying the enemy as victims of one’s own nation. I support not one act of vandalism or aggression against the Muslims by Jews in Judea and Samaria because it contributes nothing to our welfare.

 But to use the same word “terrorism” to describe this bush league Jewish aggression is like comparing it to Nazi behavior. and even worse, as many Israelis felt after October 7, even the Nazis did not engage in the sadistic horrors of that day perpetrated by maniacs on fire with their anti-human religion. The sky will not fall when Israeli leaders speak the truth of Islam as the real enemy of Israel, not fake “Palestinian nationalists” who have been offered a state a half-dozen times over the last 100 years and refused every plan because they are still a tribal people who have no understanding or interest in a state, which in their eyes is not even an Islamic concept. They want a caliphate.

Their leader in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s was a Muslim priest who insisted there was no country called Filistin. What the Jews and Christians called Palestine was a name Muslims never knew or used.

Muslims themselves also do not use the terms “Islamism” and “Islamists.” They were invented by non-Muslim, Western academics in order to defend their profession of studying Muslims as a religion whose mainstream they chose to see as good — unlike the Islamists who are bad, the “radical extremists” who commit all the terror. On October 8, Dr. Daniel Pipes sounded just like our Bibi, calling for an end to Hamas rule in Gaza in order to create a better society for the innocent locals there who are not to be confused with those “radical extremist Islamists.”

Sorry, but this is unrealistic. For the Jewish left, Yitzhak Rabin was right on target when as prime minister for the second time he vowed in his inaugural address to the Knesset that Israel will no longer be “a people that dwells alone,” and for sure the hallmark of their isolation at the time was their refusal to side with the “Palestinians” against themselves, which is what religion-hating Rabin and Peres did when shaking the bloody hands of Arafat and Abbas on the White House Lawn.

 Israel is reviled to the extent it does not respect itself and tell the world there is nothing “Palestinian” about these people – a nation with no national language – no national cuisine, no national history – no national markers of any kind –no national map. In my book I cite the PLO Covenant that described the boundaries of Palestine as drafted by the Palestine Mandate produced by the European imperialist powers. They had no conception of the shape of the boundaries of their “beloved” country. The Arabs never had a map of classical Palestine in their heads.

And it is this defective and fractured national Israeli identity vis-a-vis the role of religion in our relationship with those who murder us all the time that accounts for too many of our sorrows, e.g. the surprise on October 7 that the Muslims were not “deterred,” as all the top security officials agreed, but determined as ever to hate and torture Jews with utmost cruelty.

President Herzog sounds like a universalistic, idealistic teenager in imagining a hoped-for common Israeli identity between Jews and Muslims that Israelis have to work toward and shed their “racist” discrimination against the “Palestinians.”

This will not do.

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