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There are times that arise in the lives of peoples, nations, and civilizations when taken-for-granted assumptions about the past and future demand examination, if not revision, if not upending.
In light of Hamas’ mass assault and terrorism against Israeli civilians – Jews – on October 7, and, Jonathan Tobin’s October 25th Jewish News Syndicate interview of journalist Melanie Phillips, perhaps (perhaps) we are now living amidst one of those times.
And so, for your consideration…
I
Why has it been this situation for a hundred years?
Why is it the only situation which is like this?
The only war that never ends in the world.
Because it’s the war that the – has been created by the West,
and continued by the West.
It relies entirely on Western support.
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“As a dog returns to his vomit, so does a fool repeat his folly.”
“כְּכֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל־קֵא֑וֹ כְּ֜סִ֗יל שׁוֹנֶ֥ה בְאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ”
(Yet, what if the folly is not folly, but mendacity?)
Mishlei (Proverbs) – Chapter 26
“Now, I have a rather heretical view about this, ingrained, pessimistic view that this conflict is with us forever. You have to ask yourself, “Why is it with us forever? Why is this – I think I’m right in saying – the only conflict in the world, which has gone on for a hundred years, and which has no prospect, in the minds of most people, of ever being resolved. ‘Cause every alternative is terrible. Either we take over all their territory in which case we have however many – – “palestinians” who don’t want to be ruled by us, and we don’t want to rule them, or we do a “two-state-solution”. Well that’s clearly impossible, so we’re – we’re completely stuck. We – we – we can’t move. I think it’s the wrong way of looking at it. Why has it been this situation for a hundred years? Why is it the only situation which is like this? The only war that never ends in the world. Because it’s the war that the – has been created by the West, and continued by the West. It relies entirely on Western support. If the West wasn’t involved; it the West hadn’t been involved, this would have been sorted. It would have been sorted by force. By which I mean – I don’t mean that everyone would have been killed. What I mean is, that, Israel would have asserted its force, and – it would have reached a settlement – with – I don’t know that the settlement would have looked like, but basically, the “palestinian” issue would have gone away – because, the “palestinian” issue is only an issue because it’s been created as such by the West. The West has taken this false narrative – you know, “that the “palestinians” are the indigenous people; that they were driven out of their own land; that they are now being occupied illegally in their own land, and all the rest of it. The West has taken this up, even governments which are supposedly sympathetic to Israel; have taken this up. Britain. America. The EU. They’ve all said, “The way you settle it is to divide the land.” … Well no; if you have a war of extermination, you don’t say, to the people who are threatened with extermination, “You’ve got to settle it by basically giving the other side, whatever you – whatever they want, because, that’s the way in which the other side will continue to say; will say to itself, ‘If we continue, what we’re doing, we’ll get all of it!’” And that’s what’s happened for a hundred years.”
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II
What’s causing it, is Western support,
for the people who are bent on an agenda of extermination.
And, Israel has never said that.
It won’t say it. …
But victory – depends upon identifying who is fighting whom.
And, currently, and until now – the fight,
is characterized as between Israel and the “palestinians”.
It’s not!
The fight is between Israel and the West.
So victory requires the West to have its own complicity in this, rammed down its throat.
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Well, you know, if you pretend that your “ally” is your ally, whereas,
in fact they are your frenemy, then, you know, you –
you get the consequences that have followed.
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“Well – would anyone else like to speak up?
Or shall we end this charade?”
(Commander William T. Riker)
“As you wish, Commander Riker.
The charade is over.”
(Commander Tomalak)
(Star Trek: The Next Generation, from “Future Imperfect”, broadcast November 12, 1990)
“What’s causing it, is Western support, for the people who are bent on an agenda of extermination. And, Israel has never said that. It won’t say it. … But victory – depends upon identifying who is fighting whom. And, currently, and until now – the fight, is characterized as between Israel and the “palestinians”. It’s not! The fight is between Israel and the West. So victory requires the West to have its own complicity in this, rammed down its throat. And, they have to be told – You know, “You are creating this. You have created this.” But, Israel won’t do it, because it says, “Are you crazy?! I mean, America, you know, is our ally, and we rely on it. And Britain is our ally, and we rely on it, and the European Union, heaven help us, is our ally, and we rely on that too!” So we’ll manage all the – all the stuff that they come up with; all the rubbish they come up with. We’ll manage it. We – we can’t – we can’t throw them overboard. We certainly can’t say what you’re saying we should say. Because that would just – you know, that’s kicking our allies.”
Well, you know, if you pretend that your “ally” is your ally, whereas, in fact they are your frenemy, then, you know, you – you get the consequences that have followed. And that’s why, this thing goes on and on and on.”
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III
…if the West is to survive itself, as a –
civilization,
which I think is deeply imperiled by what it’s done to itself over many decades,
at the heart of which is what it’s done to the Jewish people…
But if the West is to recover itself,
as a morally functioning and therefore civilized entity,
it has to tell itself, that the cause that it has supported,
“palestinianism”,
is the cause of all this.
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“…an illusion, no matter how convincing,
remained nothing more than an illusion.
At least objectively.
But subjectively, quite the opposite, entirely.”
(Philip K. Dick, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1966)
“…if the West is to survive itself, as a – civilization, which I think is deeply imperiled by what it’s done to itself over many decades, at the heart of which is what it’s done to the Jewish people… But if the West is to recover itself, as a morally functioning and therefore civilized entity, it has to tell itself, that the cause that it has supported, “palestinianism”, is the cause of all this. Not just the Hamas. The Hamas is an excrescence of this. And that the reason – for the continuation of this terrible war against Israel, is that the West has told itself this big lie. That – supporting “palestinianism” is the way to resolve the conflict; through the division of land. Now, until unless that happens, Israel is going to continue to be isolated to varying degrees by its so-called allies and friends in the West. And the West is going to continue to shoot itself in the brain, as a civilization.”