This is a landmark piece in the Washington Post, in which Israeli ambassador Michael Oren argues that If Israel stands alone, well, it ain’t so bad to be standing alone. It is a landmark because it reflects the news conventional wisdom even in the American mainstream that Israel has isolated itself (and isolated America with it). Note the defensive tone:
Isolation, of course, is not automatically symptomatic of bad policies…. Israel is not alone. And we have a great many friends, especially in the United States
Significant too, because Oren’s string of hasbara lies is now so tiresome that it reads like chewed over Soviet propaganda:
The settlements are not the core of the conflict. Arabs attacked us for 50 years before the first settlements were built. Netanyahu froze new construction in the settlements for an unprecedented 10 months, and still the Palestinians refused to negotiate. Settlements are not the reason that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a unity pact with Hamas in May, or why, in his address to the U.N. General Assembly last month, Abbas denied the Jews’ 4,000-year connection to our homeland. As Abbas wrote in the New York Times in May, the Palestinian attempt to declare a state without making peace with Israel was about “internationalization of the conflict . . . to pursue claims against Israel” in the United Nations, not about settlements.
Desperate stuff. These people are scraping a barrel which has already been stripped bare. Deaf to reason or intelligence, immune to genuine offers of peace, nothing matters to them more than completing the Greater Israel project, whilst lying about their intentions, as they have done for 50 years. Nini reminded me of a Soviet era leader at the UN, now comes Oren with the same propaganda broadcast. It is so tired, so empty of reality, that it sounds like they go through the motions without believing it themselves, knowing, as they do, they have to keep the threadbare, fake narrative alive whilst they complete the agenda.
Murder in NYC is not the reason the so-called “peace-process” has been all process and no peace. BUT EVEN SO it is right and proper for the NYPD to arrest murderers and the prosecutors to prosecute those accused. Why? Because murder is a BAD THING and ALSO ILLEGAL (in NYC).
SETTLERS residing in occupied territories is a BAD THING and also ILLEGAL. Confiscating land in occupied territories to build settlements (unless for reason of a suitably urgent military necessity) is also ILLEGAL and another BAD THING.
Therefore (irrespective of progress in the “peace-process” or of the price of coffee or the phases of the moon), the settlers should be removed and the settlements dismantled (see UNGA-465 (1980)). Many people praise the “RULE OF LAW”, and it is a good rule which should be enforced.
It goes from 2,000, to 3,000, and now to 4,000?!
Pick a mythological number and stick with it! At least it will make the lie more believable !
RE: “Settlements are not the reason that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…in his address to the U.N. General Assembly last month, Abbas denied the Jews’ 4,000-year connection to our homeland.” ~ Oren
MY COMMENT: Yes, Oren & Co. desperately want the Palestinians to acknowledge “the Jews’ 4,000-year connection” to Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the occupied West Bank) so that it will legitimate Israel’s continued colonization and ultimate annexation of the West Bank.
Avigdor Lieberman & Co. were very upset by Obama’s having referred to the Holocaust, etc. as justifying Israel’s existence in his June 2009 Cairo speech. For instance, check out this whiny ‘hissy fit’ by Melanie Phillips on 6/04/09.
While the Holocaust, etc. might well justify the existence of Israel, the Eretz Israel crowd fears that it does not necessarily justify Israel’s absorption of “Judea and Samaria” [a/k/a the “disputed” West Bank (f/k/a the occupied West Bank)] . Consequently, they want the “Biblical narrative” used to justify Israel’s existence because they see it as being more specific to “Judea and Samaria”.
By referring to Israel as the ‘historic homeland’ of ‘the Jewish people’ in his recent speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama has – for the settlers in the West Bank and their supporters – acknowledged that “Judea and Samaria” is/are a legitimate part of Israel. That was probably the final nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. Of course, the two-state solution had long been in an advanced state of Rigor mortis, so a proper Christian burial was probably in order. Obama is a Christian, right? I can never keep that straight.
“… Obama is a Christian, right?”
Obama is a puppet, on a string…