- Monitoring the current Israeli collective pornographic
lament in the Hebrew press, I found, to my amazement, a critical editorial
written by Dr Mordechai Keidar, an Israeli rightwing academic.
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- "Our enemies," says Keidar, "see in front
of them a frenetic, emotional, weeping, corrupted, hedonistic, possessive
and liberal nation. People who grab and eat, people who lack historical
roots, people who are short of ideology, naked of values, lack a sense
of solidarity. People who are only concerned with the 'here and now',
people who are happy to pay any price without taking into account the
grave consequences of their reckless behaviour." (Dr Mordechai Keidar
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/ 0,7340,L-3568863,00.html).
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- It is slightly encouraging to find out that someone in
Israel may realize how severely the Israeli reality is viewed. Keidar
grasps how pitiable the current collective mourning festival appears to
outsiders and Israel's neighbours in particular. As much as one can empathise
with the pain of the soldiers' families, Regev and Goldwasser were IDF
soldiers in uniform serving a very hostile army. When abducted they were
in a military patrol on the disputed Lebanese border. For those who still
didn't get the picture, they were soldiers rather than merely 'innocent
civilians'. They were theoretically capable of defending themselves. The
case of Gilad Shalit is not very different. Shalit, who is presented in
the world media as an 'innocent victim' was nothing less then a post guard
in an Israeli concentration camp, namely Gaza. Shalit, like Goldwasser
and Regev, was wearing an IDF uniform when captured. Neither Regev, Goldwasser
nor Shalit were victims. They were all serving a state that employs some
devastating genocidal tactics including starvation, ethnic cleansing and
assassination of those it views as its enemies.
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- However, it is rather astonishing to find out how short
the Israeli collective memory is. The failed IDF rescue of Regev and
Goldwasser, following Hezbollah's successful ambush evolved into Israel
launching the Second Lebanon War. In an act of retaliation, retribution
and vengeance Israel demolished Lebanon's infrastructure, it flattened
southern Lebanon towns and villages as well as some neighbourhoods in
Beirut. It killed thousand of Lebanese civilians. Somehow the Israelis
managed to forget all of this. The only thing the Israelis see is two
black coffins. They even managed to neglect the fact that in return they
themselves traded 190 plain coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah
militants.
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- The Israelis are pretty gifted in seeing themselves only.
In their eyes, their pain is somehow superior to the pain others feel.
Yet something puzzles me. In the light of the Israeli collective necrophilic
weeping event I find myself rather confused. If Israel and the Israelis
can hardly get over two tragic Israeli military casualties, how will they
be able to cope with the global war they insist upon launching against
Iran. If the Israelis cannot cope with two coffins, how will they ever
be able to cope with Tel Aviv turning into the site of a mass grave? Their
war cries suggest that this is something they seem to insist upon involving
themselves in.
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- Funnily enough, Dr Keidar suggests an answer, "Only
a nation full with ideological conviction, a nation with a sense of a
strong belief in its just way, a nation who feels part of an historical
process, a nation that can take the pain and buy its survival with blood,
sweat and tears, only such a nation can last in the Middle East. This
region," says Keidar, "doesn't have room for Post Jewish Rugs
who sooner or later will reveal their true face as post Zionists."
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- I must admit that Keidar, the Israeli rightwing zealot
has a point. People who collapse in front two coffins better not initiate
another international conflict. The Israelis are just not made of the
right stuff. They are not exactly a nation of Spartan warriors. As much
as they enjoy inflicting pain on others, they really can't abide the idea
of suffering themselves, they are clearly not ready to sacrifice, actually,
they are a bunch of defeated cowards. They better run away for their lives.
As Keider pointed out, their chance to survive in the region is zilch.
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