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Thursday, November 20, 2014

There Goes Israel Again

"The Israeli intelligence was putting pressure on him. They kept calling him every day and wanted him to work for them. He became suspicious of everybody and thought everyone was a collaborator."
"He hadn't slept for three days [at the time of the attack]. Last February he was arrested along with his father and held in a cell for 20 days without being allowed to see a lawyer."
Ines Shaloudi, 43, Israeli Palestinian, mother of Abdel-Rahman Shaloudi

"Netanyahu is provoking Palestinians to react."
"He is dragging his own people to disaster and calamity. The decision to demolish houses will not bring calm to the Israeli people."
Abdel Karim Shaloudi, 62
A relative of Abdelrahman Shaludi, a Palestinian who killed two Israelis with his car last month, displays his portrait inside his family home after it was razed by Israeli authorities in east Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood on November 19, 2014 (photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

What, pray tell, will bring calm to the Israeli people, in the sense that Palestinians could become becalmed and willing to live in peace with Jews? That is the question bedevilling the minds of Israeli government authorities and security and intelligence officials. Just about everything has been attempted to placate and assure the Palestinians that Jews wish to live in peace alongside them. Nothing has worked to date.

Nothing that looks even remotely like an even tentative solution has reared its friendly head, beckoning a tryout. "Occupation" could be entirely dispensed with; it is healthy neither for the occupier nor the occupied and that obvious fact is not lost on Israel. Yet, what to do with a population that lives and dies as resentful, victimhood- and revenge-obsessed, whose pathology is the Nakba of their great misfortune.

Israel's and Jewry's nakba, of course occurred on several occasions in the long distant past. After thousands of years of existence as a people and treasuring the capital of their nation in Jerusalem, and building splendid houses of worship to their jealous god who would have no idols to insult his ineffable being, exile was their fate in life. They went forward, unwillingly but of dire necessity to preserve the nation and established themselves all over the world as a singular presence.

Only to return to the place of their beginnings when the world complacently gave witness to a mass extermination attempt. The Palestinians-come-lately cling to the bitterness of exile even while many share the reality of the new nation with all the privileges attendant on citizenship. Even while they benefit from that reality they treasure the image of self as victim and pine for a return to what had been, envisioning with the help of their leaders, the land restored, the Jews defeated.

So what can a government do to persuade a people for whom tribal enmities and hatred and aggression motivate them to defy and deny the authority of a government that gives them the benefits of citizenship only to have it all flung back in their faces when one violent atrocity after another demonstrates the contempt those citizens have for Jews compelling Arabs to live in a democracy?

The solution, once used, then disused, and now returned to use; to destroy the home in which bitterness and aggression and hatred live. And so it was decreed, the houses where terrorists live are to be once again demolished. Bearing in mind that the Palestinian Authority allocates funding to the families of 'martyrs' who 'resist' the 'occupiers' and that additional funding comes from entities such as Qatar and Turkey who honour those sacrifices, the families will live in better accommodation.

Attempting to persuade Palestinians to surrender their anger, their unappeasable rage which can only be relieved by slaughter, has not proven very productive. Should they ask the Shaloudis, for example, what their solution might be, the answer would be simple enough: disappear, go away, leave the land to the Palestinians, then all will be well.

And we can see how well all would be merely by glancing over at Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia ... for starters. Among other issues: Judenrein.

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