This month of May marks the 73rd anniversary of the state of Israel.
And to quote the ETHAN EDWARDS character in THE SEARCHERS: “Just as sure as the turnin' of the earth”, Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other. As sure as the cicadas come back, Israel bombs Gaza ( see picture below) as the mad terrorists who run Gaza, HAMAS, send a murder of rockets into Israel. But this time, there is a new and explosive element, Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs are lynching each other.
This Blogger happened to be in Cairo during the first Gulf War; he was sitting in the Sheraton watching the television with a bunch of Kuwaiti exiles when some Palestinians asked to join the group. As a courtesy to this Blogger, the entire future conversation was in English; which this Blogger thought was very thoughtful.
The common dream of the Palestinians was the establishment of a secular state on the land of Israel, in which Jew, Christian, Druze and Muslim could live as brothers. Alas, the Palestinian Dream meant and means that Israelis, as a Jewish state, as a Jewish homeland, would be extirpated.
That idea will not go over well in Israel, since Israeli Jews do not trust the benevolence of History, from the Babylonian Captivity, to Romans destroying the temple, to Masada, to the Catholic majesties kicking them out of Spain, to Russians slaughtering them, to Nazis making a close run to annihilating all of them.
The Palestinians made a point of returning again and again to the righteousness of their cause; they continually referred to the Nakba, the catastrophe; the Nakba, the mass exodus of Palestinians from the new state of Israel in 1948.
The Palestinians desired to bet the righteousness of their NAKBA pain against the righteousness of the pain of the Holocaust.
The Palestinian exercise in righteousness is useless.
It has no merit.
For the sake of their people, Palestinians must reach the obvious conclusion, that they cannot defeat the Israelis militarily, by war or intifada, in the lifetime of any living Palestinian.
The Palestinians must accept who the Israelis really are in the arc of History; the Israelis are Macedonians, Romans during the Punic Wars, Normans, and Conquistadors.
For their people to survive, in dignity, Palestinians must retire all their wartime consiglieres and find, in their population, a Mahatma Gandhi.
It is one of the great sins of 20th Century History that an Israeli/Palestinian accord could not be forged when other great Israeli lions were alive: Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, and Abba Eban. Alas, the great Arab lion of that age was Gamal Abdel Nasser; who was delusional. He threatened Israel with annihilation; then,rather than plan for an armed Israeli reaction to his threats, a preemptive strike, he spent hours discussing the future of Jews in a post Israel, Palestinian state. With lions like Dayan, one does not plan post victory parties before winning the victory.
Alas, the current Prime Minister of Israel is the less than great Bibi Netanyahu, brother of the late great Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed during the 1976 Entebbe Raid, while leading the elite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. Yonatan was the only Israeli soldier killed while rescuing 102 out of 106 Israeli hostages held by Palestinian terrorists in Uganda.
Bibi Netanyahu is a very shrewd politician, who wants a powerful Israel, even at the cost of a SAFE Israel. Historically he is direct descendant of Guy of Lusignan, the last King of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem; Guy wanted a powerful Crusader Kingdom at the cost of a safe Crusader Kingdom. Guy wound up with no Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
It is now quite obvious that Bibi of Lusignan wants to dismantle the concept of a two state solution, Israel living side by side with a West Bank Palestinian state, hopefully in peace. Bibi wants to replace the two-state solution with a one state solution, a greater Israel from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to the banks of the Jordan River, the mythic Eretz Israel(Greater Israel).
Bibi will be capable of imposing his vision on the world by force of Israeli arms. Sobeit.
Palestinians should not waste their lives in resisting the declaration of the mythic Eretz Israel; instead Palestinians should renounce a state of their own, renounce the two state solution, renounce violence, and begin the epic voyage of asking for Israeli citizenship, with voting rights. Palestinians renouncing a two state solution, for citizenship in a one state, will insure a two state solution.
The first step in seeking Israeli citizenship for all West Bank Arabs, Palestinians, is to dissolve the quasi-state, the Palestinian Authority.
Faced with Palestinian Arabs seeking full Israeli citizenship, Israel will just LEAVE the West Bank. (The Gandhi input to the Peace Solution).
"Mahatma Gandhi had once demanded, in a meeting with the British appointed Governor of India, the unconditional withdrawal of Britain’s colonial occupation. A high ranking British official who was present at the meeting retorted: “Do you expect Her Majesty’s Government just to get up and leave India.” “Yes, I do”, Gandhi replied. “One day you will just leave.”And not too many years later, that is exactly what happened.".
On July 24, 2014, this Blogger published::A Contrarian Revisionist Theory of Everything-"Bibi" Netanyahu.
http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-contrarian-revisionist-theory-of_24.html
The following is excerpted from that Blog:
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the most gifted, the most articulate politician currently on the American political scene. He is sparkling and dazzling in his grasp and command of the American vernacular and American idiom. ….he is truly the greatest American communicator extant….. his political skill set is perfect for America yet lacking for Israel, and certainly deficient for the Middle East. Bibi understands Americans, but does not understand Arabs, specifically Palestinians. It is arguably better for an Israeli Prime Minister to understand Arabs than Americans.
….Israel’s Founding Father Ben-Gurion knew Arabs; he did not disdain them as inconsequential, as Bibi does…..
Israel is a state that has no room for error. It not only needs a nuclear bomb, a fabulous Army and an Iron Dome (a shield of anti-missiles missiles), it needs Ben-Gurion smarts.
To survive under the pressure of no errors, Israel needs allies, and not just America. Palestinians may never be allies of Israel, but it is well within David Ben-Gurion’s dream that Palestinians can live a benign, dignified, honorable co-existence with a non-expansive Israel.
Peace need not be a group hug; Peace is not killing each other.
…Once in Cairo, this Blogger had a drink with a Christian Palestinian on the banks of the Nile. He thought the life span of Israel would be 88 years, for the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted 88 years, and he compared Israel to that Crusader state.
He thought it would take 88 years for the brilliant leadership of the founding fathers of Israel to entropy into the leadership of Guy of Lusignan, the obtuse Crusader King who lost all that the Crusaders had built in the Middle East in an ill advised battle with Saladin, the Battle of Hattin.
The Palestinian Christian noted that the Crusader states could have survived; the Shiites of Egypt had offered them a pact but the Crusaders saw all Arabs as the same, and refused an alliance with the Shiites, which lead to their doom…..…THE MAXEY CHRONICLES”
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has caught the pathology of Guy de Lusignan.
Israel has nuclear weapons, atomic bombs. It may have 6 bombs, or sixty bombs or 600 bombs. Obviously, Bibi thinks that possessing such a mighty nuclear arsenal precludes Israel from defeat.
WHAT SHOULD BE THE SMART PALESTINIAN REACTION?-
First of all, Palestinians must, MUST, fore-swear any fourth intifada; ...
The Palestinian people, asking for Israeli citizenship is a WIN-WIN for them. If they get Israeli citizenship, by demographics alone, they will take over the Israeli State. If they do not get citizenship, but continue a massive civic campaign for Israeli citizenship, Bibi will have one of those political epiphanies, and give them their own state.
If Bibi Netanyahu wants a Greater Israel, the Palestinians of the West Bank should give him that, and let History roll the dice.
As for Israeli Arabs; in the 120 seat Israeli parliament, the Joint List, the Israeli Arab Party, won 15 seats in the 2020 election. It then fractured, and in the 2021 election won only six seats. Why did the Joint List split? It split, because Israeli Arabs are LILLIPUTIANS in their political thinking: “The Lilliputians reveal themselves to be a people who put great emphasis on trivial matters. For example, which end of an egg a person cracks becomes the basis of a deep political rift within that nation.”
Israel is planning a new election fairly shortly; Israeli Arabs should take a respite from lynching Jews in Lod, and dissolve the Joint List; then every Israeli Arab, 20% of Israel’s population, should vote, en masse, for the Labor Party of Ben-Gurion.
As for HAMAS in Gaza, Carthago delenda est.
"What can’t be emphasized enough, especially among those who think of themselves as pro-Palestinian: If you want a Palestinian state to exist and succeed, you must also want Hamas to be humiliated and defeated. Hamas’s sole aim for over 30 years has been to turn a difficult, but potentially negotiable, conflict into a nonnegotiable, zero-sum holy war. That strategy has to be proved a loser before Palestinian politics can move in a better direction. …Bret Stephens…new York times.”
Gaza under Israeli Attack
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