by Prof. Ron Breiman
The current public and media discourse in Israel is riddled with lies, adopted by the masses without a second thought.
One of those lies is
the concept of a political "bloc" made up of the political parties to
the left of Likud. Everyone knows that these leftist parties are all
vying for each other's voters. But this hasn't stopped supportive
commentators and the heads of those parties from referring to a
"Center-Left bloc." This term is wrong and misleading, but it continues
to star in the election process even as former Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert and Hatnuah Chairwoman Tzipi Livni — the architects of the
disengagement debacle — outflank Meretz on the Left, and cannot be
defined as centrist or draw votes away from Likud.
Another so-called
"bloc" is the European Union, whose membership numbers have only grown
since its establishment, with the collapse of the Soviet Union,
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. More may even be on the way, with growing
pressure for Basque, Catalan and Scottish independence, as well as a
possible Belgian split into two separate states. Another process
threatening the "bloc" is the slow but steady conquest of some European
nations by Muslim immigrants.
But these processes
haven't prevented the European "bloc" — especially those members that
have shady colonialist histories — from condemning Israel over its plan
to expand construction in Jerusalem. In fact, these countries, some
motivated by anti-Semitic sentiments and others by defeatist ones, stand
steadfastly by the Holocaust denier from Ramallah, Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In other words, they support the
"good" terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Organization — all of
Palestine.
It is no wonder, then,
that precisely on the day that the European "bloc" was so perturbed by
Israel's construction plans and efforts to protect itself from the Arab
occupier — the Arabs are the true occupiers in the land of Israel — the
hypocritical Europeans were awarded the Nobel Prize for ... peace. The
same prize that has lost all meaning ever since it was awarded to the
biggest of archterrorists, Yasser Arafat.
But who are we to
complain about the Europeans misreading reality in such an egregious
way, thinking that Israel is an occupying force in its own land and
pushing for the foolishness that is the two-state solution? How can we
fault the Europeans for distinguishing between "good" and "bad"
terrorists and for preventing Israel from going after either kind when
our very own leftist "bloc" keeps making the exact same statements and
spreading the same lies?
We are talking about
President Shimon Peres, the man who brought the bottle of Oslo poison to
Israel, who is now warning against the perils of Hamas but still
encouraging Israelis to drink the poison he brought. We are talking
about Tzipi Livni, who established her own personal movement (with her
party, Hatnuah, “The Movement”), which is supposed to be based on the
diplomatic "experience" of the woman who afflicted Israel with the
Oslopolis (Oslo and Annapolis) process and whose every diplomatic move
has been based on appeasing those who exert pressure on Israel from
within and without. That was her plan for combating diplomatic
isolation. In reality, however, she left nothing but scorched earth
behind her in Israeli foreign policy.
In this reality that
has been created, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no choice but to
smash the lie linking a Palestinian state with peace once and for all.
These two things are direct opposites, and anyone who supports the
establishment of an Arab state west of the Jordan River — whether he or
she is an Israeli, an Arab, a European or an American — is only pushing
peace further away. As long as Netanyahu continues to recite the
two-state solution foolishness, he makes himself complicit in the "bloc"
mentality and the above-listed lies.
Prof. Ron Breiman
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3087
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