Re: The Price of the U.S. Veto in the Security Council

David Pakter
15 June '11




David had written this as an extended comment on the article posted yesterday, The Price of the U.S. Veto in the Security Council, by Shoshana Bryen. An excellent piece,and deserving it's own posting. Yosef

Ms. Shoshana Bryen has surely zeroed in on a raw nerve the White House, the State Dept, et al, would all have preferred she stay away from when Ms. Bryen insightfully observes:

"The Administration's maneuvering tacitly if not overtly encourages increased hostility from Israel's adversaries. It seems it may be making other countries nervous as well - if the United States can't be counted on to protect Israel, its democratic partner and ally in the Middle East, how can the United States be counted on to support their security requirements?

"Maybe it can't".

How very important it is to contemplate this insightful point. And we may take the idea in other, additional directions as well.

The United States of America was always supposed to represent Democratic values and Freedom from Fear. Isn't that why America's Sons and Daughters shed so much of their precious blood on the beaches of Normandy and ten thousand other places in Europe, where so many fell in battle- never to return home.

How much longer can our nation expect to merit and even deserve, the respect of other nations if it continues to betray its original values which should be written as if in stone?

How long will America continue to waffle and vacillate, weave and dodge, avoiding the hard choices and the tough decisions.

Not only is this Administration's "maneuvering" tacitly encouraging Israel's adversaries but it is simultaneously weakening America's standing in the world as to whether America still stands for the values it has always espoused and raises the critical question of whether America has lost its backbone and its resolve to lead the "free world".

Sometimes too much talk just clouds all the key issues. Why can't the present Administration just cut to the chase and stick to the main talking points. There are really not so many.

There already was an attempt at a "two State" solution in 1947-1948. But the Arabs did not accept that two State solution. They wanted only one State- "their" State. No room for anyone else.

All the millions of words written in a dozen different languages, for one hundred years, will never alter that fact or wash away that last fact.

Is there anyone in the present White House who will ever have the plain old fashioned guts to point this fact out to the world without diluting the truth of it with double-talk, nauseating fawning and fanciful flights of self delusion and self contradictions.



Imagine for just a second if Israel had been the instigator of the war of 1948, if Israel had attempted to grab large swaths of land beyond the lines earmarked by the UN mandate--and then having lost the war and lost badly, started whining and complaining how Israel must be given a second chance. And that the Arabs must surrender all the land that Israel attempted to seize in the above described hypothetical, imaginary war, which is- of course- the very opposite of what happened from an historical standpoint.

When one puts on the glasses of Reality and sees things for what they really are, the whole Mid East discussion, as it now stands and is presented to the world, becomes distastefully laughable.

A higher form of life residing in some distant galaxy, observing the history of the Middle East, must find it all some type of fantastic, surrealistic journey into the realm of the absurd.

After over half a century, more than sixty three years after rejecting and refusing to accept what they were offered on a silver platter, without firing a shot, now after all the murderous wars to annihilate the Jewish people, Israel's enemies have the unmitigated chutzpah to be babbling on and on and on and on, about what they are "demanding" and claim they are entitled to.

After over half a century, more than sixty three years after rejecting and refusing to accept what they were offered on a silver platter, without firing a shot, now after all the murderous wars to annihilate the Jewish people, Israel's enemies have the unmitigated chutzpah to be babbling on and on and on and on, about what they are "demanding" and claim they are entitled to.

Is there not a single person, a single Statesman or Stateswoman in the entire world, anywhere on this Earth who will state publicly, clearly, on the record, what I have just articulated here.

Or does everything really come down to a three letter word: "oil". Is that word, what has turned men and women into such cowards that they cannot muster up even the most watered down, evasive, cowardly statement that even merely begins to reflect on the truth of the sordid and very tragic history of a place called the Middle East.

Who can say if it really is true that sometimes a little "truth" is better and worth more than a big "lie".

Perhaps if someone, some candidate in the next Presidential election in America begins- when discussing the history of the Middle East-, to "tell it like it was and still is", people around this nation and around this world might just begin to wake up, take the cobwebs and the blinders off their eyes, and realize the Arabs have been pulling the wool over everyone's eyes for over half a century.

If they were not happy with a "two State" solution before, in the very beginning, how could anyone on this Earth ever be so naive and foolish as to think that it would reflect wisdom and or simple common sense, to believe anything the Arabs might say now- just to get what they want ?

Israel need only concern itself with one over-arching goal and that is to stay strong in every possible way.

It is good and admirable and even advisable to have friends and allies- in fact as many as possible. But the cold, hard truth of the matter, as our Tribe has learned time and time again, over many thousands of years, is that in the final analysis, we must not depend on anyone to come to our assistance, in time of peril and mortal danger, but ourselves.

And we must make certain that this will always be sufficient. As it has been in the past- so too it must be in the future.

G-d Bless Our Land- now and for all Eternity.

And may Israel- and the world- never forget the lessons of history. They came at a heartbreaking price.

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