Jack Cohen
Jack Cohen – The UK is a Racist Endeavour-Principled Realism-Netanyahu’s “show and tell”
The UK is a Racist Endeavour
After the British Labour Party was forced to compromise on its position regarding anti-Semitism recently, hard left elements in the Party plastered London with posters reading “Israel is a racist endeavour.” Not only was this a case of being bad losers, but it also represents the fundamental view of the Corbyn side of the Party.
Of course, one can argue that Israel is racist because it does not choose to commit suicide and allow the so-called Palestinian Arabs to take over its Land and kill its Jewish inhabitants. But, aside from that, most countries have been founded on what can only be called racist agendas. Here are a few examples,
- Australia decimated and massacred the Aborigine inhabitants who had lived there for thousands of years
- New Zealand subjugated the Maoris
- White South Africa decimated the Blacks and now the reverse is happening
- Sweden subjugated and persecuted the Sami (Lapp) people
- The US committed genocide against the native American (Indian) tribes and persecuted the Blacks under slavery and even until today
- Russia defeated the Tartars and subsequently persecuted them and destroyed the Siberian cultures
- For centuries the French and Germans fought over Alsace-Lorraine and hated each other
- Hungary and Austria fought each other, as well as Hungary and Roumania, and Poland and Russia, and of course the Germans hated all of them
- The Arabs decimated and forced all minorities that were within their various Empires to convert to Islam
- The Chinese conquered Tibet and have persecuted its people
- The Burmese have massacred the Rohingya (Muslim) people and expelled hundreds of thousands to Bangladesh
- The UK conquered and suppressed the Welsh, the Scots (called euphemistically “the Highland clearances”) as well as massacring the Irish and denying them sovereignty until very recently. And that’s not to mention the many terrible crimes the British inflicted on the many native peoples in their Empire around the world, some of which still exists.
Since almost every country has a history of racist conquest, suppression and persecution, why is it that the British Labour Party singles out Israel for such a public lambasting. If they only single out Israel, isn’t that a clear case of anti-Semitism. Whereas in fact Israel is a stable, liberal democracy. They should put their own house in order before they point the finger at others.
Principled Realism
In his speech at the UN GA Pres. Trump defined his Administration’s approach to dealing with the Middle East as “Principled realism.” As far as he is concerned his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel simply recognizes reality. He rejected being “held hostage to old dogmas” such as the so-called “two-state solution” that has long been a sacred cow in Middle East politics, which he claimed “have been proven wrong time and time again.”(yet, the next day in a press conference with PM Netanyahu he endorsed the “two-state solution.”)
By contrast, King Abdullah of Jordan in his speech repeated his continued adherence to the old time-worn phrase of “two states for two peoples,” and also by implication criticized Trump’s cutting of funds to UNRWA. But, while he said this will affect Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, he neglected to mention that these people are in fact Jordanian citizens, and therefore are NOT refugees, and therefore are not eligible for support from UNRWA, that they have been receiving for 70 years.
Coincidentally the British Labour Party under leader Jeremy Corbyn is holding its annual Conference in the UK. At the meeting, facing a sea of Palestinian flags and shouts of “Free Palestine,” Corbyn announced that Labour will call for an arms boycott of Israel, because of the way Israel defended itself against the demonstrators at the Gaza border, who he said were “overwhelmingly non-violent.” Anyone who saw these riots would know that they were in fact overwhelmingly violent, that Corbyn is lying and that they used burning tires, rocks, incendiary devices and guns in trying to breach the Israeli border. He also stated that a Labour Government would recognize “a State of Palestine as soon as we take office.” If Corbyn were elected it would not only be terrible for Israel, it would lead to a crisis with the US. Lets hope it never comes to that.
Netanyahu’s “show and tell”
PM Netanyahu gave his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, and as usual he had something up his sleeve. He may not be the favorite speaker at the UN GA, but he is certainly the most entertaining. Each year he comes up with some new disclosure in the form of a graph or a picture. In this speech he showed a photograph with the title “Iran’s secret atomic warehouse,” and disclosed that Iran had this secret warehouse, unknown to the IAEA, where it was storing the products of its secret nuclear weapons program. He also gave the exact location in Tehran.
He pointed out that according to the Iran nuclear agreement, Iran is supposed to reveal all its nuclear facilities but has not done so. And he added that even as he was speaking Iran was moving its nuclear products from this warehouse to other sites around the country. He excoriated the IAEA for not doing its job, for not trying to find where Iran is storing its enriched nuclear products and he urged them to immediately follow up and inspect this facility before it is too late.
Since Israeli agents brilliantly removed the entire contents of a classified Iranian nuclear archive, the Iranians have been trying to move all their nuclear materials. But, Netanyahu claimed he caught them in the act, and Israel “knows what you are doing and where you are doing it.” Many people criticize Netanyahu for various political reasons, but there is no doubt that he commands the attention of the world when he gives his characteristically novel speeches at the UN.
