Raphael Israeli writes:
Vice President Biden, an avowed friend of Israel, was urgently dispatched by President Obama to Jerusalem to reassure the Israelis about their innate fears from the imminent threat of a second holocaust, which has been proclaimed as part of the program of the Iranian regime. When Ahmadinejad and his cohorts repeatedly declared their evil genocidal intentions against Israel and the Jewish people, no world leader has responded by more than "this is inacceptable," while continuing to deal with those murderers who have no compunction about "wiping off the map" an entire nation. Sarkozi, Brown and Merkel proclaimed as much in the Israeli Knesset, with the French President who has a penchant to hyperbole, dramatically adding that 60 million French people are standing with Israel.
Before that, as part of ending the Israeli incursion in Gaza, six leaders of the EU, including those three, crowded into Israel's Prime Minister's house in a statement of unity and solidarity with Israel, assuring her of their "protection" in the remote waters of Somalia and Sudan, to prevent further Muslim smuggling of weapons by Iran's allies in Gaza. Not one single move in that direction was pursued by anyone of those big talkers and little doers. They have been approvingly endorsed by President Obama, who is responding to the Iran's threats by willing to "engage" the confrontational Ayatullahs, who are becoming ever more vocal in their genocidal vows, to delay the deadlines he repeatedly set to put an end to their nuclear effort, so as to deprive them from the tool of implementing their sinister scheme.
Following the Biden fiasco in Israel, a surreal scene of shame and moral confusion has overtaken the world leaders: No one is moving to avert the holocaust at the hand of a murderously fanatic Shi'ite regime, which views death, upheaval and destruction as precursors of the return of the Hidden Imam, who would bring peace and justice to earth (of course Muslim Shi'ite style). Therefore, as has already been noticed by many scholars, death and ruin do not only fail to restrain the MADmen who now threaten to use them, as had been the case with the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) which averted a nuclear Armageddon during the Cold War, but will, one fears, serve as an inducement to resort to the precipitation of doomsday.
And what preoccupies the top of the agenda of Obama, Brown, Merkel, Sarkozi, Tony Blair and Ban Ki-moon? The discussion in an Israeli district urban planning commission of a proposal, to be still ironed out and approved, of the construction in three years or longer, of 1,600 housing units on the desolated ridge of Shu'afat, in East Jerusalem, which endanger no one, threaten no one, and if anything will provide work for thousands of unemployed and impoverished Palestinians. Kafka could not have devised a more Kafkaesque situation. All those politicians, who need, each for his own reasons, to cover up for their domestic blunders in job-creating, in reviving their economies and making up for the world economic crisis, have discovered the easiest way to show cause for their raison d'etre by ganging up against the small, isolated and endangered Jewish state, which courageously and single-handedly stands against that danger, in order to placate (shall we say appease?) the rest of the Arabs and Muslims, who are watching with delight Israel's western support slip away from her.
Many Israelis have given up on Obama, who, with his Jewish top advisers, has pledged more "engagement" and more "diplomatic efforts" in the face of a recalcitrant Iran, which laughs in his face derisively and defies him and the entire West's meek "policy," which elected long ago to surrender to the Arabs and Muslims over any move to prop up their own democratic, liberal and humanistic values. But what about the enigmatic poker-faced Ban Ki-moon? Since legendary Dag Hammarskjold in the 1950's, who was the first to stand in the firing line of any major conflict, no Secretary General of the UN has ever wished to get involved, beyond assuring his own reelection by the Islamic bloc of 57 in the General Assembly. But he also bears the burden of duty, to make sure than when a member of the UN threatens the elimination of another, to act to oust the belligerent from the organization unless it repents, instead of repeating ad nauseam the tedious and insignificant mantra of "inacceptable," and counting the number of houses not to be constructed in the future by Israel, instead of acting and crying out loud the urgency of averting the imminent holocaust of many millions and the politicide of an entire nation.
Raphael Israeli is a professor of Islam at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, currently
a visiting Professor at California State University in Chico.
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