Arabs these days are, as usual, divided and disputing among themselves. They have become complacent and have compromised both themselves and the people. If I try to find a single achievement by the Arabs I will fail, and so will remain silent in their regard since beating the dead is forbidden, and will continue with Israel which, despite the above, has begun to lose its legitimacy, and will either change or cease to exist. Prior to the assault on the peace flotilla and the international uproar that ensued, Israel's legitimacy, or the lack thereof to be precise, was in question. However, this cannot be credited to any Arab effort, and is instead taking place because Israel simply can no longer lie to all the people all the time. The Israeli government is now putting plans in motion to counter the efforts to delegitimize Israel, and specifically, its foreign ministry has sent envoys abroad to respond to the campaigns and to try to intimidate the opponents of Israel. I believe that the Israeli counter efforts will ultimately fail, as the Israeli government brings together the Likud, Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu, i.e. criminal gangs and not political parties. Also, Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Yishai and Avigdor Lieberman, both individually and collectively, are the best propaganda against Israel. Then there is the murder of peace activists at sea. Delegitimizing Israel had gained new momentum when Noam Chomsky was denied entry into Israel, which prompted 500 Israeli academicians to send a letter to the Interior Minister Eli Yishai condemning the government and saying that it is harming democracy and academic freedom. As for denying Chomsky from entering Israel, the latter also previously denied entry to Norman Finkelstein and Richard Falk, both Jewish academicians who oppose Israel and refuse to describe it as being democratic. And as for the letter mentioned above, it reminds me of another published in March 2004 by the Guardian and signed by 300 British academicians, including prominent Jewish figures, asking the Israeli academicians whether they support their government. The previous letter was published in conjunction with letters by Israeli academicians criticizing the Israeli government. Denying Chomsky entry to the West Bank stirred up the controversy further. The liberal Haaretz newspaper sharply criticized the Israeli decision, and said that any other country in the world would have been proud to host an academician as prestigious as Chomsky. As a reminder, Chomsky once said that he is aware that Palestinian terrorism exists; however, he said that this is nothing in comparison to U.S-sponsored Israeli terrorism. Prior to Chomsky, Alfred Lilienthal welcomed the United Nations Resolution that equated Zionism to racism and racial discrimination. Today, there are American churches boycotting Israel and calling on followers to divest from the latter. Also, there are campaigns on U.S campuses against Israel and its policies, which the Likudniks, the lobby and the other extremists are attempting to respond to in vain. This is not to mention the thousands of academicians who are boycotting Israeli universities. The stance of the American Jews as a group deserves a pause here. They are in their majority liberal, and have proven this time after time when 78 percent of them voted for Barack Obama. Also, every poll that involves Jewish Americans shows a majority that supports Obama's policies. However, despite this known liberalism among American Jews, we find that their leaders have always been controlled by an extremist right-wing minority, and I can objectively argue that the Jewish lobby and the anti-discrimination organization ‘B'nai B'rith' do not represent the Jewish people, but only represent an extremist right-wing minority. Currently, there is a moderate Jewish lobby called J-Street, and its founder Jeremy Ben-Ami is saying that it is his right to criticize Israeli policies without being accused of anti-Semitism. Of course, against the likes of Chomsky, Finkelstein, Falk, Lilienthal and Ben-Ami and a hundred others, there are extremists like Elie Wiesenthal, the Noble Prize winning Holocaust merchant, who published advertisements in newspapers attacking Obama's policy towards Israel. There is also Edward Koch, the former mayor of New York City, who claimed that Obama's stance regarding the settlements threatens the legitimacy of Israel. This is in addition to Dershowitz, the daily obscenities of whom I cannot keep up with. I want to say that Israel has no legitimacy to begin with, and the false legitimacy which was bestowed upon it in the beginning has begun to fade, like the Emperor's clothes which were not there. The settlers themselves are a part of the general effort to delegitimize because the theft of the Palestinians' homes, after the theft of their country, cannot be practiced except inside a region controlled by a mafia and not a legitimate country. Perhaps the murder of the peace advocates then is the metaphorical last straw and [the last nail] in the coffin of Israel's legitimacy. I hope that the reader will notice from the above the number of Jews in the international effort to invalidate Israel's legitimacy, which is a legitimacy that the Arabs could not scratch in more than 60 years; these Jews then protested all around the world against the murder of peace activists. Today, no one believes anymore that criticizing Israel is anti-Semitism or a form of neo-Nazism, or that criticizing Islam (Muslims, on the other hand, deserve all criticism) is freedom of speech. [email protected]
