"Imagine what it is like," he said, "to board a bus and look to the side in fear, or to sit in a coffee shop in Jerusalem. Sitting in a coffee house in Paris, Moscow and New York, costs a few dollars. Sitting in a coffee house in Jerusalem could cost many lives," he said.
Gillerman asked those present to "imagine a bulldozer driving down Fifth Avenue or the Champs Elysees and crushing cars... I have been here for almost six years. Occasionally I have been accused of over-reaction and dramatization. If you visit Israel or just imagine what happens in it, you will understand. When you speak about the situation in the Middle East, you will think about what we deal with every single day." [israelnationalnews.com 7-23-08]
These words and this appeal are eminently reasonable and poignant. But while some of the assembled delegates might have been moved on a personal level, somewhat, maybe, the entire exercise of appealing to the UN, its officers or even to the assemblies of a major western nation are mis-directed and will not result in the practical, official empathy via policies that Gillerman's words request: and he must know it even if the words came from the depths of his heart.
The sad and bitter reality, as explained in my recently posted essay, is that Western civilization whose powers organized and still direct the UN have used the suffering of the Jewish people, especially the Shoah from the beginning to justify their various global ambitions and policies. These prominently include the 'peace processing' of Israel, and the media vilifications and campaign of consistent, relentless slander that rationalizes it.
But this process goes much deeper than the UN and 20th century. Hatred and humiliation of Jews is built into the core of the West; it is the principle on which it organized and defined itself from Constantine, Ambrosius, and Augustine to the present day, -- as seen in the anti-Jewish violence in Jerusalem and the funding, arming and training of the various terror forces by successive American administrations, Democrat and Republican even to the point that these groups serve as "security" guards, in the heart of Eretz Israel for presidential candidates linked to the PLO and Hamas.
Gillerman's appeal was made to those whose cultures and the ruling elites are based on harrying and degrading Jews according to the principle of Constantine (425 CE), "do not slay [them all], scatter them." Keeping Jews weak, fearful, impoverished and above all, stateless is the essence of the West; for the lack of genuine and full Jewish sovereignty in Israel is part of their punishment for "rejecting their savior" [sic] and 'betraying him to the Romans" [sic], etc. These are not just ancient attitudes hard-wired into Western societies and people, they are modern and one need not look to the crusades or Hitler's celebration of himself as a "warrior of the lord" "in his fight for the world against the Jewish poison" (1922). One can also see the attitude in US Secretary of State Robert Lansing's rejection of the Balfour Declaration. He wrote to President Wilson that it would be "objectionable for those who killed our lord to rule over the Holy Land." This is fully consonant with the expulsion of Jews and the de facto rule of Israel by NATO and the EU, fronted by the UN and American "concern."
Israel must assert its "everlasting covenant," its glorious history abundantly borne out in archaeology and written documents and look with strong self-respect and love to its place in the Promised Land, and to the heroism that has brought Jews this far. This will make unnecessary the understandable but fruitless and even bitter appeals for empathy to those who civilization is built precisely on endless events like the attacks in Jerusalem until all the Jews convert.
www.israelendtimes.com en, WW III: the War on the Jews [2007 www.lightcatcherbooks.com ]
