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America and Israel: You and Me against the World
by Mohamed Khodr
"You and Me Against the World" is the title of a wonderful romantic song by Gladys Knight and the Pips that I enjoyed immensely. It’s a song of a love so strong that it can withstand all the world’s pressures and disapprovals. America, my country ‘tis of thee, and Israel’s faux paux love affair have ruined the song for me.
Tragically, now when I hear this song it only conjures up images of hate, oppression, lies, weapons, hypocrisy, double standards, political intimidation, cowardice, the buying and selling of values, morals, and principles; a corrupt media, a naïve people being taken advantage of, and worst of all, the "ethnic cleansing" of a people from their land and homes by an "ethnic race" cleansed of all responsibility for the deliberate murder of Christian and Muslim children in the Holy Land, the land of Palestine.
The history of the "special" relationship between Israel and America has been extensively documented by many historians and scholars, including Israeli and American Jewish scholars. Unfortunately, for the west and especially for us, Americans, these books are deliberately kept out of our bookstores and libraries for politically kosher reasons. It’s the same old story of the powerful American Jewish lobby ensuring that very little if any truth or criticism of Israel is ever publicized. Hell hath no fury like "Israel" scorned.
Given America’s downsized attention span and its lack of desire to be enlightened beyond what’s easily spoon fed by our media, I’ll try to simplify how this detrimental "special" relationship between a country of 4 million Jews, Israel, and America began and how this binary relationship defies the rest of the world’s sense of peace and justice. You see, for centuries Christian Europe had a problem. A problem prejudicially called "The Jewish Problem". Christians didn’t like the exclusivity of Jews, their lack of assimilation and withdrawal into their religious and social world, their strange language and customs, and of course there’s that "Christ Killers" charge. So they persecuted and killed the Jews over time culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust. Escaping Jews found peace, freedom, respect, and sanctuary in the--ready for this America--"Islamic" world. There they prospered like never before in all fields to the point that the famous Jewish physician theologian philosopher Moses Maimonedes was the personal physician to Saladin. Europe had only one way to deal with its people "problems"—kill them or export them. Thus Europeans formulated the idea of "Zionism" later adopted and developed by Theodore Herzl as a political ideology to export the Jews to Palestine. Although Zionism was adopted by European secular Jews, the majority of the world’s Jewry especially Orthodox Jews rejected Zionism on political and religious grounds.
Thus after World I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, England and France divided "their" Middle East into crude countries and borders. Palestine was taken by England to counter French influence. Under Jewish pressure and England’s desire to curry favor with American Jews to draw America into the war, Lord Balfour, England’s Foreign Minister, wrote a letter of 68 words to a rich Jew, Lord Rothschild, supporting the establishment of "a" Jewish homeland in Palestine as long as the Non-Jews were taken care of. After WWII, America became the dominant western power. In addition, the Holocaust cemented into the psyche of every westerner the horrors of Jews being murdered. The world was motivated to finally settle these Jews in Palestine. Harry Truman, to curry favor with New York’s Jews in his election (a pattern followed since then, lately by the newest Islamophobe Hilary Clinton) pressured the U.N. to adopt a resolution approving the Balfour Declaration and a plan to partition Palestine into two states for the Jews and Palestinians. The Jews to this day are shocked at why the Palestinians didn’t simply agree to the idea of partition which could have settled the matter peacefully forever. Here’s JEWISH logic for you---Palestinians should have accepted that foreign powers thousands of miles away because of two pieces of paper and their own domestic politics give Jews the right to take 56% of your home (actually the best part of the house) for a small population while Palestinians who own the house get to keep 44% of the home (the worst part) for a larger population. Obviously, if Palestinians only accepted that agreement we wouldn’t be fighting today. But no, they refused. So the Jews take advantage of their stronger military and take more land, another 22 percent of the house. So now the Palestinians only live in 22% of their original land. Of course the world is angry at this injustice just after they gave Jews a land they never had. So the U.N. starts protesting and passing resolution after resolution saying you can’t do
