The Arrogance of Fools

I watched the Kerry speech about Israel and the settlements with interest. As the speech dragged on and while watching this hypocritical attempt at sincerity and balance... the nausea took over. Most Jewish folk have a centuries old and ingrained sense of foreboding when confronted by hostility in sheep's clothing. Listening to John Kerry whine how he really loved Israel, had climbed Masada, how some of his best friends were Israeli's and what he was doing was for our own good, Einstein's definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results) flashed through my mind.

The modern day Middle East was created by an Englishman and a Frenchman after the First World War. They manufactured countries by drawing lines on a map and dividing the area between England and France...The Sykes - Picot Agreement. They were secure in the knowledge that European culture and superiority would last for centuries while the barbarians in the area would do as they were told. The wheeling and dealing reached a peak when the members of the Hussein bin Ali family (hashemites) ruled Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. In short, Arab nation states were created by a stroke of a pen and ruled by brothers, uncles and cousins. 

The importance of oil soon became evident and these nation states understood the power that came with the black gold. The UN quickly became inundated with men in flowing robes while Europe and the US kowtowed to the monster they had created. The monster instantly realized that with all this power, they could create nation states and so the myth of a Palestinian nation state was born. I could go into all the details of how the Arab nation states with all its billions kept the so-called potential Palestinian nation state poor and armed to the teeth, but that is a story for another day.

Bottom line, the Two State Solution, rejected by the arabs in 1948 was reborn. Decades went by without agreement and the oil weapon went into decline. A new messiah then arrived in the US by name Obama. Cheered on by Hollywood and CNN, encouraged by demonstrations in the Arab countries, he decided the time was right for the birth of democracy in the Middle East. On national TV he declared "Mubarak must go, Assad must go. Free and fair elections for all. An Arab Spring is on the horizon". Who could stop the great Obama revolution? Well, the rest is history. The Arab nation states disintegrated into civil wars. The Sykes - Picot map collapsed. Israel stood firm and flourished. But no...wait... another late twist in the tale.

This selfsame president, the same man whose foreign policy resulted in the death and destruction for millions and created a refugee problem of epic proportions, refused to believe the evidence before his eyes. After seeing the barbarism of ISIS, Assad and Hamas. After witnessing the terrorist attacks and the rape epidemic in Europe and finally after the collapse of the Arab nation states, this petty man sends his poodle John Kerry to advocate for the birth of a new mythical Arab nation state and blames Israel and the settlements for the lack thereof. So in conclusion, Obama the messiah is just a mere man blinded by his own intellectual ignorance. A man whom in his final year as president I regarded as a class act. Man, was I was wrong....big time!

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit - Aesop

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it - George Orwell

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places -  Bryant H. McGill