UFOs
According to Wikipedia, UFOs are “perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.”
Michael Kuttner
There seems to have been an increasing number of such sightings in recent times, interestingly enough more in the USA than anywhere else. Most times they have become associated with various conspiracy theories involving aliens from other worlds scouting out earth in order to prepare for some sort of takeover.
Anyone cognizant with Jewish history and experiences over the millennia should instantly recognize the rather eerie resemblance.
Conspiracy allegations combined with casting Jews as alien beings were and to a certain extent still remain the standard rhetoric of the Jew haters.
As we transition from the old to the new Jewish year and prepare to spiritually stock take on Yom Kippur the opportunity to take on board the lessons of an increasing rise in enmity presents itself.
Unlike UFOs, the phenomenon of today’s mutation is easily identifiable and explained. The fact that far too many still cannot or refuse to make the connection is one of the major challenges to be faced in the year ahead.
Take for instance the recent confessions of Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross.
These two luminaries who are former Obama administration officials have suddenly had a revelation of Biblical proportions. Something occurred which caused a change in rhetoric after years of singing the praises of Oslo and a two State solution as well as lecturing and admonishing Israel as to what it should be doing. It’s always traumatic when your perceived best friend suddenly turns out to be a fake and even worse, is revealed as a two-faced double-crossing hypocrite. That is what happened after Abbas’s recent diatribe about Jews and the Shoah. After years of blind devotion towards someone who was and remains a fraudulent fake, who peddles conspiracy theories and purports to be an apostle of peace, the truth miraculously hit them full in the face.
Martin Indyk: “how could someone who has treated me as a personal friend for three decades at the same time harbor such hateful views of my people?”
Dennis Ross: “we were wrong on Arafat.”
Here we have, encapsulated by the plaintive reactions of two Jewish genetic Democrats and Obama groupies, the answer as to why over 70% of American Jews still support policies which if ever enacted would imperil Israel.
The blind devotion towards rewarding the latter day and fake Palestinians with any sort of independent country based on 1948 armistice lines continues to motivate US policies. Unlike Indyk and Ross, the current crop of US officials including Biden, Harris and her 2nd.”Gentleman,” Blinken and Lew (the proposed new US ambassador) remain firmly transfixed by the prospect of a democratic and peace loving Abbas and PA/PLO.
In a Rosh Hashanah message to Jewish Americans, Joe Biden assured them that he “has Israel’s back.” The fact that this piece of baloney was greeted with applause and adoration by most of the machers of the Jewish establishment and non Orthodox religious leadership speaks volumes. While at least Indyk and Ross may have seen the light it is obvious that nobody else in Washington has done so.
Can any rational person explain how Israel’s back is covered when those supposedly doing the covering are working feverishly to undermine its security and very existence?
How does sending money to a corrupt authority which can then be used to pay murderers of Israelis constitute having one’s back?
Since when did demonizing Jews who settle historical areas of Israel including its Capital qualify as having our back?
Continuing to embrace Holocaust distorters as legitimate peace partners is the opposite of having our back.
Most glaringly, paying ransom money of billions of dollars to one of the world’s worst sponsors of terror can hardly be described as having our back. Any person with a brain can predict that this money will be used to finance further terror and advance the moment when nuclear blackmail will kick in. The assurance given by the Biden Administration that these funds will only be used for “humanitarian” purposes is as useless as Indyk’s and Ross’s former embrace of Oslo and Abbas. The Iranian President has already stated that the money will “be used where we need it.”
The US Embassy in Israel hosted a pre-Rosh Hashanah reception.
This year the powers that be decided to boycott and disinvite Israel’s Finance Minister and Minister of Police/Security. Presumably this was done because Washington does not like the policies espoused by these two Coalition officials. One is left wondering why this double standard has not been called out by the media and Government spokespersons. By continuing to clasp Abbas and his inciting colleagues to their collective breasts, the US Administration once again displays an uncanny ability to punish alleged friends and reward blatant abusers.
Sending millions to UNRWA so that its schools can continue to inculcate the next generation with Jew hate is not exactly the sort of act one would expect from those professing undying friendship.
Rejoining UNESCO and being part of an organization which wipes out millennia of Jewish history cannot be construed as anything other than stabbing in the back.
On the anniversary of 9/11, the Israeli Prime Minister assured America “that Israel stands with the US against terrorism.” One has to wonder whether this declaration means anything practical. Given the litany of a continuing campaign aimed at weakening Israel’s ability to actually defeat terrorism what value does this have? All the military exercises and visits will be useless unless all those taking part actually front up when the curtain comes down. Selling the latest military hardware to Israel will be meaningless if others in the region, hardly friends of Israel, are enabled to acquire nuclear and other advanced technology. Russia, China and North Korea stand poised to support the haters of Israel knowing that the worst that can happen is a futile UN meeting.
The US is not alone in its dubious diplomatic duplicity.
Not to be outdone, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary recently visited Israel and also made the expected pilgrimage to Ramallah to pay homage to the fake “dove of peace.” The subsequent script was entirely predictable and tantalizing nauseous. The FM oozed undying support to Israel and condemned the Shoah and antisemitic libels uttered by Abbas. With the mutual back slapping over, he then gladdened the hearts of the PA/PLO by stating that “only a two State solution could bring a sustainable peace.” Once again it seems a classic case of willful blindness in the face of stark reality prevails.
It gets better though.
Once safely back in the comfort of the UK foreign office the FM made it clear that the UK still refuses to designate the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. In his own words, “this would not be in Britain’s interests.” A clearer example of duplicitous deception would be hard to find, made all the more transparent by his subsequent decision to designate the Wagner group as a terrorist entity.
Extraterrestrial UFOs may still be a mystery.
However, there is nothing mysterious about our local terrestrials whose increasingly obsessive fetish about Jews and the Jewish State dominates the world’s attention.
Michael Kuttner is a Jewish New Zealander who for many years was actively involved with various communal organisations connected to Judaism and Israel. He now lives in Israel and is J-Wire’s correspondent in the region.
