NOVANEWS
CIA Agent Friedman
by Dr Kam Zarrabi
Thomas Friedman is correct in his appraisal of Sheldon Adelson’s blind and passionate “zealously pro-Israel” mindset, which he believes would ultimately work against the long-term preservation of Israel as a Jewish state.
At face value, what Friedman states in his Op-Ed column, New York Times Sunday Review, April 5, 2014, sounds like a clear statement of facts, but only at face value.
No doubt, Thomas Friedman, perhaps not as blindly, but with eyes wide open, and just as passionately as Sheldon Adelson, desires the continuity and permanent status of Israel as a Jewish state, no matter at what cost to its friends and detractors alike, and that includes Israel’s chief benefactor, The United States of America!
But “face value” shouldn’t gloss over some of the more pertinent factors that might better clarify the issues at hand.
First, what’s wrong with a One-State solution as an alternative to the Two-State solution where some Palestinian autonomous entity, demilitarized, defenseless and compliant, exists next to a well-protected and superpower supported Jewish State? Do the Jewish people really need or deserve to have a country exclusively for and run by the Jews? Why?
There are almost twice as many Kurdish people and people of Kurdish origin in the world today as there are Jewish people; yet there is, and there is not to be, a Kurdish state on the horizon. The Kurds are not even as scattered all over the planet as were the Jews historically or at the present; they remain concentrated in a nearly contiguous region that covers parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran; yet no Kurdish State.
Clearly, the dispossessed and persecuted Jews of European origins who suffered so tragically during the Second World War deserved compensation, as did other people who also paid a heavy price during that war. The most logical and reasonable compensation for the European Jews would have been repatriation to their lands of origin, and economic assistance, not just to the Jewish citizens, but to the general economies of the host states to help them rebuild their shattered infrastructure.
Second, why does Mr. Friedman think the Iranian leaders and especially Ayatollah Khamene’i might want the destruction of Israel? Where did he find that info? He must know that there is a huge difference between Zionism and Judaism. Yes, there has been and continues to be a festering anxiety, fear and hatred for the policies of an Israel that is run, as well as supported by, Zionist ideologies, and not just by the Iranian leadership alone.
Zionism is referred to as the regime of occupation by the Iranian leaders, and is criticized for its barbaric violations of human rights and dignity, violence against the Palestinian people, repeated transgressions against its neighboring states, and direct involvement in and support for acts of international terrorism, all with boisterous arrogance and with impunity provided by the United States.
A civilized democratic state, call it Israel or Palestine or some creatively concocted combination, where Jews, Moslems, and Christians of all denominations live together as one nation, may not be what Adelson or Friedman would like to see. But that is the only solution to the problem and the only ticket to the survival of a non-indigenous Jewish people that would be integrated within the general population in which each citizen will have equal rights – one person, one vote – that’s democracy.
As to why Mr. Khamane’i and the rest of Iran’s leadership have a problem with Israel, as stated by Mr. Friedman, it has a very good reason. Perhaps he shouldn’t have so casually made that statement leaving behind the impression that Iranians are led by a group of ignorant zealots who have crawled out of the pages of history’s Dark Ages.
Even the staunch American ally, the former Shah, had expressed his frustrations on many occasions that America’s foreign policy in the Middle East was dictated by the Israelis, not only causing problems for the region, but to the detriment of the United States, as well.
So, while Thomas Friedman in his Op-Ed column takes issue with Sheldon Adelson’s overzealous behavior as though the latter is inadvertently trying to destroy Israel by loving it too much, both Adelson and Friedman want nothing more than for Israel to continue to prevail as a purely Jewish state. Clearly, it is only Adelson’s methodology that Mr. Friedman is upset about.
Finally, about Governor Christy and his butt-kissing and crawling to the Jewish Casino tycoon, well, how else would you define prostitution? If you want the money, you’d better do what the trick demands. So much for the political process in the land of the free and home of the brave!
