The Left, of whatever stripe, are falling over themselves to
promote the Valhallah of Palestine.
Whoever promotes Palestine today promotes
the rise of Hamas. It’s as inevitable as storms after strong winds.
They may not do this intentionally, but it will be the
result.
From radical Marxists to Social Democrats to Laborites, they
are all keen to see the dawn of an Arab Palestine.
Despite all being anti-nationalists, they have all devoted
their political capital (hardly an appropriate word for the grey economy of
Socialism) and clout to cultivate a Middle East in their image, one that will
labor in the socialist tradition.
All of them fail to learn from history when leftist activism
destabilizes a country or a region and left them with serious egg on their
faces. They never get the glory they seek. They are among the first to be
dragged off the streets and never come back. But like clowns in a deadly
circus, they keep on pratfalling.
It happened when Iraqi Communists plotted an Iraqi world
post-Al-Bakr, and ended up being dragged away by Saddam’s henchmen.
It happened when they lined up in support of the Ayatollah
in removing the Shah from power in Tehran, and got blown away for their
troubles. In Iran, the Marxist Tudeh Party reckoned the “positive”
politics of Khomeini outweighed the negatives, and gambled wrong. Surely, they
though, he wouldn't impose a rigid theocracy on the populace once they helped
him achieve power? Sure, he would sweep away the corrupt nepotism and
capitalism of the Shah and grant the people economic reforms. He did, but
without them. The Marxists were taken away, tortured, executed, and disappeared,
with all the rest.
Communists are not queasy about mass killings for a cause.
One only has to look at its history to see this is true. It’s just a matter of
whose doing the killing and, when Palestinian’s are doing it, can be justified by
their Soviet-style propaganda. As for who is doing the dying, if it’s Israelis
it can be as easily excused away as was when thousands of Jews were killed
under Communism. Blame it on the Jewish capitalism; how they control the world,
their exploitation of the masses, or anything else that defames and demonizes
them sufficiently to have them removed.
The radical left has employed highly successful
sophisticated marketing to clothe a vindictive political agenda anti-Semitic in
its exclusivity of Israel for targeting, anti-Semitic in its use of language, anti-Semitic
as exposed by several of its perpetrators in their speech and comments, anti-Semitic
in that they target their local Jews for collective guilt by association with
Israel, the collective Jew.
They have seduced the more moderate left and liberals with
an emotive narrative that appeals to the soft heart of pacifists and anyone who
feels sympathy for an underdog, and their dog in this fight are the
Palestinians. Their hyper-activism allows them to infiltrate committees of similar
leaning ilk, bodies like trades unions, local political councils, church
groups, and up into the left wing of the halls of power.
They are clever. With few exceptions they prefer not to
establish glaringly provocative political parties. Instead they slow-drip their
tainted propaganda into the life-blood on the mainstream Labor, Social
Democrats, Liberal parties in Europe and have them do their bidding. So you see
European parliaments adopt resolutions calling for a Palestine without ever
discussing what Palestine they are voting for. And all the parliaments that
fall like dominoes for this empty-headed motion are all left-wing. It was the
newly elected Social Democrats of Sweden to be followed by the Labor side of
the Houses of Parliament.
It was no accident that former Labor leader, Lord Prescott,
was heard to talk about Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of Palestinian
territory was a “war crime” and that Gaza was a ghetto in July 2014. The
fact that Israeli bombing was targeted and not “indiscriminate,” that it
was not a “war crime,” and that Gaza is NOT a ghetto had nothing to do
with Prescott’s adopted political line which is tainted with emotional untruths
against Israel and had nothing to say about thousands of Palestinian rockets
falling on Israeli civilian centers, or armed Palestinian terrorists appearing
suddenly out of attack tunnels by Israeli villages and farms.
The Irish lower house, strongly influenced by the Sinn Fein,
closely associated with the IRA, an Irish terrorist organization that wreaked
havoc across Ireland and mainland England, also adopted support for Palestine
with explosive language with some Irish delegates accusing Israel of “genocide.”
Would an IRA-based political party be concerned about the rise of Hamas in
Palestinian politics?
Hardly likely.
Here, Mick Wallace in an anti-Semiticly-toned, emotion-tipped,
deliberate misreading of history said, “In 1948, the Jews expelled,
massacred, destroyed and raped in that year, and generally behaved like all the
other colonialist movements operating in the Middle East and Africa since the
beginning of the 19th century…What is happening today is not very
different.”
Today, they don’t know they’re looking through spectacles so
blurred with murky past failures that they again promote a leftist fantasy that
will bring to power the Palestinian Ayatollahs of Hamas dressed in modern garb.
Hamas, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas, the Palestinian Baath Party
that will certainly reject the West, reject Zionism and capitalism, as these leftists
desire, even as Hamas leaders stash the cash in far-off bank accounts. They’ll
certainly be anti-American. That will please the supportive radical left, but it
will also brutally destroy any ideology they see as challenging their brand of
totalitarianism, as occurred so often in the past.
Why should Palestine end up any different to any of the past
causes the left so passionately supported from Cuba, to Saddam, to the
Ayatollahs, even to Gaddafi in Libya, who the left looked on as introducing a
Socialist revolution?
What can possibly be the fate of a Palestine wedged between
Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria with little natural resources and no desire
for a technocrat government to drag this new state into the 21st
Century? What Palestine do these left-wing European parliamentarians think they
are helping to establish?
Clearly it is one that will be unable to adequately
answer the needs of its people. A feeble Abbas/Fatah led leadership is doomed
to fall. They blew away the technocrat talent of Prime Minister, Sayim Fayad,
gone under the squalid jealousies and intrigues of corrupt Fatah
politicians.
What hope will a weak, greedy, and impotent Palestinian
bureaucracy have in attracting meaningful foreign investment sufficient to
cover their welfare costs and pay their bills? What happens when they become yet
another Middle East basket case? Can anyone see a Palestine doing a better
economic job than Jordan?
And, when angry Arab voices rise again it will be mighty
Hamas who will march into power by the ballot, or the bullet.
The incomplete rise of Palestine, looking for the inevitable
scapegoat of their own Naqba, will again find it in Israel as propaganda for
their ongoing cause. They have to draw attention away from their political
failings. Tragically, it can go no other way. The power struggle is too strong.
The prize is too powerful. The result will be more turmoil, more violence, and
more bloodshed in an unresolved conflict.
One thing we have learned to our cost, whenever regimes
fail, whenever political movements crash, and Jews have been anywhere close,
they did it. They’re the ones to blame. It works for the Arabs and the
Palestinians, so why should they surrender this card when their incompetence is
on the line?
They’ll always have the left to bail them out of their
failures, and use Israel as the Jewish whipping boy.
Barry Shaw is the author of ‘Israel Reclaiming the
Narrative.’ www.israelnarrative.com
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