The land of paradox

President Obama is appeasing the Cubans, the Russians, the Europeans, and Hugo Chavez, while vigorously wooing the Arabs. Yet he is being tough with his most loyal and obedient ally. That’s a paradox.

Netanyahu accommodates everyone: He appeased Ofer Eini and the Histadrut labor union federation, he bought Shas and the ultra-Orthodox parties, he embarked on a beautiful friendship with Ehud Barak, and made a great effort to bring Tzipi Livni into the government. Yet he is being tough with his own loyalists and those who support his own platform. And so, Obama screws the Jewish State, while Netanyahu screws the Jews of the state, that is, the settlers. That’s a paradox.

The Palestinians demand that the Jews living in their part of the land be removed, yet the Palestinians who reside in the Jewish side can stay, and be reinforced with millions of the 1948 refugees and their offspring. And so, “Palestine” is sending both its Jews and its refugees to the Jewish State. That’s absurd.

A local Arab woman has two sons. Muhammad from Nablus is a member of the “Palestinian nation,” while Abdullah from Amman belongs to the “Jordanian nation.” Does that make any sense? Both of them have the same mother, language, and culture, and they live in the same land – the Land of Israel, the Jordan River’s West Bank, Palestine – depending on who you ask. Does one nation deserve three states – the Jordanian Kingdom, Palestine-West Bank, and Palestine-Gaza? As well as partnership in a fourth state (“a state of all its citizens”)? That’s absurd.

The Palestinians are our shadow. Because of us, and along with us, they came into the world, and without us they will again disappear within the Arab sea. Our existence and the conflict with us give them livelihood and existence as a separate entity. Yet we too do not wish to turn off the light just to get rid of the shadow. That’s a paradox.

When the “rule of law’s” keen eye discovered shabby tin shacks in the middle of nowhere, known as “Maoz Esther,” it rushed to raze them. Yet the law fails to see the tens of thousands of illegal structures built by Arabs, including some luxurious mansions found in Jerusalem, Lod, and across the Negev and the Galilee. In Olmert’s and Livni’s leftist government, Barak did not evacuate even one outpost. In order to raze 26 outposts, he waited for Benjamin Netanyahu. That’s absurd.

So we think we’re the chosen people? A light unto the nations? Nonsense, we’re a crazy nation!