the unbeatable israeli euphoria

The un-beatable Israeli Euphoria

By David Verveer

Israel celebrated last week its 60^th birthday, with lots of glamor, important visiting statesmen and celebrities with expensive display of our prosperity and achievements which were gained notwithstanding our precarious situation on our temporary borders with our everlasting enemy, the Islamic (Arabic) tribes (dictatorial nations) surrounding us.

Our Government tells us, "be happy" enjoy the current situation, nobody knows what the future will bring to our embattled nation, but up to date, we are doing fine, with verbal encouragement of those world leaders (some of them, already out of power and some with only an half year left) that their nations are behind us the whole way. And indeed, this is progress, as in the past, even verbally we did not get any backing, and our right to exist was questioned repeatedly at the United Nations and Zionism was compared with racism.

But a few days back, the President of the USA told us that "Masada won't fall again".

What does that mean? For people who do not remember the Masada tale, a short explanation. During the Roman / Jewish wars, Masada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Negev Desert on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judea overlooking the Dead Sea. Masada became famous after the first Roman War (also known as the Great Jewish Revolt) when a siege of the fortress by troops of the Roman Empire may have led to a mass suicide of the site's Jewish zealots when defeat became imminent. Since the sole source of information is Josephus, whose historical accuracy is suspect; this popular conception of mass suicide may not have occurred. But historical truth does not exist, all history we know is based on journalists such as Josephus, who in their own political interpretation, create history, without any evidence on truth and facts. Today this is even more evident, as by example, our Arab neighbors such as Hamas and Hezbollah write history with the help of media such Arab television stations, reporting on cruelties and massacres by Israelis, which never took place in reality.

But going back to Bush's promise on Masada, does it mean that the USA will defend a handful of extremists when threatened (for example Mormon sects in the states) or is his support in the genre of backing up the Vietnamese and Koreans in their war with the communists? His sentence of 7 millions backed by 300 million of Americans is dramatic, but in reality "bullshit". The only force we Israelis can rely upon is the IDF, and with this we have to fight not only the Islam nations but also the financial interests of the rest of the world. We have to remember that the only countries which really love us are the Pacific Ocean Island nations, for reasons unknown.

But the festivities continue, the meeting of Presidents (including the presidents from Mongolia, Cape Verde and Albania) was impressive, pity that an Russian made Grad missile provided by Iran and launched by the Hamas in Gaza, fell at the same time on a mall in Ashkelon, wounding more than 100 people, mostly children and women, who did their shopping, etc, at the time. Of course, we realize that those victims were all ex or future soldiers involved in fighting the poor innocent Arabs and it is their moral right in defending the Koran by killing those bloody Jews.

But don't worry, we don't need Arabs to make our life hell, we are self sufficient in that. Our distinguished Prime minister, a person whose actions and lifestyle are puritan, and an inspiration to our youth, made the stupid mistake (mostly, because he tried to spin the attention on his accused but not yet proven crimes) meddled too much with peace efforts, promising independence to the Palestinians and even moving Jewish settlers , thus infuriation the Israeli right wing politicians, who engaged an American religious mini-bar millionaire to tell the world, that he personally has provided cash money to Olmert, during his election campaigns.

This crime, which is the only tool available to campaign all over the world, can be seen as a bribe, even though, I can not see how the Mini-bar chief could benefit from this, it is clear that Olmert has to go immediately, and to make place for mister clean (Netanyahu), who even in the second Lebanese War spend bribe money when lecturing the British on the Jewish plight in their fight against the Hezbollah.

But our feast continues non stop, a certain self made millionaire who has made himself a fortune in transfer of funds for an African nation, bought a political party of 3 old doodlers (ex pensioners), and is now represented in the Knesset. This is a perfect example of our nation, when a crook (which is under investigation by the Interpol and Israeli police) invests in politics and is not be accused of bribing when he buys a political party, making it unclear what a bribe is and what not. Might it be, that the definition of bribe relates to right or left, revisionism, capitalism or bribing the wrong party, is it me or really, we have to stop with celebrating? .