Beyond Political Analysis - Paul Eidelberg

We don’t need Caroline Glick (God bless her) to convince you that Israel’s government consists of cretins and cravens (my words). We’ve known this since Moshe Dayan, with the approval of a unanimous cabinet government including the religious parties, renounced the miracle of the Six-Day War by giving the Arabs control of the Temple Mount, the holiest site of the Jewish people. These Jews denied and desecrated the Name of God—which this obtuse and pusillanimous government has been doing for no less than 43 years.

Caroline Click says Israel must tell the truth, the truth about the pernicious consequence of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and more so about the genocidal designs of Israel’s enemies.

But what about the truth concerning Israel’s greatest enemy: its very own government? Ever since the Six-Day War, Israel has been lead by traitors—and not just moral traitors, because the government’s policy of “territory for peace” constitutes a violation of Israeli law, as attorney Howard Grief has exhaustively shown. The truth is that Israel’s government—including its Supreme Court—has betrayed the birthright of the Jewish people.

Having turned away from God, Israel’s government has renounced the only justification for the Jewish state. More precisely, the only justification for the existence of this state is the Torah. This is not a political conclusion so much as a logical or rational conclusion. In rejecting logic or reason, Israel’s ruling elites have succumbed to stupidity and self-abasement.

This stupidity is exemplified by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ardent desire to negotiate with Muslims dedicated to Israel’s annihilation. Merely to negotiate with these enemies of civilization—read Wafa Sultan—is symptomatic of a terminal disease. (See my book Demophrenia: Israel and the Malaise of Democracy.) Only an idiot or a madman would deal with those committed to his destruction.

No one should know this better than Jews—the only people having a universal history, a history punctuated by the envious and murderous hatred of the non-Jewish world—above all, Muslims.

Thus, by abandoning God and the Torah, the source of Jewish wisdom and nobility, Israel’s government has become foolish and base. Isn’t this obvious?

Yes, and it’s precisely the function of Israel’s enemies to make Israel look ignominious, for that facilitates and perpetuates their own wickedness and idolatry. Israel—authentic Israel—disturbs the complacency mankind and gives people a bad conscience. People want to feel good about themselves, and one way of doing this is by scapegoating others. Thus, prior to her, Israel’s world-historical function is to serve as the scapegoat of mankind.

Israel is not going to be redeemed by brilliant political analysis. Indeed, the latter may make a lot of people—pundits and politicians—“politically correct.” No, we need Torah analysis on the one hand, and Torah-inspired policies on the other. We need war strategy based on Torah principles, including the principle of preemption.