The joke of a Palestinian state

President Obama spoke at the U.N. General Assembly meeting Thursday concerning statehood for Palestine, which could be built on a joint settlement as Israel and Palestine speak and work together.

Speaking of each side, he said, “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the U.N.” He added, “Peace is work,” i.e., each side communicating with each other. But the joke is that you and I know that’s impossible given that AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is one of the most powerful lobbying committees in Congress and seriously anti-Palestine statehood. It makes sure that the US gives Israel $3 billion in defense credits (money) each year, plus unsecured loans and hardware, plus funds it raises itself domestically. It’s truly laughable.

More laughter comes from Video Rebel’s Blog, supplying us with no less than The List of Congressional Representatives Who Took Trips To Israel. Do they Represent You or Israel? The author remarked, “I do not list trips paid for by groups who sent members to meet with Arabs and Israelis as part of a peace process. To include them would confuse the issue. I listed Darrell Issa even though his trip to Israel was paid for by Qatar. It was Qatar Special Forces who invaded Tripoli for the NATO war criminals.” This is astonishing reading to see who went, from what state, and how much he or she spent (and how much film the Mossad shot of their indiscretions). This makes me laugh to tears at Zionist Israel’s hypocrisy.

Another part of the long-running joke goes back 63 years to 1948, pre-partitioning, when Israel was already conducting a terror campaign, noted in the Orthodox Jewish historian Ilan Pappe’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Amazon’s review states, “In his latest work, renowned Israeli author and academic Pappe (A History of Modern Palestine) does not mince words, doing Jimmy Carter one better (or worse, depending on one’s point of view) by accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity beginning in the 1948 war for independence, and continuing through the present. Focusing primarily on Plan D (Dalet, in Hebrew), conceived on March 10, 1948, Pappe demonstrates how ethnic cleansing was not a circumstance of war, but rather a deliberate goal of combat for early Israeli military units led by David Ben-Gurion, whom Pappe labels the ‘architect of ethnic cleansing.’”

“The forced expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians between 1948–49,” Pappe argues, “was part of a long-standing Zionist plan to manufacture an ethnically pure Jewish state. Framing his argument with accepted international and UN definitions of ethnic cleansing, Pappe follows with an excruciatingly detailed account of Israeli military involvement in the demolition and depopulation of hundreds of villages, and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arab inhabitants. An accessible, learned resource, this volume provides important inroads into the historical antecedents of today’s conflict, but its conclusions will not be easy for everyone to stomach: Pappe argues that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues today, and calls for the unconditional return of all Palestinian refugees and an end to the Israeli occupation. Without question, Pappe’s account will provoke ire from many readers; importantly, it will spark discussion as well.” And spark laughter at the serious possibility of Palestinian statehood from others.

And hilariously, there is Netanyahu commenting after the speech with words to the effect that Israeli can’t be in a peace process with people who refuse to work at it every day and want to take short-cut solutions, i.e., like shelling Israel in utter frustration, only to take reprisals that leave a hugely disproportionate number of Palestinian dead and wounded in relation to Israel’s. The killer wants to sound like the victim is the punch line. Ha, ha, what a joke!

And ha, ha for this being a fetid joke that stinks like a carcass rotting in the desert sun. There is no one behind the curtain of the Wizardry of Zion, no real person with real intention and power to talk peace with any group or head of Palestine. It’s a stall, a baggy pants prance in the halls of power, bought and paid for by the U.S. and Israel. To add to the laughter was President Nicholas Sarkozy of France stepping into the limelight to propose that France and perhaps five other European nations, the New York Times reports, should be in charge of the Israeli-Palestine peace process, perhaps seeing how so successful they’ve been bombing the life out of Libya. Ha, ha, the old NATO warhorse stomping its foot for more battle and killing.

Sarkozy’s little dance also had the effect of rebuffing Obama’s statement, indicating perhaps, and deservedly so, that the U.S. just couldn’t be the third party in this bout who could fairly act as referee, that is seeing the preceding history. So six European nations might do a better job; especially led by France that helped Israel build its first (now leaking) nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert in 1956. In return, Israeli scientists helped France build its own and first nuclear reactor. Hardy Har Har! I’m in stitches. Aren’t you? That the fox of France in the henhouse of Palestine will be gobbling down Farmer Israel’s chickens. Ha, ha!

To round out the hilarity, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, quotes the New York Times, in Iran’s President Rails Against the West in U.N. Speech, claims that “poverty, homelessness and denial of basic rights were traceable to “greed for materialism in the United States and Europe.” Ha, ha, ha, do you believe that? US? Greed and materialism causes poverty? Oh ho, ho, ho, no, no, no. Incompetent silly people cause poverty, who don’t work as hard as we do think they can be free.

The bearded jokester raised questions, as he has done in previous speeches, “ . . . about the Holocaust, blaming the West for using it as an excuse for unwavering support for Israel and for the oppression of the Palestinian people.” He added, “They threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and Sept. 11 with sanctions and military action?” Hilarious! Where did he get that idea? Perhaps from reality so hugely funny these days that I’m gasping with laughter?

Of course the Times said, “The United States delegation was the first to leave when Mr. Ahmadinejad referred to the Sept. 11 attacks as ‘mysterious,’ going on to suggest that Osama bin Laden’s hasty burial at sea rather than being brought to trial was designed to bury the truth of who sent the planes to attack New York and Washington. ‘Is there any classified secret that must remain a secret?’ he said.”

Oh, isn’t that hilarious that the 9/11 attacks could be brought into question? My eyes are red with tears. My wife is asking why I’m laughing so loudly. Have I lost my mind, she asks? “They’re only red with the truth, my dear. Don’t worry. It’s not important. I’ll get over it. I’ll read more of the Times. That’ll sober me up. That will narrow my laughter to All the News That’s Fit To Print, ha, haaaa, imagine that, “Fit To Print.” And they will decide like Obama, like Sarkozy, like Netanyahu, like the Congress, what that is, sort of decide as they go along, leaving out all those nasty parts that Pappe puts in, that Rebel Blog puts in, that life puts in.

Equally hilarious is that the next day Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas went back to the Security Council, reports the NY Times, to formally request U.N. membership as a State. He was greeted with “numerous standing ovations from the moment he approached the podium to deliver his speech to the General Assembly . . .” He read, “I do not believe anyone with a shred of conscience can reject our application for full admission to the United Nations . . .” He called statehood “the realization of the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people. This drew the largest round of applause, cheers and whistles of approval, as Abbas held up a copy of his speech.”

But, hilariously, less than an hour later in this on-going Punch and Judy show, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel walked to the lectern in what he described as “a hall that for too long has been place of darkness for my country” (I can’t hold the laughter back: he’s gotten away with murder here for years). He claimed he wasn’t seeking applause, but speaking hard truths. “The truth is the Palestinians want a state without peace,” he said. If that didn’t rock the house with laughter at Israel’s steady encroachment and inhalation of Palestine, call me Jerry Mazza. Bibi belted out, “Mr. Abbas [said] that Palestinians were armed ‘only with their dreams . . . [beat] “Hopes, dreams—10,000 missiles and Grad rockets supplied by Iran,” badabing, badaboom. I laughed out loud, “and what about the 300 nuclear warheads sitting at Dimona. What are those, firecrackers?” Oy!

Abbas said in his 40-minute speech that “every previous peace effort had been ‘shattered on the rock’ of Israeli settlement and cited what he was the historical responsibility of the United Nations to solve the problem.” He described the West Bank as “the last occupation” in the world, “one that showed no sign of ending. It is neither possible nor practical nor acceptable to return to conducting business as usual.” Abbas is getting serious here. Doesn’t he know yet the game’s a rigged joke? He’s even mentioning “A Palestinian spring, a time for independence.” This guy’s serious. Sides will be taken. For Palestine, 15 members, including Brazil, China, India, Lebanon, South Africa and Russia, and with the US (get this, hysterical) a solid vote against. And five Euro members, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, France, Germany and Portugal are all question marks. Go fight a war with question marks. The others, good stuff, though Sarkozy’s “enhanced membership” notion is a joke: that they should move from an observer entity to a non-member observer state,” hilariously stupid language.

But the real joke is that after the 35 think-days are up, most likely “the two-state compromise, starting with General Assembly resolution 181 of 1947” will be reaffirmed. The screamer is it will most likely be reaffirmed, ha, hah, but not implemented.” Oh my god, how could that be, a joke, reaffirmed, not implemented? See you in hell.

Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. An EBook version of his book of poems “State Of Shock,” on 9/11 and its after effects is now available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. He has also written hundreds of articles on politics and government as Associate Editor of Intrepid Report (formerly Online Journal). Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.