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Biden tells Netanyahu that America has Israel’s back. Her support is “ironclad”. But America has failed the Jews. Repeatedly. Over and over again. So why trust the bastards now?
The Israeli and Jewish experience of America is not actually as rosy as America sometimes likes to paint. It is nowhere near as close as some Americans imagine or her enemies suggest, and it is certainly at best “nuanced”. Israelis and Jews have a long memory when it comes to how America views their interests. A substantial number would see this history as below.
America failed the Jews in the 1930’s as they tried to flee Nazi Occupied Europe as refugees, abandoning them and leaving them to die in the camps. Maybe the likes of Anna Frank might have lived had their policy been more open.
America failed the Jews again in World War II when she failed to bomb the camps at Auschwitz and elsewhere. It has never been clear how many of the five million holocaust dead might have been saved by intervention. Instead they were abandoned.
America failed the Jews in 1948 when she pushed the idea of “trusteeship” rather than promoting statehood.
America failed Israel in 1956 by forcing Ben-Gurion to withdraw from the Sinai.
America failed Israel by being slow in shipping arms during the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
America did not support Menchim Begin when he bombed the Iranian reactor in 1981.
And they were not exactly showing much sympathy to Israeli interests either when I hoved up in Israel (or more accurately the West Bank Occupied Territories) during the First Lebanese War in 1982.
I spend an instructive time there, wandering about the joys of Nablus and Ramallah until political focus became (for me at least) clearest when I visited a large mountain sitting in the deep rift valley depression on the edge of the Dead Sea. Masada was originally a Herodian fortress and palace. It was here that the last Jewish uprising in AD 69 had been crushed by the might of Rome scattering the Jews to their Diaspora for two thousand years. It has a place in Israeli hearts. It is a place of pilgrimage.
The site of this fortress is gained either by a long slog up the side of the hill in the skull splitting heat of late summer, or one could take a cable car ride to the top and see the ruined palaces and the roman camp laid out below like a plate from a Latin school Text book.
Returning back down to the Cable Car station there are stalls where they sell the usual pencils and note-lets sets, mugs, nick-nacks and other guff, and any number of T-Shirts emblazoned “Masada Shall Not Fall Again”. But tea cloth or baseball hat, it is all themed around the concept that the Jew is alone in the world and can rely only on his own. Friends are nice, but when push comes to genocide the Jew realises he has to look out for himself and no-one else, not even Americans are going to be there for them. And this time they absolutely will not go down quietly.
Never mind though today David Cameron is going in to sooth matters.
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