There’s a reason UNESCO just disavowed Israel’s sovereignty
over Jerusalem and it’s not what you think it is.
It has nothing to do with antisemitism. Nope. Not a thing.
It does, however, have everything to do with FEAR.
That would be the fear of Israeli leaders.
Israeli leaders, you see, are afraid to speak the truth.
They may see things with complete clarity, but when they go to act on that
truth, they let their fear do them in.
If it’s a statement they need to make, for instance, they
end up couching their words in some sort of nebulous PC fog. If it’s a court
ruling, they’ll rule righteously then reverse the ruling. If it’s a law that
needs creating, they create the law and then fail to apply it 100% of the time.
And the thing is, if you let the enemy see your fear, you’ve
lost. Plain and simple.
Look what happened with this UNESCO resolution. We knew it
was coming down the pike. It was going to happen on Israeli Independence Day
(and did). Therefore, it was incumbent on the Israeli prime minister to issue a
statement on the subject. And what better place could a prime minister smack
UNESCO’s hand for its planned disavowal of Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem
than in Jerusalem? At the yearly bible quiz, no less.
Here is how the Jerusalem Post paraphrased
Bibi’s remarks: “Netanyahu said there was no nation in the world to whom
Jerusalem was more holy than to the Jewish people.”
No, Bibi. Wrong. You let your fear do you in; do us in.
Jerusalem is not MORE holy to the Jews. It is ONLY holy to
the Jews and you needed to say that.
Jerusalem was holy to the Jews before Jesus was born.
Jerusalem was holy to the Jews before Mohammed was born.
When Christians and Muslims say or even believe Jerusalem is
holy to them, it’s only because it is holy to the Jews and their religions are
replacement religions: designed to make Judaism obsolete.
This is the truth and EVERYONE knows it. UNESCO passes these
resolutions to rewrite the truth. UNESCO DOESN’T NEED YOUR HELP to do so.
UNESCO knows as well as we do that Jerusalem is not
mentioned even once in the Quran. UNESCO knows as well as we do that Jerusalem
has always been in Jewish thoughts and prayers. This body knows we’re
the indigenous people of this territory. It knows we fought a defensive war and
have full rights to the city both according to birthright AND international
law.
But UNESCO also knows that Bibi is going to give lip service
to the idea that Jerusalem is holy to three peoples, therefore meeting its
sneaky intentions halfway. And once Bibi does that, the entire tower of logic begins
to disintegrate. People see or hear Bibi’s remarks and they say, “Even HE
admits Jerusalem is not the sole province of the Jewish people!” and so the
cookie crumbles.
And UNESCO’s resolution gains strength and momentum.
Look what happened earlier in the week regarding the UN compound
in the Armon HaNetziv neighborhood of Jerusalem. There’s all kinds of illegal
construction going on there. Regavim demanded that Israel force the UN to return the property to the
state. So what did the State of Israel do?
It asked Regavim to hold off on demanding a response until
such time as the Foreign Ministry could be in touch with UN officials and
officially request a tour of the compound.
Which screws up the whole point of what Regavim was
righteously trying to do, namely to show the UN that Israel is sovereign and if the UN
will not obey Israeli law, they will have to turn the property over to its
rightful, lawful owner, the State of Israel.
Instead, Israel sniveled and made itself little, came
CRAWLING, “Oh, please Mr. Powerful UN, will you let us tour our own property (in
which we so kindly HOST you and in which you have egregiously ABUSED our
hospitality???)?”
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| UNTSO Headquarters, South View, 1986 |
Now one Israeli government official did stand up and show
her mettle. That would be Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev
(you go, Girl!). "Fifty years to our sovereignty in the city, there is no
need for the presence of UN observers. They were given the opportunity to use
the compound to supervise the ceasefire agreements of the Six Day War—agreements
that are no longer relevant. This saga must end,” said Regev to Channel 2 News,
Tuesday evening.
“I intend to approach the Foreign Ministry and other
relevant parties in order to return the compound, in the Armon Hanatziv
neighborhood in the heart of Jerusalem, to the State of Israel,” she said.
Unfortunately, this is a little like closing the barn door
after the horses have escaped. Plus, Regev isn’t terribly powerful in the
hierarchy of the Israeli government and though the words are great, they’re
just words.
This should have been taken care of before the UNESCO vote. And without
big brave empty words. Either it’s our property or it’s not. And it won’t be if
we don’t have the gumption to claim it for ourselves.
Another recent example of how our leaders let fear hamper
them and suck our power away was the mishandling of
the visa for Human Rights Watch staffer Omar Shakir. Israel turned down his
request for a work visa because Human Rights Watch isn’t a real human rights
organization. It’s an organization dedicated to bringing down the State of
Israel.
NGO Monitor
summarizes things nicely for us (please do visit the website for further details):
“Human Rights Watch is a powerful NGO, with a massive budget, close links to
Western governments, and significant influence in international institutions.
Its publications reflect the absence of professional standards, research
methodologies, and military and legal expertise, as well as a deep-seated
ideological bias against Israel.”
At any rate, Israel’s Foreign Ministry wrote a letter
explaining the denial of Shakir’s work visa:
“For some time now, this organization’s public actions and
reports have focused on politics in service of Palestinian propaganda while
falsely raising the banner of ‘human rights.’”
So what did Shakir do then? He applied for a TOURIST visa.
This too, was (correctly!) denied.
But you know what happened next, don’t you? I know. You’re
cringing. And you’re right: a hue and cry was raised on SOCIAL MEDIA and so Israel
caved. Completely.
They gave Shakir a WORK visa (and not a tourist visa).
We’d all been cheering the Foreign Ministry for turning the
guy away. And then it caves!
It’s an awful feeling to watch your representatives cave on
the most important issues—on the issues that really matter.
They let in this potential terrorist to craft all sorts of
plans to hurt Israel from within. All funded, of course, by Germany and other Western
Jew-haters.
It’s unbearable.
What’s the solution? People say, “Don’t vote Likud.”
But no one else, at this point in time, has the qualities of
leadership that Bibi has. He’s what we’ve got. He’s all we’ve got. And he’s no
good at speaking the truth.
He stood up to Sigmar
Gabriel—told him if he meets with Breaking the Silence and B’tselem, he
wouldn’t meet with him. But then he called him to iron things out after the fact,
giving Gabriel a SECOND chance to snub him: Gabriel refused
to speak to Bibi.
And now Bibi has caved on the UNESCO thing with his
politically correct statements.
It’s sickening. It could make a person lose hope.
Unfortunately, there may not be more to do than outline the problem whenever
it happens, to underscore the PC caving, the weakened statements and actions. We
can speak of these things until our leaders get the point. This is something we all can
do. If so, if this is ALL we can do for now, please consider this blog post as
my opening salvo.
You can trust there will be more to come.