Klutz Cohen Clunks Again

In "Hard Mideast Truths", Roger Cohen's latest assault of our intelligence and general fact, he asserts "For over a century now, Zionism and Arab nationalism have failed to find an accommodation in the Holy Land".

Of course, he is correct. But for all the wrong reasons.

We know that since Arab nationalism has been successful (well, relatively speaking if we take into consideration the trampling of the rights and liberties of the people living under Arab rule) in some two dozen other lands, from the north-west African coast to north of the Indian sub-continent, the question that must be asked is: what is Arab nationalism doing in the Holy Land?

Arabs arrived there in the 7th century and found a Jewish population present, a remnant of those that survived two Roman conquests with the destruction of the Second Temple, who overcame the Byzantine rule and managed to avoid expulsion when the Persian forces occupied their land. The historical record of the next 1300 years revealed a total unwillingness on the part of the Arabs, a foreign entity, to reach any accommodation with the Jews who lived under their rule nor with those that over the centuries continued to return to their homeland.

Zionism, in its modern political form, resolved that problem. It is now the onus of the Arabs to seek coexistence with Israel, not the other way around.

But Cohen is, of course, more invective ans writes:

Here’s what I believe. Centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust created a moral imperative for a Jewish homeland, Israel, and demand of America that it safeguard that nation in the breach.

But past persecution of the Jews cannot be a license to subjugate another people, the Palestinians. Nor can the solemn U.S. promise to stand by Israel be a blank check to the Jewish state when its policies undermine stated American aims.

One such Israeli policy is the relentless settlement of the West Bank...

Mr. Cohen (is he really Jewish?), the Jewish return had nothing to do with the Holocaust and started as soon as expulsions and exiles stopped - Babylonian, Roman, etc. "Settlement" preceded the modern form of Jew hatred. The Holocaust's "contribution" was to illustrate just how necessary Zionism was at that particular time.

And from not knowing history, he tries his hand at math:

If there are not two states there will be one state between the river and the sea and very soon there will be more Palestinian Arabs in it than Jews. What then will become of the Zionist dream?

Roger, you are wrong about the demography boogeyman/strawman.

And in any case, if in Jordan there is a 70% "Palestinian" population, why not make it 100%? After all, no Jews are allowed to dwell there. There's enough room, all the way to Iraq.

If Jews, who have been "settling", as it were, in the Land of Israel for centuries, the land where they originated in the first place as a people with a religion, a culture and a national character, are expected to accept another expulsion, a second "disengagement", why should some Arabs from within the state of Israel move a few miles to the east?



(Kippah tip: BT)