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Victory for the Kapos, Shame on the Gush
By Barry Chamish

The Nazis knew how to keep the Jews deluded until the end. They hired kapos to run local Jewish councils. The kapos fed the Jews false hope until they were gathered and shipped away. Of course, that could never happen in Israel? But it did. The new nazis of Israel ran the kapos of the Yesha Council, and the Jews followed them into the ghettos of Kfar Maimon and Ofakim where they were safely trapped behind enemy lines.

Ouch!

The new kapos pretended to be leading a rebellion, but they were really collaborating with the authorities. They pretended to back civil disobedience so long as no one was hurt or any damage caused. And that's just what the authorities asked them to do.

You don't need a conspiracy to get what you want. All you need is a whole lot of people who think exactly the same way.

However, the task was made so much easier by the religious leaders who instilled a sense of fatalism, laziness and superstition among their congregants. Well over 200,000 prayed at the Western Wall five days before the rape of Gush Katif. Almost a quarter of a million God-fearing Jews prayed for the salvation of Gush Katif at the site of Judaism's holiest site.

They all wasted their breath. Their prayer's weren't answered. G-d was not interested in Gush Katif.

And why should He be? Why should He have anything to do with a people who won't fight for His land and their homes? Why should He have anything to do with a people who forego responsibility because they believe, actually believe, that a miracle is going to bail them out? Or that the moshiach will come and sort things out for them?

I don't know the definition of blasphemy for observant Jews, but...

Well, no miracle saved Gush Katif, and still no signs of the moshiach [messiah].

If I were the moshiach, I sure wouldn't want anything to do with this sorry lot. The depths of their delusion is beyond easy comprehension but let us look at one example.

Two days after the enemy felled Gush Katif, I saw a group of young men handing out pamphlets to save the place, in a Modiin shopping center. I asked them, "What are you doing? It's over." One replied, "It is not over. We can still sway public opinion."

Briefly stunned, I retorted, "This crappy public abandoned you. You are finished."

Reality returned and the young man asked, "So what can we do?"

"There is only one out. "Find a sympathetic army officer or two and take over the Knesset."

I wasn't kidding. But they laughed. And they will laugh and laugh until they have nothing left to find funny anymore.


Then there is this from Jack Engelhard:

But picture this: Those are Arabs, not Jews, being deported. Those are mosques, not synagogues, being demolished.

Would there be enough words to express the world's outrage? Would there be enough buckets to collect the world's tears?

Today's war of Jew against Jew, Israeli against Israeli, is being fought on the ground, but also in the air, meaning the airwaves.

American television appears to agree with the BBC that "the Jews did not belong there in the first place," and this goes for Gaza and virtually all of Israel. Some news organizations already use the term "Occupied Jerusalem" for their datelines. Tel Aviv and Haifa cannot be far behind as being part of contiguous Palestine, as Jewish Israelis are assigned to ghettos.

Who speaks for Israel? From network to network, we find Dennis Ross, architect of the Oslo Accords, which even reasonable thinkers on the Left concede as folly. Another commentator who seems to appear everywhere is Ehud Barak. This ex-prime minister of Israel was booted from office after a disastrous tenure in which his gift-offerings included all of the West Bank (except for two percent), half of Jerusalem and the entire Golan Heights.

When Palestinian Arab rioters overran Joseph's Tomb, a lone Israeli soldier was left to withstand the assault, but bled to death when Barak refused to send timely help.

Such are the men to whom the networks turn for advice and wisdom. These men shape public opinion, and assure us that Ariel Sharon's Disengagement Plan is democracy in action. That is incorrect. Sharon brought the measure before his cabinet, and was turned down. He fired the dissenters and replaced them with his cronies. He also brought his plan up for a vote before his Likud party, and lost overwhelmingly. None of that stopped him.

All that suggests dictatorship in action, not democracy.

In its "Reality Check" editorial of August 18, the New York Times points out that Gaza "was never a part of the Zionist state intended by the United Nations partition plan." Maybe so, but why bring this up now, when the Jews are going, going, gone? Sounds like a kick in the pants.

John Podhoretz of the New York Post tells the Israelis of Gush Katif that it's time to go, the very moment that they are forcibly going. Conservative pundit and editor William Kristol faces television and registers his disgust at the bad behavior of some of the resisters in Israel. We must assume that Kristol would be a model of good behavior if US soldiers came knocking on his door to evict him and his family for being Jewish.

Israeli opinion-makers may also want to think before speaking. One of Israel's leading columnists, Nahum Barnea, recently shared these thoughts with Yediot Ahronot: "Israel can live without Gush Katif. It can even live without Jerusalem." Such reflections are reckless, hurtful and mean-spirited, especially at a time like this.