The false moral equivalency - Kerry’s moronic ‘Israel’ speech - people seem to marvel at how easily the left conjoins Israeli settlements and Palestinian terror as ‘equivalent’ coequal impediments to some fanciful ‘peace’ [even though the implied equivalency is a canard in that only the Israelis are required to make real compromises relative to the imputations while the Palestinians are merely ‘scolded’ by Kerry the simpering fool and never held to account for their actions] - we wonder how can these progressive simpletons engage is this false equivalency and not see how misguided it is, and not just misguided, wholly injurious to Israel and its security because it in essence legitimizes not only terror but the anti-semitism and intolerance that hides behind all anti-Zionist rhetoric? How can they not see that continuing to embrace the wrong-headed narrative of the false equivalency makes peace less likely by indulging the atavistic tribalism of Palestinian obstinacy and forcing Israel to be even more adamant and aggressive in protecting its security needs, especially in light of the dangerous, intolerant, unstable, demagogic dystopia the Mideast is turning into?
We wonder - but we shouldn’t - to the progressive mind besotted by an inculcated hatred of ‘white privilege’ and Western colonial depredations which they view as ‘uniquely’ evil, the ‘equivalency’ makes perfect sense - being a white, Christian, male capitalist is for the distempered, diseased mind of the progressive the original sin of modernity - everything bad stems from it - Israel is a proxy, a surrogate for this imagined, ideologically manufactured ‘evil’ - the Palestinians proxies for all those non-white ‘victims’ that have been ‘enslaved’ by it - therefore, to the deranged progressive mind, the false equivalency isn’t false at all - indeed, it’s probably too generous to Israel - for the progressive a truer statement would blame only Israel, making no mention of Palestinian misdeeds or transgressions - in the progressive world view, the ‘oppressed’ can never be at fault and the oppressed are anyone or any group not stained by the original sin vitiating the white, capitalist patrimony of the West.
But why the fixation on settlements? Bibi commented on this - with the Mideast increasingly being a region where nothing good or hopeful happens and where Obama’s grotesquely naive, monumentally ill-conceived foreign policy ‘ideas’ have been gutted and defiled by reality, why on earth, Bibi wondered, do Dear Leader and his myopic minions think it a good notion to obsess on the settlements as the non plus ultra of contentious issues? It seems absurd - delusional - and to a rational person it is - but these are not rational people - these are progressive ideologues and their worldview is in ruins, revealed for being the simple minded, sentimental, self-serving palaver unmoored from reality that it is - and ideologues do not take kindly to being shown up as fools by a reality they resent and repudiate as belonging to something ignoble that is beneath them - fixating on the settlements is thus an obfuscating rationalization that hopes to ‘explain’ away the left’s egregious failings and balm their hurt egos - blaming the settlements is Obama’s way of saying to the progressive sycophants out there who still listen to his drivel that he didn’t get it wrong, he didn’t screw up, he wasn’t the intellectual lightweight who misjudged everything and who was decidedly not on the right side of history, as he likes to fancy himself, but rather history’s fop - no, it was the evil Israeli right, scorning the enlightenment he so magnanimously brought to them [ie, sought to impose on them] who are to blame. It’s a petulant, juvenile and dangerous remonstration - but pure Obama: arrogant, duplicitous, self serving and wholly driven by an idealist ideology utterly detached from reasonable, empirical analysis and any clear-eyed understanding of the real forces that govern the lives and actions of men.
You cannot claim to be on the right side of a history you clearly do not understand and whose parameters do not comport with the dictates of the ideology by which you define yourself - indeed, there may be no greater measure of just how wrong you are than the willingness with which you embrace the inevitability of how right ‘history’ will prove you to be, as if it must bend towards you and not the other way round. This is just failed Marxist historicism dug up from the grave by the neo-Bolsheviks of the left - and if allowed to fester will trample common sense and freedom underfoot all in the name of an ‘inevitable’ progress divined only by a moral calculus imposed by them. Obama obviously sees himself in such terms - and I guarantee you, his post presidency will be marked by a didactic, self-righteous zealotry that will make this clear. This is why he made the settlements an issue on his way out the door - it’s in many ways his first post-presidential act.