Our maestro, Uri Avnery, seems to be conking out in his latest public message, of November 13. He tells of a verbal battle, mostly between him and his wife Rachel on one side, and their taxi driver on the other, on a return from a large-scale memorial meeting. The driver, an unreconstructed brute, brought forth this catechism, according to Uri:
There will never be peace between us and the Arabs, because the Arabs don't want it.
The Arabs want to slaughter us, always did and always will.
Every Arab learns from early childhood that the Jews must be killed.
The Koran preaches murder.
Fact, wherever there are Muslims, there is terrorism. Wherever there is terrorism, there are Muslims.
We must not give the Arabs one square inch of the country.
What did we get when we gave them Gaza back? We got Qassam rockets!
There's nothing to be done about it. Only to hit them on the head and send them back to the countries they came from.
According to the Talmudic injunction: He who comes to kill you, kill him first.
Avnery tells us: "This driver expressed in simple and unvarnished language the standard convictions of the great majority of Jews in the country. It is not something that can be identified with any one part of society. It is common to all sectors. The owner of a stall in the market will express it crudely, a professor will set it down in a learned treatise with numbered footnotes. A senior army officer regards it as self-evident, a politician bases his election campaign on it...."
Then Uri tells us, after reciting a sad history: "We must infuse the public with another belief – the belief that peace is possible."
"We shall never succeed in inspiring such a belief through routine discussions. Anwar Sadat taught us that it can be done, but only through dramatic actions that rock the foundations of our spiritual world..."
Thus, after showing how and why the Israeli people is so hopeless, Uri concludes with a call for a radical solution. Although he cannot get himself to say it out loud, he is calling for CANAAN STATE, 51ST STATE OF AMERICA!
Apropos the venerable Uri Avnery's worry that Israelis are in great majority fascist and racist and undemocratic and hopelessly uninformed, I would offer an objection: we, and even he, do not know what the Israelis really believe or are capable of believing. I have had professional qualifications in the science of public opinion measurement for 71 years and I must say that the quality and quantity of information publicly available on Israeli (and Palestinian) popular mentation is dismally inadequate. The problems presented, despite censorship, are not difficult to solve, and if some honest donor would let me have a mere $60,000.00, I could find the pollsters who would give us scientific corroboration or falsification of many of the beliefs now floating in the air. There are scientific methods, for instance, of telling us what we might expect if this or that condition or policy were to change. A vast public may switch from a horde of devils to a flock of angels in short order. And back again. I think that we could demonstrate that we can count on practically all of the best Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, Euro-American gentiles and enlightened scientists to share our opinions, if cognizant of the CANAAN PLAN, to force it through the hordes of idiots and gang of fascists, Jew and Gentile, who rule Israel and the Jewish people everywhere, while holding the sickened world at bay. I believe that a simple opinion survey would present a shocking display of the potential acceptance of the CANAAN PLAN, such as could open up the whole arena to a new grand show. |
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