How Dangerous Does it Become Before the Leftist Fantasists Fall?

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Column One: The Rise of the Fantasists, Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

Commentary;

Why is it not possible for Israel, for Jews to act for their own national wellbeing without justifying themselves to American, to the other nations? Why is it not possible for Jews to assert, by their actions, our Divine Legacy to what is OURS — Eretz Yisrael? MB

Excerpts;

If the Americans want to know what will happen if their foreign policy fantasists take charge of their affairs, they have only to cast a glance at what is happening in Israel today. Because in Israel, the fantasists are firmly in charge of policy. With the twin goals of fostering peace and enhancing Israel’s international standing, Israel’s fantasist leaders are driving the country to the outer reaches of La La Land.

In the name of peace, the Olmert government is conducting semi-secret negotiations with Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas. According to press reports Olmert and his colleagues are offering Abbas 92 percent of Judea and Samaria, the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, and land in the Negev which will connect Gaza to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. Furthermore, according to press reports, the Olmert government is willing to accept Israeli responsibility for the fate of the Arabs who left Israel in 1948 and for their descendants. What this means in the real world is that Israel is seeking to extend Iran’s control over Gaza to Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and then to fill these Iranian enclaves with hostile foreign Arabs.

In the interests of enhancing Israel’s international cache, Israel is courting the UN which in the Olmert government’s fantasy world is Israel’s friend. To foster good relations, Sunday the government endorsed the extension of UNIFIL’s mandate in south Lebanon despite the fact that UNIFIL’s 13,000 soldiers did nothing to prevent Hezbollah’s rearmament and reassertion of control over Lebanon’s border with Israel over the past year.

On November 29, the government is planning to have Israel’s parliamentarians reenact the General Assembly’s decision to partition the Land of Israel on November 29, 1947 and so promote the fiction that Israel owes its existence to the UN. The government has asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to preside over the session.

In the real world, the UN is a hostile institution controlled by tyrannies that works actively to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist. To this end, next week, the UN will convene two anti-Israel forums in Europe. First, the European Parliament will host an anti-Israel hate fest sponsored by the UN’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.

Second, in Geneva, the UN will convene the first planning session for its second anti-racism conference scheduled to take place in 2009. That the conference will be a reenactment of the anti-Semitic orgy of hatred which took place in Durban, South Africa in 2001 is made clear by the fact that Libya is chairing the planning session. Iran, Cuba and Pakistan are all members of the planning committee.

FANTASIES ARE alluring. Peddling them can even get you elected. But the majority of Americans who reject fantasy as a basis for making real world decisions should take heed of Israel’s example.

That example shows that despite the fantasists’ fervent efforts to smother it, reality never goes away. Sooner or later, it mugs you. Sometimes, all it does is pick your pocket. But the longer you ignore it, the more dangerous it becomes.