Christian social workers come to visit. They say: “Stand firm, this is your home, stand up for your rights”. Sadly they seem to be more protective of the homeland than the World’s Jew himself, who continues to turn the other cheek with more self-blame, appeasement and ever greater concessions.
Perhaps, like most mixed-up Jewish boys with low self-esteem, the World’s Jew will eventually wind up on the analyst’s couch. If so, it would seem the therapy needs to be an intensive course of Assertiveness Training.
Let’s start with our existence. We must stop apologizing for it. We do not need 100 million mostly illiterate Arabs to confirm that we exist. Perhaps the very fact that there is hardly a week in which our tiny country is absent from world headlines, is proof positive that we exist; and in a very big way. We need to assert that we are the Children of Israel and that we will never leave our God-given land. We need to declare that we alone shall determine our security needs and safe borders; not the US, the UN or the EU. So long as the US state department gives support and weaponry to Saudi sponsors of terror, it loses credibility as Israel’s ally. So long as the British foreign secretary depends on Moslem votes to keep his own seat in parliament, he has no business mapping Israel’s borders with neighbours sworn to its destruction. So long as the French government fails to protect Jews in Paris (with its own police afraid to venture into the city’s no-go Moslem neighbourhoods) France has no place in a Quartet that seeks a veto on Israel’s security needs. As for the UN club for dictators and despots, so long as its members brand Zionism as racism, it should not expect the World’s Jew to heed any of its resolutions.
In terms of self-esteem, the World’s Jew can hold his head high. Israel has created the most amazing phenomenon in the history of the world: an ingathering of exiles after 2,000 years to their biblical homeland. What the Arabs were content to leave as dunes and dunghills for a millennium, Israel has in 50 years transformed into world-beating cities and powerhouses of industry and high technology. We have the most versatile army, the sharpest airmen and the brightest generals. Our forces have mastered the art of striking terrorist leaders with deadly precision and, if given a free hand, they would take them all out. Against this background of achievement under mortal challenge, Israel has managed to create and nurture an oasis of democracy within a vast continent of Arab tyranny. Israeli Arabs and their womenfolk enjoy more rights and privileges than their brothers and sisters in any Arab country.
The World’s Jew needs to cast off his feelings of insecurity and start asserting his rights. This process starts with the US. Uncle Sam is loved in Israel and respected as an ally and benefactor. But he should no longer dictate what we do, where we go and how long we stay out at night. The billions he has paid for our upbringing as a state and continues to provide in annual aid are but a tiny fraction of the amount by which Jews have enriched the United States. In Hollywood alone, the Jewish founders of the movie industry created more American wealth than Israel will use up in aid for many generations to come. There should not therefore be any more existential strings attached to US aid. General Alexander Haig once described Israel as the largest American aircraft carrier in the world. We are content to remain in that role, but we prefer the relationship to be based on mutual respect and a shared love of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
