One of the remarkable feats of modern man was essayed last week during Vice President Biden’s lopsidedly reported visit to Israel.
After combing America’s leading newspapers through their daily lopsided reportage of Mr. Biden’s pointless trip, I conclude the following:
My wife and I are the only known earthlings who believe it was not insulting to Mr. Biden for Israel to announce, as he arrived, that it approved 1,600 new housing units for the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.
Seldom has the paucity of the liberal message been on more luminous display than when the erudite Mr. Biden repeatedly daily for cameras and print reporters: “I am embarrassed.”
What embarrassed you, Mr. Vice President?
“The substance and timing of the announcement, particularly with the launching of proximity talks, is precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now and runs counter to the constructive discussions that I’ve had here in Israel.”
Mr. Vice President, I have news for you. This is Israel, Land of the Jews, the heart of the Jewish state sanctioned by the United Nations 62 years ago. This is not the artificial state of Jordan, the artificial state of Lebanon or the terrorist state of Syria. This is not Chicago’s South Side, where you may have some jurisdiction. Or the Gaza Strip, where Arabs have what they were ordered to wish for, a Jewish-free state. Please do not visit Israel, as a guest, and assert that you are embarrassed.
What lazy and sometimes lying journalists have deliberately withheld about the context of the Biden-to-Israel story is infuriating to fair-minded persons:
Ramat Shlomo is an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood at the center of the capital of the only Jewish state in the world.
Could there possibly be a more legitimate reason for Jews to build there?
Let us turn to Washington correspondent Paulie Richter of the Los Angeles Times. Paulie holds Jews in the same contempt as gangbangers and whores who hike their prices after the deed has been done.
Paulie also does not get out of Washington much. This may explain why he reportedly clapped his hands throughout last week’s dozen-hour Washington press corps flight to Tel Aviv.
Consider several amazing facts in his regrettable reportage:
From last Tuesday on, Mr. Richter, not known for his thoroughness or ability to innovate, reminded Times readers in subsequent stories how keenly Mr. Biden had been “insulted” by the heartless Jewish government.
Eh, what?
Why was he insulted, Mr. Richter? He never quite told us. He just repeated his one-note narrative to nauseous lengths, finding only Palestinians and non-Arabs from the left who routinely whack Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, as if he were a toy drum.
Take This Test, Pal
For an exactly precise analogy, imagine Mayor I Love Me of Los Angeles, who is of Mexican descent, visiting Beverly Hills on the same day a developer announces he is building 1,600 new housing units on North Camden Drive for Anglo occupancy only.
Which response is sillier — That Mayor I Love Me was culturally insulted? Or that only esteemed Anglos will be allowed to live on said property? I choose the latter.
Kindly apply the identical litmus tests to Jerusalem, remembering that when historic Palestine was divided between Arabs and Jews in 1948 by the United Nations, Arabs received the far, far larger slice of The Land. Jerusalem, like all other cities on earth, was to be under a single jurisdiction, the Jewish government running the new Jewish state, as of May 14.
By the darnedest coincidence, five Arab armies invaded Israel on that morning, claiming the whole land was theirs.
These same criminals have been terrorizing Jews via guerrilla warfare every single day since, without one hour of relief. While the Arab terrorists lost the war, they did capture a portion of Jerusalem, which they held until 1967 when they lost their next major war.
By the further darnedest coincidence, the Arab terrorists held the still imprisoned wretched Arab masses captive because they wanted, and still want, all of Israel. This is not speculative. It is stated daily by the Arab/Muslim leadership.
If you are a reasonably normal, moderately moral person, you may believe, as I do, that Middle Eastern Arabs, historically a culture of seething hate, are being astonishingly self-defeating when they vow they will not live side by side with Jews.
21 Against 1 — Now That is Fair
Twenty-one Arab states — some recently formed, some older — encircle Israel the way Wild West gunslingers used to surround their hapless victims.
The radically corrupt concept of Arabs refusing to live by Jews in Israel (or elsewhere) is virtually never examined by Western journalists, who combine luxurious laziness, startling incuriosity and a measure of bigotry.
Mr. Richter was blatantly guilty of the unforgivable journalistic crime of overtly and covertly ignoring context, the rich fabric of history.
Mr. Richter, like the rest of his Western colleagues, repeats the lies of his predecessors, characterizing the red flagged section of Israel’s capital as “traditionally Arab East Jerusalem.”
It is a damnable lie, as the reporter surely knows.
Mr. Richter has refused to contextually identify Ramat Shlomo, the targeted neighborhood, as an Orthodox enclave, home to more than 20,000 religious Jews.
I have one final question for you, Mr. Richter:
What is insulting about adding 1600 homes to a religious neighborhood already home to tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews?
