Israel's Leftist Losers
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
For thousands of years the Jews dreamed of
reclaiming their country. The left had another
dream.
It dreamed of a country run by bureaucrats that
worked only three days a week. It dreamed of unions
running monopolies that worked whenever they liked
and charged whatever they wanted. It dreamed of
children raised on collective farms without parents
and of government as a Socialist café debate.
Most of all it dreamed of a country without
conservatives. It still hasn’t gotten that wish.
Netanyahu’s victory hit hardest in Tel Aviv where,
as Haaretz, the paper of the left, reports,
“Leftist, secular Tel Aviv went to sleep last night
cautiously optimistic only to wake up this morning
in a state of utter and absolute devastation.”
Tel Aviv is ground zero for any Iranian nuclear
attack. Its population density makes it an obvious
target and Iran threatened it just last month. A
nuclear strike on Tel Aviv would not only kill a lot
of Israelis, it would also wipe out the country’s
left.
Haifa and Tel Aviv are the only major cities in
Israel that the left won in this election. And it
was a close thing in traditionally “Red Haifa” whose
union dockworkers these days are Middle Eastern Jews
who vote right. The left took a quarter of the vote
in Haifa to a fifth for Netanyahu’s conservative
Likud party.
In Tel Aviv however, the Labor coalition and Meretz,
the two major leftist parties, took nearly half of
the vote. Amos Oz’s daughter told Haaretz that
everyone in the left had been upbeat because
everyone they knew was voting for the left. Now the
leftist elite is once again forced to come to terms
with the tragedy that much of the country doesn’t
want to hand over land to terrorists, live on a
communal farm or turn over the country to Marc
Rich’s lawyer and his American backers who make
Slim-Fast and KIND bars.
There are however days when they think Israel might
be better off without certain parts of Tel Aviv.
The left doesn’t want a country. It wants a Berkeley
food co-op. It wants a city with some ugly modernist
architecture. It wants a campus with courses on
media studies and gender in geography. It wants an
arcade where unwashed lefties can tunelessly strum
John Lennon songs on their vintage guitars. It wants
cafes with Russian Futurist prints on the walls. It
wants to be excited about political change. Its only
use for Israel was as a utopian theme park.
Its allegiance was not to Jewish history or
democracy, but to its crackpot leftist fantasies.
Now its fantasies are dead and it wants to kill
Israel.
The left spitefully alienated every immigrant group
from Holocaust survivors to Middle Eastern Jews to
Russian Jews. It also had slurs for each of them.
The Holocaust survivors were ‘Sabon’ (soap) and the
Middle Eastern Jewish refugees were ‘Chakhchakhim’.
That particular slur at an election rally cost Peres
and Labor the 1981 election. Another slur at an
election rally now hurt the left and boosted
Netanyahu. But if you ask the left why it lost, it
will blame Israeli racism.
The Israeli left slurred Middle Eastern Jews as
“primitives” and used them as cheap labor to
maintain the Kibbutz collectivist lifestyle until
they stood up for themselves and the experiment in
‘equality’ ended. It slurred Russian immigrants as
“prostitutes”, Settlers in ’67 Israel as
“bloodsuckers” and Ultra-Orthodox as “parasites”.
Netanyahu’s likely coalition will lean heavily on
parties that draw their support from Middle Eastern
Jews, Settlers, Russian Jews and the Ultra-Orthodox.
These groups are also known as the majority of the
country. That’s why the left lost. Again.
The left wants its clubhouse back and it can’t get
it back. Demographics and immigration turned the
ideal Israeli leftist, a wealthy secular Ashkenazi
urbanite from an important family, into a minority.
The only reason the left still exists is because its
phantom Apartheid State of media outlets, courts and
academics still maintains a death grip on the
system.
The other reason that the Israeli left exists is
that its malicious oppression of new immigrants
splintered them into warring groups, much as the
Democratic Party’s Tammany Hall did in the United
States. The left couldn’t own them, but it did set
them against each other in order to maintain a
dysfunctional political system in which the
strongest form of central authority comes from an
unelected judiciary.
The left hasn’t managed to conquer Israel, but it
has succeeded in dividing it. Every new group of
immigrants has been indoctrinated, not with
allegiance to the left (that was a lost cause early
on) but with resentment of each other. The Russian
Jews are told that they live badly because of the
Ultra-Orthodox Jews. The Middle Eastern Jews are
told that they live badly because of the Russian
Jews. The Ultra-Orthodox are told that they live
badly because of the Settlers. There’s plenty of
overlap between these groups, but the tactic still
works well enough for the left to stay in the game.
The real Apartheid State in Israel is this Deep
State of the left. It’s the one you see on display
when former heads of the Mossad and Shabak denounce
Israel and Netanyahu. It’s in the phony media polls
and exit polls that were skewed in favor of the
left. It’s in the candidacy of a cretin like Herzog
with his high voice and his old guard last name
promising to do whatever Obama and the left tell him
to do. The left tried to sell Herzog, the errand boy
for international leftist criminals like Marc Rich
and Octav Botnar, as the future of Israel. The
public never bought it.
The left has no leadership. It has nothing to offer.
It has no reason to exist except malice and spite.
Since the left lost control of Israel, it has been
hell-bent on destroying it. The PLO deal was one
step in a process meant to destroy Israel and return
to the bi-national state that Ahdut HaAvodah, the
ancestor of the Labor Party, and Ben Gurion had been
flirting with in the twenties and thirties. The
Two-State Solution was always meant to end in a
One-State Solution.
The Israeli left has despaired of turning the
country into the utopia that it wanted. There are
still plenty of bureaucrats and union monopolies,
but children are raised by their parents and most of
them are born to the types of Jews that they hate.
The more philosophical members of the left see the
“peace process” that they illegally initiated and
passed as a cleanup operation that removes the
failed experiment of Israel to make way for the
Muslim “decolonization/ethnic cleansing” of Israel.
They usually have homes in France and tenure in the
US.
And the rest of the Jewish population that doesn’t
have homes in France is meant to become Sabon.
The
remainder had decided that the only hope for the
leftist dream is to unite with their Socialist
comrades in the PLO and build a bi-national state
using Muslim demographics to counter the demographic
growth of Middle Eastern and Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Israel will become Lebanon. The Jews will become the
Lebanese Christian minority in this utopian
experiment and it doesn’t matter if they get killed
as long as some of them go on living in pricey
neighborhoods and strumming guitars in Tel Aviv.
It would be nice to think that the Israeli left was
transformed into this twisted thing by the loss of
its utopian dreams, but it was always like this. It
was never patriotic. It was forced to become
patriotic by the Muslim rejection of all its efforts
at co-existence. It was never Zionist. Zionism was
forced on it by the anti-Semitism of its Russian
Socialist colleagues. It never wanted to be Jewish.
It was forced to be. Muslim hate turned the Israeli
left into the unwilling caretaker of a Jewish State.
G-d kept Israel alive despite the left’s
incompetence, its treasons and its slavish instinct
for appeasement.
Today the left can no longer even pretend that it
has a vision. All it can do is howl about peace and
justice and how the Middle Eastern Jewish Schorim
(blacks) and the Ultra-Orthodox Schorim (also
blacks, for their hats) and the Russians destroyed
‘their’ country. Then it can go back to its French
villas and have its bi-national Muslim state there.