Saturday, March 03, 2012

Once Upon a Time there was an Adorable Little Country named Israel

Once Upon a Time there was an Adorable Little Country named Israel
By Steven Plaut


Once upon a time there was an adorable little country named
Israel. It was a unique country of Jews. It was a thriving young
country. The adorable little country also had a government,
consisting only of the wisest of leaders.

Then, soon after it was born, those wise leaders of Israel granted
the right to hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees, later calling
themselves "Palestinians" to return to live within the borders of
Israel from the neighboring countries to which they had fled during
the War of Independence. And so the portion of the country's
population composed of Jews declined.

After the Six Day War, large numbers of "Palestinians" living in
the West Bank and Gaza managed to attain the right to live in Israel's
territory from before the war, and other "Palestinians" were granted
to right to move into the West Bank and Gaza from other places where
they had been living. And so the portion of the country's population
composed of Jews declined.

Later the wise leaders of the country granted Vietnamese "boat
people," ethnic Chinese refugees escaping Vietnam after the communist
takeover, the right to live in the country. After all, said the wise
leaders, who knows better than the Jews the tribulations of being a
refugee. And so the portion of the country's population composed of
Jews declined.

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, the wise leaders of the
country granted some Lebanese the right to escape their strife-torn
country and move to Israel. And so the portion of the population
composed of Jews declined. Later the members of the Southern Lebanese
Army, after Israel under Ehud Barak betrayed them and abandoned them
to their fates in Lebanon, were granted the right to live in Israel.
And so the portion of the country's population composed of Jews
declined. When civil war tore Bosnia to smithereens, the wise leaders
offered some of the Bosnians refuge in the adorable country, including
Bosnian Moslems. And so the portion of the country's population
composed of Jews declined.

When things got tough in the Sudan and Sudanese of different
creeds and races were massacring one another, the wise leaders of the
country granted huge numbers of them the right to move to Israel. The
wise leaders tuned a blind eye, as countless thousands slipped across
the unguarded border of the adorable country to make their homes in
Israel. They of course had to pass through Egypt to reach Israel, and
no one was murdering them in Egypt, but they were allowed into Israel
anyway. And so the portion of the country's population composed of
Jews declined. When other African learned of the deal, thousands of
them joined in the trek to the adorable country, sometimes pretending
to be Sudanese. And so the portion of the population composed of Jews
declined.

When Bashar Asad started massacring his own people in the last
months before his regime fell, tens of thousands of Syrians were
allowed to enter the adorable country on grounds that this was the
humane thing to do, and that a country of Jews could not turn its back
to refugees escaping tyranny and seeking safety. Israel became the
largest home for Alawis in the world. When there were proposals later
to repatriate the Alawis back to Syria, the adorable country's poets,
writers, journalists and professors all objected. How can Israel
expel Alawi CHILDREN? they moaned. These innocent children had lived
for years as Israelis and knew no other life. It would be inhuman to
deport them, almost as inhuman as were similar efforts earlier to
deport the Sudanese. And so the portion of the country's population
composed of Jews declined.

When the Iranian regime was annihilated in Operation Alexander,
with American, NATO, and other allied forces destroying the country's
nuclear stockpiles and liquidating the Islamofascist ruling class
there, hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians trekked across the
deserts to demand refuge and warm beds in Israel. The wise leaders of
the Jewish state insisted that no Jew could turn down the pathetic
sufferers. And so the portion of the country's population composed
of Jews declined.

When the North Korean regime was overturned in a bloody revolt
and civil war, millions of starving refugees arrived by the ship-full
at the ports of the adorable Jewish state. We demand to be allowed to
enter, they wailed. They were joined by millions more Tibetans,
escaping the ethnic cleansing that the Chinese regime was implementing
against them. Along with them came hundreds of thousands of Kurds
escaping oppression, myriads more Burmese, Congo-ese by the bus load,
Greeks escaping the enormous taxes implemented to extract that country
from bankruptcy, Gypsies from all over Europe, and the entire
population of Moldova.

And after helping so many groups of people, after absorbing so
many sets of refugees, after solving so many of the world's problems,
there were no longer any wise leaders to govern the adorable little
state. Because the adorable little state had ceased to exist
altogether. It had humanitarian-ized itself into oblivion.






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