Realpolitik and Israel’s 60th

Posted on May 9, 2008
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Yesterday, Israel celebrated its 60th year of independence. In spite of being surrounded by murderous forces that never ceased to plot its destruction, the Zionist Entity managed to excel in the fields of science making advancements in medicine, computer technologies, agriculture, etc, etc. All the while its more numerous, resource rich neighbors, produced very little in any of those fields. The eradication of Israel was obviously a bigger priority in their lives… Yet, against all odds, they did not succeed. That anomaly of history, the ancient Jew that refuses to die is here to stay and will again outlast its sworn enemies!

The US has historically been Israel’s best friend… but… at what cost? Writing in The Washington Post, Richard Holbrooke speaks thus, of Israel’s recognition by the US:

In the celebrations next week surrounding Israel’s 60th anniversary, it should not be forgotten that there was an epic struggle in Washington over how to respond to Israel’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. It led to the most serious disagreement President Harry Truman ever had with his revered secretary of state, George C. Marshall — and with most of the foreign policy establishment. Twenty years ago, when I was helping Clark Clifford write his memoirs, I reviewed the historical record and interviewed all the living participants in that drama. The battle lines drawn then resonate still.

The British planned to leave Palestine at midnight on May 14. At that moment, the Jewish Agency, led by David Ben-Gurion, would proclaim the new (and still unnamed) Jewish state. The neighboring Arab states warned that fighting, which had already begun, would erupt into full-scale war at that moment.

The Jewish Agency proposed partitioning Palestine into two parts — one Jewish, one Arab. But the State and Defense departments backed the British plan to turn Palestine over to the United Nations. In March, Truman privately promised Chaim Weizmann, the future president of Israel, that he would support partition — only to learn the next day that the American ambassador to the United Nations had voted for U.N. trusteeship. Enraged, Truman wrote a private note on his calendar: “The State Dept. pulled the rug from under me today. The first I know about it is what I read in the newspapers! Isn’t that hell? I’m now in the position of a liar and double-crosser. I’ve never felt so low in my life. . . .”

Truman blamed “third and fourth level” State Department officials — especially the director of U.N. affairs, Dean Rusk, and the agency’s counselor, Charles Bohlen. But opposition really came from an even more formidable group: the “wise men” who were simultaneously creating the great Truman foreign policy of the late 1940s — among them Marshall, James V. Forrestal, George F. Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. To overrule State would mean Truman taking on Marshall, whom he regarded as “the greatest living American,” a daunting task for a very unpopular president.

Beneath the surface lay unspoken but real anti-Semitism on the part of some (but not all) policymakers. The position of those opposing recognition was simple — oil, numbers and history. “There are thirty million Arabs on one side and about 600,000 Jews on the other,” Defense Secretary Forrestal told Clifford. “Why don’t you face up to the realities?”

Beneath the surface lay unspoken but real anti-Semitism… Even after the recent Holocaust, the good ole boys network at Foggy Bottom still were imbued with antisemitism and probably regretted Hitler’s failure to finish the job he started. In all fairness, however, by the normal rules of history, anyone could have predicted that 600,000 against 30,000,000 was a somewhat uneven match… 60 years later those 600,000 have become 5 million plus! As usual, the practitioners of Realpolitik underestimated the Jews while they overestimated their Islamist paymasters.

The Jewish Agency proposed partitioning Palestine into two parts — one Jewish, one Arab… In March, Truman privately promised Chaim Weizmann, the future president of Israel, that he would support partition — only to learn the next day that the American ambassador to the United Nations had voted for U.N. trusteeship. President Truman, against the advice of his state department was ready to recognize the Zionist Entity that had on paper been recognized by the British in 1917 and the League of Nations in 1922. Dem Jooz were ready for two independent (Jewish and Arab) states, the Arabs were not! If the “Palestinians” truly wanted their own sovereign country, they could have had it in 1948, without shedding one drop of blood. Peace with Israel was never their goal!!!!

On May 12, Truman held a meeting in the Oval Office to decide the issue. Marshall and his universally respected deputy, Robert Lovett, made the case for delaying recognition — and “delay” really meant “deny.” Truman asked his young aide, Clark Clifford, to present the case for immediate recognition. When Clifford finished, Marshall, uncharacteristically, exploded. “I don’t even know why Clifford is here. He is a domestic adviser, and this is a foreign policy matter. The only reason Clifford is here is that he is pressing a political consideration.”

Marshall then uttered what Clifford would later call “the most remarkable threat I ever heard anyone make directly to a President.” In an unusual top-secret memorandum Marshall wrote for the historical files after the meeting, the great general recorded his own words: “I said bluntly that if the President were to follow Mr. Clifford’s advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the President.”

After this stunning moment, the meeting adjourned in disarray. In the next two days, Clifford looked for ways to get Marshall to accept recognition. Lovett, although still opposed to recognition, finally talked a reluctant Marshall into remaining silent if Truman acted. With only a few hours left until midnight in Tel Aviv, Clifford told the Jewish Agency to request immediate recognition of the new state, which still lacked a name. Truman announced recognition at 6:11 p.m. on May 14 — 11 minutes after Ben-Gurion’s declaration of independence in Tel Aviv. So rapidly was this done that in the official announcement, the typed words “Jewish State” are crossed out, replaced in Clifford’s handwriting with “State of Israel.” Thus the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, as Truman and Clifford wanted. The secret of the Oval Office confrontation held for years, and a crisis in both domestic politics and foreign policy was narrowly averted.

…this is a foreign policy matter. The only reason Clifford is here is that he is pressing a political consideration. And I suppose Secretary of State, Marshall “delay”, wasn’t a political consideration?!?!? Arab oil had nothing to do with it?!?!? Was he, then, confessing an inbred hatred for dem Jooz?

Clifford insisted to me and others in countless discussions over the next 40 years that politics was not at the root of his position — moral conviction was. Noting sharp divisions within the American Jewish community — the substantial anti-Zionist faction among leading Jews included the publishers of both The Post and the New York Times — Clifford had told Truman in his famous 1947 blueprint for Truman’s presidential campaign that “a continued commitment to liberal political and economic policies” was the key to Jewish support.

But to this day, many think that Marshall and Lovett were right on the merits and that domestic politics was the real reason for Truman’s decision. Israel, they argue, has been nothing but trouble for the United States.

I think this misses the point. Israel was going to come into existence whether or not Washington recognized it. But without American support from the very beginning, Israel’s survival would have been at even greater risk. Even if European Jewry had not just emerged from the horrors of World War II, it would have been an unthinkable act of abandonment by the United States. Truman’s decision, although opposed by almost the entire foreign policy establishment, was the right one — and despite complicated consequences that continue to this day, it is a decision all Americans should recognize and admire.

Gentle reader, there was a time, there were occasions, when moral positions actually won out. That was around the same time that America was most highly regarded around the world. That was before State’s unrealistic practitioners of Realpolitik slowly created and abated today’s IslamoFascism.

How did the US continue its policy towards Israel? More often than not and unto this day the Realpolitik practitioners continued their disastrous policies. I’ll give only a few notable examples.

Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower was often swayed by ARAMCO (Arabian American Oil Company) as to what his policy vis-a-vis Israel should be… and let’s face it, gentle reader, ARAMCO’s vested interest lay not with the Zionist Entity.

Henry Kissinger, a Jew, was Secretary of State under Richard Nixon. Although Nixon, had a somewhat visceral dislike of dem Jooz, ( remember his calling Kissinger Jewboy?) he did more for Israel than any American president. Kissinger was very reluctant about helping Israel with needed weaponry to defend itself after being attacked by Egyptian and Syrian forces during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It was General Alexander Haig, who secretly arranged for the first of what was to become the biggest American series of military airlifts in history. Kissinger eventually acquiesced, but forced Israel to abandon its ambitious plans of totally destroying the enemy armies, by giving it an ultimatum when the Zionist Entity only had enough ammunition left for a mere 48 hours of fighting.

James “F… the Jews” Baker was instrumental in President Bush Sr. reneging on his promise of loan guarantees after Israel did its part as promised, after Israel made all the concessions the Americans had exacted on behalf of the “Palestinians.” To this day his influence is still felt in Washington. Remember his infamous gratuitous insertion of the line linking the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to the problem in Iraq?!? Remember his proposition of having a regional conference about Israel, minus the Zionist Entity (of course!)?

General Colin Powell, current President Bush’s first Secretary of State refused to acknowledge that terrorism in Israel was no different than terrorism by the same class of IslamoFascists in New York, Pennsylvania or Washington DC. Of course, his judgement was hampered by Foggy Bottom’s Arabist Realpolitik practitioners.

Some of these Arabists were even Jews, notably Daniel C. Kurtzer – US Ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005 – whose doctoral thesis at Columbia claimed that the creation of the State of Israel was a mistake. No doubt, such a thesis found him a welcome home at Foggy Bottom and allowed him to rise fast in his career.
As well as his predecessor Martin Indyk, also a Jew, he often intervened unfairly in Israel’s internal politics.

Current Secretary of State, the once brilliant Dr. Condoleeza Rice, was seen by many as the one who would finally clean up Foggy Bottom from the pernicious influence of Royal House of Saud’s Chief Consigliere James “F… the Jews” Baker and his toadies. Instead, she herself fell under their sway. Prior to the Annapolis Conference, she consulted heavily with the likes of Joo lovers like James Baker and Jimmy Carter. One can only wonder what emoluments (present or future!) cloud her once truly brilliant mind…

Examples abound and to list them all would be impossible in the scope of this post. The point, however, is that Israel at 60 – in spite of never having known a moment of true peace – has accomplished more for its denizens and the rest of the world than all the Islamic countries combined! And yes, gentle reader, Israel will still be around long after Foggy Bottom’s unrealistic Realpolitik will be universally despised and denounced for the disastrous policies it wrought upon the free world. And Israel will still be around for a long time in spite of the strong ghetto mentality that seems to pervade in Israel’s government circles these days.