Egozi’s Fury – The Bomb Mahmoud Abbas Dropped Only In Israel

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The headlines in Israel cried out “Abu Mazen has dropped a bomb”. If anyone needs any further proof of the strictly coincidental connection between headlines and reality, there it is. Abu Mazen has dropped no bomb. He didn’t throw a grenade either, nor lit a firecracker.

What he basically said was that he is no longer obligated to any agreement with Israel. So what? Thanks to the agreements with Israel and the security coordination with it, he still gets to think of himself as the president of the Palestinian National Authority.

Without Israeli assistance, both in the open and in secret, he would have lost his positions ages ago. So the speech managed to create headlines, but their connection to reality isn’t even slim. It isn’t even virtual reality, it is just divorced of reality of any kind.

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The United States has never been this weak. Russia continues to attack Syria and isn’t even giving the US a sideway glance. Putin must have smiled when he heard the American Government’s protests against this Russian audacity. He hasn’t been bothered with the Americans in the international rink for a long time now. He was among the first to realize that the US, led by President Obama, has lost its power to affect international play. Russia has entered the empty space created and is strutting along our region as if it were its own.

What does it say on the “strategic alliance” between us and the US? You judge for yourselves.

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And back to the Palestinians. There was quite a commotion near the UN building in New-York when a Palestinian flag was raised near its headquarters last week.

While it is true that this as well is merely a symbolic act which will do nothing to get the Palestinians out of the deep mud they are in, it is also proof that Israel has no foreign policy whatsoever.

Once, in Jerusalem, that was a ministry for foreign affairs that delineated a policy. For some year now, however, what is being referred to as Israel’s foreign policy is being managed, or not managed, from the Prime Minister’s chambers. There is no policy, no guidelines. It’s all spur of the moment acts which made the world grow tired of Israel.

So no wonder so many representatives of states stood next to the high flagpole which raised the Palestinian flag.

But Jerusalem continues to be thick and confident that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN general assembly or the congress every few months can substitute for a clear foreign policy. Well, it can’t. Israel has lost what little credit it still had, even among friendly countries.

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We tend to have a short memory, but whoever is following can see the bluff. Only a few days ago, government ministers declared a stern reaction against throwers of rocks, boulders and Molotov bottles in Jerusalem and around it. Some even did it standing in front of a “combat” background, speaking with dramatic decisiveness.

There were declarations of eradicating the phenomenon even by using means such as shooting with sniper rifles.

So there were declarations, but in the field – nada, nothing. All empty words. No deterrence. If words were backed up with actions, then instead of throwing stones and Molotov bottles, the Palestinians would have thrown candy, but again – all talk.

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It was pretty obvious that Netanyahu’s speech at the UN assembly would be mostly gimmicks. This time it was long silences that no one, not in the hall nor outside it, understood their meaning.

So, as expected, there was a gimmick and there was also a lesson in the history of the Israeli people and a few other mantras that we’ve all heard dozens of times. Even the articulated English and silences couldn’t hide the fact that the speech had no real substance.

How many times can you threaten Iran? How many times can you pledge that “I’m willing to sit down with Abu Mazen as soon as tomorrow?”

But what is most annoying, other than this lack of any real substance, is the assumption behind such speech – that the citizens of Israel are idiots and will be impressed with repeating this nothing, which has already been repeated so many times it is practically ground to dust.

And only a few hours after this speech of silence, a couple was murdered in Samaria. Instead of wasting time on needlessly going to speak in front of the UN, Netanyahu is better off establishing a war room from where he will personally manage the war against this murderous Intifada. Until now his declarations had nothing much to them.