From: jesus475073@webtv.net   
      
   Dear U.S. Jews, please don't let Netanyahu deceive you Don't be more   
   patriotic than we are. Don't do us any favors. It's our blood we're   
   talking about.   
   By Yossi Sarid Haaretz.com   
      
   What follows is an emotional and perhaps late appeal to Israel's friends   
   in America, particularly the Jews among them, who see themselves as   
   people looking out for own welfare. Don't bring us ill instead of good.   
   Don't let Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor   
   Lieberman deceive you.   
      
     This appeal is being directed to those friends who can still think   
   for themselves and demonstrate responsibility when it comes to us. Don't   
   submerge yourselves in the flood of nationalist-religious history that   
   is currently washing over us. Don't confuse governments that come and go   
   with the state, which must always remain.   
     The Jews of New York's 9th Congressional district certainly   
   thought they were doing a good thing for us when they voted in a new   
   Republican congressman to replace Democrat Anthony Weiner. In the   
   process, the voters also sent a blunt message to the White House:   
   Beware, Barack Hussein Obama, of our retribution.   
      
     And in his fright, the president is already prepared to restrain   
   himself when it comes to continued West Bank Jewish settlement   
   construction. This is not necessarily a matter of turning a blind eye,   
   but rather of doing it with eyes wide open.   
      
     Netanyahu is mounting a rearguard action, the catastrophic results   
   of which are known in advance, and there is no good reason to join ranks   
   with him. He is returning this week to the site of his past glory days   
   at the United Nations, to renew those days of yore. Those days, however,   
   are history, much like his past glory.   
      
     You, Jews who are both warm and hot under the collar, are working   
   against Israel's interests as well as against the interests of America,   
   your homeland, which is now seen in its full isolation and hypocrisy:   
   All of the people in our region are accorded the democratic right to   
   rise up against tyranny, everyone except the Palestinians, who have   
   suffered not from a home-grown tyrant, but from a foreign occupier, and   
   the end of the occupation is not in sight after 44 years.   
      
     All rulers have been accorded a right of refusal in the face of   
   arbitrary American dictates. It's reserved first of all to Netanyahu,   
   but not to that forlorn Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, whose ways   
   are ways of dialogue.   
      
     Of all people, it is he who is denounced for his justifiable   
   opposition to preconditions, and there are no conditions more prior than   
   facts on the ground. It has always been argued that the American-Israeli   
   alliance is based on "mutual interests." What those interests are is no   
   longer totally clear.   
      
     Even the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which is   
   one of the most important think tanks in the United States, recently   
   called for a reexamination of Washington's thrall to Jerusalem's every   
   whim.   
      
     The think tank says there should be an effort to make Israel a   
   more "equal partner." Since when does the tail wag the dog, and how much   
   longer will this continue?   
      
     Where are the values the United States and Israel supposedly   
   share, which have long waned? That same think tank is critical of   
   Israel's policy toward the Palestinians, its treatment of minorities and   
   discrimination against Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism.   
      
     "Israel's Jewish population is more nationalistic, religiously   
   conservative, and hawkish on foreign policy and security affairs than   
   that of even a generation ago, and it would be unrecognizable to   
   Israel's founders," a report by the center says.   
      
     So the secret is out. Everyone now knows Israel is not what it   
   once was. It is therefore not interests or values but political survival   
   at all costs that Obama and Netanyahu have in common. But it remains to   
   be seen which is more off-the-wall, our parliament or their Congress.   
      
     None of them will pay the full price of the recklessness and   
   craziness. Not Obama. Not Hillary Clinton. Not Dennis Ross or AIPAC or   
   Chabad in Brooklyn. When the price in blood has to be paid, and it will   
   come soon, it is only we who will pay, as always. So we are telling it   
   straight. Don't be more patriotic than we are. Don't do us any favors.   
   It's our blood we're talking about.   
      
     Haaretz.com   
      
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