Prof. Paul Eidelberg
The High Priest of Oslo—President Shimon Peres—has spoken. Hear his words and be instructed. This is the same Peres who, as Israel’s very Foreign Minister, applied for Israel’s membership in the Arab League. Ponder well the mental disorder of Israel’s President, for his disorder permeates the State of Israel from top to bottom. It’s not just a passing fool who proclaimed from Jerusalem that peace is a commandment of the Bible.
When I spoke to him back in September 1976, I discerned that Israel’s then Defense Minister was not only a fool but also a most dangerous one. I was not alone in this assessment. In the memoirs of Moshe Sharrett, published in 1957, the former Israeli Prime Minister publicly declared: “I have stated that I totally and utterly reject Peres and consider his rise to prominence a malignant, immoral disgrace. I will rend my clothes in mourning for the State if I see him become a minister in the Israeli government.”
Alas, Mr. Peres is Israel’s president, which Moshe Sharrett would surely have deemed a national disgrace. But what telling evidence is there of this disgrace, since the Knesset elected Peres president and goes on day after day obscuring the unspeakable crime of Oslo of which he is the chief author? And what is more, no prime minister of Israel dares speak of this crime. The house of cards would collapse.
It thus appears that the State of Israel is entrapped in mendacity. This may well be a meta-political (but unintended) reason why the mendacious Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
Be this as it may, mendacity readily leads to stupidity, such as Mr. Peres’ remark that peace is a commandment of the Bible. Obviously this is not the Bible with which King David, author of Psalms, was familiar, the king who said: “I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and returned not until they were destroyed. I crushed them so that they are not able to rise; …. I pulverized them like dust in the face of the storm …” (Psalms 18:38-43).
This is precisely what King David would have done to the Palestinians, who find in Shimon Peres their savior, a man shielded by the Knesset, none of whose Jewish members—in the words of Moshe Sharrett—would rend his clothes in mourning for the State of Israel.◙
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