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May 26, 2011
Waiting for the Miracle to Come
By <http://www.americanthinker.com/pamela_geller/> Pamela Geller
For those of you waiting for the miracle to come, I am here to tell you that
it is here. The events of the last week were stunning. This week, the home
team scored big in the face of overwhelming odds.
The week started out looking bleak. In general, the world is marching to
war against "the little Jew who wrote the Bible," as the poet and songwriter
Leonard Cohen wryly put it in his song "The Future." "Waiting for the
Miracle" is another one of his songs, and a miracle might be what has to
save the free world at this point. The world is marching against freedom,
against the West. Those of us who are married to this work, to the fight,
have chronicled the play-by-play on the road to Armageddon. We have been
confounded by the apathy exhibited by good, decent folks in the face of this
naked evil. It has been one blow after another here in America and across
the world.
Many believe that it will take mass death to rouse the good people in the
world to action. Many think that this is simply the human condition. It
was this way with Hitler. Everyone knew what he was and what he was saying.
Just as today, they know what Ahmadinejad is saying, and what Sheikh Yusuf
al-Qaradawi is saying, and Anwar al-Awlaki, and Ibrahim Hooper, and Imam
Feisal Abdul Rauf...
Everyone knew what Hitler was, and still many people loved him until he
stopped winning. What did it take to wake up the good folk? Mass death.
By the millions.
And that is coming.
But not this week, although it looked for awhile as if this would not be a
good moment for freedom fighters. In an act of diabolical calculation,
Barack Hussein Obama dropped a bomb on Benjamin Netanyahu right before the
Prime Minister of Israel was scheduled to speak before the joint session of
Congress at the invitation of the Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
Obama announced a proposed return to the "Auschwitz borders," Israel's 1967
borders that were at one point only nine miles wide. Wipe out. And so the
real story of the week, the unity government that Hamas and Fatah began
forming, was obliterated and disappeared from the national dialogue.
Instead, the Prime Minister of our strongest, most unflappable ally in the
Middle East was boxed in. He had to defend his tiny nation; he had to
rebuke the Nazi-like comments of the President.
And so he did, brilliantly. And in doing so, he was the object of scorn and
derision from the leftwing media here and abroad -- not to mention the
flapping tongues of the chattering class. They thought that Obama had
masterfully outfoxed our friend. But not so fast. The expectation of the
media elite and those who think they know better was that Benjamin Netanyahu
would praise Obama to the skies when he spoke Monday at the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Obama had opened the door to this in his
remarks the day before at AIPAC. He doubled down, but spouted just enough
rhetoric about "ironclad" relationships and so forth that it would have been
bad form for Netanyahu not to pay tribute.
But he didn't. Instead, he made a damn fine speech and retained his
dignity, his principles, and his moral edge. And that was just the opening
act. On Tuesday, he spoke to the joint session in Congress, and his speech
was a triumph. Fifty-six times. That's how many times the Congress
cheered, applauded, and/or stood up for Benjamin Netanyahu. This kind of
reception is reserved for a much-loved president of...the United States. He
was welcomed with a standing ovation and over three minutes of thunderous
applause.
And he did not disappoint. Netanyahu was brilliant.
This was history. Unforgettable.
"Israel has no better friend than America and America has no better friend
than Israel," Netanyahu said. The two countries "stand together, to defend
democracy, to advance peace and to fight terrorism."
His speech was very strong. He did not downplay the disagreements, but
discussed them forthrightly and was met with thunderous applause.
"Israel," he said, "is the only country that has guaranteed freedom of all
faiths in Jerusalem, which must remain undivided." He went to say that
Hamas not a partner for peace. Israel will not, he said, "negotiate with a
Palestinian government, which is backed by a Palestinian version of
al-Qaida." Its charter calls for killing of Jews; he said he was "willing
to make far-reaching compromises," but under any pragmatic deal, strategic
sites must be incorporated into final borders.
There is no need for the United States to send troops to Israel because "we
defend ourselves," Netanyahu said. He spoke "about the great convulsion
taking place in the Middle East" in his opening remarks and said that the
"ground is still shifting" and that the uprisings in the Muslim countries
represent people's demands for liberty -- but like 1979 Iran, the outcomes
were in question.
He said that of 300 million Arabs, the only ones who are "truly free" are
citizens of Israel. "Israel gives equal rights to all her citizens, even
those who once fought against her, and even to those who work against her
even at present -- and announce publicly that they do so. There is no Arab
or Muslim country in the world whose citizens have the freedom that Israel's
Arabs have. There is one country in the Middle East where they enjoy
freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press -- Israel."
After one person got through the layers of security and tried to heckle the
Prime Minister, Netanyahu said that the United States is a "real democracy,"
unlike the "farcical" regimes of Tehran and Tripoli (it was delicious).
He also chided in a jokesy fashion that America was bigger than the beltway,
alluding to the overwhelming support Israel has among the American people.
In a moment reminiscent of Reagan's "tear down that wall," the Prime
Minister spoke directly to Abbas, urging him to "tear up that agreement"
with Hamas. It was very powerful, but then again, the whole thing was.
This will be remembered for decades, centuries. Obama's smackdown had
united the American people behind Israel. And while Obama was writing the
wrong year while signing the guest book on his European campaign tour, and
Obama's car
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5icV_mctrkE&feature=player_embedded> ,
appropriately named "the Beast," got caught between the sidewalk and a hard
place, and Obama had his awkward moment while reading his toast
<http://www.breitbart.tv/awkward-moment-in-obamas-toast-to-the-queen/> to
the Queen off index cards, Netanyahu was comforting the victims of the
tornado in Joplin, Missouri and showing America and the world what a real
leader looks like and sounds like, in word and in deed.
Yes, for those waiting for the miracle, we had it in abundance.
This week, anyway. But as Leonard Cohen says, "get ready for the future.
It is murder."
Pamela Geller is the editor and publisher of the
<http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/> Atlas Shrugs website and former
associate publisher of the New York Observer. She is the author of
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439189307?tag=atlasshrugs-20&camp=14573&creative=
327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1439189307&adid=1C6TN7J5GTC47KSBTNMZ&> The
Post-American Presidency.
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