Israel is Not the 51st State

It almost defies comprehension. Recently Israel announced its “Heritage Plan” to preserve sites central to Judaism and Jewish history and to ensure that young Israelis learn about their importance to the Jewish people. Amazingly, insultingly, President Obama’s freak-on-a-lease Hillary Clinton actually attacked this, a rather outrageous step even for this decidedly anti-Israel administration.

Why does America think that it owns Israel? More to the point, why does it think that it owns Jews and Judaism, that it can dictate terms on everything small and large regarding Israel and the Jewish people.

The plan approved by the Israeli government provides funding to maintain historical Jewish sites and to integrate them in the education of young Israeli Jews. This clearly has nothing to do with “deepening the Israeli hold over the West Bank”, as some of the plan’s opponents claim (though there wouldn’t be a thing wrong if it did).

The criticism from the West, including from Hillary, is really targeted at Judaism and Jewish history with the aim at severing it from its origins. Orthodoxy, Jewish history, and Jewish nationalism are all negations of the interests of the Neo-Marxist bunch in DC.

True cultural uniqueness, whether it be Jewish or from some other ethnic or religious group, per se cannot be tolerated by people who want to portray all peoples as agreeing with their “progressive” post-modernist values.
That is the true nature of Hillary’s objection to the Heritage Plan: Jewish heritage per se bothers Hillary, all the more so heritage which defies her efforts to force a two-state solution on Israel.