The Preoccupation With Occupation

    Ironically since the Israeli withdraw from Lebanon in 2000, there has been endless banter surrounding the "Occupation," the rallying crying of the secular Jewish left.    The irony being that since the withdraw from Lebanon, Israel has had to fight a subsequent war as a result of the withdraw.  Such was the case when Gaza settlements were evacuated.  How does the Jewish left respond to such catastrophic failures?  They stubbornly pursue the same misguided path.

    Gideon Levy seeks to chock up as many transgressions as he can before the year ends.  The first sentence in his article "Time to poll Israelis on continuing occupation" is the only correct one in his State Of Israel-character assassination:

This charade really has to stop.

Yes Gideon, your charade must stop.  Israel had an election, and the right won a thunderous victory.  Even Avigdor Lieberman, maligned by the leftist media, has managed to execute his job as foreign minister despite police and media harassment orchestrated by a nudnick left that can't admit it has lost.  Your statement

Forty-two years into the Israeli occupation, it's time to find out once and for all, without caveats or reservations, what Israelis actually want.

is a nonsensical one, for Israelis have already spoken.  What you really mean to say is it's time to push and harass the public and settlers in a vicious and persistent campaign of hatred that only is only rivaled by the Arafat "administration."  It is only outdone by your remark

...while simultaneously building up the settlements and leading us into two unnecessary wars.

Not so fast.  The wars with Lebanon and Gaza were, as mentioned above, a consequence of the Israeli withdraws from territories.   Levy damn well knows this.
    When does it end?  There can be only one Arafat, but Peres has morphed into Beilin has morphed into Gideon Levy.  As the Jewish right fends off the rest of the world for attacking us for settling our own land, the Jewish left has its megaphone-bound hate cheerleaders leading well orchestrated campaigns against Jews living in the territories.  The "territories" are lands that billions of non-Jews recognize as ours, in their holy books.  But like a bacteria that mutates to maximize its destructive power, the Israeli left, as shown by Gideon Levy, will stop at nothing to spread the self-hate flu around the Jewish landscape.  Levy's distain for everything Jewish has no bounds:

the public has been as deceitful as the governments

The beleaguered and punch-drunk Israeli public has taken too many swats from too many directions: the Arabs, peacenik Gentiles, peacenik Diaspora Jews, the Israeli left, and now Uncle Sam.  Levy tries to take the moral high road, as so many secular European Israelis do, with the school teacher moniker.  Take out the verbal paddle and start yapping about "occupation."
    Levy continues with another lie:

If supporters of the occupation win, we should storm the West Bank, build up more settlements, and proclaim to the world that this is the will of the people.

You don't mean any of this.  You will never leave those people alone.  And if you leave the scene the Peres-Beilin-Levy bacteria will morph into another frightful aggressive peace-parasite that will harass Jewry into making harmful concessions that will only boomerang into even more damage.   Will we Jews, who have waiting some twenty centuries to return to the Land of Israel, be forced to listen to another group of spies, as in the desert?  Levy writes accusitively:

...we'll be past the point of referenda and sentenced to live forever in a racist, bleeding, forever warring bi-national apartheid state. 

    Levy's furious rhetoric will surely be quoted by anti-Semites and Israel-haters.  This time the Land isn't devouring its inhabitants.  Rather,  the inhabitants are being drowned by a leftist media intent on sending the faithful back into exile.