Why Israel needs a king

The political theater that is the current round of Middle East peace talks
continues in the incredulousness that is American globalist policy. Certainly
at some turn now Hillary will appear with that domineering schoolmarm charm
holding hands with the duly submissive Netanyahu and Abbas to announce, “We
have an agreement!” Hillary will then travel to Egypt for a photo-op of her
hugging on to some oversized women in a marketplace. Then maybe she will run
for president. Then she will lose and that will be the end of it. Israel can
then begin to bring forth those seriously committed to her fate.

But before that happens they must play along with the American tempo and the
MSM-driven foreign policy. (Time
proclaims today on its cover, “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace.”) They must
pretend that Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is the same kind of man
as Dick Cheney, a serial draft evader when he was called to war, or Joe Biden and
the others here who have never seen death in war or been threatened by
extinction even on a daily basis for over 100 years. Until then they must be
reflected in the American light prism in which, when The Associated Press
refers to Netanyahu’s foreign minister as “hawkish,” it means to those listening
that he is like some Ivy League twit at the National Review or an “embedded” reporter pitching embedded government
policy.

But then Israel must distinguish itself not as a well-educated and mother-bound
suburban province of Philadelphia, as Netanyahu represents it today, where the
children play soccer and everyone gets a little trophy, but as a warrior state,
which it will need to be for some time longer. Well till when Hillary, Bill,
Joe and Barack and high priests Bono, Elvis II and Lady Gaga are well
forgotten.

To be free from the infidel and profane influences that have since post-war attempted
to commandeer her generations, Israel must find her king. Ours is a timely
state loosely held together by colorful advertizing, cash, “Mile High” hubris
and football. Israel is a timeless state. Like Canada, England, Sweden and
Thailand, she needs an extra-political force to hold steady in the water and to
stabilize a parliamentary realm. It will help absorb the hits of time and
uncertainty, to awaken and preserve again that which is timeless. It might even
be considered a necessity in the long term to the mature parliamentary system. Israel
is a state marked in timelessness by kings. It is her once and future destiny.
She will not find that timelessness again until the return of the king.

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