By Reuven Koret
January 5, 2008
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The editor-in-chief of the publication that fancies itself Israel's "newspaper of record" -- despite its low circulation relative to other publications -- has admitted to telling US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Israel "wants to be raped" into a settlement.
The remark was made at a dinner at the home of US Ambassador Richard Jones, where Condoleezza Rice met with an assemblage of Israeli self-appointed "elites." Among them was Ha'aretz's David Landau. According to The Jewish Week, Landau "referred to Israel as a failed state, one in need of a US-imposed settlement. He was said to have implored Rice to intervene, asserting that the Israeli government wanted 'to be raped.' He said that the opportunity to tell her this was for him a 'wet dream' come true.
Despite the outcry about the crudity and inappropriateness of the remarks, Landau has neither retracted them nor apologized for making them. On the contrary, he has proudly admitted saying so and congratulated himself for so doing, claiming that he courageously expressed what others felt but were reticent to say.
Landau may speak for a tiny minority of Israeli citizens who want to see Israel raped. But I am surprised that his remarks were not protested, not by women -- who could have been expected to object to a favorable imprecation to force sexual submission -- nor by other Israelis in the media, who should have been offended and revolted by the crudity of his remarks. Their silence is tacit approval, as if they are pleased to watch as the rape takes place, or indifference to stop it.
Even worse, as Caroline Glick has observed in The Jerusalem Post, the rape of Israel is in fact happening, egged on by the likes of Landau and the current leadership of the state of Israel. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might prefer Rice to force Israel to accept an unwanted French kiss, as Vice-Premier Chaim Ramon demonstrated before being convicted of inserting his tongue into an unwilling teenaged female soldier's mouth, an assault for which he was sentenced to a couple months of community service in a petting zoo.
But the bottom line is that the current Israeli government desperately wants the "friendly" nations of the world to force the Jewish State -- with "almost the hand of God" as Olmert has described it -- to accept an imposed solution and the inevitable division of Jerusalem. Israel, they want to tell us, has no choice but to submit. We can't fight it, they tell us, we should lie back and enjoy it. Better to be raped by "friendly" nations, our Prime Minister would have us believe, than the unfriendly ones. We can call it diplomatic date-rape. Pass the roofies.
One is tempted to dismiss Landau's "wet dream" and his "rape fantasy" as expressions of his embarrassing personal immaturity and exhibitionistic impotence: to speak this way to the US Secretary of State at a public event probably says more about the editor-in-chief's inability to achieve self-satisfaction and the attention to his manliness that he feels he deserves in his private life, and thus his need to project it inappropriately and exhibit it recklessly -- no doubt to the extreme mortification of the Secretary and other civilized persons present at the event. And the chutzpah of an Israeli citizen, and a public figure, telling a foreign diplomat to commit a sexual crime against his own country deserves a punishment to fit his shameless offense.
But this is not (only) the case: Landau is saying something else. He is admitting that the majority of citizens in Israel will never agree to concessions and withdrawals of the kind he fantasizes about, and therefore he urges the United States to impose them by force. In other words, he is not saying "rape me" (because he clearly would be willing to yield, with pleasure) but rather "rape them" -- that is, rape the Israeli majority, rape the overwhelming consensus of the Jewish people and their Christian supporters, who resist, who protest, but who -- Landau and those of his neurotic ilk wants the Secretary and the world would have us believe -- secretly want to be forced to accept an imposed solution.
That puts the burden on us, the vast majority of Israel and its supporters throughout the world, to prove otherwise. The courts expect that a rape victim -- to prove that he or she didn't go along willingly with the sexual assault -- will resist, protest, forcefully shout "NO!" That is what we must do.
Happily, in the world of media, it is easy and painless to "just say no" -- simply stop patronizing the publication. Cancel your Haaretz subscription, unsubscribe from the Haaretz commercial mailing list, don't buy Haaretz at the news-stand, don't visit their website. Write to the paper and tell them what you are doing, write to the Haaretz advertisers and tell them what you are doing. Write and tell your friends to do the same. There's no point in calling for a retraction because the damage has been done. There's no point in calling for Landau's resignation because obviously he speaks for the paper and its management: otherwise he would have long ago retracted or resigned.
Still, for your convenience or need to express yourself, you can email Landau directly, call his office (+972 3 5121204), or fax him (+972 3 5121205). You can reach customer service to cancel your subscription at +972 3 512 1750, and you can email Landau's boss, publisher Amos Schocken and the paper's manager of circulation, Yoram Ilan.
By so doing, you tell Landau, his paper, its commercial sponsors, and its political patrons: "I refused to be raped. I refuse to let Israel to be raped. I reject America being invited to rape us." You tell Haaretz's self-congratulatory editor: "If watching and encouraging rape is your thing, then go rape yourself. And then your wet dream can really be fulfilled."
Tell us what you're tell him by emailing publisher@israelinsider.com. Pass this letter around to all your friends. We will publish your (publishable) comments, and report the accumulating numbers.
Let's show the betrayers who encourage the rape of our country, and proudly stroke themselves for their cleverness and boldness, that there's a price to be paid for their pleasure.
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