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When Sharon Meets His Maker
by Gilad Atzmon
01/05/06 "ICH" -- --
“Laura and I share the concerns of the Israeli
people about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's health, and we are
praying for his recovery. Prime Minister Sharon is a man of courage
and peace…” George W Bush (US President and man of courage and
peace)
“He has surprised, I think, everyone with the courage and
statesmanship he has shown in recent years to work towards a long
term peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.” Jack
Straw (UK Foreign Affairs Minister and man of courage and
statesmanship)
A man of peace is dying. Let us all pray for his quick recovery. A
man that was just about to rejuvenate the Israeli political world,
redeem for us all the Zionist state and its racist agenda. The great
man is gravely ill. Oh dear Lord, save our messiah, oh dear Lord may
you now be able to create a donkey so upright that it can carry his
load.
A peaceful man is on his way to meet his Creator. The Lord may ask
him, just as he enters the gate of heaven, “Hey Grandpa Arik, why
are your hands so red?” Sometimes the Dear Lord pretends to be
ignorant, he loves to give his chosen followers a chance to repent.
Somehow, they tend to forget to do so while they are still amongst
the living. But Grandpa Arik is not that silly, the Dear Lord isn’t
going to fool him that easily. “What red, what blood? This is me
painting your land in my favourite colour, I thought you'd like it".
Grandpa Arik winks to the Lord. The Lord is left cold, unaffected.
For more than a while, he seems to have been perplexed by the
conduct his chosen followers.
Meanwhile, down on earth, the Israelites are praying for a new
saviour, a new man of peace, a merciless general with a long-term
agenda. A term that is so long that no one can ever see where it
leads. The Israelites do not like to see a light in the end of the
tunnel because it means that they live in a tunnel.
No, it isn’t easy to find a replacement for Grandpa. Indeed, as far
as filling his shoes goes, the task seems slightly easier, but as
far as the waistcoat is concerned, the mission is almost impossible.
The whole of the Israelites can fit in. The whole of the Hebraic
nation wants to wrap itself up in Grandpa Arik’s flak jacket. It is
warm in the winter and it provides shadow in the summer. Somehow, it
worked for him for many years. Nothing really touched him, nothing
really stacked against the man; not the Qibya massacre, not Sabra
and Shatila, not the death toll of thousands of Palestinian and
Israeli civilians that took place under his direct command. Not even
the bizarre death of his first wife and his son.
Grandpa has managed to get away with everything. On Earth.
Grandpa was the last and the best of his kind. He was a devoted
Jewish Nationalist. For him peace wasn’t an end but rather a tactic.
Arik was the last Hebraic warrior, he was the very last Israelite
knight. All his followers are merely professional soldiers. They can
kill if needed but they do not prefer to bathe in blood. They are
spoiled. Thank you peace loving old man for teaching us what the
Israelites are all about. Thank you peace loving old man for taking
leave of us. Thank you especially for teaching us what Israelis love
to love. It is a slight shame it took you so long but considering
your talent to resurrect yourself from the dead, I would just say
that it is never too late.
Raised as a secular Israeli Jew in Jerusalem, Gilad Atzmon witnessed
and empathised with the daily sufferings of Palestinians and spent
20 years trying to resolve for himself the tensions of his
background. Finally disillusioned, he moved away from Israel and
went to England to study - philosophy.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/
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