Boy Who Cried Wolf Shaking Head At Repeated Touting Of Palestinian Cause

How dense do you have to be to fall for the same rhetorical trick time and time again?

Athens, May 25 – A youth notorious for repeated invocation of a threat to the point that the alarm no longer raises the intended reaction cannot believe that Arab and Muslim regimes keep citing the overused Palestinian cause in their polemic rhetoric as if anyone cares anymore.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf told acquaintances today that he remains incredulous that after so many instances of trying to rally the Arab and Muslim worlds around opposition to Israel, with little to show for it, the regimes spouting that rallying cry still try to leverage solidarity with the Palestinians for their own political gain, with ever-diminishing returns.

“I don’t get it,” the boy who continued to raise the alarm of “Wolf!” just to see the reaction from the villagers. “Even an idiot such as I knows when to stop. But these people? I can’t imagine their thought process. ‘Hey, every single time we’ve invoked this as a pan-Arab issue that demands we unite around it, we’ve had our butts handed to us – let’s keep doing it!’ Einstein’s definition of insanity comes to mind.”

It only took a few times for the false-alarm-raising to wreak its nasty consequences, recalled the boy, contrasting his experience with the behavior of Arab regimes. “I cried wolf, what, three times, maybe four, depending on which version of the fable you grew up hearing? It’s been seven decades since the Arab world ostensibly united to ‘protect’ their brethren in Palestine – or Southern Syria, as they thought of it at the time – and lost, not for the first time. They keep doing it. I’m trying to think of a single positive, long-term achievement these people have attained when they use Palestinians as a rallying cry, and I can’t come up with a single one.”

He does, however, see the beginnings of a shift. “It’s taken a while, but many of the regimes in the region are dispensing with the pretense that the rallying cry is even relevant anymore, if it ever was,” he observed. “Any Arab who’s honest with himself will admit it has never been about helping Palestinians. Jordan, Egypt, and Syria never gave the ‘Palestinians’ in the territories they captured in 1948 anything resembling independence. It was all about territorial gain, for them. How dense do you have to be, though, to fall for the same rhetorical trick time and time again? It’s about time they start coming around.”

“Hey look, a Palestinian leader who accepts Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland!” he shouted.

“Ha! Made you look!”

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