Ali: Allen, if a majority of United Nations member states filed a joint request tomorrow for an extraordinary session of the UN General Assembly and the Security Council calling for a resolution declaring Israel “above international law,” what do you think would happen? Do you think it would be adopted and passed?
Allen: Are you out of your mind? How would they justify such a request? What reasons?
Ali: Elementary, my dear Allen! Even though the reasons are obvious, they are not the ones that would make the United States, the United Kingdom and even other “obedient” member states agree to pass the requested resolution with great speed. You have only to visualize how much relief such a resolution would give to the veto-privileged wealthy Anglo-Saxon member states of the Security Council. I think they would all go for it.
Allen: What relief are you talking about? Are you nuts?
Ali: No, Allen. I am not nuts. What about relief from using the veto every other day in the Security Council in blind support of Israel and then finding themselves each time on the wrong side of world public opinion and international common law?
Allen: Who cares about world public opinion or about international common law? Where might is right, who cares for such fancy notions?
Ali: I have not finished yet. Allow me to continue!
Allen: Sorry for the interruption. Please proceed.
Ali: What about instant relief from the expenses incurred to pacify world opinion each time such unjust vetoes are used and which I think are quite substantial?
Allen: What expenses do you mean?
Ali: Expenses to cover Air Force One and Two and Three flying around Arab and other world capitals. Cost of sudden generosity in the form of “humanitarian” aid, grants and loans.
Allen: Who cares? Anyway the cash usually comes out of international coffers. Your money comes back to your own pocket. Isn’t this smart?
Ali: Not only smart, cunning too. But, what about permanent relief from the arm-twisting by pro-Israeli lobbies at home that demand such vetoes, every other day. Add to this, permanent relief from threats of exposure of skeletons concealed in the cupboards of most politicians.
Allen: You mean, real blackmail?
Ali: Yes, I do. Just ask the people who walk on the wild side in Washington. You can see for yourself, on CNN or CBS those obedient gentle souls at any AIPAC dinner, listening in sheer admiration to whatever is being dumped into their attentive ears, clapping when clapping is called for and laughing in sympathy whenever Arabs are the subject of their jokes. But if you look deeper you can see some worried and wondering brows also. These are the ones who have yet to establish their unstinted allegiance before receiving firm guarantees about the generous supply of vitamins, so badly needed on tiresome election campaign trails every two to four to six years.
Allen: I had better not comment. This is dangerous talk. You know I am a US citizen. I do not want to land up on the wrong side of our anti-Semitism laws and later in Sing Sing or Alcatraz... You, Ali, should also be very careful. Big Brother might have been listening and a cruise missile may not be very far away. I am leaving this place at once.