Since European Zionists invaded the land of Palestine, Israel has turned indigenous peoples into prisoners and refugees in their own land. Why, so far, have their colonization and imprisonment received so little attention in the United States?
Why is the country that gave birth to the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence willing to dismantle the fashionable rules, norms, and criteria of foreign law and threaten a wider war in the Middle East so that the apartheid state of Israel can “complete” its purpose of physically destroying the indigenous population of Palestine in order to create an exclusively Jewish state?
Why do people, inside and outside the government, who have seen the slaughter in Gaza in real time, continue to protect the indefensible and remain tied to Israel?
Israel has been waging an ideological war against that fact since it declared itself a state in 1948. It has invested massively, especially in the United States, to create a legitimacy that it does have; entrench the myth that Israel is a small, courageous, and vulnerable democratic state that deserves U. S. support, no matter the cost.
Until the raid through Hamas and other resistance outfits on Oct. 7, Israel had managed to identify a gallery of sectarian loyalists in the United States who controlled speech well and silenced dissenting voices.
If we conform to the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition of cult as “a wonderful devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work,” then U. S. -Israel dating can, as it should be described, be described as sectarian. .
The apocryphal narrative of Israel has seeped into the thinking and vocabulary of politicians, academics, Christian ministers, the mainstream media, and eventually most Americans.
As a result, for many in positions of strength and influence, common sense has been supplanted by mythical Zionist ideology and a sectarian reliance on heroic Israeli leaders, noble warriors and peacemakers.
The Zionist regime’s mantra, “one land without another people for another people without land,” which reflects the confidence of Israel’s Zionist founders that the Palestinians are not an “other people,” is a myth. celebrated by as many Jewish Israelis as possible and by many around the world. United States.
Israel’s supporters resemble in some tactics former President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters, which some have classified as a cult. In the face of overwhelming evidence of Trump’s crimes and attacks, they have remained loyal.
After a slew of reports, such as this one by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem, documenting Israel’s 76-year history of land theft, apartheid, oppression, torture, and genocide of Palestinians, Israel loyalists stand firm.
In 1983, after being condemned for its disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Israel intensified its propaganda campaign. The purpose of what is known as the Hasbara (propaganda) task was to ensure that the United States never wavered in its political, economic, and military objectives and to make it virtually unlikely that it would criticize Israel’s actions. Israel has cynically brandished the cudgel of anti-Semitism to quell criticism.
The risk of being punished – of being classified as an anti-Semite – hangs over those who dare to question or challenge ideology. This has been a fatally effective deterrent; An accusation that has destroyed the careers and reputations of many journalists, academics, artists and politicians.
Helen Thomas, for example, a reputed member of the Washington press, saw her 57-year career come to an end after publicly questioning the United States over Israel. A well-orchestrated wave of whistleblowing forced her to retire in 2010. Thomas later commented, “You can’t criticize Israel in this country and survive. “
Mehdi Hasan, a popular host of a weekly show on MSNBC, is a recent example of a journalist punished for making Palestinians visible to a citizen and for his audacity in criticizing Israel. After three years on the air, the cable “news” channel announced in November 2023 that its show would be canceled.
Mainstream media outlets, such as MSNBC, now expect immense tension if they go beyond the point of “acceptable” discourse related to Israel. That is why they have moved away from the Palestinian narrative and have necessarily become an arm of the Tel Aviv propaganda network.
Israeli hasbara has also classified Palestinian resistance opposed to the military profession as terrorism. The terrorism deal with the Palestinians, Muslims, and the Middle East has created a bad climate of indifference and fairness among many Americans; an indifference that made the televised genocide of the Palestinians appropriate: just a news event.
The poisonous extent of Israeli sectarianism was demonstrated, for example, on March 25 when the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, abstained in a Security Council vote on an early ceasefire in Gaza. Administration officials later said the resolution, passed with U. S. abstention, was nonbinding and unenforceable because it gives Israel permission to completely forget about U. N. resolutions.
It is worth noting the deception of the administration’s abstention vote. The solution was pursued under Chapter VI (Peaceful Settlement of Disputes) of the Charter of the United Nations. Although Chapter VI solutions are commonly described as legally binding, there is no consensus on their legally binding nature. nature. The White House took advantage of this ambiguity to reject the solution.
Until the March abstention vote, the first theoretically serious act of leadership in the Security Council, Biden’s leadership encouraged Israel’s violation of the law and atrocities by vetoing four previous Security Council ceasefire resolutions.
Genocide is not an isolated act, but a procedure. Like the procedure in Germany that led to the level of annihilation of genocide – the Holocaust – Israel’s madness in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories is motivated by a genocidal logic that is an integral and inevitable consequence. This is a component of Israel’s current goal of identifying an exclusive ethno-religious system. A State of Palestine where Palestinians do not exist.
Unlike the citizens of the Third Reich, who relied on state-controlled newspapers and radio for their world, social media has allowed the entire global network to witness a 21st-century genocide.
Despite the brutality, Israel’s sectarian servants continue to hide and tolerate, refusing to acknowledge the ancient context that led to the inevitability of October 7. Nowhere is this more evident than in the White House and at press conferences and press conferences in the U. S. Congress.
Biden has been a “friend of Israel” since he entered the Senate in 1973, saying, “I’m a Zionist. “After receiving $5,736,701 (from 1990 to 2024) from pro-Israel lobbies, his sectarian spirit hardened.
A recent example of the president’s commitment to Israel is the March 29 report according to which Biden secretly approved the acquisition of billions of dollars’ worth of more bombs and fighter jets for Israel (1,800 2,000-pound bombs; 500 500-pound bombs; 25 F-35 fighters, jets and engines valued at $2. 5 billion). He did so knowing that there was no other position to bomb than Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians were forced to flee. As the U. S. and Israel feign opposition over the planned floor in Tel Aviv Following the invasion of Rafah, Israel has intensified its air and artillery strikes on the besieged city.
For more than seven decades, America’s most sensible priority has been the security of its Middle East citadel. The lives lost and the trillions of dollars spent to engage in or wage war against countries that have supported Palestine and rejected Israel’s regional policy hegemony – countries such as Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Libya and lately Ansarallah (Houthis) in Yemen – has not been exhausted. It has made the Middle East or the United States safer.
U. S. administrations have spent billions propping up despots in the Middle East, relying on them to legitimize Israel’s presence in the region. Some have paid a heavy price for bowing to U. S. pressure or largesse, such as the defeated Shah of Iran and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Washington’s incitement of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to collaborate with Israel contributed to his downfall in 1979. And U. S. pressure on Sadat to make peace with Israel led to his assassination in 1981.
U. S. officials and the Western media refuse to say publicly what many believe, namely, that Israel is not of strategic importance to the United States, as was once believed during the Cold War; which is actually a strategic liability.
The Biden administration continues to move recklessly, even as Israel continues to galvanize a broader war in the region, wearing down deadly airstrikes in Lebanon and Syria.
Israel’s years-long air war against supporters of the Palestinian resistance – Hezbollah in Lebanon and Ansarallah in Yemen – has failed to lead to a wider confrontation.
Tel Aviv has carried out numerous attacks, most of them against internal spaces of Iranian facilities controlled by the Syrian government. Since December 2023, more than a dozen Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
However, the Israeli missiles that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on April 1 – in flagrant violation of foreign legislation regarding the inviolability of diplomatic and consular facilities – could set the region on fire.
Israel’s provocative action that killed seven Iranian army advisers, a senior commander of the Quds Force, forced Iran to respond.
Netanyahu has spent decades convincing the world that Iran poses a risk and drags the U. S. into a war with Tehran.
Since the October attack, Netanyahu has stepped up his undeclared war on Iran, over how it would serve his interests: it would distract the world’s attention from the genocide in Gaza, rally troops and public opinion, and delay its political demise.
Washington’s deafness to the Palestinian condition and its unwavering aid to Israel have fueled anti-Americanism, radicalism and chaos in the Middle East. The horrific attacks on U. S. force centers on September 11 are just one example of this reality. Obviously, as demonstrated today, what is more productive for Israel is no longer productive for the United States.
Since Oct. 7, Biden’s leadership has brazenly committed America to the sectarian ideology of destruction. During his visit to Tel Aviv on March 22, 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated the United States’ determination to destroy Hamas.
Blinken once again affirmed that the United States would work with Israel to destroy Palestinian resistance and nationalism. He and other U. S. politicians do not understand that Hamas is an ideology that has given rise to a political resistance movement and must be destroyed.
Israel and its cult in the United States have used any and all means to break the Palestinian spirit of defiance and turn Palestine into a permanent settlement of the Zionist regime. Washington has been a willing partner in Israeli projects. The October Palestinian uprising and resistance generated and proved illusory.