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George Orwell in his novel “1984” spoke of what he called doublethink. Doublethink uses “logic against logic” and “repudiates morality while laying claim to it”. Doublethink, doesn’t allow for the contradictions that can plague conscience. In this Big Lie the world is black and white, good and evil, righteous and unrighteous. The Big Lie allows believers to take the comfort they’re desperately seeking; in their own moral superiority at the very moment they have abandoned morality.

The UN had no business partitioning Palestine or handing over more than half the territory to a minority of intruders for a state of their own without even consulting the native Palestinians. Israel’s membership of the UN in 1949 was conditional on the new state complying with UN Resolution 181, which included a guarantee of the rights of minorities and religious rights, including free access to and the preservation of holy places, and the creation of an economic union between the two states; a custom union, joint monetary system, joint administration of main services, and equal access to water and energy resources. It also required Israel’s compliance with Resolution 194 which called on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. Israel has never fulfilled its obligations so should have been kicked out of the UN.

Zionism, the political form of the Jewish religion, began moving its advocates to Palestine in the early part of the last century. Soon after arriving they began attacking the native Palestinians. This gradually escalated until the end of WW2, when more European Jewish refugees arrived leading to what we see today.

In an operation begun the day before Israel declared statehood in 1948 much of the Arab population was driven from their homes, and many were murdered in the streets, their homes looted. Many Arabs were forced into officially-designated ghettoes, and the Jews were given “legal” title to what had been Palestinian property. Palestinians are described as “terrorists” but they’re victims of a great “ethnic cleansing”. Israel removed 750,000 Palestinians.

There was some hope, before the 1967 war, that Israel and the remaining Palestinians could coexist side by side: the Israeli occupation in the wake of Israel’s stunning victory changed that. A creeping “Nazi-like mentality” can be seen throughout Israel which essentially became a dictatorship the moment it decided to rule millions of Palestinians who are prisoners in their own land. The Israeli colonization of Palestine looks like the genocide against American Indians: Gaza and the West Bank are two big reservations.

Apartheid exists in states that enforce laws and policies that discriminate between people on the basis of race or religion, and this is true in Israel as well as in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

It’s clear from the writings of Zionist leaders that they understood the effects of their activities from the beginning. Theodore Herzl, the movement’s founder, confided in his diary that the indigenous Palestinians would have to be “spirited across the border discreetly”. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s George Washington, was clear: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places”.

This was always the logic of Zionism, a religious nationalism that claims God promised the Jewish people the land “from the Nile to the Euphrates”. Accomplishing this goal, requiring military conquest, was hidden by early Zionists, who painted a picture of a happy socialistic union of Jewish and native Arab cultures that would make the desert bloom. It was the Zionist equivalent of the “they’ll shower us with rose petals” argument neocons made as they created the Iraq war. This fantasy gave way to realism as Arab resisted their removal, and the horrors of the Nakba, ethnic cleansing, became apparent; Israel became a dictatorship in the 1948 dispossession and slaughter which made the Jewish state possible: Zionism is religious nationalism built on colonization, conquest, and expulsion of indigenous peoples.

We have gotten used to the sight of Israel conducting a shooting-gallery “war” in the open air prison that is Gaza. There’s something new about their recent state terrorism. The Israeli leadership’s reversal of all moral and international legal standards in its conduct of their “wars” looks as if they enjoy the killing of innocents, eagerly creating their own brand of pogroms.

The father of American public relations, Edward Bernays, said The Big Lie is limited only by the propagandist’s ability to understand and speak to the emotions of “consumers”. Most supporters of Israel don’t care to know the truth, which would force them to examine their own self-delusions about Zionist and Western moral superiority, so they swallow the lies fed to them. The Big Lie always finds willing participants in what Bernays called the “logic-proof compartment of dogmatic adherence”. All effective propaganda, Bernays wrote, targets and builds upon these irrational “psychological habits.”

Israel has been secretly allowed nuclear weapons by the Empire. This is ignored by Western government and media as they focus on Iran. This could easily provide the spark that will engulf all of us in the world’s first nuclear war. Israel has regularly attacked its neighbors but its real power is found in its overseas assistants: the Zionist power groups in North America and Europe. The most important of these organizations and individuals operate in America giving Israel over $150 billion dollars in economic and military grants and loans from you in the past half-century. Each year Israel gets billions in tribute, billions in tax-free donations from billionaire Israel loyalists with dual American/Israeli citizenship.

The ‘pro-Israel lobby’ is the most powerful group influencing “our government” today. Israeli power over American Middle East policy has led to the Empire’s invasions of Iraq, Syria and Libya; the economic boycott and blockade of Iran; breakup of Sudan; and bombing Somalia. This has flooded Europe with refugees.

Israeli power in the Empire operates through various political tools in assorted locations. The pro-Israel media moguls at the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and all the TV networks unconditionally defend Israel’s bombing, removal and repression of Palestinians while demonizing any Arab or Muslim states which oppose its brutality, frequently calling for the Empire to impose sanctions and/or to attack Israel’s critics.

The cost of the wars has been expensive for you and more so for the targets: Over a quarter million physical and mental casualties among America’s military; trillion’s of dollars and counting in military expenditures crippling America’s economy and a vast and growing army of Islamist and nationalist rebels opposing American interests throughout the region.