Ours is a public that prefers not to see the evil that is inherent in conquering other nations, preferring, instead, to grasp any excuse to divide the world between Us and Others, with Us as the good guys and Others as the bad guys.
Chas Freeman offers historic parallels for conquerors and their goals:
"The increasingly blatant racism and Islamophobia of Israeli politics, the Kafkaesque tyranny of Israel's checkpoint army in the Occupied Territories, and Israel's cruel and unusual collective punishment of Gaza have bred hateful resentment of the Jewish state in its region and throughout the Muslim world. One has to look to North Korea to find another polity so detested and distrusted by its neighbors and with so few supporters among the world's great powers."
Just as the book and movie, The Exodus, were peddled for decades as the "true story" of Israel's creation as a state, the movie version of Stanley and Livingston created the narrative that Stanley (as portrayed by Spencer Tracy) was a dedicated journalist looking for a "man of God" who went to Africa to do good.
In this clip, we see and hear the famous quote, "Dr. Livingston, I presume."
With Hollywood's support and the power of political Zionists in American culture, the "blatant racism and Islamophobia of Israeli politics" has successfully made its insidious way into the American psyche.
Until we realize this, we will continue to function as a nation without the moral compass that should lead us. Absent that moral compass, we will continue to yield to the Zionist racist-driven conquerors worldview of the Class of Civilizations.
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