Those living outside the US can't fathom the American media's extreme bias towards Israel. During the 2014 attack on Gaza, for example, American television viewers were only shown images of Palestinian buildings being blown up from afar, as if there were no people working or living in them. No corpses were seen being pulled from rubbles. While Palestinian victims stayed invisible, a single missing Israeli soldier had stories about him, with his portrait featured to emphasize his humanity. Unlike Palestinians, this Jew had a face. Female Israeli soldiers were shown sobbing over their fallen (male) comrades. When the massacre of Palestinians was finally over, there were articles about how quickly Gaza had gotten back to normal, so it was no big deal, you see, this butchering of 2,192 people (as compared to 77 deaths on the Israeli side). As if to prove this point, photos were shown of bustling Gaza streets, with kids happily playing.
On American television, there's a peculiar show called Inside Israeli Basketball. Since the level of hoops in Israel is not particularly high, and its b-ballers are entirely unknown to an American audience, there is no sporting reason for this program, except that basketball is only a pretext to display Israel in a banal, and hence benign, light. Game footage and practice scenes make up only a small part of this show, for the camera often follows the players or coaches of Maccabi Haifa, the featured team, all over Israel. (Everywhere, of course, except Gaza and other troubled spots.) In one scene, one might visit a lovely beach, while in another, enter a Palestinian restaurant. Here, two teammates, an Israeli and a black American, enjoy camel rides, and one can see that they're very chummy with each other. The American, Ike Ofoegbu, gushes, "Here in Israel, the guys are very nice. They speak English, first of all, so they can interact with you. They're really friendly ["] To finally be here in Israel is very exciting. I'm just blessed to be here." Highly unusual for a reality show, there is no rancor or argument in "Inside Israeli Basketball," and no trashy behavior at all. Here, you won't find any screaming, backstabbing, jealousy or drunkenness, though these are the staples of just about every other reality show on American television. Always depicting Israel in an idyllic and harmonious light, this show is no more than propaganda, then, a carefully crafted mask to hide the endless violence needed to maintain this sham nation."
Al-Khateeb followed up, "And what about what is happening now in Syria?"
I continued, "The US is trying to unseat Assad because he's a long time ally of Russia and Iran, as well as an enemy of Israel. Similarly, in trying to wrest Ukraine from the Russian orbit, the US has destroyed yet another country. Drenched in blood, the US kills, slanders, stages false flag incidents while fabricating charges against its enemies. With Syria, it's the poison gas accusation against Assad, while in Ukraine, it's the Malaysian Airliner that was likely shot down by America's Kiev puppets, and certainly not Russia. I'm not sure who first described this sanctimoniously immoral nation as 'The Empire of Chaos,' but it's very appropriate. As Vladimir Putin said, 'Anything the US touches turns into Libya or Iraq.'
Waging actual and/or economic war against much of humanity, the US has also destroyed meaningful discourse in the international arena, for it and its allies seem incapable of telling any truth. Whatever the US says, you can almost be certain that the opposite is true, for Uncle Sam is a habitual inverter of reality. Trapped among warped mirrors, it's no surprise that most Americans have become deranged. Though many half suspect their rulers don't have their interest in mind, they continue to vote for the same criminals or their fresher faced proteges. Though voting itself sanctions the entire rigged process, they dutifully line up and jerk a lever that may or may not register their non-choice, for an American voting contraption, like a slot machine, is responsive only to its own programming. The slithering media are now offering American progressives a new darling in Elizabeth Warren. Touted as an outsider, Warren will take the country in a new direction, it is said, so let's give her a listen. After voting to fund Israel during the last Gaza massacre, Warren explained that the Jewish State absolutely hated to cause civilian casualties, 'but when Hamas puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they're using their civilian population to protect their military assets. And I believe Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself.'
In the United States, there are several layers of controlled dissent, with none effective at thwarting any of the country's prolific criminality. On television, you have highly paid buffoons such as Jon Stewart, real last name Leibowitz, and Stephen Colbert. In the "alternative media," there's the articulate and moral-sounding Democratic Party apologist The Nation, the politics-as-somewhat-edgy-entertainment Huffington Post and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. Yes, there are genuine and highly astute observers such as Pepe Escobar, Dmitri Orlov, John Michael Greer, and Paul Craig Roberts, etc., but they're only read by a tiny percentage of the country, so even though they're crucial to our grasp of what's going on, they're negligible as inspiration for effective revolt. In short, Americans are in no shape to save themselves from their own government, much less curb their nation's evilness on the rest of the world.
Moreover, there's no resistance if there's no recognition of the enemy, and most Americans still think of their federal government as inept and bickering, and not essentially evil and working against them at every turn on behalf of the criminal banks, war profiteers and Israel. Saluting the stars and stripes, they send their sons and daughters to kill and die for the masters of war, fiat money crooks and Israel.
Stuck in a quicksand economy, Americans are becoming increasingly angry, but their rage has been deflected to false or, at best, secondary targets. Some blame the President, who's no more than a sock puppet, while others seethe at white racism, black criminality, illegal immigrants, China, Russia or, most preposterously, crazed Muslims.
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