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unwarranted's avatar

It saddens me that a brilliant analysis of Western liberal mass manipulation has triggered simplistic finger pointing. I expect to see this shallow pseudo analysis in the NY Times letters, but it's really not what I expect to see here.

America is pathologically Zionist apart from any Jewish support. I doubt there were a lot of Jews in Plymouth and Jamestown when white Christian ideologues saw a window for their sects to rise up and contribute to the slaughter of over 50 million residents across a century. Certainly Israel prospers from American policies and American weaponry, but Israel was a European project that became an American 'cause' and to suggest that Israel has "turned the West into a weapon of Arab destruction' is to grossly understate the historic imperial footprint that has made America the most treacherous nation state in the last century.

Americans and many westerners have become unconscious voters in the entrenchment of the status quo that was established by white, privileged climbers in the founding of a state to preserve their perches. They wouldn't know a policy if it bit them. They are functional and ignorant, schooled and stupid, incurious and proud of it. The violence in America is the flower of decades of planned, failed education and unrelenting socialization via the TV and Hollywood. The American social laboratory is destined for destruction, most likely by the hand of the inmates. Humans cannot endure suppression and manipulation endlessly.

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Godel Babbalatchi's avatar

I am tired of hearing about zionism, so we don't hurt the feelings of the Jews.

The West and Shitrael are killing arabs in the name of Jews, not Zionists. Israel is a Jewish state, until these progressive jews in Israel take up armed struggle, then they are benefiting directly or indirectly from the dehumanisation of arabs. 70,000 Germans died, taking up arms, defying the Nazi’s - I don't see this happening in Israel - just talk. Yet many jews in the West and East are travelling to Israel, taking up arms to participate in the genocide. It is self-evident that the majority of Jews are supportive.

As Laith Marouf ( Free Palestine TV) says, we have to name the perpetrators and the religion this genocide is being committed in the name of; enough speaking in code, the jews are no more or less special than any other religious group. They should be held to account when they go off the rails like any other religious group that goes rogue.

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