This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
Do the American people gain more than they lose from supporting (and from having billions of their tax-dollars each year donated to) the apartheid and racistly Jewish Israel against the Palestinians — the descendants of the Arabs who prior to Israel’s creation were the vast majority of that land’s population?
What the U.S. regime represents in this particular case is the interests of the apartheid nation of Israel, and not the interests of the American people. It insults and obstructs the interests of the American people, just as Israel insults and obstructs the interests — and the human rights — of the Palestinian people. Furthermore, Pompeo’s presumption that Israel represents the Palestinian people resembles Hitler’s presumption that his Government represented Germany’s Jews, and Botha’s presumption that apartheid South Africa represented South Africa’s Blacks, because in all three instances the tyrant who asserts it is asserting that the enemy of those people not only represents them but is the sole and exclusive governmental authority which can represent them. In the slave-holding American southern states, the same claim had been made that they and only they represented their slaves. Those states cited the Bible as authority, because it authorizes slavery, but tyrants can always cite some allegedly infallible scripture in support of their tyranny, and it’s just as evil, nonetheless, whatever that scripture might be.
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An excellent article except I would disagree with his concluding paragraph which states that ” Israel’s Government and America’s Government are allies, but both of them are enemies of their respective publics, which they only nominally represent. Each represents only its own billionaires.” This is definitely not true in Israel’s case. If anything the majority of Jewish Israelis are to the right of their government, many of those opposing it having departed over the years to the US and Western Europe. This has been borne out by poll after poll over the past decade that showed than 90% supported all… Read more »