by Jeremy R. Hammond, The Unz Review:
To this day, defenders of Israel’s crimes recycle the tired myth of Zionist propaganda that the Palestinians aren’t native to the land. Here are the facts to confront them with.
The world has a huge problem. Since before the creation of the self-described “Jewish state” in 1948, a violent conflict has been ongoing between Zionist Jews and Palestinians, the destabilizing influence of which extends throughout the Middle East and beyond.
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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint war of aggression against Iran is inextricably tied to the Palestine conflict, for instance.
As an example of the conflict’s global reach, Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians were cited as justification by Osama bin Laden, the head of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, for the plane hijackings and suicidal crashes into the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (the “9/11” attacks).
The conflict is widely perceived to be intractable, unsolvable. And under current conditions, it is. But this is only true because the policies that perpetuate the root causes have persisted since before Israel’s creation in 1948.
The US federal government’s longstanding policy has been to support Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians, including the ethnic cleansing by which the Jewish supremacist state came into being, the illegal occupation and Jewish settlement ongoing since 1967, the apartheid regime enforced by Israel from the river to the sea, and now the genocide in Gaza.
This criminal US policy has persisted for so long because so many Americans either openly support or silently consent to it.
The Influence of Christian Zionism
Americans support the policy for various reasons. People have their own confirmation biases. Prejudice against Arabs and Muslims among Christian Zionists, for example, causes them to refuse to see any impropriety in Israel’s actions. They choose to believe what they want to believe, deluding themselves as described in the book of 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2, versus 9 through 11.
Having no love of truth, they blind themselves to reality and refuse to believe what’s right in front of their eyes when it comes to Israeli violence against Palestinians.
Indeed, Christian Zionism preexisted modern political Zionism, and many Christians today view the establishment of Israel in 1948 as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy; they believe that they “must support Israel no matter what.”
The more extreme Christian Zionists even hope to see Jewish extremists in Israel obtain an unblemished red heifer to conduct a purification ritual required to enable construction of the Third Temple on what Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call Haram al-Sharif (“the Noble Sanctuary”) or the Al-Aqsa Compound, located in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
This plan envisions the destruction of the Islamic holy sites of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque, which offense is eagerly anticipated to trigger the “end times” war of Armageddon that will usher in the return of Jesus the Christ (Yeshua HaMaschiach).
The Causes of Silent Consent
The religious beliefs of many Americans—including Congresspersons and other government officials—sufficiently explain their support for the US government’s criminal policy.
On top of that, there’s the monetary influence of the powerful “Israel lobby”, most prominently the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
However, AIPAC money isn’t required to explain the attitudes of Congresspersons toward the conflict when members of Congress are themselves ideologically Zionist.
