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> August, 2004
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> The Wall: There, and Here
>
> by Frank Scott
>
> The tragedy of Palestine would be impossible without history’s
> greatest job of mind management . Lincoln was wrong; you can fool most
> of the people, most of the time. The physical apartheid wall in Israel
> is possible only because of a mental apartheid wall in American
> consciousness.
>
> The theft of a people’s homeland, their exile, occupation and slaughter
> , is seen as the survival struggle of an oppressed jewish nation .
> People otherwise able to differentiate between their heads and their
> buttocks still believe that a persecuted minority is innocently trying
> to create a haven for itself, escaping from the savagery of a heartless
> western world, to live in the savagery of a heartless arab world. Why
> there ? It seems that god selected this real estate, and promised it
> to a chosen tribe from which it had been stolen, and to which it would
> be returned at some unspecified later date.
>
> Depending on degrees of political correctness, it seems permissible to
> disrespect, and even ridicule many religious beliefs as fairy tales.
> But this one is honored, often in embarrassed or nervous silence, by
> materially affluent people who suffer poverty only in their morals and
> politics.
>
> The racial supremacist nazi madness that murdered european jews of the
> working class, has become the rationale for a racial supremacist
> israeli state, supported by american jews of the middle and upper
> class. Without their financial and political actions, and especially
> those of their non-jewish cohorts, this degradation of humanity could
> not last a minute in its present form. And every minute it is
> perpetuated, the world becomes a sadder, madder and more dangerous
> place, and not just for Palestinians.
>
> Americans are socialized to forget things quickly, and concentrate on
> the next product for consumption. Many have little knowledge of
> recent history, like the Viet Nam war, let alone what should have
> been learned from our past history of slavery, and our treatment of this
> nation’s original inhabitants. Yet, in this short attention span market
> place, many of us are taught to “remember” that persecution of innocent
> jews in the past, means that israel is above reproach when it
> persecutes innocent Palestinians in the present.
>
> Part of this moral tragedy is the equation of mental with physical pain.
> Those suffering psycho-religious depression are given credence as being
> truly threatened in the material world. But however painful mental
> anguish can be, it is nothing compared to physical suffering. And none
> suffer physically for being jews, unless they are in Israel and among
> the minority who have been victimized by murderous acts of
> insurrectionary terror, inflicted by an oppressed people driven mad by
> their pain and lashing out, often blindly, at those seen as invaders and
> oppressors.
>
> Supporters of israel in the USA maintain a psychological illness when
> they give aid and comfort to the racist conquerors of Palestine.
> Especially under the guise of protecting against some future terror,
> supposedly awaiting all jews if no homeland exists to which they can
> escape. This, without regard to material reality, much less the wishes
> of a native population.
>
> This case of mass depression would be serious if it were only suffered
> by a minority , but it is the reality of a religious, secular and even
> anti-religious majority . They support this immaterial madness with a
> material horror that becomes more threatening the longer it continues.
>
> The apartheid wall has been censured by an international court, but
> that decision means nothing to the dominant twin state, USrael. That
> malformation is the most powerful military force in the world,
> exemplifying a universal truth even stronger than the golden rule of
> capital, that he who has the gold rules: He who has the weapons, is
> the law.
>
> The people most responsible for perpetuating this tragedy , Americans,
> must do something to stop it. Economic sanctions may be the only way to
> help Israel become part of the real world, and end its pariah status as
> a bloody religious theme park , which cuts itself off from most of
> humanity, and wonders why it is despised for doing so.
>
> Israel’s political climate permits a brave minority of jews to speak
> out against their warped state, which they find in contradiction to the
> more benign teachings of the faith. Ancient experience can offer
> lessons for the present, but only biblical fanatics accept it as divine
> truth. It is significant that the most dangerous entity in the world is
> presided over by fundamentalist christians and jews. Though these sects
> often murder one another, they are spawn of the same dualistic ,
> patriarchal doctrines of racial superiority. Their behavior is in the
> biblical tradition of those 19th century zionists who wanted Palestine
> for their own, and later even colluded with nazis to get it, long
> before the bloody murders now called the holocaust.
>
> Though israeli critics are a minority, they are bolder and more
> numerous than those in the USA, where open questioning seems more
> dangerous and is immediately labeled anti-Semitism. The lid on criticism
> is tightly applied, not only by established powers of the center, but
> even by critical sources on the periphery. As long as the left remains
> fearfully silent, this dangerous regime of consciousness control,
> extending from congress to the white house to major media, may one day
> produce a truly ugly backlash from the right. Then, of course, zionists
> will say “see, we told you it would happen”.
>
> The Presbyterian action endorsing sanctions against Israel is long
> overdue. It is time for people of conscience to follow their lead and
> tear down the wall of disinformation . Americans have already died
> because of our policy, and more will likely die unless it is changed. A
> socially just resolution of the ugly reality in Palestine is not merely
> in service to Palestinians and Jews, but to the whole world. And for
> Americans, it is not only a matter of conscience, but of survival as
> well.
>
> Copyright (c) 2004 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
>
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