Helping Israel on a False and Dangerous Course.

Why do the Americans so fervently support Israel? One,
they know very little of the facts on Palestine. And
what they know is usually filtered through the US
mainstream media, which can´t be blamed to be too
informative or too objective on the world outside the
borders of the US. Because of this, they don´t understand
the nature of the struggle in Palestine, they can´t
place it in the right context nor can they really
understand how far-reaching it´s consequences are.

Secondly, they view Jews through the Holocaust and
the Bible. Jews are eternal victims to the Americans, and
so Palestinians can´t be victims (after all, the Americans
live in a black-and-white world, to the huge majority of
them there can be only two opposite sides, good and evil,
and nothing in between.) So the Palestinians must be the
bad guys, no matter what the Israelis do.

I find it very odd that the even relatively sane Americans
somehow believe that Palestinians must do all the
concessions, that Israelis don´t have to make any. They
just don´t seem to understand the facts. Probably they just
don´t want to accept them and instead paint time after
time a rosy picture of the "democratic, little Israel, the
home of the survivors of Holocaust, fighting bravely against
the cruel Arabs, who want to kill all Jews." Black-and-white.
Manicheaism is really the state religion of US.

What we have in Palestine is a colonial conflict where
the foreign-born colonialists try to subdue and force
into reservations or abroad the native people. Jews have
just been more succesful than most European colonialists.
And this is what Israel is: a bastion of European
colonialism (even if the European Jews are now a
minority, Israel is still their creation). A relic.

But to the Americans, Israel is a biblical Utopia, which
brings a happy ending to the tragedy of the Holocaust.