US Bias Against Palestinians and in Favor of Illegal Settlers on Palestinian Land is a Major Cause in the Growth of Anti-American Sentiment in the Arab and Muslim World

The shooting of four Israeli settlers has been condemned by Us President Obama.  It is interesting to note the terms used to describe the assailants.  They are referred to in the Wall Street Journal this morning as "Hamas Militants"  and "Gunmen". The Israelis who shoot Palestinians daily and killed over 1000 of them when they invaded the Gaza Strip with their sophisticated US weaponry and using white phosporous in the process, are called the Israeli Defense Force and referenced to as such in the western media.

The  White House immediately condemned the shooting claiming it "underscores how far the enemies of peace will go to try to block progress."  Peace of course, means Palestinians accepting whatever the US and its Zionist proxy offers.  It means accepting that their land, culture and existence as a people will end.  They know too well what the vast majority of American's don't, that the goal of Zionism is to drive the Palestinian people out of the area: "There is no such thing as the Palestinian people...It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country.  They didn't exist" Golda Meir, June 1969

These settlers are right wing religious fanatics.  In the eyes of international law they are occupying the land of Palestinian people illegally. Their basis for displacing Palestinians is that God gave them the land, it is theirs by God's will.  Can we imagine what the US population would do if the Native peoples of the North American continent bulldozed us out of our homes, destroyed our farms, livestock and uprooted our fruit trees to take the land they claim is there's by God's will?  Most of the settlers you will notice, have accents from South Africa or the US or other countries.  They are religious fanatics as much as their hated Muslim counterparts. The difference is that they have a massive military force behind them backed, equipped and financed by the US. And they have become, as the first British Governor of Jerusalem suggested with reference to British interests back then,  US imperialism's "loyal little Ulster in the Middle East."  Here's a couple of settlers, one of them obviously South African:



One local paper slipped up calling the settlers by their right name, "Ultra Nationalists."  These neo-fascist religious nuts are used as the line of first defense for the Zionist regime, taking bit by bit, against international law every but of Palestinian land they can.  The aim is to eliminate the culture and the existence of the Palestinian people in this area.  Moshe Dayan, the famous Israeli General made it clear:

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." Moshe Dayan, April 1969.

The settlers belief in their divine right to displace Palestinians is accompanied by the most vicious racism that has its origins in Zionist philosophy:

"This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."
-- Golda Meir, Le Monde, 15 October 1971

"We must expel Arabs and take their places." David Ben Gurion 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs Oxford University Press 1985

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister and fortunately in a vegetative state after suffering a stroke four years ago.

Workers will often refer to the historical conflict between Jews and Muslims in this area.  But this is not so.  Jews and Muslims lived in relative harmony compared to Europe where Jews were persecuted mercilessly for centuries ending in the Nazi death camps. The Palestinian people were not guilty in that instance but are paying for it.

The US's uncritical support of the Zionist regime and its murderous polices is a major factor in the anti-American sentiment in the Arab and Muslim world.  The bias is so blatant it could not be ignored as retired business people from LA or religious fanatics from South Africa or Britain enter Israel and are given more rights than any of the non Jewish Palestinians whose land they steal. The other side of this is that were the US gentile bourgeois to ever find a more stable and reliable ally to protect its interests in the area, the Israelis would lose their position on the totem pole. And it cannot be ruled out that, as economic security fades in the US, the amount of money given to the Zionists can become as issue as American workers are forced to do with less so that Israel can get more.  The gentile capitalist class in the US has no love for their Jewish competitors and it cannot be ruled out that anti-semitism could be whipped up here in the US if it suited them.

The attack on the settlers by the armed wing of Hamas would pale compared to what Americans would and do and do do to people that threaten to take or harm what we consider "our" homeland.

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