Adam Gorelick on The Chris Hedges Report

[Adam Gorelick]

"We can forgive the Palestinian for killing our children, but the one thing we can't forgive is the Palestinian making us kill their children." { Golda Meir } Israel, as a culture and nation, has contempt for everyone outside it's insular national click. Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, Evangelical Christians { though deserving of contempt by all }, the United States, and the Western media which dutifully repeat it's risably transparent lies. A culture, so deluded and in need of self-assuring lies, is one that remains frozen in adolescence. A nation so steeped in mendacity couldn't withstand the loss of societal equilibrium and demoralization that would result from a flicker of self-awareness. The insecurity of a person can be measured in proportion to how self-deluded and in need of convincing others of their artifice they are. Those in power, though, are well aware that the lies presented to their society and the world are necessary. Israel's ideological foundation - secular racial supremacism - and ugly history are too hideous to expose to the light of honest inquiry. Regardless, the reactiveness of it's citizenry when questioned always reveals the feverous hatred and defensive hostility of a people cowering under a thin veneer of protection from an indefensible reality. Hence the maniacal epithets hurled at someone like Norman Finkelstein. Only desperation can motivate labeling a Jewish man, who lost his entire extended family to the Nazi genocide, "antisemitic" and a "Holocaust denier." Or the nauseating above quote, which manages to depict Palestinians as untermenschen, so barbaric they use their own children for "human shields", while insulting one's intelligence by depicting Israelis as impossibly noble and saintly.