The Brainwashing of Israel and the Spillover into the United States

Israeli universities separate Jewish history from the rest of history, and it is not subject to the normal kind of scholarly review which is customary at universities. This is because the Jewish history they teach is based on false myths which are easily refuted. That would be bad enough, but this same falsified history is also taught to Israeli schoolchildren. Israeli education authorities have even tried to impose this falsified history on their Palestinian citizens, though this has so far been resisted. As a result, the Israeli public, and especially its youth, have beliefs which are ahistorical, racist, and very dangerous. In ancient history, for example, Israeli Jewish history teaches that the Romans exiled the Jews. In fact, there is zero historical evidence that such an exile ever occurred, and it would have been totally out of character for the practices of Roman rule. By and large, the small number of Jews who left ancient Palestine did so as merchants. The vast majority of Jewish communities in the world were descended from converts, for which there is ample evidence, such as the mass conversions in ancient Yemen, in the 9th century Khazar empire, and by Berbers in north Africa, some of whom went to Spain. However, the most dangerous falsification is that which treats Palestinians as foreigners in Israel because this underlies the strong and growing Israeli movement to continue the theft of Palestinian land and for expulsion of more Palestinians from Palestine, whether in the West Bank or inside Israel. Even Palestinian nomads in the Negev, who are not only Israeli citizens but who, along with the Druze, serve in the army are being displaced by the tens of thousands even as I write. Only a tiny group of Jewish Israelis opposes these acts and exposes the blatant lies at the root of Israeli education. Another way to put it is that Israelis are educated to believe in delusions, and the result is a psychotic society, which is willing to take extreme measures to carry out its government's insane policies.

Let's shift gears now and note that Israeli psychotics like Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have broad access to the media in the United States. That spreads the brainwashing to the American public, who generally believe many easily refuted myths about Israel. One of the most blatant effects is that the fact that Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons combined with a very aggressive military policy against its neighbors is almost totally ignored in the US media. It never comes up, for example, in the current coverage of the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Note that existing US law prohibits any aid to a country with nuclear weapons and does not sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which is clearly the case with Israel. That coverage is filled with easily refuted claims. For example, Iran offered an even better deal in 2003 when it completely halted its nuclear weapons program. That deal was rejected. Nobody has claimed, let alone produced any evidence, that Iran currently has a nuclear weapons program. Therefore, the heavy sanctions imposed on Iran have really had no purpose or effect except to feed the false narrative which comes from Israeli and Western governments and the media. This insanity would be dangerous enough if it only affected public opinion, but much more dangerously it is used as the rationale for insane government policies. It is well past time for responsible citizens to educate themselves and their fellows and reject the nonsense which passes for analysis and history spewing from all this brainwashing.