Anyone else remember all those folks desperately claiming how there was absolutely no way Trump could possibly be worse than Biden, when it came to Gaza? Yeah. Good times.

It won't be under permanent American occupation, and then the people will use what's left. America is going away, the empire is retreating, Israel will normalize relationships in some years (I know, I know, they should all be burned alive for what they did but dw, God will do it) as American force projection becomes very limited. That's the only hope I have.

Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East

Excerpted from "Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East":

The record of U.S. policy from 1945 to 1949 challenges fundamental assumptions about U.S. understanding and involvement in the struggle over Palestine that continue to dominate mainstream interpretations of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Coming to grips with the U.S. record and its frequently mythified depiction of the struggle over Palestine is criti­cal. Those engaged in the creation of the Common Archive, a project of Zochrot, the Israeli NGO, in which Israelis and Palestinians have joined to reconstruct the history of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel in 1948, clearly understand the importance of this record. Palestinian historians have long written about this history, and Israel’s “New His­torians” have confirmed it in their challenge to the dominant Israeli narrative of the war of 1948.

The Middle East in 2014 is not a mirror image of what it was in 1948, when the struggle over Palestine was at its height. "In the imme­diate postwar years, the United States defined its policy in the Near and Middle East in terms of assuring unimpeded access and control by U.S. oil companies of its great material prize, petroleum.

It almost seems like if the history that's usually just glossed over (if it's mentioned at all in the U.S.) included the reality of the history behind most U.S. foreign policy since WWII, there would be way less support for propaganda that somehow always justifies the invasion of other countries, and coincidentally works out to make the wealthiest people at the top even more wealthy. Always at the expense of freedom and liberty for the little people below who made the mistake of existing on top of the oil (or whatever natural resources happen to be the oil of the future) those at the top wanted to exploit.

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