News out of Mexico is an uninterrupted flow of news about mayors gunned down or beheaded days after assuming office, activists dismembered and found in barrels, entire towns slaughtered and dumped in mass graves, vast infiltration of US cities and states, et cetera. We regard this as nightmarish, a great evil perpetuated by the most evil organizations imaginable and who we’d never want to encounter. It’s safe to say that all Americans are grateful for where they live, far removed from such nihilistic carnage. And yet, isn’t there another nation with whom our government and institutions are deeply involved with that behaves in exactly the same manner? Israel behaves exactly like the Mexican drug cartels, and yet they are held up as God’s chosen people for whom we must sacrifice our stability in order to save, again and again. The cognitive dissonance is mind-rending, but it’s true. Israel relishes the carnage they’ve unleashed on the captive population in Gaza, burning them alive, murdering entire families, sniping children and anyone holding a white flag, raping prisoners, and generally adhering to a military doctrine of total, inescapable terror. But most of us don’t view them as an identical evil to that of the cartels. Instead, we fund them, arm them, allow their spies to infiltrate every level of political power in the US, and wait on their beck and call for whatever they may need. How is this possible? Because Israel, and pro-Israel institutions, fund a vast army of writers and pseudo-intellectuals, a pundit army that acts as the intellectual bodyguard, running cover for their atrocities. But can they continue to do so when so much amateur footage makes the rounds online? The internet will be the death of Israel, because no amount of vile punditry can cover for the close-up footage of innocents burning alive, or the images of headless or delimbed children. The tide truly is turning against this ethnostate. Maybe soon we’ll view them with the same horror that we view the cartels.
