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    “Soul Suicide” in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered.
    Edward Curtin

ByEdward Curtin <https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/edward-curtin>
Global Research, October 24, 2024
Region:Middle East & North Africa 
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/region/middle-east>,USA 
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/region/usa>
Theme:Law and Justice 
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/law-and-justice>,Media 
Disinformation <https://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/media-disinformation>
In-depth Report:PALESTINE 
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/indepthreport/palestine>
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/soul-murder-ballot-box-palestinians-butchered/5870950#> 


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<https://www.globalresearch.ca/soul-murder-ballot-box-palestinians-butchered/5870950?print=1>

<https://www.globalresearch.ca/soul-murder-ballot-box-palestinians-butchered/5870950?pdf=5870950>

/It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the 
Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on 
September 11, 2001, the whole world watched in horror.  The events of 
that day were repeated on television over and over and over again, to 
the point where they became afterimages lodged in people’s minds./

As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact 
of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the 
buildings (seethis 
<https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Sep11PentagonsBMovie/118Witnesses-WTC-082106.pdf>andthis 
<https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Sep11PentagonsBMovie/EyewitnessExplosionsInTwinTowers.pdf>, 
among extensive evidence), most people thought otherwise, just as they 
thought that the subsequent linked anthrax attacks were directed 
by*Osama bin Laden*when they were eventually proven to have 
originatedfrom a U.S. military lab 
<https://www.amazon.com/2001-Anthrax-Deception-Domestic-Conspiracy/dp/0986073121>(thus 
an inside job), and, as a result of a massive Bush 
administration/corporate media propaganda campaign, most Americans 
supported the invasion of Afghanistan, the subsequent invasion of Iraq, 
and decades of endless wars that continue to this day, bringing us to 
the edge of nuclear war with Iran and Russia.

It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support 
today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding 
this history.  Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they 
cannot be separated.

Image is a U.S. Navy photo / Public Domain

<https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/USS_Liberty1.jpg>

All these wars involve the machinations of the neo-conservative clique 
that in 1997 formed the Project for the New American Century that 
ran*George W. Bush’s*administration and whose protégées have come to 
exert great control of the foreign policies of Democratic and Republican 
administrations since. It is not that they lacked power before this, as 
a study of American foreign policy as far back as the*Lyndon 
Johnson*administration and its non-response toIsrael’s 1967 attack on 
the U.S. Liberty confirms 
<https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/04/still-waiting-for-uss-libertys-truth/>.

Contrary to the widespread claims that Israel runs U.S. Middle East 
foreign policy, I think it is important to emphasize that the reverse is 
true.

It is convenient to claim the tail wags the dog, but it is false.

Israel’s war crimes are U.S. war crimes.  If the U.S. wanted to stop 
Israel’s genocide and expansion of war throughout the region, it could 
do so immediately, for Israel is totally reliant on U.S. support for its 
existence – as they like to say, “It’s existential.”

All the news to the contrary is propaganda.  It is a sly game of 
responsibility ping-pong: shift the blame, keep the audience guessing as 
they hit their little hollow ball back and forth.

Control of the Middle East’s oil supplies and travel routes has been key 
to American foreign policy for a very long time.  Such geo-political 
control is linked to the United States’ endless war on Russia and the 
control of natural resources throughout the vast region (a look at a map 
is requisite), stretching from the Middle East to southwest Asia up 
through the Black and Caspian Seas through Ukraine into Russia.

In both cases, the attacks of September 11, 2001 and Israel’s genocide 
of Palestinians whose ultimate target is Iran (America’s key enemy in 
the region as far back as the*CIA’s 1953 coup d’état against Iran’s 
democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh*), savage wars 
of extermination have been promoted through decades of carefully 
orchestrated propaganda.  In the former case, through the mainstream 
corporate media’s magic of repetitive cinematic images, and in the 
latter, through their absence.  To be shown photos of many thousands of 
dead and mutilated Palestinian children does not serve the 
U.S./Zionist’s interests. Propaganda’s methods must be flexible.  Show, 
conceal.

.

<https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gaza-city-displaced-24-nov-2023-mee.jpg>

Palestinian families walk through destroyed neighbourhoods in Gaza City 
on 24 November 2023 as the temporary truce between Hamas and the Israeli 
army takes effect (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

.

The September 11^th attacks and the current genocide, each in its own 
way, have been justified and paid for with similar but different credit 
cards without spending limits, the so-called wars on terror waged on the 
visual credit card of planes hitting buildings preceded and followed by 
endless pictures of Osama bin Laden, and the genocide of Palestinians on 
the holocaust credit card minus images of slaughtered Palestinians or 
any awareness of the terrorist history of the Zionist’s century-long 
racial nationalist settler movement of “ethnically cleansing” 
Palestinians from their land.

To know this, one has to read books, but they have been replaced by cell 
phones, functional illiteracy being the norm, even for college graduates 
who are treated to four years ofwokeness education 
<https://www.greanvillepost.com/2024/10/05/how-wokeness-kills-class-politics-and-empowers-empire-w-christian-parenti-the-chris-hedges-report/>and 
anti-intellectualism that reduces their thinking to mush and graduates 
them with sciolistic minds at best.  I am being kind.

The eradication of historical knowledge and the devaluation of the 
written word are key to ignorance of both issues.  Digital media and 
cell phones are the new books, all few hundred words on an issue 
conveying information that conveys ignorance.  Guy DeBord put it 
succinctly: “That which the spectacle ceases to speak of for three days 
no longer exists.”  Amnesia is the norm.

To which I might add: that which the mass media spectacle continues to 
speak of or show images of for many days exists, even if it doesn’t.  It 
exists in the minds of virtual people for whom images and headlines 
create reality.  The electronic media is not only addictive but 
hypnotically effective, producing cyber people divorced from the 
material world.  News and information have become a form of terrorism 
used to implode all mental defenses, similar to the floors at the World 
Trade Center that went down boom, boom, boom.

The war crimes of US/Israel are readily available for viewing outside 
the coverage of the corporate mainstream media. Most of the world views 
them, but these are the unreal people, the ones who don’t count as human 
beings.  These war crimes are massive, ruthless, and committed proudly 
and without an ounce of shame.  To face this fact is not acceptable.

Those who pretend ignorance of them are guilty of bad faith.

Imagesource <https://infobrics.org/post/41814>

<https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-harris-us-elections.jpeg>

Those who support either Harris or Trump are guilty of bad faith twice 
over, acting as if either one does not support genocide or that genocide 
is a minor matter in the larger scheme of things.

Choosing “the lesser of two evils” is therefore an act of radical evil 
hiding behind the mask of civic duty.

That it is commonplace only confirms these words from the English 
playwright Harold Pinter’s extraordinaryNobel Address in 2005 
<https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/>:

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right 
wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second 
World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, 
Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El

Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted 
upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. 
Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US 
foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are 
attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it 
wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of 
the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, 
but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it 
to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power 
worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a 
brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

Little has changed since 2005, except that these crimes have increased 
along with the propaganda denying them, together with vastly increased 
censorship – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Russia via Ukraine, etc. – 
all targets of U.S. bombs, just like Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, etc.  Now the 
U.S. has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and the voting 
public is all worked up over choosing between candidates supporting 
genocide and the massively expanded Israel attack on neighboring 
countries.  It is a frightening spectacle of moral indifference and 
stupidity as we await the Israel/U.S. bombing of Iran and Iran’s response.

Yet I ask myself and I ask you: Is there a connection between the voting 
public’s support for these war criminals and attention deficit disorder, 
amnesia, and dementia?

Or is this embrace of the demonic twins’ – US/Israel – foreign policy a 
sign of something far worse?  A death wish?

Soul death?

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