Forgetting apartheid

No one can reasonably deny the extensiveness and the brutality of Israelist apartheid in the 63 years after 1947. This conduct arose and continues because of the heartless violence and destructiveness displayed by the Jewish forces of 1947 and 1948, whose recollection caused reactive repressive fear on the Israelist side as much as it caused vengeful and hateful behavior, though remarkably weak, by most Palestinians. Also, the immigration of a large, socially disorganized Russian and other elements reinforced the oppressive behavior of the earlier Israelis. Their experience was probably worse than that of the great influx of American immigrants from Europe a century and more ago, because opportunities were fewer and the social structure more limiting. And the government encouraged inhumane attitudes towards the indigenous Arab population. The latest underdog could always exert his agressivity against the Palestinians. The Jews were tactically clever in imprisoning with scarcely an iota of rule of law, an average of many thousands of Palestinians, 10,000 or more, at any given time, because they were actually destroying or incapacitating the elite forces of the Palestinian people. Too, the worse the Jews treated the Palestinians, the more fear they instilled in themselves, both those who were direct oppressors and the so-called peaceful population, feeling, whether or not they were directly involved, that they would come to earn equal vengeance from the Palestinians if the opportunity arose. This is one reason why the German Nazis did in fact keep from the German people and troops information about the crimes they perpetrated against the Jews and others, in order not to ruin their morale through the fear of retaliation, and in turn this helps explain why the protestations of innocence by so many Germans at the close of war were so infuriating to the victors and survivors of the Holocaust. How will ex-Palestinians interact with Jews and ex-Israelis once Canaan becomes an American state? Certainly the large-scale denial of Israel's maltreatment of Palestinians will not be completely unscrupulous. Much of it will stem rather from innocent ignorance, and subconscious amnesia (scatoma). One of the greatest blessings of Canaan State would be that American law and the new State's laws would immediately apply and check most intergroup aggression – leaving no more, say, than happened between blacks and whites in Illinois, USA or New Jersey, USA in the years 1950 to 2010. This, though still far away from satisfactory, would bring an immense, immediate change and improvement in the lives and minds of Americans, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Israelis, and all Europeans, Middle East and North African populations, indeed of the whole world!

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