Afrasianet - Palestine in the American Mind" reveals the early American role in the trajectories of the Palestinian cause, since the beginning of the great conspiracy launched by the First Basel Conference of the Zionist Organization led by Theodor Herzl on August August, 1897.
Many rarely paid attention to the role of the most prominent pioneer of American culture in the nineteenth century, "Mark Twain", in terms of his active participation in the founding effort of the Israeli entity in Palestine, as he likened the people of the East in general to American Indians, with all that this view could include from the obsession with extermination and committing crimes in order to establish a state based on the expense of the native people of the land, drawing the method adopted by the Americans to eliminate the American Indians and establish their state, just as the Zionist Jews did. By expropriating Palestine and establishing their entity at the expense of its people, their land and their official state entity.
The Early U.S. Role
The Palestinian researcher Ahmad al-Dabash, who specializes in deconstructing biblical history, was at the forefront of Arab writers who shed light on this fact in his book "Palestine in the American Mind", revealing the early American role in the paths of the Palestinian cause, since the beginning of the great conspiracy launched by the First Basel Conference of the Zionist Organization led by Theodor Herzl on August August, 1897.
The author succeeded in revealing the reality of the basic and effective American role in establishing the Israeli entity from the beginning, providing evidence and proofs of this from the events and events of history, to reveal the terrible American effort that was active hand in hand with the British colonizer.
Like the Americans, the Zionists relied in the crimes they committed, on their ability to deny the facts and falsify history, especially after Washington later worked, and in light of the British role, which was dominant as the basis for the evil conspiracy, to extend the "Monroe Doctrine" to the Middle East, as it limited itself to the right to intervene in the affairs of this region without any other party, even if this party is the United Nations or the International Court of Justice, which guaranteed the Zionist movement what it required of Protection, attention and care.
..And Columbus too
In his book, Al-Dabash draws attention to America's swift approval of the British Mandate for Palestine since its declaration, and its enthusiastic blessing of what was known as the "Balfour Declaration." This was demonstrated by the American-British Agreement of 1924. This means directly and explicitly committing America to establish the Israeli entity and to deprive the Palestinian people of their country and their right to self-determination.
In parallel with his talk of "twain", Al-Dabash recalls what was uncommon in the biography of the discoverer of the New World (Christophe Columbus). Here, he reveals the efforts of this traveler in referring to and marketing many biblical texts to show the orientations of his call to "liberate Jerusalem and conquer the Holy Land", as if it were occupied by its original inhabitants. He signed his name in the Latin form "Christo Friend", which in Arabic means "bearer of Christ"... This gives his adventures and wading the seas a religious dimension par excellence, recalling that this idea was almost completely absent in the history of Columbus' voyages.
The author of Palestine in the American Mind offers a "different" approach in his research to clarify the nature of the relationship between America and the Zionist entity. In principle, it seems to be an uncirculated vision, which makes it "new" to some, surprising to others, and controversial in all cases.
What makes the issue even more surprising and surprising is that this relationship between Palestine and the American mind, according to the main title of the book, existed before the occupation of Palestine and the establishment of the artificial entity, as its historical roots date back more than 400 years before the emergence of the entity, that is, from 1492 (the date of the discovery of the "New World") until 1948, which was known by the Arabic narratives as the "year of the Nakba".
Before Basel Conference
It was politically recognized that the "British Empire", the mandate state for Palestine and the author of the Balfour Declaration, was practically the sponsor, supporter and main factor in helping the Zionist movement prepare for the occupation of Palestine, while the masters of this conspiracy were keen to obscure the role of the United States in that context.
What was America's role really in this matter? Did the relationship between America and the Zionists exist before the Zionist project was crystallized at the Basel Conference in 1898 and before the occupation of Palestine?
Here, the author returns to the role of Columbus, who has repeatedly said that "the gospel must be spread throughout the world." This means putting people in general between two choices: faith in the Christian religion or annihilation.... He focused on a theme that has nothing to do with discovery, but with the "liberation of Jerusalem" as the "symbol of the Holy Land". Columbus referred to many texts in Zionism's version of the Bible to illustrate the importance of his call for the "liberation of Jerusalem." Although his call did not find support in the early days within Western societies, the Spaniards, for example, at that point in time, claimed that Allah sent them to conquer those countries and triumph over the nations of the East. All of this was completely absent in the accounts of Columbus' voyages.
Scandalous symmetry
The researcher Al-Dabash distributed the material of his book in four chapters that came sequentially in presenting his idea clearly, and took care of presenting the historical trajectories of the crime of establishing the Israeli entity, starting first with the process of "founding" America at the expense of the Native Americans, i.e. the American Indians, passing through the American political perceptions of the Middle East. It means pursuing some "exploratory" adventures in the direction of the Holy Land., in order to reach specific political and operational stations carried out by the US administration to serve the Zionist project. All of this has been carefully formulated, rich in data, opinions, ideas, facts, quotes and references, which made the follow-up of the book interesting and rich, although shocking to the horror of the illusions that have dominated and continue to dominate the American imagination and culture.
The crime of establishing "Israel" as a state at the expense of Palestine and its people is almost identical to the crime of founding the United States at the expense of Indians, who are the Native Americans. Those who bear the status of "Americans" today are, as is known and common, a knowledge of many Western peoples fleeing from their countries behind adventure and gold, who occupied the country and established their "state" in it after eliminating its historical owners, just as the Zionist Jews were (and still are) in Palestine. and the war of genocide that he pursues " The Zionist occupation army against the Palestinians since the establishment of Israel and the continuation of the ongoing killing of Gaza is only one of the blatant manifestations of the nature of the similarity between the founding of America and the establishment of "Israel."
The myth of lobbyists
In the course of his research, the author asks: Can it be relied upon to claim that the power of the Jewish/Zionist lobbies and lobbyists in America has always been the basis in the process of shaping American policies towards the "Israel" and determining the options of the most powerful country in the world in the Middle East?
On this question, he says that it is a kind of deception and dust about the reality of the American role. It offers a limited and insufficient traditional explanation to portray the nature of the organic relationship between British and American colonialism, and thus does not touch on the essence of the relationship between these two parties and does not show its real pillars and realistic backgrounds, as it shows the American state as helpless, in need of help in the face of Jewish-Zionist influence. Such an explanation would improve America's image in front of its "Arab customers," the author says. It makes them appear to be a "victim" and a "puppet" in the hands of the Zionist lobby, and therefore its support for the Israeli entity in Palestine is imposed on it and against its will, which is a complete falsification of reality.
This interpretation also ignores the fact that the blind American bias towards "Israel" lies deeply within the "American culture" itself, and has its religious faith roots, in the sense that it works to translate the "Judeo-Christian heritage" (which has come to be called Christian Zionism) in the field of politics and its direct effects to determine the path of the complete and absolute American bias towards the Zionist entity.
The uglier excuse than guilt
In a glimpse note, the author believes that this interpretation "exonerates" many Arabic regimes, and provides their retreat from confrontation with a kind of excuse by providing the myth of the power of the "invincible" Zionist lobby in America, which provides them with the pretext they demand and makes "defeat Arabic" by refraining from confrontation a natural and self-evident result, thus marginalizing the fact of blind submission to American policy adapted to the requirements and policies of the Zionist movement.
The events and facts of history tell us that the Jewish heritage of American Christianity has led many Americans, who are mainly Christians, to believe that the establishment of the Zionist entity, which was achieved by occupation and expropriation in 1948, is the fulfillment of biblical prophecies, and comes in the context of the "plan of heaven and earth" in preparation for the "second coming of Christ", by rebuilding the temple on the Dome of the Rock, which is the crown of the Al-Aqsa Mosque... The first of the two qiblas in Islam.
In this context, the author says: "... This is the perception around which Americans and their superiors intersect and drink it with their mothers' milk, for example, moral, educational, cultural and religious, making the "Bible" in its "Zionism" form, the backbone of the American political mind. All of this refutes, in practice, the prevailing traditional interpretation of the power of the Zionist lobby, on which the Arab "mind" is based in its interpretation of the nature of the tight relationship between America and the Zionist enemy on the one hand, and the justification for failure in confrontation on the other, and the justification for panting after America and its policies on the third hand. It can even be said that the religious dimension in explaining this relationship explains the reason for the strength of this lobby and its great presence in America until the conflict in Palestine was transformed into a religious conflict that depends on the will of heaven and not on political interests and ambitions, and justifies through this all the unlimited American support that the occupation entity receives, despite its crimes, which are manifested today in the genocidal war that the Palestinian people are subjected to in the Gaza Strip in front of all the nations of the earth, with the full support of Washington. All of this would depict the rivers of blood, the policy of mass destruction, the ongoing murders, the series of murders and the violation of all human, moral, legal and religious taboos. It is really only a prelude to... Alleged biblical prophecies. This in itself is completely contrary to the idea of love and tolerance advocated by Christ, and it blatantly decriminalizes the "civilized" slogans about man, justice, freedom, the rights of peoples and other claims of America and the West.
In reading the history and milestones of the Americans' founding of their state, the author pointed out that the subsequent generations of settlers working relentlessly to "get rid of" the American Indians throughout the "New World" added to their religious claims and visions, the statement that they are the "people of the country" and its children, because they were born in it, which justified them to proceed with the expansion of the genocidal war against the Indians, the natives of the country, under the pretext that Allah their favor over the worlds and gave them the land. This is the same pretext claimed by the Zionist Jews regarding Palestinians and Palestine, where "genocidal morality" remains dominant. This approach embodied, in practice, the projection of the religious dimension on the political and economic life tracks and on the experience of British immigrants to America, as well as on Jewish immigrants to Palestine, which made America there and Palestine here, in their view, the existing alternative of the promised land in the land of Canaan.
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, this belief witnessed a surprising kind of geographical shift in American culture, with the "Holy Land" of Jerusalem/Palestine becoming the target.
Al-Dabash believes that the deep belief of American presidents in Zionism through their clear positions and statements confirms that they are the real owner of the Zionist project, and that political America in a more precise sense is the pioneer of Zionism before the establishment of the Zionist project. This is evident from the fact that biblical symbols dominate everything big and small in American life, including currency, emblem and city names. Most importantly, the pattern of thinking and the nature of the founders. In the face of this reality, American Protestant theology has developed a firm belief in the necessity of the "Jewish resurrection."The fact that the Second Coming of Christ, they believe, is contingent on the establishment of a "Jewish state" in Palestine. The author notes that this "faith/religious" tendency was more powerful among Americans than in the British. The reason, in his view, is that the establishment of America as a state in itself was an evangelical prophecy, and as a result, the fate of Israel hugs its fate. It is this trend that has been strengthened academically, theologically and economically to the point that today it is an indisputable reality.
British Protestant settlers on American soil tended to identify fully with the old Israelis, seeing themselves as "the Israel of Christianity." This contradicts what the Palestinian-American thinker Edward Said said in his book "Orientalism", when he said that "the history of American interest in Zionism was immediately after World War II." In his view, this interest existed decades earlier.
The end
The Christian belief in the return of Jesus Christ has been linked to the establishment of a "Zionist state" in the footsteps of the "sons of Israel". Hence, for example, the U.S. expedition to the Dead Sea. Although the missionary movement faced many obstacles in its beginnings, the Ottoman Grand Vizier's recognition of Protestants as a "sect" in the Ottoman Empire in 1847 marked the end of these obstacles, especially after they were called "evangelical Christians" recognized as part of the nations that profess Christianity.
Al-Dabash concludes his rich reading with a scandalous aphorism of US President Harry Truman, the perpetrator of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, in which he said, "I believed in the state of Israel", a position that confirms that the American position is based on the rule of "extermination of the Palestinian people", which means denying the rights of the indigenous Palestinians to their land, in the same way that the Americans adopted with the American Indian people.