Quote from: TDoS on Feb 09, 2025, 10:48 AMI was under the impression that 'MURIKAN indoctrination began early in the public schools of America?

It does, along with the historical spin from Hollywood in film and TV.  Its very successful with the weak minded.  If you're aware of it, the sales job doesn't work so well.

Far as the past is concerned, the winners try to whitewash the past and paint themselves as the good guys.  After enough time passes, they acknowledge the atrocities of the past and apologize for them.  They even occassionally pay reparations.  Never give back the land though and obviously don't bring the dead back to life.

Whitewashing ongoing atrocities is more difficult, particularly since the advent of TV and now the internet.  During Vietnam TPTB learned this and thus began to carefully control the images and stories coming out of war zones.  Unlike in the movies, IRL J6P grunt isn't always the good guy liberator, he's the oppressor ruling by force and intimidation bombing civilians with the Death From Above.

In the case of Israel, 2 groups of people have conflicting claims over the same crappy piece of land.  Jews got the deed from the Brits and claim it as theirs,  Palestinians claim it because they never accepted Brits as their rulers, the UN handed it to them as a "protectorate" and they've been living there continuously since Roman times.  It's never been its own country though because of its religious significance.  Believers from all places make pilgrimages there.  Jerusalem has been passed back and forth between Christians and Muslims since the Crusades.

While the Brits accept the UN charter as legal and binding, the Muslim world doesn't, and despite many Crusades, the Knights Templar never managed to conquer the Towel Heads.  So they didn't get the genocide necessary to take over that part of the world.  They just don't go in and roll over the Jews because it would start WWIII.  They support the Palestinian terror campaign tho.

RE