The Domestication of Arabs Failed | Haaretz |

In recent years, we have been witness to the blossoming of a grandiose project - the domestication of the Arab citizens of Israel - to get them to toe the line of establishment policy in several fields. Arab citizens interfered with the project of redeeming the land from their own hands and from the hands of their brethren in the occupied territories, and not only because of their national identity but also because the cry they raised was heard around the world, grating on the ears of racists. The goal of the project was to create the kind of Arab who would express gratitude for being allowed to remain in the land of the forefathers - of the Jews of course - at all.

Two approaches were taken by the Israeli establishment in its undertaking. The first was summarized in 1956 in Moshe Dayan's eulogy for Roi Rotberg, a kibbutz security officer killed near the Gaza Strip. From his remarks, Dayan apparently understood what the Arabs were feeling, seeing their land stolen and not reconciling themselves to the bitter fate forced upon them.

Moshe Dayan's Eulogy for Roi Rutenberg - April 19, 1956

In practice, however, that portion of his remarks was directed at Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who was seeking a bridge between the two peoples. Dayan ended by saying that there was no alternative to continued all-out war against the Arabs. [FALSE - Oui]

 Not all versions includes this passage ...

Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.

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Moshe Sharett is one of the founding fathers of Israel | Jewish Virtual Library |

Moshe Sharett was born on October 15, 1894, in Kherson (Ukraine). He moved to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with his family in 1908, making their first home in the Arab village of Ein Sinia; the experience left him with a command of Arabic and Arab customs.

Sharett and his family moved in 1910 to Jaffa, where they became one of the founding families of "Ahuzat Bayit," the earliest nucleus of the city of Tel Aviv. Moshe was a member of the first graduating class of the first Hebrew high school in the country, the Herzliya Gymnasium.

Sharett began studying law in Istanbul, but his studies were interrupted by service in the Turkish Army in World War I as an interpreter. He then worked as an Arab affairs and land purchase agent for the postwar Palestine Jewish Community's Representative Council. He was a member of Ahdut ha-Avodah (Unity of Labor) and later of Mapei (Israel Workers' Party). From 1922 to 1924, he studied at the London School of Economics and was active in Poalei Zion (Workers of Zion). He then became deputy editor of the Histadrut Labor Federation's daily Davar newspaper in 1925 and edited its English-language weekly until 1931, when he assumed the post of Secretary of the Jewish Agency's Political Department.

From 1933 until 1948, Sharett was in effect the Zionist movement's ambassador and chief negotiator vis-a-vis the British Mandatory Authorities. Though the British incarcerated him for four months in Latrun detention camp, he later succeeded in establishing the British Army's Jewish Brigade in 1944, which provided the postwar lifeline and illegal repatriation route to Mandatory Palestine for tens of thousands of the remnant of European Jewry.

In 1947, he appeared before the United Nations General Assembly in the vital partition debate and was one of the signatories of Israel's Declaration of Independence.

The Lavon Affair is a spy story in Israel's early years that left a nasty mark on the young state, with reverberations for the following 20 years. Its name derived from Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon, though it is also referred to as "Esek HaBish" or "The Mishap".

Revolving around nearly a dozen young Egyptian Jews who agreed to spy for Israel against their home country, the affair taps into a story of idealism and self-sacrifice as well as abandonment and an unwillingness to take responsibility.

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The Lavon Affair: When Israel Firebombed U.S. Installations

Now the networks were to explode small incendiary bombs in American installations in Egypt, presumably to set off a chain of mutual recriminations to spoil the budding Eisenhower-Nasser courtship. After completing their sabotage of American installations, the same networks next were to bomb public places in Cairo and Alexandria, actions that Nasser would attribute to the Muslim Brotherhood, which supported the deposed General Naguib, and thus create a climate of Egyptian instability during the British-Egyptian Canal Zone negotiations.

The Lavon Affair: How a false-flag operation led to war and the Israeli bomb

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David Ben-Gurion Interview - 1956

In the meantime, the new state already was quilty of crimes against humanity due to ethnic cleansing. Ben-Gurion viewed the Palestinians and the 1948 refugees to be re-located in empty areas inside Syria and Iraq. Also Ben-Gurion permitted Ariel Sharon's "Unit 101" to operate with impunity in the Qibya massacre inside Jordanian territory. These terror acts laid the foundation of the state of Israel and the agony of the Palestinians.

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Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald commissioned journalist and politician Nicholas Flood Davin to study industrial schools for Indigenous children in the United States.

Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds | Ottawa - 14th March 1879 |

Report based on study President Ulysses S. Grant to assimilate Indian tribes through Peace Commission of 1869.

My diary -- Colonialism and Assimilation First Nation | June 5, 2021 |

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East coast of 19th century America had a slightly different approach ...

The History of Americanization through Education: Richard Henry Pratt's Legacy | A Thesis - Colby College | (2013)

The history of "Americanization through education" began even before America gained its independence. Although they did not use this phrase, when Cotton Mather and the Puritans arrived in New England they had a desire to create a "City on a Hill," which led to a very homogenized society that emphasized conformity. While Mather and others focused on white settlers, they applied the same basic principles to the Native Americans they encountered. In 1672 the Pilgrims wrote that "if any of the Indians shall be brought to civility, and shall come amongst the English to inhabit in any of their plantations, and shall there live civilly and orderly, that such Indians shall have allotments among the English." Thus, early in the country's history there was not only a stress for uniformity among whites, but this homogeneity extended to, and was expected of, Native Americans. What this Pilgrim writing seems to indicate is that if Native Americans acted like whites and accepted their way of life, the two groups could, in theory, live in harmony.

Once America gained its independence from England in the late eighteenth-century, the uniformity Mather encouraged evolved into what can be called "Americanization." Noah Webster wrote textbooks, the first of which was published in 1829 and sold over twenty million copies, used for Americanization that focused on creating a uniform language and "harmony of the United States." Newly printed dictionaries stressed the uniqueness of the American language with specific pronunciations and the American spellings of the English words. In addition to language, the Americanization effort established an overall separation from the country's colonial past through a unified religious-political identity. The Americanizers focused on the rigidity of European religion and class, and the oppression and the lack of freedom found throughout Europe. Americanization played a key role in solidifying the nation's independence and creating a sense of national identity. The "true" Americans were increasingly understood to be the colonists who had fought for freedom and who in turn wanted any newcomers to the country to incorporate themselves into this society and adopt its principles and practices.

Opened in 1879 in Pennsylvania, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

One can interchange "Indians" and savages by today's adversaries of America,  and Americanization by Democratization and one can understand the War on Terror is an Enduring Operation and will continue until the "(Far) East was Won".

Hollywood used in war propaganda and painting over genocide and a revision of American History. The Republicans in Red States are quite blunt in correcting the educational curriculum in their image.

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Syrian Opposition Forces Al-Nusra Caught with Sarin Gas in Turkey | May 30, 2013 |

Brotherhood/Salafist Split Interferes In Clinton's War on Syria | @BooMan by Oui on July 1, 2012 |

Turkey MIT border town Adana caught in smuggling Sarin ... all journalists involved in publication were prosecuted.

A comprehensive diary on the "victory" over ISIL in Syria and the pull-back of American armed forces by president Trump.

The Generals v the Commander-In-Chief | Dec. 21, 2018 |

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From his rant in Rome ...

"Therefore, we can't lightly assume that the religious liberty enjoyed today in the United States, in Europe, and in many other places will always endure. Religious liberty is fragile, and religious intolerance and persecution have been recurring features of human history," he said.

Indeed, Rome is where St. Peter, St. Paul, and countless other early Christians were martyred.

"If we look around the world today, we see that people of many different faiths face persecution because of religion," Alito said, noting that religious liberty is a life-or-death matter in many parts of the globe. He cited examples of groups such as the Yazidis in northern Iraq [Al Qaeda linked Islamic State], Christians in Nigeria [Boko Haram], Coptic Christians in Egypt [ISIS], and Uyghurs in China that have been victims of horrific violence.

¹⁾ Yazidis do have death by stoning for sex outside of marriage and honor killing.

This man is unfit for office ... a big a$$hole just as GWB who thought it fit to select him for the Supreme Court. I miss any reference to the Holocaust and role of Rome, the Indigenous Indians across North, Central and South America, the Eastern Orthodox Christians in Syria martyred by NATO intervention. Hypocrisy at an exceptional level.

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This is so gross

— Kristy Rawson (@EstherRawson) July 30, 2022

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For a nation build on "In God We Trust"

This only dates from the 19th century

#SupremeCourt justice #Alito is SOFT on religious fanaticism & so UNWORTHY of his post! ⚖️👎[_link]

— Jon Óttar (@jonothar) July 31, 2022

Justices Sotomayor and Barrett appear publicly in bid to show unity | ABC News |

"Fundamentally, they are good people," Sotomayor said of her colleagues.

At the end of the legal debate, we counted the votes. You lost 3-6.

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