U.S. Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Exposes Every Sordid Truth About Zionism Except the One that Would Lead to Its Defeat: Its Anti-Israeli-Working-Class Purpose .
Listen to Ambassador Freeman and see how a pro-ruling class person serves the ruling class even while exposing some sordid truths about Zionism
There is something very interesting about what Chas W. Freeman, Jr. says, and what he does not say, in this interview (click here to watch it please).
Freeman is a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and was president Nixon’s translator when Nixon went to China—in other words he’s a very senior person in the American diplomatic world. Freeman clearly in this interview identifies with the American ruling class and its interests, which he refers to—as all U.S. diplomats and scholars and pundits do—as “U.S. interests.”
What Ambassador Freeman says
Ambassador Freeman, to my initial surprise actually, says this:
The Zionist project was based on a lie, that Palestine “was a land without people for a people without land.”
The Zionists horribly and cruelly dehumanized the Palestinians.
The Zionists violently and wrongly expelled (ethnic cleansing) 700,000 Palestinians from the part of Palestine now called Israel.
The Zionists are now committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israeli government official who is the equivalent of the U.S. head of the FBI is shockingly calling for the summary executions (a bullet in the head) of Palestinian prisoners including many who have not even been found guilty of a crime.
Israel is now a fascist nation.
The Israeli public is brainwashed into hatred of Palestinians.
The Israeli education system uses the fact of the Holocaust to make Israelis fear Palestinians and support genocide of them.
Zionism has nothing to do with the Jewish religion; the latter honors humanist ethics and the former absolutely does not.
Israeli apartheid is worse than the apartheid of South Africa because the latter aimed at creating separate black and white nations and cultures whereas the former aims at just exterminating the Palestinians.
Israel is NOT an ally of the United States. Allies have formal obligations to each other, but Israel has no formal obligation to the United States and always just does what it wants to do even when it is contrary to U.S. wishes.
Israel has not a single friendly nation in the Middle East; it just uses violence to get what it wants.
Netanyahu is a very smart and very selfish person. He knows full well that it is impossible to destroy Hamas—his stated goal—but he wants to keep Israel at war indefinitely in order to avoid going to prison for his well-known corruption.
What Ambassador Freeman does NOT say
At no time does Ambassador Freeman even hint at the class nature of the “Palestine/Israel conflict.”
Freeman avoids like the plague the fact that the Israeli government is a government of, by and for the Israeli billionaires, that the Israeli billionaires severely economically oppress and get rich off of the Israeli working class and get away with this by a) treating the Palestinians like dirt to make them a bogeyman enemy, b) funding Hamas and working to keep it in power in order to make the bogeyman enemy maximally frightening to Israeli Jews, c) pretending to protect Israeli Jews from their “real enemy”—Palestinians, and d) telling the Israeli working class that it must be patriotic and not seriously challenge the power of the Israeli (billionaire-controlled) government that is their only protection against their “real enemy.” I prove all of this with mainstream sources in my articles here and here and here.
What Is the Significance of Ambassador Freeman’s Silence about CLASS?
Is it not obvious? People like U.S. ambassadors—people who are loyal to the American ruling class even when they think it is making serious mistakes—do not ever want to let the cat out of the bag, i.e., let the public understand the class nature of the conflicts that the ruling class falsely says are about religion or ethnicity or nationality. The reason is that when the public understands the class nature of conflicts such as the Israel/Palestine conflict, then ALL the have-nots are united against ALL the haves.
If Americans knew the class nature of the Israel/Palestine conflict then the Americans who support the Palestinians and the Americans who support ordinary Israeli Jews would see that they were on the SAME side, not opposing sides. They would see that the side they were against was the billionaires controlling Israel AND the billionaires controlling Hamas. The haves would be defeated by the have-nots.
This is why Ambassador Freeman will say all of those damning things about Zionism, but remain silent about class. Our rulers (and the Zionists also) don’t CARE if lots of people know how immoral and cruel Zionism is to Palestinians; they even like it that lots of people are opposed to Zionism while lots of other people support it. This is how divide-and-rule works: pitting about half the population of have-nots against the other half.
What our rulers FEAR is if anti-Zionists started talking about the CLASS nature of the conflict, about how the Israeli government is the ENEMY of ordinary Israeli Jews and how it uses Zionism and funds Hamas to control and oppress ordinary Israeli Jews. Our rulers know that if anti-Zionists started talking about class this way they they would win over to their side the millions of people who want to be on the side of ordinary Jews (typically because, to their credit, they are horrified by the Holocaust.)