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Zionist Israel has a Palestinian Problem. The US is on the wrong side of history with respect to that and has been so for decades. The US refuses any healthy conscious awareness of or dialog regarding its role in supporting the state of Zionism. Such denial is a classic sign of mental illness.

As in many unhealthy situations, there is a continuous insistent effort to reinforce the denial required to maintain and shape the blindness of US citizens so they accept as normal the behavior of their government: For example, it just passes into the brain through the ear as Wolf Blitzer, former AIPAC propagandist, on CNN is unable to mention Israel without the phrase one of America's strongest allies. Over and over and over. It's as normal for Israelis to slaughter Palestinians as it was for Andrew Jackson to slaughter Native Americans.

Indeed, Jabotinsky's 1923, one might say - original, road map, Iron Wall likened what European colonialists must do to the Palestinians to what Europeans had done to the native Americans of the US. And, of course, every American knows the savage Native Americans were red-skin terrorists who killed indiscriminately when they retaliated against the usurpation of their land by entitled ahem, white settlers.

How natural the narrative sounds - a little nation of John Waynes, Gary Coopers and Jimmy Stewarts fighting the terrorists - the good guys and the, ahem, dark-skin bad guys. Of course the bad guys must be slaughtered or herded into their pens and isolated.

Israel as one of our strongest allies is a Blitzer-like blitzkreig of propaganda.

Israel is ally to no entity but its self and is self-destructive in the long term at that. Like the overindulgent, blind to truth rich parent-friend, US policy has culminated in enabling and reinforcing decades of special religious/racial elitism, brutality, duplicity and hypocrisy to meld a rogue cult-as-state into an evil entity.

The damage to the character and reputation of the US of these decades of indulgence and denial may be irreversible from an historical perspective. If it is to be redressed at all, the cost in US self-correction is likely to be of the same scale, pain and duration as that of slavery and segregation. And part of that cost will need to be inductive: the character and behavior of Israel will need to change from within and by forces from without - Israel must change or the US must become its enemy.

The unnecessary wanton slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza may not provide the watershed moment in US/Israeli history that the US needs in order to see clearly how wrong its policy and indulgence of Zionism has been. Like the emergent phenomenon of most epiphany-like realizations, the beginning of a turning point in US collective consciousness will be difficult to pinpoint but its tsunami-like force of change will be impossible to escape or reverse.

There have been signs, albeit quickly repressed, of emerging US conscious awareness of its participation in and fomenting of the wrong-headed character and nature of Zionist Israel. For example, the assertions of Howard Dean during the debates in 2003 quickly excited the uneasy schizoid roots and nature of US policy and the need to quickly ban it from consciousness and public discourse.

But the unbridled zeal of the current slaughter in Gaza on top of more than a year of horrific siege coupled with the brazen flaunting of Israeli power over US policy and behavior, and Bush's disgusting kowtow, in the age of instant world-wide visibility is a series of events and postures to be reckoned with. A serious demonstration of its schizoid mentality by the US government that, resulting in a mealy-mouthed abstention from voting on what it, in fact, led, was the clash between Rice and Bush where the Secretary of State bulldogged the President out of the shame of an outright US veto of its own sanity.

This series of events could be a tipping point. It provides the incoming President a stark picture of a crazy reality a sane man must strive to change. Will Barack Obama forfeit immediately his promise of change we can believe in by indulging in yet another cycle of denial of the wrongness of decades of US foreign policy in the Middle East? We think/hope not.

Obama's take will be wrenching for him to consume and digest but he will face reality and do what must be done. He may discreetly refrain from calling the nature and behavior of Israel by name. But he will also refrain from the poisonous kool-ade that has kept US foreign policy terribly, disastrously, evilly insane for decades, correctly assess that he must take Israel by the ear, look that spoiled-brat tyrant straight in the eye, impart truth and light, induce fear and assure it that the US is no longer going to tolerate, much less support, a state of repressive, ethnic-cleansing elitists founded in and by terrorism in the first place.

And then there must be the hope, a blue print, a beacon that, when followed, curtails and reverses evil, informs and sustains the righteous evolution of a state: The hard, clear set of principles set forth in the Declaration of Original Intent, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights are as important to any would-be modern democratic state as they are to the US.

From day one, Israel has steadfastly and purposely avoided the articulation of a foundational, inviolable law of the land, a constitution. That is because duplicity, the hypocritical shell-game of feigned righteousness while caging indigenous people, poking them with sharp sticks till they feebly respond and then zealously slaughtering them in defense requires the absence of the principles of equality under the law and personal Liberty that would protect all from oppression by states and other citizens alike. The duplicitous claim of Israeli citizenship for native Palestinians, whatever their religion, is amply and repeatedly demonstrated to be but a fluid sheen hiding the cesspool where repressive elitists defecate upon the civil rights and liberties of others.

The de facto acceptance of a Zionist state, or any state of ethnic/religious elitism at the expense of others, in the 21st century by the authoring of a so-called road map to solving Israel's Palestinian Problem is a travesty, a smearing of a bullshit facade over concrete walls to hide the much uglier Zionist flavor of elitist European colonialism that, in terms of states, most closely resembles apartheid South Africa.

A nation with government and law founded on a constitution that acknowledges and guarantees the civil rights and Liberty of all individuals regardless of race or creed is something Barack Obama is uniquely situated to provide testimony to as befitting any nation that might be called a US ally. When he takes Israel by the ear, shakes it to the bone, makes it perceive the shame of its behavior and provides the carrots and sticks by which it may redeem itself Barack Obama, a black man from the land of Lincoln becoming President in the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth may go a long way toward becoming an equally auspicious and revered leader and American President - for similar reasons.