By Jean RANC

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Jean Ranc is a retired psychologist from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry.

Despite my repeated calls, then letters to the Washington and North Carolina offices of our Senators Ted Budd and Thom Tillis, as well as our Congressman Addison McDowell to stop the Gaza genocide and oppose the unprovoked & unconstitutional bombing and assassination of Iran & its citizens, I’ve received nothing but “form” letters in “Defense of Israel” from Budd (born in 1971), Tillis (in 1960) and McDowell (in 1994). Indeed, their letters are almost identical to those I received from my Senate & Congressional “reps” in Oklahoma a year before last, while I was with my brother who died from cancer even as this latest chapter of Israeli aggression against its Palestinian neighbors began.

Dismayed by most Americans’ ignorance of the history and lack of conscience as we’ve watched this massive slaughter of Palestinians by the Israelis with the support of our taxes & weapons day after day for almost 2 years, I’ve been digging deep in search of the roots of this psycho-political pathology.

And from the history of this time and space, I’ve been reminded that our first “populist” President, Carolina-born Andrew Jackson, succeeded in getting the “Indian Removal Act” passed in 1830 and hence began his confiscation of Native American lands throughout the Southeast—then driving its people across the country on what became known as the “Trail of Tears”, where so many died; all the way to “Indian Territory” together with the rest of the survivors of some 65 tribes “cleansed” from across America, were dumped to make way for white settlers. But that turned out to be only temporary “re-location” until oil was discovered and population pressure forced the “territory” to be opened to white settlers. And thereafter, the army and the “Cowboys” pushed most of the “Indians” onto “reservations” further west and “Oklahoma” became the 46th state on November 16, 1907. So it was where I was born as a “Great Depression baby” only 26 years later—what with my grandparents having been among the first “white settlers” on that barren land near the “panhandle”.

Nevertheless, my father, with savings from his meager salary as a public school teacher, had slowly put together a ranch so that with cattle and a garden, he, my mother, who was also a teacher, and I did not go hungry. Indeed, soon thereafter, we were rescued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps program to rescue & train unemployed young men, as my father, a reserve cavalry officer from WWI, was called to duty as an administrator of CCC camps around Denver. Hence, we moved from our Oklahoma ranch & cabin with no plumbing but a cold water pump in the kitchen to a comfortable, modern apartment in the center of Denver, yet within commuting distance of my father’s work in the surrounding camps, until he was again called to army duty in time for WWII, but state side because by that time, he was in his 50’s & had a family.

Hence, we were settled in our adobe duplex facing the Fort Robinson quadrangle in northwest Nebraska well before the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which, according to the “history books” catapulted the US into WWII. So my brother and I spent the rest of that war growing up in the West on old cavalry forts, which had served, not only as the military installations from Vermont to California for the genocide and ethnic-cleansing of America for white settlers, but as precursors for our cureent 800-some military bases around the world for enforcing & exploiting the last bastions of Western Imperialism. Because, after WWII with most of Europe in ruins, we inherited the leadership role, also due to our almost 50 years of “internship” following our 1898 intervention in Cuba’s war for independence against Spain, after which, we’d claimed victory, renamed it the “Spanish American War” and took over the Spanish Empire from Latin America and the Caribbean to the Philippines and other islands in the Pacific, where, in 1893 we had overthrown Queen Lili’uokalai of Hawaii and replaced her with the American pineapple plantation owner, Sanford B. Dole. So much for solving the “mystery” of our 50^th state (as of 1959) floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—happily just two years before Obama was born there in 1961 in time to qualify & serve as President despite Trump’s disputing his “birthrite”.

Thus, after the Europeans failed in their attempts to colonize the whole world, we inherited the leadership as “the winners”until we tried to replace the French colonization of Vietnam, where, despite our killing 3 million of its people, (as we were reminded by our young guide, Ho, in January 2007) in addition to losing over 58,000 American soldiers with how many thousands more of the “walking wounded” to this day, not to mention the bombing to death of some 300,000 Cambodians & at least 60,000 Laotians plus the deaths of millions more “boat people”, refugees, lost at sea. All in the cause of “Defending America & SE Asia from becoming “Falling Dominoes” at the hands of the Communists after our “loss of China”, according to our 50’s General-turned-President Eisenhower, less than a decade after our atomic-bombing of Japan.

Meanwhile, it seems that our presidents & politicians, not to mention our people, have never learned that in 1948, the US, the Brits & Europeans, who had failed to accept Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps in our own countries, instead, expelled some 750,000 Palestinians from their homes & land, then herded them into refugee camps to make way for the desperate survivors to take over their homes and country, whose descendents have since turned it into the apartheid state of Israel. Then years later even after agreements were made to permit some Palestinians to inhabit mere strips of land in the West Bank & Gaza, the Israelis continued their attacks on their neighbors: destroying their farms, grabbing more of their homes & land, turning the “West Bank” into a “Swiss cheese” of isolated Palestinian communities, schools, shops & hospitals with only grim, militarized “check points”, where, over the years Palestinians have had to wait in line for hours to reach their jobs, buy necessities or simply just get together with family & friends.

Also, no thanks to our “mainstream media“, which neglects to inform us that our “problem with Iran” did not start with “the 1979 Iranian revolution”. The truth is that we became the enemy of Iran in 1953, when we and the British employed our CIA and the Brits’ MI6, to overthrow their democratically elected President Mohammad Mossadegh after he’d attempted to take back his country’s oil from British Petroleum on behalf of the Iranian people. In his place, we set up “The Shah” as the dictator of Iran to do our bidding. Until finally in 1979, Iranians became strong & united enough to overthrow “Our Shah” and set up their own government to defend themselves against our continued attempts to dominate them and steal their oil by every means of intervention & threat including Trump’s & Israel’s latest bombing & assassination spree under the pretext that Iran had nuclear weapons. But, in fact, it’s the nuclear-armed & US-weaponized Israel, which is the most dangerous & destructive country in the Middle East, where the Israelis have continued to bomb and invade its neighbors…as it seeks to grab & occupy ever more land.

All the while, the Palestinians with their own defensive forces known as Hamas & Hezbollah, as well as neighboring Yemeni Houthis have resisted & fought back as best they could against the now nuclear-armed Israelis, whom our succeeding Presidents & Congressional puppets “defend” with billions of our tax dollars and weapons. But for all of the hysteria & religious hype about “anti-semitism”, the reality is that Israel serves, not as our pious Judaic-Christian ally, but rather as our military outpost in the Middle East, where we are obsessed with owning or, at least controlling the oil, global trade routes & dominating the global “chessboard”. Hence, just in the course of this 21^st century, we’ve invaded and overthrown leaders in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya & Syria (not to mention dozens before & beyond): destroying their cities, homes, schools, hospitals & centuries of civilization, spreading chaos & driving their desperate citizens toward Europe, whether on foot or into leaky boats destined to sink & drown these refugees. Even so, our Vice President J.D. Vance with his family on a luxurious European vacation, had the gall to denounce the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for her moment of compassion in the simmering summer of 2015, when she welcomed Syrian refugees, who’d fled our NATO bombing of their country and more recently, our “regime change” of their President Assad and replaced him with a former Al Qaeda-Isis terrorist.

And even after Trump and Netanyahu colluded through months of planning to bomb Iran & assassinate their nuclear scientists & military leaders on a weekend in June, when they were at home with their families, friends and neighbors, including an apartment building in Tehran, which was demolished together with its 65 inhabitants, in the midst of on-going nuclear negotiations between the US & Iran, even killing one of the Iranian negotiators. But if this weren’t evil enough, we followed up by bombing what had been Iranian “nuclear enrichment sites” (for domestic electricity production in compliance with international inspection). Never-the-less, our President was seen gleefully celebrating his “victory” after flinging 30,000-lb bombs into what proved to be basically empty nuclear enrichment sites. Meanwhile, have any of our “Green New Deal” environmentalists dared to ask, much less do research on the impact of such accelerated “ecocide”: As the possible cause of ever more traumatic floods, earthquakes, tsunamis ravaging our only earthen home?

Until now, after almost 2 years of our joint Israeli-US bombing assault and slaughter of Palestinians the Israelis are now herding the remaining survivors into a concentration camp of southern, demolished Gaza, while our president, our politicians & our military-industrial profiteers continue to defend & promote the on-going Gaza Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing, plus the Israelis latest chapter: murder by starvation after replacing 400 professional UN humanitarian aid centers with only 4 US-Israel-crafted “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” sites, which serve as deadly traps, where Israeli soldiers have shot & killed over 1000 of the desperately hungry Palestinians seeking food for their families.

What have we become in the course of slaughtering and starving most of the Palestinians to death, then “cleansing” the rest from Gaza so that Western “investors” can turn it into a Mediterranean resort for Israeli “supremacists”, “exceptional” Americans and our European “collaborators”?

Original article:  therealistreview.substack.com