“We can’t talk about Israel because we are Israel”

From activist and author Winona LaDuke
as reported by Mondoweiss 11 years ago

“… Euro-Americans in the United States can’t talk about Gaza, because we can’t talk about Israel.

Because we can’t talk about the fact that the world is not suffering from a Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but that the world is suffering from the fact that Europe has never been able to deal with its ‘Jewish Question’ without some sort of intense barbarity and horror, from the Inquisition to the Holocaust.

And that Europe, in particular ‘Great’ Britain, the masters of divide and conquer, ‘solved’ the problem by supporting the radical, terrorist, extremist Zionists and their mad plan to resettle the ‘homeland.’

We can’t talk about Israel because we can’t talk about Wounded Knee. Because we can’t talk about Sand Creek or Carlisle ‘Boarding School.’ Because we can’t talk about forced sterilization or smallpox blankets or Kit Carson and his scorched earth policy in the Southwest. Because we have Andrew Jackson on our twenty dollar bill. Because we are one huge settlement on stolen land.

We can’t talk about Israel because we are Israel.”