I’ve been advocating for Palestinian rights for around 15 years now. In the process of delving into the issue, I’ve grown weary and frustrated about the pernicious effect of Zionist propaganda that has served to shut down discourse on the issue for so many years. Now finally, it took a horrible, bloody attack by an extremist Palestinian group to serve as a wake up call to the world that perhaps there is more than one side here, and perhaps we should be listening to the grievances of the other side. I was Googling the term “Zionist propaganda” and I came across the article, from of all places, the CIA, below written by a man I had never heard of before, James Abourezk, a Lebanonese-American.
James Abourezk served one term each as a US senator and a Congressman in South Dakota, but left politics because he felt like a fish swimming upstream and thought he could better put his intellect to service in the private sector. He fought for Indian rights, as well as for normalizing relations with Cuba and Iran – a tried and true leftist and good person. How interesting that this meticulously detailed article about how US/Zionist propaganda has clouded the truth of Israel’s bloody formation and continued occupation was published in Penthouse magazine. I’ve got to wonder if that’s because he couldn’t find a more mainstream, reputable venue. In any event, I’ve posted it here for myself as much as anyone else as a go-to resource when I get my dates and facts about this non-ending struggle muddled.
Sadly he died just this year. RIP James Abourezk.
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