"Toleration," said Mrs. Whitehead, "pays such immense returns. ...You need your Jews in this country. They make an admirable ingredient in your population. ...Your Negro problem, on the other hand, is a real problem. When English people deplore their having been brought here, I want to ask them, 'Who began it?'"
"Bringing them in was so fearfully shortsighted in the first place," said Whitehead. "A little imagination should have warned anybody what was being incurred."
--From "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead,"
As recorded by Lucien Price (1954)
What is the Netanyahus’ endgame in the highly one-sided contest of wills and weaponry that is going on in Gaza? That's one of the main things that I keep wondering, because they can forget about any of their neighbors ever forgetting or forgiving their numerous transgressions as the bully boys on the block.
For example, take the series of massacres that the Israeli leadership and the people who voted for them are carrying out almost daily, here at a mosque, there at a hospital, here at a school, there at a UN shelter, here, there, and everywhere in Gaza against their regular whipping boys, the Palestinians, not one of whose forefathers could have participated in any of the transports to the gas chambers of the 1940's.
Everything points to one and only one answer to that question: the Netanyahus have long since decided to go for what I call "the "New World Outcome."
This Outcome consists of the process wherein a group arrives on the shores of someone else's longtime home with a sky-high sense of their own racial and cultural superiority, along with plenty of advanced weaponry and pretenses cloaked in religion, following which they proceed to exploit, plunder, and kill off or drive off the people who were already living there till scarcely a trace of those people or of their culture remains, and to colonize or "settle" those thereby "empty" lands.
That explains why you see so little indignation among the supposedly always moral American people about the obvious and gross mistreatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis for almost 70 years. A large number of Americans can identify with this kind of thing, because so much of it is a big part of their own history. In their minds the Israelis are those exemplary types of human beings called "the winners," case closed. They see the Palestinians, on the other hand, as being exactly the same as "nigras" or "redskins" and therefore subhuman and also losers, case closed.
Consequently, these Americans tell themselves, let as many Palestinians be killed off as possible and let the hopefully few remaining survivors operate gambling casinos, case closed. Applaud while Israel expands its territory at gunpoint and at the expense of its nearest neighbors till it is double or quadruple its original size. (Should anyone doubt that this has already happened, they have only to see the maps that Juan Cole regularly shows on his "Informed Comment" site.) Case closed. And if anyone yells in protest, let the Israelis brandish their F-16's and rattle the nukes that they are too dishonest to admit they have, and also let the Netanyahus see nothing untoward in trying to sic the Americans, like so many junkyard dogs, on any objectors. CASE CLOSED!
It is an extremely safe bet that just as in the past, without exception everything that the Israeli leaders do in the future will continue to be in full accordance with bringing about this "New World Outcome."
Just as impalas know exactly what the hyenas are thinking, it shouldn't come as a shock to hear how membership in a group as widely maligned as American "black" people" greatly heightens a person's awareness and certainty of how minds are working among those hostile to them. So it is easy to sense how a sizable segment of the dominant "white" group in the U.S. has become so worked up with fear and anger over their failure to prevent the election and even worse the re-election of a "black" U.S. President, that they would like nothing better than to see millions of Americans who share his hue likewise all jammed up together in a narrow strip of land just like Gaza where they likewise could be shelled and bombed at will and without any means of meaningful retaliation or escape. The successful Republican courtship of that segment, the massive hoarding of guns, the admiration for everything that the Netanyahus do to the Palestinians, and the incredible hatred that is felt toward President Obama for no detectable reason other than his melanin count strongly suggest that that hidden longing for fait accompli eradication of a large group of one's fellow humans could actually be more alive and well now than it has ever been at any other time in American history.
Yesteryear's German example coupled with today's Netanyahoo version, most recently at work in Gaza, show how such mass slaughters and removals can be done and gotten away with, since the element of conscience seems to have almost completed its mutation right out of the human genome over most of the globe. That has been especially evident during this latest cooperative shot by Israel and the U.S. at using huge amounts of shells and bombs fired indiscriminately and mercilessly, so as to try to hasten the departure of the longest-running inhabitants of the region, through death, deprivation, and terror, and the resulting agony and loss of life endlessly being heaped upon the Palestinians are what is being "incurred."