It’s All About the Optics
How easy it is for the propagandists to control us!
As I read about the numerous standing ovations that Netanyahu received during his speech before Congress yesterday, my mind flashed back to Ancient Rome.
Roman citizens cheering as they watched the gruesome games in the Coliseum, in which the “criminals” were torn to bloody bits through various methods of torture. The bloodlust all in the name of law and order.
The same bloodlust that justifies the gruesome extermination of thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, with the reasoning that “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
The American politicians, who are able to stomach the atrocities committed by the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank as long as those dollars from AIPAC keep funding their campaigns for re-election, gave 24 standing ovations during Netanyahu’s 40 minute speech.
If a man like Benjamin Netanyahu had walked through their home and mangled their children’s bodies so much that they could never forget the way they looked afterward — I wonder if they would applaud still. I wonder if the screams of their family members burning alive in tents would potentially interrupt the thought that told them to clap, the thought that told them to give the man a standing ovation for his perfectly executed slaughter of…
