Lies, Comfortable Lies

It\'s a falsehood to absolve the masses as being \"stuck with what their governments do in their name\" and it\'s a bare-faced lie to say that \"it\'s beyond their control\". 
 
There are varying degrees of complicity in what governments do and with varying degrees of ignorance of what is going on. But every single lie relating to Bush\'s wars has been exposed. Every unattractive truth is out there for people to find; people don\'t find or acknowledge or respond to them because the lies are more attractive, more flattering, more promising and more colourful.  
 
And Of course there is a body of \"people who strive for justice and freedom that live within these countries\"; I have been one of them and I know from experience that you don\'t have to spend much time talking to people before you realise that they really don\'t want to have to accept that what their government is doing is not very nice. They don\'t want to know. They are wilfully decieved. 
 
The bottom line is that most people have a vested interest in the status quo and however humble that interest they will cling to the lies in order to preserve it. The bottom line is complicity. Noone can claim that governments do not act in their name. They are all complicit because they know what is happening but they don\'t work to overthrow these governments and the reason they don\'t is that they are complicit. The stick is too hard and the carrot too sweet, the sleepy dream too cosy to wake. The fact of complicity is beyond question, it\'s only a matter of degree. 
 
This article and Gideon\'s comment are enough to dump Zionism and the state of Israel into the trash can but in fact the impact will be insignificant. This is not because the points made are inadequate, too narrow or refutable - not at all, they are comprehensive and logically indisputable, they fail because people will resist them. Perhaps you and I will print them off and send them to colleagues, acquaintances, family and friends. Many will not read them at all, few will pass them on for others. These diamonds will sink back into the sand and tomorrow the apologists for Zionism will be still condemning opposition with accusations of anti-semitism and the stupid masses will be nodding in their sleep.

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