With Zionism losing the narrative war, ruling elites seek to isolate all authentic sources of anti-imperialism
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What can the U.S. empire’s narrative managers do when none of the pro-Israel arguments are truly working? When nothing they say or do can prevent millions from demonstrating for Palestine worldwide, or stop young people from abandoning the old Zionist dogmas? Ideally, the Israel narrative would be able to act as a replacement for the Ukraine narrative, letting the empire use a new story after the old one loses its usefulness. That’s what the empire has always done with its routine of rotating villains and heroes; but it can’t do that now, because this proxy war against Gaza wasn’t planned. It was started in reaction to an anti-colonial revolt whose effects the empire can only hope to mitigate. The ability of the empire to influence the popular consciousness has gone down; partly because of the people’s growing disillusionment over Ukraine, and partly because of U.S. hegemony’s decline in both hard and soft power.
With Zionism losing the narrative war, ruling elites seek to isolate all authentic sources of anti-imperialism
With Zionism losing the narrative war, ruling…
With Zionism losing the narrative war, ruling elites seek to isolate all authentic sources of anti-imperialism
What can the U.S. empire’s narrative managers do when none of the pro-Israel arguments are truly working? When nothing they say or do can prevent millions from demonstrating for Palestine worldwide, or stop young people from abandoning the old Zionist dogmas? Ideally, the Israel narrative would be able to act as a replacement for the Ukraine narrative, letting the empire use a new story after the old one loses its usefulness. That’s what the empire has always done with its routine of rotating villains and heroes; but it can’t do that now, because this proxy war against Gaza wasn’t planned. It was started in reaction to an anti-colonial revolt whose effects the empire can only hope to mitigate. The ability of the empire to influence the popular consciousness has gone down; partly because of the people’s growing disillusionment over Ukraine, and partly because of U.S. hegemony’s decline in both hard and soft power.