In America, we have TWO civilizations, not one. The first is based on reciprocity, the Golden Rule, human dignity, national sovereignty and our founding principles, e.g., "All men are created equal". The second, promoted by the "Skull and Bones" Establishment, rests on a fascistic self-destructive master/slave ideology -- "might makes right", "kill and be killed".

The second "civilization" sustains itself on fear and hatred -- the master-race must fear the slaves, Jews must fear non-Jews, Americans must fear OTHERS (Chinese, Russians, Iraqis, Cubans, French, etc..).

Synthetic fear quickly becomes an addiction: The fear-drug adds a veneer of "purpose" and "significance" to a meaningless self-hating existence. Like the paranoid, we delude ourselves into thinking that the whole world hates us. Thus we put ourselves in the center of the world and make ourselves seem "important".

Fear is the drug and war is the high. Our self-defeating behavior fosters an exciting genocidal orgy of death and destruction that leaves us feeling "vindicated". We go down in a blaze of self-pitying glory, corpses stretching to the horizon. How "wonderful"!

This is the dynamic that drives Freund. Underneath his hatred for the "Other", of course, lies an even greater hatred for self. He cannot face the man in the mirror, so he takes refuge in the predatory war-crazed collective.

All of this death and destruction is needless, of course -- as needless as the slaughter that occurred in Europe sixty-five years ago. There is an alternative: the FIRST civilization, the one that our naive cynicism has led us to dismiss. In fact, the FIRST civilization -- based on reciprocity and equality -- is the ONLY one that has a chance of working. And it HAS worked, to a large extent, here in America.

There is no way that Palestinians or any other group can or should be expected to accept subhuman "untermenschen" status: the master-slave ideology cannot possibly work! So the question then is "How long will we continue to cling to this failed ideology?" How soon can we recover the will to live and CO-exist with our fellow human beings?

Our fascistic self-pity may taste sweet, but it is a poison drug. Let us renounce this drug and discover the life we have scorned for the last sixty years.