When Words Lose Their Meaning, People Lose Their Freedom

Watched The Occupation of the American Mind earlier tonight.

This is an important film.

It's not just another Israel-Palestine study, but it delves into the problem of extreme brainwashing that the United States enforces by using tactics that include the repetition of falsehoods, rewriting history, redefining terms, manipulation of facts, and dominating discourse through powerful PR.

The entire goal of the two propaganda machines known as the United States and Israel is to portray one side as the victim, and the other the aggressor.

The extremist methods that relationship exercises is akin to Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, the meticulously crafted propaganda documentary made upon personal request by Adolf Hitler in 1934, and which is often hailed a masterpiece to this day.

There is not a war raging between Israel and Palestine, because war entails combat between armed groups. And there can be no combat between a highly trained military equipped with sophisticated weaponry sponsored by the world's largest arms dealer, the United States, and a people imprisoned within their own land, who defend themselves against the world's giants with sticks and stones. What is raging within the Israel-Palestine conflict is, essentially, psychological warfare.

Since it's release, The Occupation of the American Mind has been largely ignored, and no major film festival has chosen to screen the film.