Expansionism of an ethnocentric state can be seen across all time, although maybe not always to such a purposeful extent as expressed in this quote. And yet, America's Manifest Destiny period, which was much more humane and reasonable than what is being done to Palestinians, is pathologized - by people like this journalist - as one of the greatest sins of the modern age.
If Americans were broadly aware of this contradiction, I don't think the modern status quo could survive.
It's the same hypocrisy as the demonisation of the British empire - by far one of the gentlest empires ever to exist, and responsible for the end of slavery among other things.
The continued existence of the Native Americans as any kind of coherent people and culture is living proof that the settlement of America by Europeans is historically aberrant in its mercy and grace.
Expansionism of an ethnocentric state can be seen across all time, although maybe not always to such a purposeful extent as expressed in this quote. And yet, America's Manifest Destiny period, which was much more humane and reasonable than what is being done to Palestinians, is pathologized - by people like this journalist - as one of the greatest sins of the modern age.
If Americans were broadly aware of this contradiction, I don't think the modern status quo could survive.
It's the same hypocrisy as the demonisation of the British empire - by far one of the gentlest empires ever to exist, and responsible for the end of slavery among other things.
The continued existence of the Native Americans as any kind of coherent people and culture is living proof that the settlement of America by Europeans is historically aberrant in its mercy and grace.