The Ending of History in Palestine

There's a good essay over at ZNet on the way the conflict over Israel and Palestine is presented in the British media. Playing off the "end of history" argument, Neil Sammond writes, "In Palestine/Israel Fukuyama’s over-publicised thesis is being borne out through other means; an axis of liberal capitalist democracies is putting an end to the history it doesn’t like." After citing some research conducted by the Glasgow University Media Group, he finishes with this statement on the inversion of reality induced by decontextualized media:

With a collective unconsciousness forged by Israel and its allies, a just solution is impossible. History and the present are rewritten and unreality rules. So, there was no Nakba. And the 4 million Palestinian refugees don’t matter. There is not a brutal 35-year military occupation. State terrorism is an oxymoron. Israel never targets civilians. Resistance is terrorism. Barak’s ‘offers’ to the Palestinians were ‘generous’. There are no ‘settlers’ and no Israeli nuclear weapons. British equipment isn’t being used to commit war crimes. Britain and Israel are democracies and have free speech. Long Live the End of History.

Also on the conflict, Linda Belanger writes about the story behind the news over at Counterpunch.