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For generations, through high-powered and unrivaled public relations spin, Israel has dominated how Americans view the Middle East, skewing the discourse in its own favor at the expense of truth and justice.

While Arabs have largely relied on emotion to respond to Israel’s violations of international law and its immoral, discriminatory politics, Israel and its supporters have built their influence through media industries that mold American public understanding, such as Hollywood movies, the news media and book publishers.

It is not that Israel has done it better or more strategically. It is just that it has invested more time and effort into influencing American perceptions, while the Arab world has done very little.

But now, for the first time since its founding, Israel is facing an existential threat to its unrivaled domination of the American mindset. And let us not forget that the American public has been the foundation upon which Israel has built the myth that it is the victim and that Arabs are the source of injustice.

The reason for the change is Israel’s inhumane and remorseless use of violence against the Palestinians in Gaza, where millions of civilians have been brutalized into starvation and deprivation. Tens of thousands of women, children........

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