Myth #1

America is a racist and sexist nation.

Truth

Actually, America has actually been built on the principle that everyone has equal rights. In fact, though unfortunately, slavery wasn’t abolished with the founding of America and even though they themselves owned slaves, the Founders still opposed slavery and sought to use their influence to fight slavery. For example, though George Washington did own slaves, he still fought against slavery and he decided to free his slaves after his death. America’s values was what actually set the path for the end of slavery. For Abraham Lincoln, despite owning slaves himself, even fought a whole war to end slavery.

Anti-American revisionist historians point to the three-fifths compromise to “show” that America was racist. It was to count the slave population as three-fifths of a person, though it was later abolished after the Civil War, with the freedom of the slaves. The context is missing. For the ones who didn’t want to count the slaves were the ones who wanted to end it while the ones who did want to count them were the proponents of slavery. While the north wanted to not count the slaves, the south did want to count them.

Why were the opponents of slavery opposed to counting the slaves? The reason why was because not only would it legitimize that evil institution, but it would also give encouragement to slavery. It would’ve given the south a disproportionate amount of power in the political process just for owning slaves. It would’ve given the slave owners more power and could possibly encourage the north to adopt that evil practice. It would’ve given an incentive to the south to not end that institution. So that’s why the opponents of slavery were opposed to counting the slaves. So the three-fifths thing was a compromise so while they would partially be counted, it would also not give the south nearly as much power as it would’ve to fully count them. 

In fact, it was thanks to America’s values that black people and women won equal rights. So America wasn’t built on racism or sexism. For in terms of eighteenth and nineteenth century standards, America was the freest nation and is one of the freest nations today. America was built upon freedom and democracy, for those two principles were what represented the Founding Fathers. 

Myth #2

How can you say that America fought for democracy when America overthrew democratic governments and even punishes people for choosing the wrong democratic choice?

Truth

This is also a false claim. The case examples used either omit important details that make the governments at least undemocratic and even totally ignore the nature of these ”democratic” governments. Here’s some [if not all] of the case examples where I’ll refute the anti-American revisionist narrative. 

The Overthrow of Mossadegh

The conspiratorial fairy tale about the “popular” government of Mohammed Mossadegh [or Mossadeq] being promoted by the anti-American left has become among some of the accepted “facts” used by anti-American leftist revisionist historians in order to portray America as the bad guy. The fairy tale has all the leftist themes; an evil greedy western [British] oil corporation the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company [AIOC], which supposedly starts a conspiracy to overthrow Mossadegh for his “heroic” efforts at nationalizing the company and Britain and America joining this conspiracy. It is a classic leftist fairy tale with all the themes; a heroic democratic popular government [Mohammed Mossadeq] and America and Britain, at the behest of a “greedy” oil company, conspiring to overthrow this government. All this conspiracy gibberish gets added into the mix. For the CIA’s Kermit Roosevelt supposedly pays some Iranians to riot in favor of Mossadegh in the name of the Communist Tudeh party and to riot against the pro-Mossadegh crowd and supposedly pays newspapers to make some anti-Mossadegh propaganda in order to bamboozle what was an ancient empire all at 1 million dollars. Stephan Kinzer, the NY Times columnist, has been at the forefront in promoting this leftist fairy tale and even wrote a book that promotes it that’s called “All the Shah’s Men”, where the coup is blamed for Islamic terrorism. Leftists use the 1953 coup and blame it for the Mullahs’ hatred for America even though Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamo-Fascist regime in Iran, stated that if Mossadegh remained in power, then that Prime Minister would’ve slapped Islam. 

For the regime in Iran, while disliking his secular policies, still finds this leftist fairy tale as an excuse and to distract people from the fact that they have no legitimacy. The regime uses this fairy tale to portray their nuclear weapons program in a heroic light by comparing it to Mossadegh’s efforts to nationalize the oil company.

But the fact is that it isn’t true that the regime hates America for the coup. They hate America for being an infidel nation and for its democratic and other freedom-loving values that contradict the principles of the Islamo-Fascist ideology. This is why Islamic terrorists [including the Islamo-Fascist regime] hate America. Also, Khomeini’s hatred of the Shah did not stem from the 1953 coup, but from the White Revolution and his efforts to secularize Iran, particularly in giving women rights. 

But it’s also a myth that Mossadegh was a democratic government and that he was popular. For either the Shah appointed the Mossadegh or the Majlis [Iranian parliament] appointed him with his approval. Either or, since it was a Constitutional Monarchy and not a democracy, the system gave the Shah the right to dismiss him. Mossadegh got into a power struggle with the Shah. He wasn’t trying to democratize the country. On the contrary, he tried to make himself the absolute dictator. The dictatorial powers that he gave himself were known as Emergency Powers. In 1952, he got the Majlis to vote for him to obtain these powers for six month [it's reported in the Time Magazine article "Call me dictator"]. According to the article Mossadegh ”would control virtually every facet of national life from the press to the treasury to the military. Demonstrating what happens to those who defy Mossadegh, the Majlis voted to confiscate the $16 million fortune of his principal opponent, ex-Premier Ahmed Qavam (now a fugitive), leaving Qavam’s wife & child $160,000″. Boy, that doesn’t sound very democratic to me. 

Mossadegh attempted to make himself the dictator and dismantle the Majlis through a rigged 99% referendum. That referendum is pretty much as true as all this baloney about the “heroic” Mossadegh. 

Whether Mossadegh was a Communist or not, he ended up allying himself with the Communist Tudeh party. He also alienated the Islamo-Fascists, who hated his secular policies. The Tudeh really was going crazy with the rioting. It wasn’t some American conspiracy. Iran was really having clashes between pro-Mossadegh and anti-Mossadegh crowds. America was mainly worried about Iran falling in the Soviet orbit, as it appeared that was where it headed. Regardless of what one thinks of the American role and what happened in Iran, to say that America overthrew a democratic government in Iran was false since Mossadegh was not democratic.

The Overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz

Another leftist fairy tale happens in a place called Guatemala. This time; the heroic democrat is Jacobo Arbenz, who just sought to implement friendly reforms in order to improve the peasants’ lives while the evil United Fruit corporation, which controlled Guatemala, conspired with the US to overthrow this poor heroic democrat.

However, the truth is more complex. For Arbenz was a Soviet proxy. His regime got arms from the Soviet Union. In fact, according to Humberto Fontova, the coup in Guatemala “went into motion, not when Arbenz started nationalizing United Fruit property, but when a cargo of Soviet-bloc weapons arrived in Guatemala”.

Arbenz actually brutally killed his political opponents [see the Time Magazine article "After the Fall" here]. That article quotes a Latin diplomat in Guatemala as having said that “No recognized government in Latin America has ever matched this inhuman cruelty [of Jacobo Arbenz]“.

In fact, Arbenz was a member of the Communist party and praised his land reforms as the “brainchild” of the Communist party. The land reforms were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which, in response, he then purged. 

According to the Time Magazine article, the coup, though getting a lot of protest from surrounding Latin American nations, was still popular in Guatemala thanks to Arbenz’s brutal policies. According to Time Magazine, “Latin Americans generally assumed that the U.S. was in Castillo Armas’ corner and after he invaded Guatemala, a dank breeze of Communist-abetted anti-Yankeeism swept through some of the hemisphere’s countries. Students squawked in demonstrations in Panama, Uruguay, Chile Peru, Cuba, Argentina and Honduras: a U.S. flag was burned in Chile. But there was none of that in Guatemala, where the U.S. role was understood and deeply appreciated. As the overthrown regime’s victims were dug out of their graves and the luckier survivors emerged from their cells Guatemalans raised grateful cheers for the U.S. and for Ambassador Peurifoy.”

On Arbenz’s brutality, that article reports that “In a basement torture chamber on the capital’s Seventh Avenue, bits of hair, plastered to the wall with dried blood, told of victims hurled around the room and battered against the walls by sadistic guards. Out of the jails stumbled 711 lesser oppositionists, some from cells built for five men but crammed with 60. Fifteen men numbly took off their clothing so that U.S. reporters could see the festering cuts and throbbing bruises that covered them from neck to thigh”.

Another Time Magazine article reported that “Arbenz clamped on a state of emergency, drastically censored the press and cables. Secret police in black berets drifted everywhere; cops with rifles slung over their backs patrolled the streets on bicycles. The jails filled up with prisoners.”

So the coup wasn’t to save the United Fruit company, but to prevent Guatemala from being a Soviet proxy state. 

The Overthrow of Salvador Allende

Another anti-American leftist fairytale takes place in a country called Chile. Salvador Allende has become a hero and a martyr to the radical left. Leftists portray him as a heroic democratic who was overthrown by the US and the vile Pinochet just for implementing some friendly reforms. Some leftists even deny that he is a Communist. And he is portrayed as a democratic leader. According to the narrative, the US overthrew a democratic leader and conspired with the vile Pinochet who became one of the most ruthless dictators. Since it coincidentally happened on September 11 decades before one of the most ruthless [if not the most ruthless] Islamo-Fascist terrorist attacks on America, leftists have an obsession with calling it the “other 9/11″. 

Allende mourned Stalin’s death and said the following about him:

Stalin was a banner of creativity, of humanism and an edifying picture of peace and heroism! Everything he did, he did in service of the people. Our father Stalin has died but in remembering his example our affection for him will cause our arms to grow strong towards building a grand tomorrow—to insure a future in memory of his grand example! 

Allende also said:

The Communist Party is the party of the working class, the Communist Party is the Party of the Soviet Union, the first socialist state in the world, and whoever wants to create a socialist government without the communists is not a Marxist; and I am a Marxist.

In 1970, Allende won the third of the vote. The KGB wanted him to win. Allende was forced to pledge that he wouldn’t turn Chile into a Communist dictatorship. So he made that pledge. But he then attempted to turn that country into a Communist dictatorship. He killed political opponents. Radical Communist terror groups became his proxy in order to enforce his Communist reforms. He also nationalized most of the property except for that that his  friends owned. The economy was also ruined, as people were forced to wait in long lines to get food in the markets from the middle of the night. There was a scarce amount of food. On August 1973, the Chilean Chambers of Deputies, in August 1973, issued a resolution condemning Allende’s moves. That resolution was composed by the National Party and the Christian Democrats, the latter of which voted for Allende to come into power. That resolution called for the Chilean military to overthrow Allende. One month later, the Chilean army, led by Pinochet, did just that.

The Undermining of the Sandinista regime

Another supposed case example used by the left happens in Nicaragua. This time, the so-called heroes are the Sandinistas, who were supposedly popular. America launched a war of aggression against them with support of the Contras, who either weren’t Nicaraguan or were all just former officers from Somoza’s army. Yet the truth was the Sandinistas weren’t popular. And the 1984 “election” was cited to prove that they were democratically-elected. However, that election was a sham. The Sandinistas brutally killed and tortured their political opponents since coming into power, even before those elections. They also committed a genocide on the Miskito Indians and persecuted the country’s Jewish population, most [if not all] of which fled until the Sandinistas were swept out of power. As for the ones who remained [if any], they suffered from the Sandinistas’ anti-Semitic policies. 

 Here is a defector’s first hand account, which was published on Time Magazine. It mentions the Miskito Indians. This Sandinista defector read Sandinista accounts of their atrocities on the Miskito Indians, as seen from the following passage, where he even takes note of one example:

I went to Cuba to study counterintelligence. When I returned in April of 1982,1 was assigned to Zelaya Norte. After arriving there, I began to discover barbarities that were being committed against the Miskito people by reading the Ministry of Defense reports. Here is one entry which I copied in my notebook:”On Feb. 8, 1982, at 8:45 a.m., a troop of border guards fired at civilian persons on the Rio Coco at the point of the community of Bilwaskarma.” The report explained that the people were traveling in canoes at the moment the troops fired upon them. One man survived. Reading this, I could not understand why the chief of counterintelligence for the area had not brought this to trial. I couldn’t understand also why the soldiers would kill a pregnant woman in the canoe.

The Directorate had published an article in Barricada [the official government newspaper] boasting that Sandinista soldiers had killed counterrevolutionaries coming out of Honduras. This was the same shooting I was reading about. The report I was reading said the people were searching for food and lived in Nicaragua. They had gone from Waspán [a town on the river] to Bilwaskarma in their canoes. I couldn’t understand this. I fought against the barbarities Somoza committed against the Nicaraguan people. But as the revolutionary process increased, the level of class hatred increased. Among the officers, an attitude was created that one should kill rather than forgive.

As for the Nicaraguan Jewish population, the Sandinistas were especially very unpopular with them because Nicaraguan Jews remember the persecution they suffered under Sandinista rule and the Sandinistas’s support for Israel’s genocidal enemies, especially their support of the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization], which calls for the destruction of Israel in its charter. In fact, the Sandinistas were among the far-leftist group that received training from the PLO. The Sandinistas turned Nicaragua into a Soviet proxy state, received backing from the USSR and was close to Cuba and to America’s other totalitarian enemies. When it came to the Jews under Sandinista rule, Jewish Virtual Library said the following:

In the aftereffects of a devastating earthquake in 1972, and the rise of the Sandinista government, most of the 250 Nicaraguan Jews fled for the United States or other countries in Latin America. Israel had supported the previous government, Somoza, until they were overthrown in 1979. The Sandinista regime resented the Israeli government and publicly declared their support for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The new Nicaraguan government punished the few Jews that remained in the country for Israel’s support of the past dictatorship.

After 1979, only about ten Jews could be accounted for in Nicaragua. A B’nai Brith Center, and the Women’s International Zionist Organization remained intact during the exile. The Congregacion Israelita de Nicaragua was taken over by the Sandinista government where it was made into a secular school. The Jewish population remained slim for twenty-five years, and the few Jewish families who lived in Nicaragua were constantly persecuted by the Sandinista government.

In 1990, the Sandinista government was overthrown. Jewish citizens began to move from their larger Jewish communities back to their homes in Nicaragua.

The Contas were actually Nicaraguan freedom fighters who fought to free their country. And their victory resulted in a free-democracy in Nicaragua [that is until the Sandinistas came back to power, since the Economist has reports on at least some of the Sandinistas' anti-democratic behavior].

Undermining of the Chavez Government

Another case example is with the Hugo Chavez government. Leftists seek to portray Chavez as just someone who delivers much needed reforms to improve the lives of the extreme poor and America and the “rich” [obviously it includes the oligarchy and whoever else that is] as the bad guys. However, an article in the Foreign Affairs discredits the notion that Chavez seeks to help the poor in Venezuela. The summary of that article states that “But in fact, Chávez’s government has not done any more to fight poverty than past Venezuelan governments, and his much-heralded social programs have had little effect.”

Have you heard of the Caracas nine? They’re nine victims of Chavez’s state terrorism. The Human Rights Foundation [HRF] has given documentation on them. Chavez has tortured and killed political opponents. He also ruthlessly cracked down on opposition demonstrations.

Leftists would point to the elections he won and to the 2002 coup. However, a study showed that Chavez rigged elections.

Though leftists deny that he seeks to turn his country into another Cuba, but the facts say otherwise. Plus, Chavez is close to the Castro brothers. He also forms alliances with anti-American Communist dictators in Latin America and even with the Islamo-Fascist regime in Iran against America. He also supports FARC and other Communist terrorist movements in Colombia, both of which seek to replace the democracy in Colombia with a Communist dictatorship.

The Undermining of the Hamas government

This area is one of the areas where I’m most familiar with in terms of false accusations of America undermining democracy. According to many leftists, America and Israel seek to starve the Palestinian people for choosing Hamas. Many leftists believe that Hamas is fighting for “social justice” [if Hamas's vision is their version of social justice, then I spit all over it]. In the narrative, Fatah is a puppet of America and Israel and is there to continue the Israeli “occupation”. Yet the truth is the opposite, since Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah continues to encourage terrorism against Israel and refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state [for an examination of Fatah's behavior shows that they just seek to get as much territory as they can in order to use it to eventually eliminate Israel and are willing to pretend be Israel's "peace" partner]. An article that reflects that deluded mentality can be seen here. According to that distorted narrative, the west [especially America] and Israel seek to “punish” the Palestinian people for choosing Hamas because they don’t “give in” to Israel and the west [especially America]. But the real reason is because Hamas is a genocidal terrorist movement that is well-known for its terrorism and for its rejection of Israel’s right to exist. In fact, Hamas’s genocidal positions toward the Jews are laid out in their charter.

Hamas already has committed so many suicide bombings and rocket attacks and made their goal of destroying Israel clear. Hamas even unjustly kidnapped an IDF soldier by the name of Gilad Shalit. So after the 2006 election, the US, Israel and the EU have set out three preconditions in order for them to end the sanctions, recognize the hamas government and even have them included into peace negotiations with Israel. The three preconditions are for Hamas to recognize Israel’s basic right to exist, denounce terrorism, and honor previous agreements, the last of which are on the basis of land for peace, as laid out in Resolution 242. Hamas said no to all three of them, continued with their rocket attacks on Israel [and using the cease fires to gain more strength and then launching more rockets at Israel when feeling ready] and continued to spew their anti-Semitic incitement. Having peace with any non-Muslim state [let alone Israel] contradicts the ideology of Islamo-Fascism, which is the ideology of Hamas.

Many leftists even excuse Hamas’s illegal coup in Gaza by citing a wacky conspiracy theory between Fatah commander Mohammed Dahlan and the US to overthrow Hamas. This false anaylsis excuses Hamas’s capture of Gaza by saying that it’s a response to this conspiracy. It’s used as part of the “proof” that the US “undermines” democracy.

Though Hamas came in democratically, Hamas never behaved democratically, for democracy is the antithesis of the Islamo-Fascist ideology. Since winning the 2006 election, Hamas has used their new position to shove Islamo-Fascism down the throats of all Palestinians. Hamas also used the new power they got in Gaza to do the same thing.  Hamas brutally kills their political opponents. Even criticizing the Hamas regime in Gaza is a big risk on safety. Human Rights Watch, a group that’s not friendly to Israel one bit, issued a report that condemned Hamas’s human rights violations.  According to the report, “Human Rights Watch interviewed three men, two of them Fatah supporters, who had been shot in the legs during the Israeli attack, apparently by Hamas security forces. The third man said he had been overheard on the street criticizing Hamas. ‘About 14 of them came for me,’ the third man said. ‘They forced me to go from my home to a dark place near a mosque and four of them shot me in the legs, one shot each, but one missed.’”

In Hamas-controlled Gaza, women can’t even wear a bathing suit to swim, but have to be dressed in their Islamic attire. Hamas and other Islamo-Fascist groups also attack and persecute the Christians in Gaza, causing them to flee. So Hamas’s policies aren’t democratic one bit.

As for the blockade myth, Israel, America and the EU have gone out of their way to avoid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It’s Hamas that wants one; for Hamas withholds the humanitarian aid, shuts off the electricity, and, according to the Palestine Press News agency, while the bakery owners claimed that they had enough flour for at least a month, Hamas closed down the bakery. So it’s Hamas that wants a humanitarian crisis to blame Israel and even is willing to stage one, like with having a picture of Palestinians carrying candles [see the picture in the Stand with US publication "Israel's military operations against Hamas"]. However, unfortunately for Hamas, it forgot to turn off the street lights, thusly making it more obvious that it was just staged in a PR campaign against Israel.

Also, as in Operation Cast Lead and other times when Israel was forced to defend itself, Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups hide themselves and their terror infrastructure among civilians; in schools, hospitals, houses and mosques, in order to put the civilians on their side at risk of being killed to make Israel look bad. Hezbollah tries that same tactic in Lebanon. Although that tactic is a violation of international law, the basic rules of war, and of the fourth Geneva Convention.

Plus, Hamas, like the rest of the Islamo-Fascist movement, seeks to destroy the free world [including America] and to replace it with an Islamo-Fascist caliphate. Hamas has even cooperated with Al Qaeda, as seen here.

America’s support for Democracy

America has tried to spread democracy and balance it with its interest. For America freed Europe from the Nazis [though America should've fought the Nazis sooner], liberated eastern Europe from Communist tyranny and is now fighting a war against Islamo-Fascism and for freedom and democracy. It is true that, at times, particularly during the Cold War, America does support dictators. For example, America did give support to dictators such as Somoza, Pinochet and the Shah. That has won some outrage from the anti-American left. However, America, while finding these dictators as useful allies against the Soviet Union and Communist tyranny, also condemned them for their human rights violations and pressured them to implement democratic reforms. The dictators America supported during the Cold war were certainly the lesser of two evils to the dictators that the Soviets supported. Plus, America fought for the survival of democracy, since the Soviet Union sought to impose Communist tyranny on the world. That evil goal was known as world revolution. Under President George W. Bush, America has fought for more democracy in the Middle East. It should be said that I’m critical of American policy toward Saudi Arabia, since Saudi Arabia is stabbing America in the back and is building, funding and/or controlling mosques and madressas that encourage violent Jihad on infidels. America is too dependent on oil and thusly deludes itself about Saudi Arabia being an ally and being one of the “moderate” Arab nations. America also has pressured Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak to implement democratic reforms, even though Egypt does receive a lot of aid from America since the 1979 Camp David accords. America has sought to spread and encourage democracy around the world, though Obama is making foolish appeasement moves. For example with Honduras, he sided with the deposed Marxist President Manuel Zelaya. It sent a message to the Chavez-like Commies that they have nothing to fear from America while it told pro-democracy freedom fighters that they may not be getting support from the leader of the free world. Though I’m critical of some aspects of American Foreign policy, overall, America has been spreading democracy around the world and is a force for good. In Latin America and the Third World, thanks to America’s influence, more countries are adopting democracy, which was unheard of there.

Myth #3

America has been built upon slavery

Truth

The refutation of the first myth has already debunked this ridiculous claim. The claim that America is built upon slavery is rubbish. For there was already slavery in the British Empire including in the American colonies. Why fight a whole war against a major empire just to start a country built on something already there? It just doesn’t make sense.

As I already said, it’s true that slavery did continue even after the founding of America. However, it was not a uniquely American thing. It was pretty much the norm of the time. In fact, slavery goes back to the ancient days. The ancient Egyptians, Persians, Romans, Greeks and Muslims had slaves. In fact, Muslim Arabs started taking Africans as slaves way before Europeans even discovered Africa. Anyway, America wasn’t built upon slavery. When you look at the Founding Father’s values, they are about equality of everyone. The Founders wanted to discourage slavery. As stated, despite owning slaves, George Washington used his influence to fight slavery and even got his slaves to be free after his death. In fact, as stated, it was because of American values that slavery ended.

Myth #4

America is an imperialist nation

Truth

Actually, America has fought for democracy and freedom around the world. America has been a force for good in the world. For example, America has given up a lot of territories she won from the Mexican-American war and the Spanish-American war. So it’s too simplistic to say that America launched wars of aggression for imperialist ambitions. It’s also true that America did retain some territories. During the 19th century, Americans did have a vision known as manifest destiny, which was to expand westward. However, it was more of a vision than a policy. Though it did encourage American settlers to settle westward and the American government did want more territory [though not through a war] to help achieve that vision. The Mexican-American war has been used as an example of America’s war of aggression against a Third World nation. However, that analysis is too simplistic, since Mexico was at least just as eager to have a war as James K. Polk was. Mexico was fully prepared to fight and wanted to win. Had Mexico won, if the United States did not exist, then America would’ve been the country to have lost territory, not Mexico.

America has brought freedom and democracy around the world. America liberated Europe from the Nazis and eastern Europe from the Soviets and is fighting a war on Islamic extremism. During the Cold War and the war on Islamo-Fascism, America has been defending democracy and spreading it. America’s interests has been the spread of democracy and to make that compatible with its interests. So America is not an imperialist nation like the European powers were.

Myth #5

America supports Israel’s illegal, brutal and oppressive occupation toward the Palestinians and that is an example of America’s support for state terrorism.

Truth

This claim is a distortion of history and current events. Though this is one of the claims Jerimiah Wright makes in his infamous “god d**n America speech”:

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians…

This view is also promoted by the notorious anti-American propagandist Noam Chomsky, who twists the Arab-Israeli conflict on its head. He portrays only America and Israel as the rejectionists, when the truth is actually the exact opposite.

America has been in the forefront in wanting to see a peaceful, civil and democratic Palestinian state come into being. As David Meir Levi said,”If their right to national self-determination and getting their own state were indeed what the Palestinians’ leadership wanted, that leadership would see the U.S. as an ally”. America rightly supports Israel because the US understands that Israel is a valuable ally. For Israel has aided America in its noble quest to bring democracy and freedom and has shown to be a valuable ally to the rest of the free world [I say rest because I consider Israel to be part of the free world]. The US-Israel alliance is based on democracy and other freedom-loving principles.

It is also a myth that Israel carries out a brutal and illegal occupation of the territories. When the UN partitioned Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state, the Arab leadership, rather than accepting the plan and declaring the independence of their state like what the Zionist leadership did, chose to continue the war of aggression against the Jews. Had the Arab leadership accepted the UN partition plan, there could’ve been a thriving democratic and civil Palestinian state that coexists with the Jewish state. And the West Bank and Gaza [though Jerusalem would've been an international city] would’ve been part of the Arab state. Yet the Arab leadership, as I said, chose war over peace because they viewed the Jews having a state on any part of the Jews’ historic homeland, no matter how small it is, as unacceptable and continued with the genocidal war of aggression against the Jews in the historic Jewish homeland. One day after Israel was created, five Arab states, with cooperation of the Arab leadership, invaded Israel in what was intended to be in the words of the Arab League Secretary General Azzam Pasha to “be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.”

However, fortunately, Israel won that war. Israel won more territory, even from what was designated to be the Arab state and incorporated it as part of Israel. Jordan illegally seized the West Bank while Egypt illegally seized Gaza. Jordan and Egypt were among the invaders in the 1948 war and won those territories from the genocidal war of aggression against Israel. Though Israel won that war, the Arab world never gave up in its attempts to exterminate Israel. Jews still had to deal with attempts to drive them out of their historic homeland. 

In 1967, Israel defended herself again and won the Golan Heights, the Sanai [the Sanai was 91% of the territory Israel won in 1967 and was bigger than Israel herself, yet despite that, Israel returned it to Egypt after the signing of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty], Gaza and the West Bank. It was widely recognized that Israel won the war from self-defense. So the UN security Council unanimously passed Resolution 242, which is the consensus for the land for peace principle. It’s basic spirit was that Israel would administer the territories until they would be decided through negotiation.

Far from being a “brutal” and “oppressive” occupation, Palestinians benefited from Israeli rule. For example, thanks to Israeli policies, the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza had the fourth-fastest growing economy. For basic necessities such as stoves, refrigerators, electricity and toilets became nearly universal. Televisions also became nearly universal. Israel improved the water supply. Under Israeli rule, universities and public schools were established, a lot of the time with the funding of the Israeli government and/or Jewish donors. Israeli policy also nearly exterminated [if not exterminated] the diseases in the territories. Plus, the Arabs in the territories had better access to health care. So the Israeli “occupation” actually saved Palestinian lives.

Also, Israeli policy in the territories, as outlined by then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, has been a policy of non-intervention. It was basically to not intervene in the territories too much. Israel also decided to enforce the laws from its predecessors. Israel has sought to have a solution about the fate of the territories. A few months after the Six Day war, Israel offered to return most [if not all] of the territories. The Arab states said,”No peace. No negotiations. No recognition”.

Israel has been willing to reach a solution when it comes to the territories. Israel’s reluctance to establish a Palestinian state comes from the legitimate concern that the territories Israel leaves would be used as terrorist bases to attack Israel. History has shown that when Israel leaves the territories, they are used as terrorist bases to attack Israel. Oslo has shown that. The disengagement from Gaza showed that.

In 2005, Israel left Gaza, dismantled every Jewish settlement and forced all Jews to go back to pre-1967 Israel. Israel left the greenhouses for the Palestinians to develop their economy. Yet the Palestinians bulldozed the Greenhouses. Gaza turned into a terror base. Hamas and other rejectionist Palestinian terrorist groups bragged that their “resistance” drove Israel out and viewed it as a sign of weakness from Israel. As a result, rocket attacks on southern Israeli cities such as Sderot actually increased. Two years later, Hamas seized Gaza from an illegal coup.

America has unjustly pressured Israel to make suicidal concessions, even though the history has shown that instead of bringing peace, they bring more bases for terrorists.

Also, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas rule has been far worse to the Palestinian people than Israel’s “occupation”. Whereas, the PA and Hamas torture and kill political opponents, Israel didn’t do any of that. in fact, Palestinians were free to criticize Israel all they want and even to complain to Israel’s Supreme court whenever any one of them had a grievance about any particular Israeli policy. At times, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Palestinian plaintiffs. In its fight against terror, Israel has trained her soldiers not to kill innocent civilians.

Israel is in the frontlines in fighting for the free world against Islamo-Fascism. Israel has proved to be a valuable ally to America. This is why America supports and should support Israel. These are the reasons why I’m a strong proponent of the US-Israel alliance.

Myth #6

America has been attacked by Islamic terrorists because of its oppressive policies. Islamic terrorists are simply fringe fanatics who are so oppressed that they have no choice but to show America what it dished out to the world for a long time. After all, it’s the Christian west that did all the invading and imperialism, not the other way around. 

Truth

Again, this view is promoted by Jemimah Wright in his “God d**n America” speech. In that speech, Wright said,”America’s chickens have come home to roost”. 

However, this view is false. The reality shows that the ones who promote one of the most oppressive policies and visions are the Islamic terrorists who attacked us [America]. They’re fighting to impose Sharia law on the world. The society they fight for would result in dhimmis [non-Muslims] and women being treated as second-class citizens and where those who criticize and/or leave Islam and Homosexuals would be killed. These terrorists mainly attacked America because it is seen in their eyes as the infidel and materialistic superpower that promotes everything that’s “sinful” to Allah and because they believe that America is fighting against Islam. So former President George W. Bush was right when he said that those terrorists attacked us because they hate democracy and freedom. Yet despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that supported his claim, the blind hate Bush crowd on the left attacked Bush for making that accurate remark. For they basically attacked him for anything. 

Plus, America has done a lot for Arabs and Muslims. In fact, many Arabs and Muslims who flee the tyranny in the Arab and Muslim world find refuge in America. They get the freedom and democracy that they could only dream about in their home countries. While it is true that many of the Arab and Muslim immigrants who do come to America are peaceful and are grateful to America, some Muslim immigrants also come to America in order to destroy it and, in their words, to replace the constitution with the Quran. 

America has taken in persecuted minorities in the Middle East [both Muslim and non-Muslim alike] who sought to have a better life. Although many of these non-Muslims who fled the persecution and suffering they put up with in the Middle East are too afraid to speak out about it because of the retribution they’ll suffer from the vile Islamo-fascists. That is true of the university campuses, where members of persecuted non-Muslim minority groups in the Arab and Muslim world are too scared of the retribution they’ll suffer from Islamo-Fascists like the Muslim Students Association [MAS].

During the Gulf war, it was America that led a coalition that liberated Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s brutal invasion. It was America that played a leading role in setting up no fly zones that protected the Kurds and Shiites from Saddam Hussein’s brutality. It was America that fought the Serbs when they killed Bosnian Muslims. America has been at the forefront in promoting freedom and democracy in the Arab and Muslim world. When America entered Afghanistan in 2001, Afghan women ended up being liberated from Taliban oppression. America liberated the Afghan people from Taliban tyranny and attempted to set up a democracy in Afghanistan. Two years later, America also deposed Saddam Hussein and attempted to set up a democracy in Iraq [though America did make mistakes in the Iraq war].

The claim that the west is imperialist and that the Muslim and Arab world are simply fighting against imperialism is false, as scholars like Ephraim Karsh shows. The truth is that Islamic imperialism has an even longer history than European imperialism [I don't consider America to be imperialist], which has even ended, while Islamic imperialism continues even today. How did the Muslims get the whole Middle East in those days and even more territory? Through conquest. In fact, their first war on a Christian power was when they invaded the Byzantine empire and took some territory there. It was the Ottomans who captured Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire, and named it Istanbul, not the other way around. 

Islamic imperialism makes European imperialism seem like nothing. Even today, Islamo-Fascists are invading America and the rest of the free world from within, as well as with terrorism. In fact, both the 1982 Muslim Brotherhood project and the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memo call for conquering America and the free world from within as well as from terrorism. Conquering the free world from within by using the laws, freedom and democracy against it has been a strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamo-Fascist groups that sprang from that global Islamo-Fascist movement. 

Though they don’t represent the views of all Muslims, Islamic terrorists are not a fringe. Islamo-Fascism is a global movement. Islamic terrorists are celebrated as heroic martyrs in the Arab and Muslim world. Plus, prominent Islamic scholars hold their same views. Media and school books in the Arab and Muslim world spew the Islamo-Fascist propaganda and portray Islamic terrorists as heroes.

Also, the Muslims and Arabs are suffering from the oppression because of the Islamo-Fascists and the tyrants in Arab and Muslim countries, not because of America, Israel or the rest of the free world. These tyrants use America and Israel as scapegoats for every ill in their societies in order to distract the populace of the real problems and to focus them instead in hatred against America and Israel. While it is true that America does foolishly give Arab regimes aid, America has also pressured them to implement democratic reforms. 

Conclusion

America, like any other nation, is an imperfect nation that has its share of flaws. I’m a critic of some aspects of American foreign policy, even though I’m pro-American. For example, I think that America should stand up to Saudi Arabia, which, along with the Muslim Brotherhood, is leading the Jihadist invasion of America. Saudi Arabia builds, funds and controls mosques and madrassas around the world that spew the basic Islamo-Fascist worldview that calls for a jihad until the world is conquered for radical Islam. 

No nation should stand up above criticism. That includes my two favorite countries America and Israel. 

There are many more anti-American myths, much [if not most or all] of which has come to be accepted as basic fact. I believed in some of them. For example, years ago, during one Thanksgiving, I used to keep on going on and on about the killing of Indians and why there isn’t anything thankful about it. It’s true that there is nothing to be thankful about killing Indians [or anyone else]. But that’s not what Thanksgiving is about. I used to believe that the white settlers, starting with Christopher Columbus, were bad people who committed a genocide on the Indians [though there were some injustices committed against Indians by SOME whites settlers, though most of the Indians were killed by diseases]. 

Many of these anti-American claims have come to be viewed as basic accepted fact in the minds of many people. For example, it is treated as accepted fact that when the US liberated Cuba from Spain, it wasn’t truly independent; but really under America’s economic control through its “vile” corporations. What’s not mentioned is that after Cuba got its independence, it thrived and prospered until the Castro brothers and the “heroic” Che destroyed Cuba after taking it over. The poverty is blamed on the American “embargo” even though it’s clearly caused by the policies of the Communist regime.  What’s not mentioned is that the US is the top food supplier in Cuba. There is no way that the American “embargo” could actually impoverish Cuba that much. Pretty much, America can’t win. It does business with Cuba, and it has a monopoly on the whole island. It has an embargo, and it’s starving and impoverishing the island. Castro’s nationalizing of American corporations is portrayed by the revisionist anti-American propagandists as a justified move. The fact that Cubans have less food than Spanish slaves did when Cuba was under Spanish rule is not caused by the embargo, but by Castro’s food rationing policies [to see a chart of the amount, look at page 152 of Humberto Fontova's eye-opening book "Exposing the real Che Guevara and the Useful idiots who Idolize him"].

Castro declaring his country Communist is blamed on America. America is supposedly so bad that Castro had no choice but to declare himself a Communist and get aid from the Soviet Union. However, the truth is that the US brought Castro to power in the first place. America had an arms embargo on Batista, supported Fidel Castro’s movement, told Batista to leave and even was the first one to recognize Castro’s regime. Robert Reynolds, the CIA’s Caribbean desk on the Cuban revolution, boasted,”Me and my staff were all Fidelistas.”

Former US ambassador Earl T. Smith said,”We put Castro in power.” 

He also said,”To make my point more clear, let me say that, we helped to overthrow the Batista dictatorship which was pro-American only to install the Castro dictatorship which is pro-Russian.”

The killings and torture of political opponents and those the Communist regime didn’t like gets whitewashed [if not denied or justified]. Castroite propagandists claim that those executed in La Cabana were some of Batista’s worst killers and torturers and that the tribunals were fair. They claim that there was “volumes” of testimony by their “victims”. Yet the evidence says otherwise. In reality, most of those executed in La Cabana were innocent people who had no connection to Batista. Some of them served in Castro’s July 26 movement in an attempt to bring democracy to Cuba, but only to be disappointed that Castro turned out to be another dictator. Even most of the executed victims who did not serve in that movement still had no connection to Batista.

The ones who did get a “tribunal” got sham tribunals, where the verdict was already decided before the “tribunal”.

Plus, Che Guevara said,”Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! We execute from revolutionary conviction.”

So out of revolutionary conviction, thousands of innocent men, women and children were shot. La Cabana showed what a stupid cowardly dufus Che was. Every object witness [not the Castroite propagandists] who saw what happened at La Cabana expressed their disgust on what the Communist regime through Che did there.

The revisionist anti-American leftists say that, though there were executions in La Cabana, the killing of political prisoners stopped. However, though La Cabana is no longer an execution site, political opponents are still killed and tortured by the Communist regime. And there are still labor camps where people disliked by the Castro brothers are tortured.

In the conclusion, I refuted some more of the revisionist anti-American leftist propaganda. The truth is that, for all its flaws, America is a great nation. There are much more anti-American myths. This article just refuted six of them.

The terrorism Israel fights is not separate from the terrorism that America, Great Britain, France or Spain fights. 9/11 and 7/7 was a taste of the daily terrorism that Israel faced since day one.

Israel was on America’s side in the Cold war and is on America’s side now in the war on radical Islam. Even Lebanese Christians who are fighting for their country have Israel’s support because they are getting the same kind of bloodshed from terrorists like Hezbollah and the PLO before them that Israel got.

Israel supported America in the struggle to free Nicaragua from Sandinista Communist tyranny in the 1980’s and one of the only countries, along with the US, to vote for the embargo on Cuba.

Israel saw the persecution and exile of Nicaraguan Jews under Sandinista tyranny and the fact that the Sandinistas supported Palestinian terrorist groups such as the PLO, which brought two Arab nations Jordan and Lebanon into a civil war just to usurp those countries and use them as bases for terrorism on Israel until they achieve their evil objective of destroying Israel.

Israel also understands something about the Castro regime, which the rest of the world excluding the US fail to understand. They understand that the Castro brothers are not innocent victims of the US, which the victorious Communist propaganda has us believe. Israel understands that they support Palestinian terrorism. That’s why Israel votes the same way as America on the US embargo.

While the PLO committed terrorism all over the world [not just in Israel] killing Americans such as Cleo Noel [1973], then US.

ambassador to Sudan, killing the American tourist in Israel [1978] and killing Leo Klinghoff in the hijacked cruise ship the Archille Lauro, [1986] and trained extreme leftist terrorists from all over the world, it was Israel in the front lines fighting these PLO barbarians, just as Israel is in the frontlines fighting radical Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and provides intelligence in the US about Islamist terrorism.

It was also Israel that bombed the Osirak nuclear weapons program in 1981, doing it without any deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians. Israel faced condemnation from the world including the US, which supported Saddam’s regime in the 1980’s. Saddam was going crazy using chemical weapons on his political opponents, in his war with Iran on Iraqi Shiites and on his genocide on the Kurds. However, the world had the nerve to condemn Israel for bombing the reactor. Yet it also turned out that the Israeli bombing in 1981 was great for the world when that tyrannical barbarian invaded Kuwait in 1990. His army went around terrorizing the people of Kuwait until the US-led coalition liberated Kuwait. Saddam had no nuclear bomb. Why? Because Israel bombed it. The French government should have been ashamed to help that fascist Baathist regime get the nuclear bomb.

Israel understands the threat as much as America does [or more than the US does] about a nuclear Iran. Israel is in the front lines fighting against the terrorist regime in Iran having nuclear weapons. Israel understands the nature of the Iranian regime.

Iran is a far bigger treat than Saddam’s Iraq ever was.

If Iran gets nuclear weapons, they will use them on Israel, America and to help them impose their form of Islam on the world. Radical Islam doesn’t care about destroying their own countries, just as long as their form of Islam dominates the world. That’s where the suicide bombers come from. That’s where the 9/11 hijackers come from. The Iranian regime is a radical Islamist one.

In fact, it was Israel that revealed the books based on Iran’s radical Islamist worldview, which Hezbollah used as their manuals. These books include “Al-Jihad,” which is based on the radical Islamist world-view of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israel is on the frontlines fighting Hebollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon. Hezbollah deputy Sheikh Naim Qassem admitted that Hezbollah doesn’t commit terrorist attacks without approval from Iran.

The difference between Israel and Arab countries is that a US relationship with Israel is strategic. Israel is a strategic part for spreading the free world into the Middle East and a strategic ally for America and its allies in their global war with tyranny.

Arab countries take advantage of America’s dependence for Arab oil. That’s why America needs to become less dependent on foreign oil. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries are stabbing America in the back. The Saudis get away with funding and controlling mosques that incite radical Islamist propaganda. Freedom House did an investigative study and found that Saudi mosques incite radical Islamist terrorism.

However, Saudi Arabia gets away with it and is an “ally” of America. Both Democrat and Republican Presidents delude themselves about Saudi Arabia being “moderate” even though it’s a radical Islamist dictatorship. It’s the Sunni version of Iran. Women and non-Muslims including Christians and Jews are treated as second-class citizens. Yet America supports them because they have the most oil. The Arab countries use America and Israel as scapegoats for all the problems in their countries to stay in power and distract their people that they’re living in brutal corrupt dictatorships.

America’s dependence on oil leads to funding America’s totalitarian enemies such as the Arab states, which take advantage of America. After the Yom Kippur war, in which the Arab states almost annihilated Israel, America did what was in their interest to do, which was to support Israel.

As a response, the Arab states declared an oil boycott as a response to America’s support for Israel. It hurt the US a lot and shows that we need to be less depend on foreign oil. Our dependence on it helps our totalitarian enemies who seek to spread tyranny. The US is getting oil from Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Chavez is not just destroying democracy in Venezuela. He also supports FARC and other Colombian Communist terrorist groups, which seeks to destroy Colombian democracy. Right now, Venezuela, Cuba and Syria are the only countries which are for a nuclear Iran. Venezuela is one of the Communist countries setting up an anti-American alliance with Iran. We need to be less dependent on foreign oil.

Supporting Israel is in America’s interest. America should thank Israel for being in the front lines fighting America’s totalitarian enemies and giving intelligence on terrorism.

 The truth is that supporting Israel serves America’s strategic interests worldwide including its interests on Iran.