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Our history is written in white ink. The first thing the victor will do is erase the history of the defeated. Oh God, how rich are their tears over the blood of their victims, and how easy it is for them to steal their existence from the conscience of the land! One".

(Michael Holly Eagle, Native American activist)

The media deals with American values ​​with much optimism and glorification. The media usually show the attractiveness of the American nation and its preaching of freedom, equality and human rights, and its rejection of violence, hatred and intolerance.

The United States adopts these values ​​out of its global supremacy, which Tsianina Lomawema, professor of American history at the University of Arizona, comments on, that the United States of America “believes in its exceptionalism, that is, in the superiority of the American nation over any other nation, but this is not supported by facts or history.”] 1].

But what if we go back in history to the emergence of the United States of America, to the fifteenth century AD in particular, when Europeans began to explore the lands of the North American continent, to ask, to what extent are the values ​​of freedom, justice and non-violence applied to the indigenous people of the continent?

Did the Americans really adhere to these values ​​with the American Indians, or did they completely violate them with them?!

Native Americans.. the origin of the name

The name Red Indians came in a completely random way. In 1492, Christopher Columbus came out of Spain, heading to India in the continent of Asia, but he lost his way and settled in Central America. There Columbus met the indigenous people, but he did not know that he was lost. “Indians” believing that they are in Asia and that these are actually the inhabitants of India[2].

It did not take long for Columbus to realize that he was not in India, but in a “new” land, but the name continued as it is with the addition of the description of “reds” to the Indians for the tendency of their skin to red instead of the dark skin of the Asian India, this insistence on renaming the indigenous people according to the vision European center, as if everything that is not European is another that was defined by Europe previously, and this shows that the Europeans did not only commit crimes against an entire people, but renamed and defined it entirely according to a purely colonial vision.

How did Europeans view the Native Americans?!

The view of the occupying Europeans towards the American Indians varied, but they all agreed to portray them as beings of degenerate genetics and inferior to the English, Spaniards and all Europeans.

European descriptions of the American Indians reached the level of legends of "zombies" and vampires. For example, the humanist Margaret Hudgen tells us that the first English book about the American Indians, published in 1511 AD, "described the Indians as monsters that do not think and do not think and eat some of them, but rather they ate their wives and children” [3].

In the same context, Syrian researcher Ahmed Daadoush says: “After the European discovery of the American continent and the start of the immigration and settlement movement, the extermination of the Red Indians was accompanied by a biblical and secular vision, so the Puritans (one of the Protestant sects) called themselves Hebrews, and they thought that they were on a sacred mission to cleanse the Promised Land of the Canaanites. ...and the matter was not much different with the secularists who came to remove the "savages" by means of rationality and enlightenment"[4].

A painting by the Prussian artist John Just painted in 1872 and called it "American Progress", where the white blonde European girl holds in one hand a book symbolizing scientific progress, and holds the telegraph wires in the other hand in reference to technical progress, and in the middle of her head is the star of peace and excellence. The girl, coming from the enlightened European East, as in the right of the painting, is heading to the aboriginal people, the primitive and dark savages, as in the left of the painting. Just depicted the aborigines escaping surrendering to the progressive European modernity. This image was used in a broad ideological propaganda framework inside and outside Europe to promote European colonial policy.

“The story of the English who founded the first colony in what is now known in the United States as New England is the legendary origin of all American history,” says Munir al-Akash, a professor at Suffolk University in the United States. “And every American home still celebrates every year on Thanksgiving with that happy ending.” Which concluded the story of their survival from the oppression of the British Pharaoh and (their exodus) from his land, and (their wandering) in the sea, and (their covenant) they made on the deck of their ship with Judah, and their arrival in the end to (the land of Canaan). The land, life, and history were planted by these English colonists in America, which they called the “Promised Land,” “Zion,” and “the new Israel of God,” and other names given by the ancient Hebrews to the land of Palestine.

These Englishmen derived all the ethics of annihilating the Indians (and non-Indians as well) from this historical reincarnation of the Hebrew invasion of the land of Canaan.

They were killing the Indians while they were convinced that they were Hebrews, whom God favored over the worlds and gave them a mandate to kill the Canaanites, and that extermination of the Indians, the largest and longest extermination in human history, was the first step on the road to Hiroshima and Vietnam” [5].

Indians have been slaughtered for centuries

Christopher Columbus set his feet on the American continent in 1492 AD, and since then wars have taken place between the European occupiers and the indigenous people of the country, and the bloodshed has not stopped until the beginning of the twentieth century, so bodies piled up and rivers of blood ran.

Although there is no accurate statistics about the numbers of the indigenous people who were present on the lands of North America at the moment of the arrival of the Europeans, some studies indicate that the numbers of the indigenous people of the Americas ranged from 10 million to 100 million in the year 1500 AD, and many specialists believe that they were About 50 million, of whom about 15 million are from the American Indian tribes and clans in North America alone[6].

From the moment of the arrival of the Europeans, the numbers of the American Indians began to decrease at an imaginary speed due to wars, mass massacres, famine and epidemics, until it reached less than 238,000 Red Indians only with the end of the American-Indian war in the nineteenth century[7], which means that European forces massacred more than At least 95% of the indigenous population of what is known as the United States of America today, although some researchers believe that the total real death toll in the Americas may reach 300 million [8].

This great extermination of the American Indians, from 10 million people to 200,000 people, was not random or purely a coincidence, but was a deliberate process planned by the colonialists, as Klaus Connor, a professor at Princeton University, sees that the English “are the most practicing European colonial power For genocides, their goal in the new world, such as Australia, New Zealand and many of the areas they invade, is to empty the land of its people and own it and seize its wealth” [9].

Removing massacres from American memory

“The history of the victor is a beast that can only be strengthened by the flesh of human prey.”

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When the term “genocide” is mentioned in American schools, Americans turn to the Holocaust, the massacres of Armenians, the Soviets, or Bosnia and Herzegovina, but never think about the massacres committed by the United States of America.

When the American University Council decided in 2012 to add the topic of the massacres of Americans against American Indians in the American history course for high school students, this was met with widespread opposition throughout the country, until the Republican National Committee issued a statement calling on Congress to investigate “the new curriculum based on a false vision.” and inaccurate accounts of major events in American history, including the motives and actions of the occupiers between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

As for the men of Congress, they joined the parties rejecting the new curriculum, and they issued a condemnation of the curriculum’s failure to address the justifications for war, American exceptionalism, and America’s divine destiny in expansion.[10]

The occupation did not stop at the occupation of history only, but it extended to the occupation of culture as well. Until this moment, the West portrays the Native Americans in various media in a naive image that does not differ from the image that Europeans painted for them five centuries ago, so that the massacres of Indians are overlooked in the American curricula and media. , in return for the continued dehumanization of the Native Americans among the Western masses.

In this context, Ahmed Daadoush believes that European immigrants "although they exterminated tens of millions of indigenous people, the policy of stereotyping them in the American media continued until the nineties of the twentieth century, and dozens of cartoon films directed at children carried messages of abuse and stereotyping in which the indigenous people appear in their form. The same primitiveness as they were four centuries ago” [11].

So, director Stephane Veraca says, "These Indians that Hollywood has created and dressed in bird feathers are not human beings. They were not meant to be human, because most Americans don't view them as human beings. Here, too, we must remember that many children are Americans believe today that feathers grow on the heads of American Indians”[12].

This is how the lie of building the United States of America on the values ​​of freedom, justice and equality becomes clear. The truth is that the American state took its first steps with the harshest types of terrorism and exterminated millions of the country’s indigenous people and committed the most heinous massacres against them and subjected them to all forms of torture and suffering. Then, after all, they concealed the massacres and hid the historical truth from the masses. So that the image of the Red Indians remains that of a primitive man who does not understand anything of life, so that the American crimes against these people continue to this day.

Therefore, it is not entirely surprising that the United States of America government supports Israel, which is committing massacres against the Palestinian people and stealing their land. The story of the indigenous people of America and how they dealt with the British occupation, we can learn from it effective ways to deal with the Zionists.