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I received my 2/15/25 Progressive Populist and thought about reading the cover story (“A storm-battered Louisiana town voted for Trump. He has vowed to overturn the law that could fix its homes,” by Sharon Lerner), but just chuckled. I found a book that I started to read in the late 1900s. The book, “Conspiracy Against Freedom,” is about the First Amendment to the Constitution and Zionist (ADL) attempts to mold it in their way, i.e. “What we (ADL) say is right and no one else counts.”
This, in turn, brought to mind Margot Ford McMillen’s question in her column a few issues back (I have already passed previous issues to friends and don’t know the date of that column.) The question was “Do you know where Israel came from?
I thought I did.
I was born in 1947 and probably wasn’t cognizant of current events until Eisenhower was elected to his second term in 1956. Ike was doing good, everyone I knew were saying how their families were happy and enjoying the way the world was going.
I do remember every three or four or five years you would hear about conflict in the Middle East and how the Israelis were constantly trying (and succeeding) to take land from the countries around them who had each ceded some of their land for Israelis to live on.
Israel wanted statehood and when the British pulled out of the Middle East, Israel declared itself a state and started trying (and succeeding) to take more land.
When Margot McMillen asked her question, I thought that Frank, Joe and “Winnie” had rounded up that land and through international treaties had made Israel a state. But the only treaties were to allow Israel a place to live and function, not own.
So, thank you, Margot, for asking and helping me realize that it has been the same since day one, and we, the United States, have been backing a bogus state for quite some time.
I am done ranting and will sign off, but one more time, thank you Margot Ford McMillen for asking and making me rethink my remembrance of the way history went down.
WILLIAM SHAW, Jackson, Michigan
