We are homo dramatis, the species that tells stories. Today more and more of us are rejecting America and Israel’s stories and are searching for a better script. That is a good thing because History is calling us to be actors, not spectators, in the drama playing out in Gaza.

There is a revealing moment in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings when Gandalf wakes King Théoden of Rohan from the evil emperor Saruman’s spell. The king’s mental health is instantly restored, as is his vision: he sees that his closest advisor, Gríma, has kept his mind poisoned and led him to abide with evil. The fight for true justice ensues. We live, I believe, in such a moment today. More and more of us are exorcising ourselves from the spells cast by generations of Pentagon and Zionist propagandists. It’s a tale as old as Sophocles.

Israel and America have two immense advantages when it comes to the War on Palestine: violence and storytelling. Nobody has done either better. We live in a world shaped not just by........

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