This is not a subjective song, it is a specific reference to certain historical events and actors. As a result, one cannot use this song, or any excerpt of it, as a mold for other historical events in an effort to point out wrongs or inconsistencies in the policies of those different examples. This song is about the relationship between the United States and their colonization of what is now their continental territory, and Israel's colonization of what became Israel, and their current colonization of the occupied territories.
Both countires have used settlements to create their nations. Whether it is westward expansion by the United States, or Israeli settlement and occupation, both countires have enlarged their boundaries at the expense of the regional inhabitants, through their use of settlement policies.
Nothing seperates these incidents expect for "place and time," they are "different scenes, [but the] same crimes." The song aruges that the United states cannot criticize Israel due to its already obtained position of "loaf[ing] upon [their] father’s spoils," i.e. the land. Israel simply wants "nothing more than what [The United States] already ha[s]: a comforting set of exculpatory “facts” like, say, the myth of an empty land and a conquest so complete," so that they can simply live their lives "lounging carefree in [...] cafes, absolved from sin and human grenades."
"Enre Nous (between us), [Israel asks] how did your desert bloom?" through oppresive colonization programs. Propagandhi points out a very real point, how can the United States criticize Israel when its entire livlihood rests upon what Israel is currently doing?
This is not a subjective song, it is a specific reference to certain historical events and actors. As a result, one cannot use this song, or any excerpt of it, as a mold for other historical events in an effort to point out wrongs or inconsistencies in the policies of those different examples. This song is about the relationship between the United States and their colonization of what is now their continental territory, and Israel's colonization of what became Israel, and their current colonization of the occupied territories.
Both countires have used settlements to create their nations. Whether it is westward expansion by the United States, or Israeli settlement and occupation, both countires have enlarged their boundaries at the expense of the regional inhabitants, through their use of settlement policies.
Nothing seperates these incidents expect for "place and time," they are "different scenes, [but the] same crimes." The song aruges that the United states cannot criticize Israel due to its already obtained position of "loaf[ing] upon [their] father’s spoils," i.e. the land. Israel simply wants "nothing more than what [The United States] already ha[s]: a comforting set of exculpatory “facts” like, say, the myth of an empty land and a conquest so complete," so that they can simply live their lives "lounging carefree in [...] cafes, absolved from sin and human grenades."
"Enre Nous (between us), [Israel asks] how did your desert bloom?" through oppresive colonization programs. Propagandhi points out a very real point, how can the United States criticize Israel when its entire livlihood rests upon what Israel is currently doing?