Faux Christian Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) recently visited the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel, where he addressed a conference of fanatical right-wing settlers. Ariel, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank, is widely recognized as illegal under international law and viewed as a major obstacle to any future Palestinian state. He was accompanied by the hyper-evangelical Christian Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel. Speaker Johnson's vacation to Israel and photo-op may have been funded by the hardworking American taxpayer under the guide of a CODEL.

#2: Speaker Johnson's vacation to Israel and photo-op may have been funded by the hardworking American taxpayer under the guide guise of a CODEL.

#4: Sounds like the US justification for its own acts of dispossession and ethnic cleansing: exceptionalism.

Hi Doc, you said it: These are the parallels of Manifest Destiny and colonialism. There are two differences between America's westward and Russia's eastward expansion compared to Israel's internal incursion. There is no evidence of foreign subsidization of the US or Russia conquering their indigenous people. Two, there is much more worldwide condemnation of Israel's ethnic cleansing than what the US or Russia faced in the 19th-century. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), when the creature meets his creator he makes one reference to the plight of the unfortunate native Americans at the hands of the brutal white colonists.