The record of U.S. policy from 1945 to 1949 challenges fundamental assumptions about U.S. understanding and involvement in the struggle over Palestine that continue to dominate mainstream interpretations of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Coming to grips with the U.S. record and its frequently mythified depiction of the struggle over Palestine is critical. Those engaged in the creation of the Common Archive, a project of Zochrot, the Israeli NGO, in which Israelis and Palestinians have joined to reconstruct the history of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel in 1948, clearly understand the importance of this record. Palestinian historians have long written about this history, and Israel’s “New Historians” have confirmed it in their challenge to the dominant Israeli narrative of the war of 1948.
The Middle East in 2014 is not a mirror image of what it was in 1948, when the struggle over Palestine was at its height. "In the immediate postwar years, the United States defined its policy in the Near and Middle East in terms of assuring unimpeded access and control by U.S. oil companies of its great material prize, petroleum.
It almost seems like if the history that's usually just glossed over (if it's mentioned at all in the U.S.) included the reality of the history behind most U.S. foreign policy since WWII, there would be way less support for propaganda that somehow always justifies the invasion of other countries, and coincidentally works out to make the wealthiest people at the top even more wealthy. Always at the expense of freedom and liberty for the little people below who made the mistake of existing on top of the oil (or whatever natural resources happen to be the oil of the future) those at the top wanted to exploit.