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31 All Indian tribes throughout the continent were treated by the U.S. Government in the same manner, with no apology. During the major portion of the 19th century, the U.S. Government even went so far as to pay groups of outlaws called vigilantes, considerable sums of money to rid newly settled territories of Indians. Indians by the thousands were hunted down and slain exactly as one would hunt animals. Though President Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), a fanatical Indian-hater, must bear a large responsibility for these atrocities, he is still uncritically praised in all courses in American history in the schools, colleges and universities, as a great national hero. And to this day, the surviving Indians are the most impoverished, backward and downtrodden of all the peoples in America. In the western mind today, the Palestinian Arab is the equivalent of the American Indian. Western support for Zionism has strong racial overtones. Zionist propaganda never fails to represent the Jews as white Europeans, the ambassadors of the progress and prosperity of modern western civilization to the benighted East. Simultaneously the Arabs are always depicted as subhuman, uncivilized Asiatics. Writes the late Bartley C. Crum, a pro-Zionist Roman Catholic lawyer, appointed by President Truman in December 1945 as a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine:

Cairo was a revelation — and a long step forward in my education. Here for the first time I began in a limited measure to understand the world of Islam. In this hot, sunbaked city, I saw the Arab in his native habitat and native dress, incredible numbers wearing their long, single-piece night-gown like robes, representing a degree of poverty and a level of subsistence I had seen nowhere in the Western world and I was sickened. (pp. 145-146)

During the train’s interminable pauses in Egypt, I had had my fill of desert scenes — the mud hovels, the faceless children, for so they appeared, wrapped up in the same nondescript robes of their parents, the slow, painful, miserable existence. But once in Jewish Palestine, the tempo and colour of life changed sharply. Things seemed to quicken, to become more alive. Children, were suddenly no longer tiny bundles of rags