Zionism did not create the American appetite for domination. The United States had already spent centuries cultivating that appetite at home and abroad. But Zionism has sharpened it, focused it, and supplied it with a fresh theater in which old American sins can continue under new sacred language. It has helped turn the recent phase of our four-hundred-year rot into something even more brazen and morally disfiguring.

So if one wants to save the world, one must stop Zionism. And if one wants to save anything worth saving in this country, one must stop pretending that the alliance with Israel is incidental, harmless, or morally neutral. It is one of the most concentrated points at which the oldest American lies about innocence, chosenness, and righteous violence meet their modern expression.