Still from Andrzej Wajda's Kanal.

What Americans are witnessing in Gaza is a reiteration of our own history in real-time: Dispossess indigenous people, violently crush their resistance, blame any retaliatory “massacres" as an excuse to use overwhelming military power to wipe out their entire populations, confine the survivors to “reservations" on marginal sites, then invade even that land when gold, timber, oil or water is found, justifying the theft by citing your own stature as a superior society, which will put the looted land and resources to the highest use possible...