lana Mercer addresses Israel’s “Hasbara” myths, exposing harsh truths behind Gaza’s suffering—and the moral complicity of America in enabling atrocities. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on May 16, 2025. Excerpt: “When America’s regime historians reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they always praise Pax Americana. That is the idea that American hegemony brought peace to the world. Conveniently, they leave out the horrors of it. Naturally, regime historians, the ones we are here (at the Mises Institute’s Revisionist History of War Conference, in Auburn, Alabama) to counter, speak a lot about Hitler, but hardly ever mention Hiroshima. Likewise has Israel shaped its past, mixing some history with myth, to render a myth-history. The propaganda sustaining Israel’s counterfeit history is called Hasbara, explanation in Hebrew. Hasbara constructs serve to coat Israel’s real crimes against humanity with ideological respectability, to give these some imagined purity of purpose. Think of Hasbara as the steady supply of bogus, artificial constructs to rape reality. Undeniably, American foreign policy has a certain narrative talent. The injustices of imperial power, notwithstanding, people are persuaded by the strut of it. Less obvious is the appeal of Israeli Hasbara …. ” “…Hasbara and official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric. Shortly after October 7, with the commencement, in Gaza, of Israel’s ‘Operation Swords of Iron,’ certain self-evident truths became crystal clear. …” ~ ©2025 ilana mercer LISTEN TO THE REST of ilana mercer’s lecture of May 16, 2025,