If your only source of news on the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the biased, anti-Arab mainstream American news media, I can understand why you so easily believe that Israel is merely defending itself against rocket attacks from the Arab terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

I understand how you believe the current crisis is the direct result of Palestinians allegedly associated with Hamas who kidnapped three Israeli teenagers and then brutally killed them.

And I can understand how you would then blame the Palestinians for the failure of peace, the continued violence and the mounting death toll. Civilians die at an unprecedented rate there, with Palestinians accounting for 15 times the fatalities as Israelis.

But I still feel sorry for you Americans, living in a country that is renown for its high levels of education, its freedom of speech and its civil rights. In truth, your mind is imprisoned by pro-Israel propaganda and if you dare to challenge Israel's propaganda — and it is propaganda — then you are vilified with the "A-word" and denounced as "anti-Semitic."

You, as an American, are not allowed to think for yourself. You are not allowed to view all the facts. You are carefully spoon fed one-sided bits of facts and exaggerations intended to make Israel look like the victim and the Arabs as the beasts.

The truth is far different from what you are being handed by the pathetically unprofessional and unethical news media. It's a news media that ignores or downplays the constant violence committed by Israelis against Palestinians who, by the way, are both Muslim and Christian.

That should be important to you, because America is a "Christian" nation, and in addition to allegedly embracing Christian religious principles of non-violence, justice and fairness, you might also occasionally sympathize with victims who are Christian, too.

But you don't because your ability to think freely has been compromised by a biased news media and by a powerfully sophisticated public relations strategy orchestrated by Israel and partially paid for by U.S. tax dollars. (Almost $5 billion American tax dollars are donated to Israel every year.)

Part of the problem, of course, is the Arabs, too. They are dysfunctional. Their leadership is molded by generations of living under brutal dictatorships to the point where they become Americanized Arab dictators themselves. They come from 22 Arab countries where free speech could put you either in a grave or in a prison where torture and violence is an everyday practice.

When the United States wanted to really torture its prisoners from Iraq and Afghanistan, we didn't send them to Guantanamo where waterboarding and being squeezed into boxes were among the worst forms of brutality. We sent them to "friendly" Arab dictatorships in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and even in Syria where electricity was connected to their testicles and fingernails were popped. Many died from the torture, unreported and without a minimal amount of civil rights.

So I blame the Arabs here in the United States for their utter failure in getting this story out correctly and allowing Israel to so easily manipulate the minds of the poor, unknowing Americans, as if they were pets.

I want to direct you a website where you can go to get a day-to-day perspective on the violence taking place in Palestine and Israel. It accurately records and sources each story involving violent incidents by Palestinians and by Israelis.

The site is www.IMEMC.org. It is hosted by the International Middle East Media Center, which was launched in 2003 with the help of international journalists to document accurate portrayals of events.

I went there and was overwhelmed by the evidence of day-to-day brutality by Israel against the Muslim and Christian civilians of Palestine. It was so overwhelming; I couldn't try to list the individual incidents in this column.

Instead, I randomly picked 11 days beginning on Jan. 1, 2014 to review the incident logs, and I posted them on my news website at www.TheArabDailyNews.com. I wanted to do 14 days, but the incidents were so sickening and appalling, I couldn't take reading more about the brutality and repression.

Every single day, Israeli soldiers and Israeli settlers attacked, beat and killed Palestinians. The names and faces of the Palestinians were never showcased in news media stories in the United States. Many of the victims were children.

During one incident, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli, on Jan. 11, 2014. That was reported in the American press, and then the following day when Israel attacked Palestinians, those attacks were described as "retaliation for Arab terrorist attacks."

Just as the news media falsely claims Palestinians launch rockets into Israel and Israel is forced to retaliate against the "Hamas terrorists."

In fact, after each Israel missile strike against Palestinians, or a settler assault against Palestinians, Palestinian splinter groups in the Gaza did vow to fire rockets against Israel in response.

In other words, the Palestinians were retaliating against Israel, not the other way around.

But that truth might cause most Americans consternation. How could Israel, the "David" in this fictionalized fantasy, become the brutal "Goliath," when it is the other way around? Right?

Well, the truth is, if Israel is David, David has become a serial killer and a mass murderer who specializes in killing women and children.

That's not a story Americans want to hear. But that is the truth.

Ray Hanania is an award-winning Palestinian American columnist managing editor of The Arab Daily News at www.TheArabDailyNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @RayHanania. To find out more about Ray Hanania and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.