Colonizers' Hutzpah by Moshé Machover http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/machover030610.html

Perhaps I can just make an observation regarding the significance of Israel's brazen attempt to depict its latest aggression against a humanitarian mission as "self-defence", and the murder of peace activists by its commandos as a legitimate response to the "lynching" of these heavily armed innocents who were set upon by a "mob of terrorists".

This astounding piece of hutzpah is actually quite instructive, inasmuch as it typifies and constitutes a reductio ad absurdum of the age-old method of hasbarah, the propaganda machine of the Zionist project and its Israeli settler state.

It amount to this: protected by a Western empire, you colonize a part of the world, ethnically cleanse as many of its indigenous people as you can, and confine the remainder to stew in a series of besieged reservations, which are in effect open prisons. And when the victims try to resist, you depict them as "savages" and "terrorists"; and present yourself, the colonizer, as acting in "self-defence". Similarly, when humanitarian sympathizers of the colonized try to provide them with some help.