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In a way you just need to look at the states surrounding Israel, and see that all those Arab states still act according to real politik and thus further the interests of Israel and then America.
I found more echoes - obviously - however in what happened to Françafrique in this past half century. Political pawns in service of French capital, in a way the final win of colonialism.
It seems that violence is all-encompassing and all-destroying, in that sense. There seems to be little hope of closure, which I think is where Fanon was more optimistic, with Marxist ideas of a great reversal looming. The great mystifiers, religion chief among them, yet still to win despite the innate praxis of violence Fanon describes.
I look forward to reading up the rest, however. Definitely a very interesting and enriching text.