The recent hostage release by Hamas was turned into a macabre public spectacle which in truth amounted to a projection/confession of their own guilt and savagery.
Great piece! If it weren’t the fact that this is all real, Palestine would be a fascinating study in mass psychosis.
Your point about some moral order underlying a functional society is right on. There is none in this case, and it’s hard for us outsiders to process. Surely, there’s something or someone at the root of so much resentment, but there isn’t.
In truth, these are helpless impoverished human beings being brainwashed and sustained from the outside, leading to a completely immoral and irrational society. It’s such a challenge to deal with because it’s hard to even conceptualize. Empathy is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Great piece! If it weren’t the fact that this is all real, Palestine would be a fascinating study in mass psychosis.
Your point about some moral order underlying a functional society is right on. There is none in this case, and it’s hard for us outsiders to process. Surely, there’s something or someone at the root of so much resentment, but there isn’t.
In truth, these are helpless impoverished human beings being brainwashed and sustained from the outside, leading to a completely immoral and irrational society. It’s such a challenge to deal with because it’s hard to even conceptualize. Empathy is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Important truths, and a clear need for this culture to end.
But Israel will need to accept they need a new Occupation strategy to control the Gazan people and not allow such public displays of Jew hate.
Not even the USA can be trusted to occupy & control the violence. Only Israel.
Terrorists work by perverting feedback mechanisms.
You can’t punish islamists, or communists, because they turn consequences back onto common people.
Evil that deep can only be extirpated.
And the earlier the price is paid, the lower it is. No exceptions.