Watching the faux shock of the anti-prince of virtue, Benjamin Netanyahu, as he slandered the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued warrants for his arrest, it strikes me that he is not alone in his indignation. The overriding opinion is that neither the PM nor Yoav Gallant could possibly be war criminals because the ICC is antisemitic, as is any other person or entity who has the audacity to question the manner in which the IDF is prosecuting this onslaught. That those Leviathan shapeshifters of Hamas have managed to hide behind toddlers is no one’s business but the sniper’s.
The torrent of deadly sins spoken from members of his Likud party on the floor of the Knesset, by his capos, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich; the majority of the Israeli media and many in the general public, could persuade even Mike Huckleberry that Trump inadvertently moved the US embassy to within a hammer throw of the gates of hell. The rhetoric of Israelis and particularly Zionists regarding Palestinians has morphed well beyond mere consensus to a kind of pathogenic apathy, a deficit of empathy that is likely irreversible without decades of mass exposure therapy.
This collective anti-social psychopathy is much more destructive than the transparent group-think that hisses from western media and low-IQ Christian zealots in the Tom Cotton belt of Arkansia and Judea. It’s a learned, generational behavior that doesn’t consider that the Palestinians are people, or that they have any agency with which to be reckoned. Like a serial killer who doesn’t feel the emotions he observes in his victims, the collective psychopathy of say, Zionism, is one in which it’s not that anyone chooses to ignore the suffering of the Arabs among them, it’s that they don’t consider them at all. Like the mowing-the-grass analogy, no one who lives in the suburbs thinks about the blades of grass as having feelings or hopes for the future; mowing the lawn is simply something that must be done and no consideration is ever afforded the non-existent feelings of fescue. If you watch the settlers and MKs speak of greater Israel, you get the impression that if you asked them if they felt bad about the slaughtering of innocent Palestinians, they would return the same perplexed gaze of a landscaper asked about the natural rights of crabgrass.
The term mowing the grass as a strategic, slow grind of attrition was coined by two Israeli professors, not soldiers, Efraim Inbar and Eitan Shamir. It’s a term so innocuous that it could connote benignity, except for the messy fact that people must die to accomplish it. Other strategies deployed by the IDF, such as the Dahya Doctrine, a type of domicide in which the goal is large-scale destruction of homes and civilian infrastructure, have been at full throttle in this latest siege on Gaza. As a war strategy it’s a crime against humanity that deprives the Palestinian people of their agency. More civilian housing has been destroyed in Gaza than in Dresden and Rotterdam during WWII. They’ve lost their homes and their means to identify or claim their homes, most of which are in rubble. There is no civil authority, no hospital or municipal records systems through which to certify not only their home address or personal history but to even prove their own identity. That kind of frustration can lead to complete despair and suicide.
This is what is so insidiously evil about it. It has gotten to a point where whatever and whoever lives in Palestine are seen as an invasive plant species to be eradicated. Jared Kushner has talked openly about clearing out Gaza so that waterfront property can be developed. Not a single string of synapses in his brain was generated to concern himself with the fact that his real estate development plans might involve destroying human lives. Not one scintilla of remorse or regret occupies his head for the dead and still alive who were ground into the sand upon which he’ll build his playland for the wealthy and fabulous. It’s time to “move the people out,” he said. You mean, from their homes?
He never offered an alternative place to live, the means to establish residences, houses of worship, businesses, schools, hospitals or the needs of the other Arab nations who should bear the responsibility of displacement because it’s not his problem. “We have hotels to build dammit. Where are my bulldozers?” He’s not alone. This is how it is now. This psychopathic mindset has chased empathy to the ethers; it has abandoned human dignity to make room for the drive for total dominance.
Thank you for your accurate depiction of the unvarnished truth. We can only hope that with people like yourself shouting from the rooftops of destruction that a conscious might grow .
Thanks for bringing awareness Joe , I will keep them all in my thoughts and prayers. I do believe that the answer is in the power of prayer.
I believe that the light you shine on
These horrible atrocities is Gods work, He is working through you .
Your words help expose the evil deeds of man. Once recognized we can start to atone and apply pressure to others to stop the unnecessary suffering.
Tragically, I do believe we are witnessing this generation’s Adolph Hitler, in Benjamin Netanyahu. And I certainly don’t say that lightly. The mass starvation of over 2 million people, the sadistic slaughtering of tens of thousands of innocent women and children and the now publicly stated mission of complete ethnic cleansing of an entire population, demonstrate this. I say this not to compare genocides, not to compare numbers of human beings callously wiped out for no other reason than simply existing, but to point out that the entire world has a chance this time to stop it…but isn’t. And here in the U.S., our tax dollars are paying for it. It’s sickening. To watch the attempted extermination of the Palestinian people in real time, and to know my own country is complicit in it, is a feeling of helplessness like none other I’ve experienced in my lifetime.