Israel thrives on attack. Every excuse is made to launch one as we saw repeatedly in the years of "mowing the grass" when thousands of Palestinians in Gaza died. It is of utmost importance for Israelis (most of them) that they see themselves as ruthless warriors in order to dispel in their minds the image of the helpless victims of the h…
Israel thrives on attack. Every excuse is made to launch one as we saw repeatedly in the years of "mowing the grass" when thousands of Palestinians in Gaza died. It is of utmost importance for Israelis (most of them) that they see themselves as ruthless warriors in order to dispel in their minds the image of the helpless victims of the holocaust, the people that Israel sees itself as endlessly vindicating through military action. This is confirmed by the joy of IDF troops proud of the destruction and death they spread in Gaza.
Because this retribution ideology is inculcated in each new generation of Israelis, the killing and land theft never ends and there is no defined limit to what territory will be taken because, in the Israeli mind, it is all deserved. Nothing that the Israeli military machine can do compares, again in the Israeli mind, to the holocaust so all is allowed and no pangs of conscience follow. Gideon Levy quotes Golda Meir as saying, "after the holocaust, Jews can do anything" and we are seeing that and have seen it for decades. Hitler's destruction of innocent people has resulted in the destruction of the psyche of Israelis with atrocities committed without hesitation and the Israeli transformation of another innocent people, the Palestinians, into imagined Nazis, an incredible misapplication of the term for a people who just happen to be ready at hand to be eliminated.
American protection of Israel from all consequences to what it has done and does has created a monster of unlimited power. Thus, since 1967, the US shares in the blame for all that Israel has done to the people who are guilty of living on their own land and resisting it being taken, Oct 7 only the latest episode that Netanyahu grabbed as the ultimate excuse for total destruction of Gaza.
Israel thrives on attack. Every excuse is made to launch one as we saw repeatedly in the years of "mowing the grass" when thousands of Palestinians in Gaza died. It is of utmost importance for Israelis (most of them) that they see themselves as ruthless warriors in order to dispel in their minds the image of the helpless victims of the holocaust, the people that Israel sees itself as endlessly vindicating through military action. This is confirmed by the joy of IDF troops proud of the destruction and death they spread in Gaza.
Because this retribution ideology is inculcated in each new generation of Israelis, the killing and land theft never ends and there is no defined limit to what territory will be taken because, in the Israeli mind, it is all deserved. Nothing that the Israeli military machine can do compares, again in the Israeli mind, to the holocaust so all is allowed and no pangs of conscience follow. Gideon Levy quotes Golda Meir as saying, "after the holocaust, Jews can do anything" and we are seeing that and have seen it for decades. Hitler's destruction of innocent people has resulted in the destruction of the psyche of Israelis with atrocities committed without hesitation and the Israeli transformation of another innocent people, the Palestinians, into imagined Nazis, an incredible misapplication of the term for a people who just happen to be ready at hand to be eliminated.
American protection of Israel from all consequences to what it has done and does has created a monster of unlimited power. Thus, since 1967, the US shares in the blame for all that Israel has done to the people who are guilty of living on their own land and resisting it being taken, Oct 7 only the latest episode that Netanyahu grabbed as the ultimate excuse for total destruction of Gaza.