Monday, June 6, 2016

The Pathology That Keeps The Israel/Palestinian Arab Conflict From Being Resolved

The devotion to killing Jews is so ingrained in many societies that it makes it very difficult to achieve a peaceful resolution to the Israeli/Arab conflict. Too many people, too many children have been raised to hate Jews, which will translate into genocidal action if they ever get the chance. The only reason the Jews of Israel have not yet been slaughtered is because the Jews have an army and are able to fight back. They are no longer a defenseless, unarmed civilian population incapable of protecting themselves.
   Jews in Christian Europe were persecuted for centuries, finally culminating in their mass extermination. Jews living in the Islamic world were treated better, but also experienced periods of persecution, which culminated in the ethnic cleansing of these Jews, when they were forced to flee to the newfound state of Israel. Unfortunately, Jew hatred is now rampant in the Islamic world and elsewhere, and the effort to kill Jews and destroy Israel is unrelenting. Significant resources and effort are devoted to accomplishing this end.
   There are enormous problems in this world that threaten the very existence of all of humanity, and that have nothing to do with Jews. Does humanity continue to succumb to the seductive poisonous nectar of hating Jews and getting to ignore all else, even though this imperils their very existence, or does humanity finally evolve into moral, courageous beings that do not succumb to the cowardly need to have a scapegoat? If humanity can overcome its pathological hatreds, there still is a chance for it to save itself from the perils that threaten its existence, such as nuclear proliferation, the collapse of biodiversity, the poisoning and degradation of land and seas, and more.
   If the conflict with Israel was about land, it could be resolved. Even if it were about bad conduct on the part of Israelis, or occupation, it could be resolved. But it is not about those things, even though people want to believe otherwise, and accept the untrue propaganda that this conflict is about the victimhood of one side and oppression by the other. What this conflict is really about is what Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Iran, Hezbollah, Qatar and many others make no bones about and openly declare in their words and display in their actions, both now and in the past - Jews must be exterminated and all of Israel must be destroyed.
  The fact that European powers and many others willfully ignore this intent is truly criminal. Another person led a nation and made clear Jew killing was his goal, and by the time it was over, there was mass extermination, a holocaust, Europe lay in ruins, and over 50 million people were dead. Why anyone would want history to repeat itself is testament to the pathology of mankind, in which the need to hate and kill is greater than the desire to survive. Unlike the time of WW2, this is the age of weapons of mass extermination. There will be no point of return if the seductive poison of hate that many drink prevails. Not in this nuclear age. The leaders and masses of people eager to do slaughter, to commit genocide, if successful, will take this world into a dark place from which there is no return.

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