real danger from projected danger.

am answering this but thinking about it differently than you are and not sharing your assumptions. As long as we are acting unjustly, Palestinians will resist. Any plan that involves dominating or controlling Palestinians will produce pain. Israel’s predominant self-conception is reliant on injustice and is therefore not viable. That is the origin

Unprocessed trauma. The holocaust was unimaginable trauma that was never processed and when trauma is not processed it is repeated. In this case identification with the aggressor.

Many Jews in Israel may not come from countries that underwent the Holocaust, but many do come from countries where they encountered mass hostility and mass expulsion not too long ago. A melancholy distinction….

“Hamas” is an excuse to justify all kinds of cruelties. It’s a Monster or Spectre that has been invented as a dehumanized repository of everyone’s blame. I am not religious and I don’t support religious parties.

I ask what the other person would say happened.

Then, via a spectacle of protection-through-dominance, they used the tactics of myth-building and accrued might, rooted in themes of European racial Supremacy.

Nazi Germany didn’t choose the word ‘genocide’ either. The slant of history did. Israel may have the weapons and the power but they do not and will not get to name this tragedy.

actual Trauma and the fetishization of Trauma. It is the identification of traumatized people with bullies, who cannot be opposed or acknowledge mistakes. The Jews have an opportunity to deprogram themselves, as some of us have chosen to do when faced with the Palestinian challenge. We change our self-perception, our myths about ourselves. We