Translated from the original French by PAJU
The recent peace negotiations are nothing but a sham; Israel was only seeking to free the hostages. This was the central demand of the demonstrations threatening the Zionist regime. This entire charade of peace had only one goal: to calm the discontent of the hostages’ families. Wanting peace is out of the question. The extermination of the Palestinians has truly become a normal part of Zionist desire, something that is inflaming the rest of the world.
Nevertheless, the Palestinians, not being naive, agreed to sign the agreement drafted without consulting them. As if it were possible to sign a peace agreement without the presence of one of the belligerents. This text was literally forced down their throats under threat.
Nevertheless, this treaty, ridiculous as it may be, brought relative calm, a ceasefire allowing for humanitarian aid, the release of prisoners, and the Arab fighters would not tolerate the odium of refusing peace. That is at least something.
The Palestinians were fully aware of the deception. Knowing absolutely that the ceasefire would be quickly flouted, under any pretext, whether signing the agreement or not would amount to the same thing. The DNA of the Zionist killer is tyrannical. As a measure of intelligence, it was better to pretend to believe the lie. This was very clever of the victims of those criminals wearing the Star of David. They granted themselves the immediate benefits of the truce, even if only temporarily. Lives were saved, hunger assuaged.
However, having long been subject to Zionist deception, the Palestinians were not fooled. As though it were proof of their intelligence, the Israelis are paradoxically proud of their customary duplicity. The art of deception serves as their beacon. Obviously, after having taken in all the hostages alive, the Zionist entity is already preparing world opinion for the continuation of the genocide, for the massacre of innocents. The pretext is that the Palestinians will not return all the bodies of the hostages who died in captivity.
This constitutes a violation of the Agreement. However, Palestinian fighters are incapable of returning these remains, scattered and buried under the rubble left by the chaos of the bombing. The Zionists knew this. The scam is striking. Even better, it is shamefully confirmed. Hamas insulted the Israelis by handing over the wrong body, that of a Palestinian renegade.
This is too much! The Western press, always quick to bury Palestine, is struggling to do so. Already, with a threatening headline, the right-wing daily Courrier International explains: “The question of returning the hostages’ bodies weakens the ceasefire in Gaza.” The newspaper Nouvel Obs, well known for its Zionism, preparing the mood, adds: “Gaza: Missing hostage remains, accusations… Why is Israel threatening to resume fighting?” Immediately, better still, a belligerent media crossfire, Le Monde, confirms: “Gaza: Israeli diplomacy accuses Hamas of deliberately keeping the bodies of 19 hostages.” War trumpets sound, the drum beats the glory and legitimacy of the Zionist warmonger. The peaceful interstice closes on the unfortunate victims.
As expected, just a few days after the hostages’ release, the Zionists, without even bothering to justify themselves, resumed their sordid genocidal barrage. What’s the point of justifying themselves when an army of journalists devoted to misery will do the ignoble job around the world? Thus, Agence France Presse announced: “Israel and Hamas mutually accused each other on Sunday of violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.”
The first blow against the truth: confusion. As if the belligerents were equal, as if we were unaware that Israel was breaking its promises. Under the guise of neutrality, we act as if executioners and victims have equal say. Yet the numbers speak for themselves; if you can’t read, at least you can count: “33 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers killed Sunday in the enclave.”
Logically, then follows: “Israel suspends the entry of humanitarian aid.” More explicit: “Benyamin Netanyahu announces that Israel dropped 153 tons of bombs on Sunday, despite the ceasefire.” The deception is total.
The hatred of the Other, fomented by Israeli fascist propaganda, has only one goal: to create adherence to the worst mystifications: belief in the animal nature of the adversary, in the opponent’s inability to feel emotions, or even in their inability to empathize, like a dehumanized machine. Better still, the Palestinians are brutal, brainless ignoramuses. Such irreverence, pure Nazi vintage, supported by colonial interests, will allow ‘Innocence’ to do and justify the same. As an offended virgin, one adorns oneself with self-righteous virtue. Thus, the executioner plays the victim. He is then permitted to do anything. In claiming his self-defense, he attacks.
Especially since the propaganda will spare no effort to construct the most delirious abominations, likely to sanctify its narrative, such as the alleged beheading of babies, or the baking in ovens of the same babies. The cruder the fabrication, the more it will be accepted, especially by disturbed minds. The more disgust is invoked, the more vengeance will be aroused.
This hatred, specific to fascism, will have the capacity to shatter everyone’s humanity. The permanent state of war, the resulting mistrust, the inherent anxiety, the latent racism it suggests, creates a society suffering from its own inherent sickness.
The typically Zionist feeling of possessing the truth, of being infinitely superior and of constantly winning by deception, requires a shell; one must ignore the ever-threatening identity of the Other. One must think of the Other as a permanent adversary, as a competitor to be dominated.
Haughtiness demands a condescending personality, a self-righteousness conducive to all forms of contempt. Self-righteousness is the Zionist’s defining characteristic. This, consequently, creates an exacerbated competition, oblivious to respect. In this society, everyone is the enemy of the other, each for themselves. To stay afloat, one must sink the other. The Other always has more than I. During the bombing of Tel Aviv, despite the emergency situation, neighbors refused shelter to other neighbors in their bunkers: each to his own. No mixing. No solidarity or empathy.
We create forgotten people who take revenge on the smallest among them. The Other is always smaller than ourselves. We are certainly not at peace with ourselves and with others in this context. Life is unsatisfying; we don’t like it; we don’t love ourselves.
Subscribing to the prevailing discourse, however criminal, reassures, it integrates. Thus, the Palestinians not only stand out, but this enemy also contributes to Israel’s social cohesion. The common enemy unites. The killer DNA is deeply internalized by the inhabitants of Israel; otherwise, we would not understand how such horror, oblivious to the slightest humanity, could produce genocide.
Hatred of the other is above all self-hatred. One must not love oneself too much to participate in the odious. It takes real self-hatred to deliberately shoot children, as when one goes to a fair.
Three interviews, gleaned from social media, are painfully revealing. An Israeli soldier bluntly admits to taking real pleasure in targeting and killing children. He even says it has become a hobby. The second interview is with a group of young Parisian women, loudly proclaiming their Zionism, unashamedly proclaiming: “We must kill them all.” The third comment concerns Israeli female soldiers boasting of having killed more Palestinians than their male counterparts, including their wives and children.
Do these unconscious souls know that to boast about killing, you must have something broken inside you? Killing your neighbor traumatizes yourself first. You cannot escape violence against your own humanity with impunity. This is revealed by the spectacular Israeli suicide rate and the dementia so widespread in psychiatric wards.
Zionist deceptions perpetually proclaim an impossible peace, knowing full well that permanent war is the condition for the existence and cohesion of Zionism, which is why it attacks all its neighbors.
Peace is not made with intellectual will, but with the inherent resolve of respect for the adversary, with empathy for the Other, once the enemy. In other words, peace is not made with the head, but with the heart. Hatred comes from the head, not the heart.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author.
JEAN ELLEZAM holds a doctorate in sociology.
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