A friend of mine posted this on his personal blog with a quote:
“A nation that mandates the primacy of one ethnicity or religion over all others will eventually become psychologically dysfunctional. Narcissistically obsessed with its own image, it must strive to maintain its racial superiority at all costs and will inevitably come to view any resistance to this imagined superiority as an existential threat.
Indeed, any other people automatically becomes an existential threat simply by virtue of its own existence. As it seeks to protect itself against phantom threats, the racist state becomes increasingly paranoid, its society closed and insular, intellectually limited. Setbacks enrage it; humiliations madden it. The state lashes out in a crazed effort, lacking any sense of proportion, to reassure itself of its strength.
This society no longer recognizes any boundaries, geographical or moral.”
-Michel Warschawski: Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society, 2004
I had never thought of Israel in such an extreme way before. This article and Warschawski certainly cast them in a bad light. I am not saying I agree with the quote, but it is something to consider. Israel’s threat seems to be less of an average anti-terrorism measure, and more of an active attempt to interfere with the work and daily lives of Palestinians. Also, Warschawski might be an interesting character to research.
