The Deeper Meanings of "Disengagement"
The Deeper Meanings of "Disengagement"
By Louis Rene Beres, Israel Insider
".....All people, Jews or gentiles, who dare not defend themselves when they know they are in the right, who submit to punishment not because of what they have done but because of who they are, are already dead by their own decision; and whether or not they survive physically depends on chance. If circumstances are not favorable, they end up in gas chambers....."
Bruno Bettelheim, Freud's Vienna And Other Essays
Bettelheim, like the Greek poet Homer, understands that the force that does not kill -- that does not kill just yet -- can turn a human being into stone, into a thing, while it is still alive. Merely hanging ominously over the head of the vulnerable creature it can choose to kill at any moment, poised portentously to destroy breath in what it has "graciously" allowed, if only for a few more moments, to breathe, this force mocks the fragile life it intends to consume. The singular human being that stands helplessly before this force has effectively become a corpse before any lethal assault is even launched.
Israel, still manipulated and assaulted by an intermittent stream of barbarous Palestinian terror, is in the process of becoming this pitiable individual writ large. Called upon again and again by our "civilized" world to negotiate with ritualistic murderers and child-sacrificers, the Jewish State under Prime Minister Sharon will soon face a very basic choice. It can accept an immutably-genocidal Palestinian state carved out of its own still-living national body, or - instead - it can affirm its sacred post- Holocaust obligation to endure and reaffirm its enduring Torah obligation to "choose life." Should the Sharon Government accept the former, and continue with its announced "disengagement" policy of unilateral territorial surrender (a policy linked to an imagined "Two-State Solution"), Israel would already lie defeated. (Be sure to read the rest)
Posted by Ted Belman at January 26, 2005 07:04 AM
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The Deeper Meanings of "Disengagement"
By Louis Rene Beres, Israel Insider
Bettelheim, like the Greek poet Homer, understands that the force that does not kill -- that does not kill just yet -- can turn a human being into stone, into a thing, while it is still alive. Merely hanging ominously over the head of the vulnerable creature it can choose to kill at any moment, poised portentously to destroy breath in what it has "graciously" allowed, if only for a few more moments, to breathe, this force mocks the fragile life it intends to consume. The singular human being that stands helplessly before this force has effectively become a corpse before any lethal assault is even launched.
Israel, still manipulated and assaulted by an intermittent stream of barbarous Palestinian terror, is in the process of becoming this pitiable individual writ large. Called upon again and again by our "civilized" world to negotiate with ritualistic murderers and child-sacrificers, the Jewish State under Prime Minister Sharon will soon face a very basic choice. It can accept an immutably-genocidal Palestinian state carved out of its own still-living national body, or - instead - it can affirm its sacred post- Holocaust obligation to endure and reaffirm its enduring Torah obligation to "choose life." Should the Sharon Government accept the former, and continue with its announced "disengagement" policy of unilateral territorial surrender (a policy linked to an imagined "Two-State Solution"), Israel would already lie defeated. (Be sure to read the rest)
Posted by Ted Belman at January 26, 2005 07:04 AM