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Whatever happened to the Israeli Psyche?

CrossFireArabia
May 24, 2024

The slaughter of Gaza has shown the world that Israel, those circle around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, no longer function rationally. Their daily acts of ordering mayhem and destruction on a defenseless people in Gaza to get to Hamas, is surely signs of deep psychological disturbances. If not stopped, such atrocious behavior will lead to unforeseen instability in the region and the world. After all, Israel has the nuclear bomb and everybody knows it.

I see the Israeli government and the war cabinet on my television set daily, in fact at least few times a day. I see Netanyahu and his ministers and military officers around the table nonchalantly discussing the war on Gaza.

Unbelievable is the fact, and over the past eight months, they have assembled in unison, as if this is a series of business meetings discussing among themselves which parts of Gaza they should bomb today, what type of American missiles they should use and which homes harm should be inflicted on.

These are supposedly top Israeli leaders reduced to a genocidal state of atrophy and political degeneration. Up till now they have not been able to get to the crux of the Hamas fighters and/or their whereabouts.

So, one can imagine them talking about which communities, blocks of flats, housing areas their so-called top brass and elite soldiers would bomb on that particular day. Is it fathomable? Its like George Orwell’s 1984 but in deadly style; here its Big Brother with flying machine guns, tanks on innocent civilians and so-called soldiers with pointed rifles ready to shoot men, women, children and babies.

Its madness, but statistics show it. The number of children that have been killed through Israeli barrel-bombing stands at 15,000 according to international statistics provided by the United Nations.

And the Israeli cabinet meetings go on today, next day, the next and the next, plotting what madness to carry out and follow. it’s a parody of massacres, while the world cheers on and justice is served. Its an odd form of confused chaos, staring from Israel to the White House and different capitals of the world. Who is playing the tune and who is listening to it?

But it’s willful, wonton, determined destruction and bloody killings, all for the sake of ending shady, terrorism and ghost-like terrorists.

How do these people feel about themselves. Can they be called people, maybe humanoids in suits, shirts, slacks, shoes. How do these so-called politicians look at each other when they order the bombing of a row of houses in downtown Gaza, Khan Younis, Dier Al Balah, Beni Suhaila or Rafah. Where are the Hamas operatives. They are starving children and women, the mighty Israeli war machine is bombing at full speed and with no compunction!

Don’t they watch their Godless bloody-infested handiwork? Surely, Israeli government leaders, if such an expression can be used, must see television images of those sprawled devastating photos and videoclips on the social media.

Human hatred per excellence. Maybe they are so blinded by rage and are prepared to see the worst kind of genocidal atrocities even if they are innocent babies. This war on Gaza has shown the distorted Israeli psyche of the mad people in power which means their indifference to human lives, including Israeli, is just a matter of collateral damage.

Human lives become worthless and with a machine-gun in one’s hand, they become mere figments to be shot at. Israeli soldiers have seen it as their moral duty to kill Palestinians running on the Gaza beaches in search of food dropped from the skies to block their insatiable hunger.

We see horror of death everybody, bodies and torn limbs amidst debris and wreckage. We see women and children pulled from under concrete blocks in cement and blood with gashed heads and torn torsos and legs.

I think to myself, isn’t Netanyahu moved. The passion to bomb and destroy has become irrevocable. There is a twist in the mind of a man who gets up every morning and sees his bloody objectives can only be achieved by bombing more, displacing more, setting Palestinian on a circle of movements to be dictated by his vicious army in an opiate terror-mode.

Then there is his agent Herzi Halevi, the so-called Israeli Chief of Staff who willingly obeys a sinister man in power. What kind of a person is a man who tells his soldiers to bombs houses regardless of who is in them: men, women, children, the old, sick and the infirm?

Israel has lost all sense of direction. The people in power have no interest in political deals. Today, it’s about the perpetuation of war that is becoming permanent because the stomping out of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance lies in the realm of imagination than reality.

Marwan Asmar is an Amman-based writer covering Middle East affairs.

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Iran In Shock After Deadly Fall Of Its President – OpEd

CrossFireArabia
May 24, 2024

After more than 15 hours the Iranian rescue teams managed to get to the fallen helicopter that killed president Ebrahim Raisi, his Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahain and the accompanying diplomatic team.

t was a grueling search and rescue operation that involved moving on foot because of the difficult terrain of the mountainous, woods and forest areas in the north east region of Iran in the east Azebirgan province.

While nobody is discounting foul play because the two other helicopters with the ‘presidential plane’ and which arrived safely at their destination in Tabriz, especially bad weather with strong wind and rain is being blamed on the final plane crash.

All international agencies as well as the social media have followed the news of the search and rescue with trepidation. Some on the social media have been quick to blame Israel for being behind the crash. And who can blame them, for Israel has long been associated with killing top Iranian generals and nuclear scientists.

Now Iran is in deep mourning and the shock is still to be absorbed for arrangements for different ceremonies and funerals are being made as eight people were killed on the helicopter including the personal body of Raisi who is known as a hardliner but have followed a pragmatic course to building relationships with the Arab world, Saudi Arabia, Russia and even the USA talking indirectly through Oman.

Raising had been in power for only three years. He was to complete his tenure next year in 2025. However while the search was continuing the country’s spiritual leader Ali Khamenei said the terrible incident wouldn’t affect the affairs of state.

Raisi’s first vice-president Mohammad Mokhbeir has already held an emergency cabinet meeting in Tehran. Constitutionally, he would be ruling with a committee of the speaker of the head of parliament and head of the judiciary for the next 50 days till a new president is elected.

It is not clear whether he would serve for one year or for full four years but this will be decided in the next weeks ahead and according to the interpretation of the constitution that would involve different political, constitutional, parliamentarian and constitutional authorities in the country.

What is for sure is the tragic incident has rekindled brotherly relations between Iran and different countries of the region. As soon as they heard, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Turkey offered their help in the rescue operations with news that Ankara was actively taking part in the search.

Raisi was coming from an official ceremony related to a dam project ceremony with the Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev.

The death of Raisi, 63, and his foreign minister is likely to produce new soul-searching among the Iranian political and diplomatic establishment but the status quo and stability will continue according to Ali Khamenei who is the final arbiter in the Iranian political system.