Because they haven’t lived the experience, the ‘experts’ literally can’t understand the dynamic of jihad.
Some have noticed the bizarre fact that every time Jews are killed there’s an increase in anti-Semitic violence toward Jews. I’m going to try and figure out that conundrum in this brief article.
When people are diagnosed with cancer they tend to feel guilty, and blame themselves; for not having noticed symptoms earlier, or gone to the doctor sooner, or poor lifestyle choices, or other reasons. Since most cancers happen because of genetic or unpredictable reasons, the guilt reaction is incorrect.
When children are abused by their parents, they often come to think they are partly responsible for the abuse because of some behaviour or internal quality. Logically speaking this is usually an incorrect response.
I think there’s a universal reason for cancer guilt, abuse guilt, and various other kinds of victim guilt. There’s a great deal of chaos in the world. When we’re struck with mental or physical pain we have an overwhelming need to feel it’s for a reason we have some kind of control over. It’s more important for us to feel the world makes sense, than to feel cast into chaos.
It’s been a week since the Hamas horrors in Southern Israel. Because the Israeli reaction is still ongoing, there’s been plenty of time for the after-the-fact media experts to opine on what took place and what should happen next. Almost everyone I’ve heard is tending toward victim-blaming.
The experts aren’t subtly condemning Israel because they’re bad people. They’ve grown up in a world where they’ve been indoctrinated to believe that criminals who do evil, do it because they themselves have suffered from evil. If there’s no explanation for the evil, they’ll believe the evildoer is insane.
So, when confronted with the massive evil of Hamas, they’ll believe for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, the quantity of evil done by Hamas is directly proportionate to the quantity of evil done to them by Jews.
This is a terrible reaction, and extremely unfair to the Jews for multiple reasons I won’t go into here. The point I’m making is that for the world to make sense to the media “experts”, the Jews must have had it coming.
What the experts don’t know is that Israel lives in a different world than they do. To be perfectly blunt about it, Israel is surrounded by countries in which a significant part of the population has been indoctrinated to believe jihad is good, and conquest is the only moral way for the world to evolve.
Because they haven’t lived the experience, the “experts” literally can’t understand the dynamic of jihad. Like the cancer victim and the abused child, the experts need to blame Israel for their own world to make sense. That’s the secret weapon of Hamas and that’s the answer to the conundrum that killing Jews creates more anti-Semitism.
Tom Paskal is an award winning journalist, author and screenwriter.