The Demographic Destruction of the Palestinians: Israeli Victimhood & Fascism. Pt 2.

Extreme right-wing politics, bordering on fascism, & a culture of victimisation wrapped in a warm blanket of impunity provided by its’ benefactor, the U.S., has led Israel, & Israelis to become the genocidal monsters of its’ own nightmares.

A victimised individual…‘will take one of two paths. Either he will join the pecking order and treat others in the way he has been treated, or else he will consciously and deliberately avoid this temptation. With insight he will say, “These people are victims exactly as I am a victim. Better stand with them, not against them”.’

G.W. Allport, The Nature of Human Prejudice (1954). Cited in (3).

This post follows directly on from Part One which you read here.

Collective trauma leads to collective victimhood, right? Or does it?

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