this comment just appeared in truthout; i think it's right on:
I have thought, for a while
Sat, 11/14/2009 - 23:02 — Monty Renov (not verified)
I have thought, for a while now, that, in the aftermath of the Nazi extermination during World War II, many Jews (& I speak as a Jew) entered into a mass state of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from which they've never emerged or recovered - like a "nightmare" trance in which they are stuck. The symptoms are, & have been, so unmistakably evident, especially in right-wing religious groups such as Meir Kahana's "Kach", whose slogan was "Never Again" & whose vow was to "hit 'em back 10 times as hard as they hit us". This hypervigilant state, so typical of PTSD, reveals that those who evidence it are still experiencing an acute state of trauma, as if it were still going on now, over & over again, and as if there were the danger, at any moment, that "the worst" were about to occur, once more. As such, any "sign" or "omen" that symbolically portends such doom & imminent demise is magnified by the residual paranoia into "Uh-oh", here we go again!", accompanied by a tightening of the emotional armoring & a heightened readiness to go into pre-emptive battle in order to forestall "the worst" from happening. The only thing that can alter this mindset is a very deep, psycho-spiritual emotional healing of the Jewish psyche, on a mass scale, from the unprocessed, unaddressed & unhealed internalized emotional residues stemming from not only the Holocaust of WWII, but from centuries or perhaps millennia of pogroms, persecutions & annihilations. The result of these experiences is probably a lot of self-hatred, a sense of having been abandoned or betrayed by God (after he had allegedly forged a covenant with them), with a resultant deep-seated anger, rage, resentment & fear, which co-exist, all at a deeply unconscious level, because it would be much too traumatic to acknowledge to oneself that one feels such feelings towards God. It would stir up too much guilt & fear of punishment to realize they had such feelings... and to acknowledge that they might have even unconsciously believed that God might have even wanted to kill them ("otherwise", they'd reason, "how could He ever have allowed such things to happen?"). "So", they unconsciously reason to themselves, "if God won't be there to watch over us & prevent such unspeakable horrors from happening to us, then we'll just have to take things into our own hands". And, typically, one who embraces such an attitude soon becomes desensitized to their own potential for cruelty, reasoning unconsciously, "If no one was there to commiserate with and prevent our suffering, then why should there be someone there for you? ...if our suffering wasn't important enough to matter, than why should yours be?" But the pool of such collective pain, horror & anguish needs to be drained if there is ever to be a deep, transformational healing of the Jewish people's collective psyche that will finally free them to go forward into the future liberated from the fear, paranoia, rage & hypervigilance that have condemned them to experience themselves as being stuck inside of an ongoing vicious cycle of "I'm on the outside looking in". Unconscious, unresolved emotions, especially fear, constellate happenings in the life of a person (or a people) which have the function of bringing to the surface any unresolved emotions that are resonant with those happenings, which, on the spiritual level, is the way those emotions are finally purged from that being's consciousness (as in the oft quoted dictum: "You bring about, or are unconsciously attracted to, the very thing you fear!"). Now, how much better would it be to consciously & deliberately bring about the healing purge of those hidden, unresolved emotions than to continue to negate their existence, thereby leaving it to "the fates" to bring about another horrendous calamity through such an occurrence's resonance with those denied, unacknowledged, unaddressed, unhealed, unintegrated & unprocessed emotions? Hopefully, such a healing will occur "soon, & in our time". When it finally occurs, it will transform the whole world we live in with its impact, much for the better!

It is tragic farce and hypocrisy for Amerikans to blindly $upport the violent, bigoted, sexist, ethno/racist apartheid policies of Zionist fundamentalist wackos in the theocrazy of Israel.

For too long... the tail has been wagging the dog in $ewertown (Washington D.C.). And the tail has been wagging the dog for the $ake of AIPAC, a foreign based lobbyist group doing the bidding of Israel. Enough of this! When will Amerikans start putting their interests first?

And shame on the Jews too! Have you no common sense and compassion for other peoples? Other cultures? Indeed! It seems that too many Jews have become Nazis. Perhaps worse, the apartheid policies of Israel have branded every Jew on the planet as a racist and a bigot. See it! See it! This is NOT a good thing, and equally bad, the willfully ignorant (stupid) KKKristians in Amerika have been enabling the Zionist crazies in Israel to commit their ethno/racist evil, some of it bordering on genocide.

You are not fooling us anymore... and karma will not permit the evil that you do to continue much longer. Racist Zionist Israel and corp-rat fascist KKKristian Amerika tempt a terrible fate. Cease and desist from what you are doing, or the whole world will eventually rise up against you... laying waste to all that you love and cherish: your children!

Be sure and spell my name correctly for the files... "comrades!" I am the Court Jester... and I am 'espeaking' truth to you (and also to the ewe folks).

I see that the Israelis really want pieces:

Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank village of Naalin, leaving two of them wounded.

Palestinians demonstrating against the Israeli separation wall, said Israeli forces resorted to force and used rifle fire against them during the rally on Friday, Yent reported.

There is one big difference between the security barrier and the Berlin wall.

The latter was built to stop Germans fleeing East-German socialism from entering the capitalist west. (reduce freedom)

The former was built to stop suicide bombers from blowing up civilians. (save lives)

The right wing zealots must face the fact that apartheid can not prevail.

The villagers of Qaryut are facing a new weekend tradition: the Friday removing of a roadblock. The morning of Friday, 5 November, saw approximately 200 villagers join forces in clearing a large earth mound that blocks Qaryut’spassage to Road 60, the route for travelling between Ramallah and Nablus. Although 15 soldiers, 2 Israeli police vehicles and one car of settlers (who halted to observe from Road 60) were awaiting the villagers’ arrival when they marched down to the roadblock, the action remained peaceful to the end. The soldiers and border guards had initially taken up position to defend the block, however they had no choice but to move back in the face of the large and determined crowd. While a group of mostly adult males remained at the road block,clearing it with spades, pick-axes and other basic tools, the rest converged between the roadblock and route 60 where a collective prayer was held, in which some 100 participated. Following this, the boys of the village played music and danced the Dabke, a traditional Palestinian dance. The road block had been created 2 days earlier, by Israeli forces armed with heavy machinery, after the village had already removed it once. It was about 4 meters tall and consisted of mammoth amounts of earth in addition to several huge boulders. The action was accompanied by members of ISM, CPT, IWPS and ProjectHope as well as Israeli anti-apartheid activists. Unsurprisingly, the Israeli Occupation Force returned later the same day to re-establish the roadblock, but the village of Qaryut is determined to stand up for its rights and plans to return next Friday to once again take down this illegal structure. I hope these Friday protests spread!

In the future when the world is no longer dominated by the negative hypocritical forces it now is dominated by and the Jews are forced to abandon their illegal possession of Palestine, and the subjugation of an entire people and culture; the world will have for an ever lasting example the nation/state of Israel.

A negative example.

A people that were 'expelled' from their homeland because they could not keep their treaties as a result of thinking themselves above all others.
Were 'given' a 'very generous' chance to become a shining beam of a positive example.
They chose to exercise the same attitudes and contempt for others that caused them to loose their 'homeland' in 80 A.D. at the hands of the Romans.
Their arrogance and conceit coupled with their lawless and deadly disregard for those who are NOT Jews will lead to their failure; soon most likely.

Since the Jews did not learn from their own mistakes two millennia ago, and repeated them in the middle of the 20th century with the same arrogance and bloodthirsty conceit; they should never be allowed to have their own homeland again.
Forced to wander the earth for the rest of time; as an example for those in the future who might repeat the arrogance of the Jews.

"Tear down this wall"?

Tear down Israel, and the wall will fall with it.

One can only hope.

Thank you for your time.

Here's the sort of thing our House members aproved of:

Israeli soldiers have opened fire on Palestinian civilians in the central Gaza Strip, killing a young man and critically wounding another.

A group of Palestinian boys were hunting birds on Friday, when they came under Israeli fire near Johr Ad-Dik, south of Gaza City, witnesses said.