Iakov Levi

 

 Jews Hugging and Kissing Ahmadinejad: Oedipus With Side – Locks, Beards and Long Coats

 

 2006-12-16

 WE are announced in these very days by Ahmadinejad and his peers, that the Holocaust is an invention concocted by the Jews in order to give legitimation to Zionism, and with the purpose of dispossessing the Arabs of their land. I had already heard some Arabs neighbors complaining that they should not be asked to pay the price of what the Nazis did to the Jews, but I have never heard them outright negating the Holocaust per se. It seems to me much more effective and sensate - for their purpose of self – victimization - to admit the very fact of the Holocaust than to deny it.

Now we are also announced by the Jerusalem Post  that some ultra – Orthodox Jews emphatically participated at a conference in Teheran the aim of which is to gather evidence that the Holocaust never occurred. As the article “Eda Haredit slams fringe over Iran parley” by Matthew Wagner points: “Ironically, several of the participants in the Iranian Holocaust denial conference were themselves offspring of Holocaust survivors.”

I quote from the article:

Rabbi Israel Hirsch, a member of this fringe group who lives in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood, defended participating in the Holocaust conference. "The Zionists put so much emphasis on the Holocaust because they use it as a justification for the establishment of the State of Israel," said Hirsch. "Our message is that even if there was a Holocaust it does not permit us to subjugate another people. Israel must be returned to the Palestinians; only then will anti-Semitism end." Hirsch said Zionism was to blame for the Holocaust. The call by the Zionists in Palestine and the Jews in the US to boycott Nazi Germany during the war is what pushed Hitler over the top. That is what made him call for the Final Solution," he explained.

 

Very interesting: According to the Arabs and their peers the Holocaust, that never existed, is to blame for Zionism, and according to the ultra – Orthodox Jews Zionism is to blame for the Holocaust, and the two parties hug and kiss in a conference aimed at the Holocaust’s negation.

 

I shall relate to the Jewish side. We are obviously dealing with a delusional formation. Henceforth there is no point in trying to examine the argumentations on the ground of the Reality Principle, or in trying to confute them adducing rational and historical evidence.

However, from a psychohistorical point of view, this delusional formation is of pivotal importance, because it sheds light on the unconscious –and therefore very real – motivations of the ultra – Orthodox Jews. And through them also on the substance of the mental and emotional engine, which moves and motivates Jews and Israelis, Zionists and not Zionists.

On the psychoanalytic substance of Zionism, I have written in Exile and Monotheism (Part II)  . It seems to me that what is happening today confirms what I wrote four years ago.

Moreover, let us listen to what Rabbi Israel Hirsch himself has to say, and we shall be enlightened.

I quote from the Jerusalem Post:

For Hirsch, it is a sin for Jews to attempt to take their fate into their own hands. Rather, Jews are relegated to a passive role until God decides to bring the final redemption. Zionism is a rebellion against God's plan because it is an attempt to provide an earthly redemption. Hirsch said the US's support for Israel was what has pitted Iran against the US. "As soon as the US stops supporting Zionism, Iran and the US can be allies."

Asked what he would do if forced to choose between joining the Arabs in a war against Israeli Zionists and defending Zionist Jews, Hirsch replied that he would join the Arabs.

"All Jewish Zionists, whether they call themselves religious or secular, are apostates who have cut themselves off from the Jewish people," he said.

Popenheim said that he, too, was virulently opposed to Zionism and agreed in principle with Hirsch that Zionism was equivalent to apostasy and rebellion against God. But he said that there was no justification for joining forces with Arabs or Iranians against Jews.

"If I saw an Arab terrorist trying to kill a Zionist Jew, I would shoot the Arab," said Popenheim.

"We are faced with a dilemma," said Popenheim. "Since the Zionists have aroused the hatred of the Arabs against the Jews, it would be a disaster if Arabs gained control of Israel”.

"But as long as Zionism flourishes, blasphemy spreads and more victims are contaminated.

"We have to pray to God that he will hasten the demise of this impious sovereignty in a way that no Jew is hurt in the process."

Well, the outstanding proposition is that Zionism, namely lust for the Land of Israel, is an “apostate” proposition: apostasy and rebellion against God. Moreover: All Jewish Zionists, whether they call themselves religious or secular, are apostates who have cut themselves off from the Jewish people. Namely, apostasy (incest) and rebellion against God (patricide) result in castration (have cut themselves off).

Popenheim confirms Hirsch’s diagnosis:  as long as Zionism flourishes, blasphemy spreads, and the obvious outcome is that victims are contaminated and Jews will be hurt by God’s hand. That God will bring the collective punishment for the lust to the Land is not explicitly said, but it is implicitly obvious between the lines. “Rebellion and apostasy against God” by the Zionists will result in “Jews hurt in the process”.  After all, as is written: “All Jews are responsible for each other”.

 

In  The Exile and Its Consequences Jewish Monotheism (II) I have sustained that the sins of which the Zionists are accused by ultra – Orthodox Jews are the two capital sins of our infancy: Aggressive drives against the Father (rebellion against God) and incest (lust for the Land of Israel):

 

The more the Second Exile lasted, the more the Promised Land became an abstract concept, sterilized from its sensuous connotation. Jerusalem became Jerushalaim shel M'ala (the Heaven Jerusalem), in contrast with the previous very earthly one. As the centuries elapsed, the sense of guilt for the loss, which was perceived as having been caused by the lustful heterosexual drive, fed on itself to the point that the Jews committed not to try to regain their independence, but to wait for the days of the Messiah, the only one who will be allowed to drive the children of Israel to their land again, and to rebuild the Temple […]
The more the Jews were segregated and persecuted, the more they related to their condition as a God - sent imposition. Trying to change the destiny imposed by the divine will is to be considered blasphemous. The Rabbis codified the prohibition of rebelling against the rule of the Gentiles. Every active resistance against “'Ulam shel Goyim” (the Gentiles' yoke) is to be considered as a rebellion against the will of God himself.
(The Exile and Its Consequences for Jewish Monotheism (Part II)

Zionism is to be considered the ideology of the heterosexual libido, the lust toward the maternal body (the Land) while anti – Zionism is the reaction of affection and homosexual love toward the Father, as a result of the sense of guilt activated by the heterosexual drive and the rebellion against Him. No wonder that the representatives of the most fanatical streams of the religions of the Father – Judaism and Islam – hug and kiss each other, and agree on the need to destroy and punish every even slight manifestation of heterosexual drives. No wonder that fundamentalist Muslims and fundamentalist Jews agree in their hatred for women, and in repressing every form of  sexual permissiveness. Zionism is one of them, namely an expression of the forbidden lust:

Now, the Zionist pioneers, in their craving for casting aside the yoke of the Law of the Father, reconnected to the mental heterosexual contents of the Hebrews cultivators, as they were before Hebraism had become Judaism, i.e., the religion of the Father.
We can say that Zionism was the product of a resurgence of heterosexual libido, triggered by the events in 19th century Europe. At the same time, we can understand why, at the beginning, orthodox Judaism was anti – Zionist. The Rabbis stared with horror at the substitution of the cults of the Father with the idolatry of the cults of the Mother.

(The Exile and Its Consequences for Jewish Monotheism (Part II)

Furthermore, the passive homosexual component of anti – Zionism ultra – Orthodox ideology is present, too: “For Hirsch, it is a sin for Jews to attempt to take their fate into their own hands. Rather, Jews are relegated to a passive role until God decides to bring the final redemption.”
 I quote from my article The Exile and its Consequences for Jewish Monotheism Part I

We can conclude that, prior to the First Exile, the cult of the Mother, i.e. heterosexual libido, had the predominance in Jewish psyche, and only with the loss of the two most important symbols of the maternal body, the Land and the House, there was - at the national collective psychic level - a renunciation to the heterosexual drive, due to the sense of guilt induced by every loss, which caused a retrenchment into the cult of the Father […]
As Freud has exposited in his work, a retrenchment from the heterosexual channel automatically produces a strengthening of homosexual libido. The catastrophe, which befell on the feminine object of lust, strengthened - at the collective level - the homosexual libido of the Jewish people, as a child who loses his mother redirects his libido towards the father.
At this level, Jewish Monotheism may be interpreted as the strengthening of homosexual libido after the loss of the heterosexual object.

The passivity is the consequence of the sense of guilt activated by an active libidinal drive. An active male, who feels too guilty, becomes a passive female. Erections transforms into contractions and self – castration. Only in this way  - by the renunciation of the libido’s original target  (the female = the Land) - the Wrath of the Father can be blunted and defused.

 

Popenheim – Hirsch -  Soros

What so apparently different gentlemen as the couple Popenheim –Hirsch may possibly share with a modern progressive Jew like Soros?  More than we might think.  Let’s check what Soros said of Israel:

THE FAILURE OF Israel to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept. One of those weaknesses is that even if the targets are terrorists, the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause.

In response to Hezbollah's attacks, Israel was justified in attacking Hezbollah to protect itself against the threat of missiles on its border. However, Israel should have taken greater care to minimize collateral damage. The civilian casualties and material damage inflicted on Lebanon inflamed Muslims and world opinion against Israel and converted Hezbollah from aggressors to heroes of resistance for many. Weakening Lebanon has also made it more difficult to rein in Hezbollah.

Another weakness of the war-on-terror concept is that it relies on military action and rules out political approaches. Israel previously withdrew from Lebanon and then from Gaza unilaterally, rather than negotiating political settlements with the Lebanese government and the Palestinian authority. The strengthening of Hezbollah and Hamas was a direct consequence of that approach. The war-on-terror concept stands in the way of recognizing this fact because it separates "us" from "them" and denies that our actions help shape their behavior.

[…] The Bush administration, having pushed Israel to allow the Palestinians to hold elections, then backed Israel's refusal to deal with a Hamas government. The effect was to impose further hardship on the Palestinians.

Nevertheless, Abbas was able to forge an agreement with the political arm of Hamas for the formation of a unity government. It was to foil this agreement that the military branch of Hamas, run from Damascus, engaged in the provocation that brought a heavy-handed response from Israel -- which in turn incited Hezbollah to further provocation, opening a second front.

That is how extremists play off against each other to destroy any chance of political progress.

Israel has been a participant in this game, and President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel. […]

Similarly, the United States has become less safe since Bush declared war on terror.

The time has come to realize that the present policies are counterproductive. There will be no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political settlement of the Palestine question. ………..


George Soros | Blinded by a Concept | August 31, 2006
 

The most outstanding feature of the discourse is that Israel (read “the Zionists”) is to blame for other people suffering, and that those aggressive actions against “other people” are to blame for their desire of revenge.

As Popenheim said "Since the Zionists have aroused the hatred of the Arabs against the Jews…”

Everything depends on Israel’s aggressive drives, and on the Zionists arousing the Arabs hatred because of their unrestrained lust for the Land.

The obvious misconception is that people are hated because of what they do. It does not work in that way. People are hated or loved because of what they represent in the eyes of foes and friends, and not because of what they do. Like beauty, love and hatred are in the eyes of the beholder.
Schopenhauer has already pointed that the world is a representation.
It is the same distorted logic which attributes Islamic hatred of the West to what the West allegedly did to Islam. The 11th of September is to be blamed on the Americans because they …….(did what?).

The Americans, with their permissive and promiscuous ways are hated by the Arabs and other sexually repressed cultures because in their eyes they represent the forbidden lust, and not because of what they did (Cf.
Why Islamic Terror Now).

Hirsch says: “the US's support for Israel was what has pitted Iran against the US. As soon as the US stops supporting Zionism, Iran and the US can be allies."

Soros says: “That is how extremists play off against each other to destroy any chance of political progress.Israel has been a participant in this game, and President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel. […] Similarly, the United States has become less safe since Bush declared war on terror".

So, the two gentlemen are very similar in their way of thinking

To Hirsch, the US and the West’s troubles with Iran, Arabs and Islam depend on their support of Israel. Namely everything depends on the Jews. They are the sinners, and therefore whoever supports them is in trouble. What a Jewish narcissism!!

To Soros, the 11th of September and the global effort of the Islamic terrorists to kill, destroy, and blow up are irrelevant. What is relevant is the war on terror declared by Bush, just because one day he rose up on the wrong side of the bed. Furthermore: "President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel. […and therefore is implied] … the United States has become less safe".

Again, what a Jewish narcissism !!! The fate of the world and the U.S. is dictated by what the Jews do, and by the U.S. support of their evil ways.

Only an oceanic narcissism and a compelling sense of guilt can induce an intelligent and articulated man like Soros to completely disregard the substance of the other side’s motivations. Suicidal terror and incapability to live in peace is the expression of the psychosexual regression which is holding the Islamic world, and not of what Jews do or are. The Islamic world as a collective have regressed to the placental –intrauterine stage of psychosexual development, and therefore they are compelled to act out the essential features of this regression, which are paranoid hallucinations and suicide (See Why Islamic Terror Now).

The pattern of thinking weaved by the couple Hirsch – Soros is alike that of a little Oedipal child, who believes that every thing happening around him and to him depends on his own (aggressive and incestuous) drives. If he lives in a hostile environment, abused and hated by his parents, he will put the blame on his own instinctual drives – usually the genital excitement directed at his parents – and then he will punish himself and his own drives. Usually, the resolution to the usolvable stress of his/her genital excitement is a regression to a former psychosexual level of evolution. That is the reason why the more a child is abused, the more he feels guilty.

This is also the reason why the Jews, who are the most abused people of history, are also the people who most of all feel guilty.

The ultra –Orthodox Jews and Soros are the same protagonist of Oedipus’ tragedy. They are the scenic representation of the renunciation  to the lust’s object, because of the sense of guilt induced by the forbidden desire.

In his Totem and Taboo, Freud speaks of the renunciation of the fruit of the sin as deferred obedience to the Father [1] . The blinded Oedipus, who self castrated because of his lust for the woman (the Land). Blinded by the sense of guilt, they do not see where their steps are leading.
In their childish narcissism, they think that the world hates them because of what they did, or because of what they are. In short, because of their aggressive and incestuous drives. To them, the obvious resolution is to self – blind and self – castrate.

As Rabbi Hirsch says: “ Israel must be returned to the Palestinians”. Namely, the Land, the object of the lust, must be renounced in order to appease Godonly then will anti-Semitism end

A dangerous naiveté, indeed.

 

The Voice of Reason

To day 16 of December, the CNN broadcasted a very interesting and long press conference that the President of the Palestinian Authority held in Ramallah. He was very angry at his own people because of the civil unrest, which is causing suffering and poverty to all: “The Israelis left Gaza, why are you firing rockets? What do you want from them? The abduction of the Israeli soldier cost us almost five hundreds dead. The national income has decreased by 60%. There is much investment money from Saudia, from Europe and from Japan, that waits to be invested in Gaza to bring prosperity. But they (Hamas) fired rockets and now there is no peace”.

Abbas did not accuse the Israelis for the situation in the region. Why Hirsch and Soros do?

He accused Hamas for the misery in Gaza. Why Hirsch and Soros don’t?

Do they know better than the President of the Palestinian Authority?

Of course not. The point is that in their accusations they unconsciously refer to some foggy and archaic sin perpetrated by the Jews on the body of the Father for the possession of  the Motherland’s body, and not to what the Israelis are actually doing on the ground of the Reality Principle. They only seem to be speaking of reality, while they are speaking of fantasies.
On the other hand, Abbas is not Jewish, and he is not blinded by the same sense of guilt.
Being an Arab, he can speak to the point.


On Survival and on Guilt

Nietzsche said:

A Jew, on the other hand, in keeping with the business circles and the past of his people, is least of all used to being believed. Consider Jewish scholars in this light: All of them have a high regard for logic, that is for compelling agreement by force of reason; they know, with that they are bound to win even where they encounter race and class prejudices and when one does not like to believe them. For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses (The Gay Science, 348)

Nietzsche pointed to Jews’ inclination to overestimate the power of logic. It was the only instrument they could oppose vis a vis physical abuse. It has never been of any use, of course. Historical events are not dictated by rational thinking. Neither they are dictated by materialistic considerations. Marxism, after all, is the product of a condensation of wishful thinking with Platonic rationality. Events are dictated by emotions. They are the acting out of instinctual needs filtrated by Ego elaborations. And in collective behaviour the most of all.
In the process of trying to counter through logic, the Jews deluded themselves into attributing to logical thinking the magic power essential to the task of self - preservation. Rational thinking was used as the Golem who will defend his Jews from Gentiles’ abusive and violent ways. Being weaker, and therefore inhibited from acting out physical power, the Jews channelled the inhibited energies from the locomotor into the intellectual level. Like anybody who is inhibited from the use of one of his senses, re- directs the energies peculiar to that sense into another. A blind hears better, et.

However, there is something more.

The magic power of rational thinking, being a substitute for an instinctual aggressive acting out, contains also an element of the repressed need. We see now that under the compulsion of the sense of guilt, the Jews use rational thinking not only as an apotropaic mean against the Gentiles, but also as an instrument of self abashing. And so, in time of need, instead of closing ranks even more, we hear Jewish intellectuals using rational thinking in order to empower the hands of Israel’s enemies.

Jews have passed from using logic in a pathetic trial to survive and to defend themselves to using it in order to justify their own destruction.  The Golem – rational thinking – has turned against his Maker.
 Now logic dictates that Israel survival is non – logic. Therefore, a logic Jew must prepare for annihilation. Rational thinking is not only a Golem that turned against his Maker but also a Moloch on the altar of which the logic Jew must be sacrificed.

Caroline Glick wrote in the Jerusalem Post:

Indeed, even if the Left doesn't buy into Holocaust denial, it can still agree with Iran's conclusion that Israel has no right to exist. As Mottaki explained, "If during this [Holocaust denial conference] it is proved that the Holocaust was a historical reality, then what is the reason for the Muslim people of the region and the Palestinians having to pay the cost of the Nazis' crimes?"

So from Mottaki's perspective, Israel is illegitimate whether the Holocaust happened or not. In making this point, Mottaki closed the gap between Iran and a loud chorus of voices in both Europe and the US who claim that Israel was established only because of European guilt over the Holocaust and consequently the Jewish state has no inherent legitimacy. This is a view that even Jewish leftists like Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and New York University Professor Tony Judt have expressed.

Inevitably, those who hold this view come to believe that Israel has no right to defend itself. After all, if Israel is but an illegal European colony on stolen Arab lands, then any act of self-defense that Israel takes is by definition an act of aggression. So from this perspective, all Israel can do is give away land and accept that it must pay for all the pathologies of the Arab world.

THE VIEW that every problem in the region is somehow or other bound up in Israel's stubborn refusal to disappear is clearly reflected also in the policy prescriptions of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, in former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Semitic attacks against Israel and in the position paper authored by professors Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer about the so-called "Israel Lobby" (which is due to be published as a full-length book ahead of the 2008 presidential elections).  ( Column One: Why deny the Holocaust? By Caroline Glick  Dec. 16, 2006)

As we see, using rational thinking -  the Jews battle horse – some Jews have reached the conclusion that Israel enemies are right in their advocating the elimination of the Jewish state, because Israel has no inherent right to exist. Logic is the instrument, but what is the engine behind such endeavour, if not a compelling sense of guilt?

Have you ever heard a British advocating the extermination of the English only because the Norman conquerors took England from their previous inhabitants? Or - on a more modern historical background – the Americans advocating the restitution of America to the Native Americans, Australia to her Natives, et? And in the last very century what about Greeks expelled from Turkey, Turks expelled from Greece, and the multitudes of peoples expelled or forced to migrate under duress. After all, the last one was the century of migrations. Not to mention one million Jews who were compelled to migrate to Israel from Arab countries.

All this is not 'logic', but that’s the way it is.

Only the Jews’ sins are counted, by others and – much worse – by themselves, in order to deny their natural right to survival.
Confronted with alien enemies, the Jews have a chance to survive. However, confronted with their own destructive sense of guilt, they are doomed to extinction. It seems that where their foes failed, the Jews themselves will succeed into bringing Jewish history to an end.

 

The Islamic Fantasy: The Land and the Ummah

Without the assumption of a collective mind, which makes it possible to neglect the interruptions of mental acts caused by the extinction of the individual, social psychology in general cannot exist. Unless psychical processes were continued from one generation to another, if each generation were obliged to acquire its attitude to life anew, there would be no progress in this field and next to no development (S.Freud, Totem and Taboo, IV.5 [SE, Vol. XIII, p.159])

As he have seen, to the Jews the fantasy of the Promised Land is consummated at the Oedipal –genital level. The Land, namely the Mother, is craved and possessed at the nationalistic level, through the physical contact. In the beginning, Zionism was perceived mainly as a work – of – the land affair (pioneering and agriculture as a national priority). Afterwards, came “colonism”, which is a less heroic variation. Possessing the Land – Mother by these means has a genital sadistic and anal connotation. Moreover nationalistic aspirations are associated to genital possess. Country, Freedom, and Victory are women.

As the ultra –Orthodox unconsciously perceive, the Land – Mother is possessed in an act of “apostate”  rebellion against the Almighty Father. Independence was achieved as an act of defiance against the Father. As Hirsch declared: "All Jewish Zionists, whether they call themselves religious or secular, are apostates who have cut themselves off from the Jewish people" . Henceforth, God will punish his people, as usual.

The sense of guilt, that resulted from the incestuous possession of the Land, is not confined to the ultra - Orthodox and their curses. The guilt permeated all Israeli society, and only  by this assumption the strange self –damaging behaviour of Israel can be comprehended.

Now to the Arabs and their fantasies.

As I have written in Rembrandt and the Prodigal Son" , to the Christians, the Jews represent the elder brother [2] , who always represents a clone of the Father. On the other hand, to the Arabs the Jews represent the younger sibling – the hated Isaac who dispossessed Ishmael of the love of his father, and was the alleged cause of his expulsion into the desert, doomed to be an eternal destitute. Because of Isaac, Ishmael was deprived of a father, and he became the Patriarch of the religion of the Absent Father – the borderline Bedouin -,  . At the same time – been deprived of the seeded land – he feels also deprived of the Mother’s body.

The Palestinians call the Israeli Independence Day “The Nackbah” (the Holocaust), mimicking the name the Jews give to their darkest historical occurrence. However, whilst the Jews call 'Holocaust' the physical extermination of half the Jews of Europe, the Arabs use the same term to define the Israeli Independence Day, namely the birth of the Jewish state. Indeed, a little child perceives the birth of a sibling as a “Nackba”, namely a catastrophic occurrence.
To the Jews, the Holocaust is associated to their brothers’ physical extermination, whilst to the Arabs is associated to a sibling’s birth.

The biblical saga of the Patriarchs – Isaac and Ishmael – does not tell the story of two real persons but makes a personalization of the historical destiny of the two ethnic groups – Hebrews and Arabs. It is a flash of the actual situation in Palestine at the time of the myth formation at the beginning of the first millennium B.C. At the very beginning, they had had a common lifestyle – as all the nomadic Semitic peoples. However, historical times, back to the first millennium B.C. found the Hebrews as settled down cultivators whilst the Arabs - Midianites in the biblical language -  where still dispossessed Bedouins. They had to wait to the seventh century A.D. to conquer the seeded land. By then, they were too rooted into their mental nomadic status to be able to change mood and lifestyle. Even where they settled down and seeded the land they never changed their mental mood, and they psychically remained eternal destitute refugee.

True, the biblical myth is a Hebrew creation. However the Arabs too adopted the version of Isaac, - the Hebrew Patriarch -  as the youngest brother , and Ishmael – the Arab Patriarch- as the elder brother.

If they adopted the story, it means that they identify with the role of elder brothers dispossessed by their younger sibling.

Henceforth the element of envy, which characterizes Arab – Jewish relations.

Isaac (the Jews) is the narcissistic younger brother, and Ishmael (the Arabs) is the elder borderline and envious brother [3]

According to the myth shared by both people, Ishmael became a nomad, a landless wanderer, because of Isaac, who dispossessed him, and by his very birth deprived him of both parents’ love. And this is exactly the complain advanced by the Arabs against the Jews in these very days. Only the timing and the manifest aspect have changed, whilst the latent substance has remained the same.

The Arabs feel dispossessed because of that tiny part of the Middle East now representing the State of Israel. As nomads, they have always felt dispossessed and abused. Zionism only gave to them a concrete representation of their eternal unconscious plight: Abandoned by the Father, and therefore  being prevented from working out the process of re – birth and identification with him,  they are also incapable of possessing the Mother. Incapable of consummating the lust for the Land – Mother at the genital – Oedipal level, they have regressed to a lower level of collective psycho – sexual organization. The Land is lusted at the oral - sadistic and intra – uterine level. This is the reason why, even after they have been offered an independent state in Palestine on a plate of silver, they cannot consummate their independence and they have begun fighting each other. The purpose is to abort an independent state, which would be an expression of genital libidinal energy.

Back in the sixties, it seemed that the PLO was similar to other independence movements of the decolonizing world – and might be that at the beginning it was -, and as such represented a trial of acting out an Oedipal content, mimicking the Jews in achieving an independent state of their own. However, as we know now, this trial was aborted at Camp David six years ago. Confronted with the real possibility of achieving independence and resolving their situation of eternal nomads and abused refugees, they panicked into “intifading” their more successful sibling. The coercion to repeat a libidinal fixation could not be overcome. The libido fixated into their condition of nomads and dispossessed, and nothing could be done to change that.

It might be that Mahmud Abbas – the man - really wants a Palestinian independent state. If it is the case, it might also be that the actual fights between his followers and Hamas fans represents the last desperate trial to organize his people at the genital – Oedipal level, - like the Israelis – vis a vis the surging wave of Islamic fundamentalism, that represents the craving for the ultimate intra – uterine regression. It is not by accident that nobody understands the chaotic situation in the Palestinian territories. One just cannot explain to a socio – economic –narrative historian - educated in the womb of enlightenment and western rational thinking - the real substance of this Arab – Islamic affair.

So, what began as a Palestinian and Arab affair vis a vis the Israelis, namely a conflict on the grounds of national aspirations, now became an Islamic oceanic affair vis a vis nebulous and not well defined aliens – infidels: Israelis – Jews  - Westerners – Christians, no matter who – they are “The Other”. In a paranoid status, namely in a condition of regression into the womb, identities are never defined and clear. Only the threat is perceived as very real.

No more nationality and identity – and therefore Oedipal level – but oceanic Caliphate – the Ummah -, namely the placenta, where every self - identity gets confused and drowns into the immense waters of the primal womb.

It is not casual that we do not speak anymore of Arabs, but of Islam.

It is not casual that Ummah means Mother.

There, in the placental liquid of the Ummah there is no difference between Arabs and other Muslims, even if Persians and Arabs have always hated each other. At that lowest stage of psycho – sexual organization there still is no identity.

It is not casual that Al – Zawahiri – the number two of Al Qaeda - scolded those Palestinians who want a Palestinian state. They must crave for the Ummah, the primal oceanic womb. There they will also find their absent Father. The condition is the Jihad. Namely the primeval intra – uterine conflict. The primal struggle which is a precondition for every birth.

And so we came to discover that in the context of the intra –uterine Gog UMagog conflict, in these very days the attention of the world is much focused on the Iranian Nuclear Bomb. A big explosion psychoanalytically means “birth”. The American called their first A – bomb “the Baby”.

And the Islamic “Baby” will be delivered on that “baby” – the youngest brother-  culprit of being the primal cause of every abandonment and dispossession.

 

 

Links:

From the Invasion of Lebanon to the Charges of Rape
The Cease - Fire and the Hasty Retreat of Israel
The Disproportionate Reaction of Israel

 



NOTES

[1] Sigmund Freud, “Totem and Taboo”, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, The Hogart Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis, translated by James Strachey, London 1964, vol. 13, pp. 143-4.: “What had up to then been prevented by his actual existence was thenceforward prohibited by the sons themselves, in accordance with the psychological procedure so familiar to us in psycho-analysis under the name of deferred obedience[...] Thus the brothers had no alternative [...] to institute the law against incest, by which they all alike renounced the women whom they desired and who had been their chief motive for despaching their father. In this way they rescued the organization  which had made them strong – and which may have been based on homosexual feelings and acts, originating perhaps during the period of their expulsion from the horde

[2] It is not casual that the pope John Paul II, in his visit to the synagogue in Rome on the 14 of April 1986 spoke of the Jews as "our elder brothers in the faith".

[3] The psycho - analyst Joan Lachkar wrote an interesting article, in which she draws a comparison between the marital couple narcissist - borderline and the relations between Jews and Arabs. The Jews behave as the narcissisic husband whilst the Arabs behave like a borderline woman. ("Folie a deux in Marital and Political Relationships", in The Journal of Psychohistory, 22 (2) Fall 1994).
(see also
Rembrandt and the Prodigal Son").



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