Iakov Levi
From the Invasion of
( Dramma giocoso[1]
in Two Acts)
The
voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the
cedars of
Lebanon.
He makes them also to skip like
a calf;
ACT
I:
The
Cease -
Fire and the Hasty Retreat of Israel
ACT II
Persons represented:
Moshe Katzav, President of the
State of
Menachem
Mazuz, Attorney
General………………………The Super – Ego
The Violated
Woman (known
as A)………………………..
The
Police…………………………………………………The Castrating Father
The Press………………………………………………….The Chorus
As we know from the press, the
President of
the State of
Last
update - 04:31 20/09/2006
Police: Enough
evidence found to indict Katsav on sex charges
By Yuval Yoaz
and Jonathan
Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
There is no doubt
in my mind that if the police of the State of Israel is going to charge
the
President with rape, he indeed did it.
However, in
psychohistory as in psychoanalysis, not the facts are important, but
their
psychological interpretation, namely, the latent meaning, and therefore
their real
meaning, which the collective unconscious attributes to them. The
manifest level
is only the façade. The latent level is the engine of
the acting out.
President Katzav
has some serious psychological problem, and it seems that he is unable
to
restrain himself, just like a kleptomaniac who cannot refrain from
stealing in
a supermarket, even if he has no material need to do so. However, there
is
nothing new. It seems that his psychological problem was well known by
the ones
who elected him, even before he was raised to the present sublime
office. There
have been rumors for many years that he used to harass his female
workers.
Therefore, the real
issue is: “Why all the fuss NOW?”.
Furthermore, he
is suspected not only of female harassing but also of irregularities
in granting clemencies, and illegal wiretapping. The last accuses are
much more
relevant to the public interest than the former. However, it seems that
the all
action focuses on the sexual aspect: violence, even rape, has been
perpetrated
on the female body. Who therefore is this violated female body, in
which the
collectivity has such a strong vested interest?
Surveying the web
I found that the case of sexual harassment against Katzav is
continuously
associated with the war in
One woman, a
former senior employee, has testified to being coerced into
sex with the president after he hinted she would otherwise lose her
job.
She was reported to have passed a lie-detector test.
The case
allegedly came to light when a woman tried to blackmail Katsav
for money and a job, threatening to file sexual harassment charges, at
which point the president alerted Attorney General Menachem Mazuz.
Mazuz ordered a
preliminary investigation into harassment charges on
July 12, the same day that
Hezbollah was launched. ( http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox/browse_thread/thread/b4e5d531e2543550/541c024942ed6c3e%23541c024942ed6c3e
)
minister Ehud Olmert's government steering its way through public anger
over
failings of its 34-day war against Hezbollah in
On Sunday, police told Attorney General Menachem Mazuz
there was
enough evidence to indict Katsav over charges of rape, sexual
harassment and
wire-tapping.
The police investigation, initially overshadowed by
In the
Bible, cities
are called “Daughters”, and Freud confirms that landscapes, cities, and
fortresses are symbols for woman [2].
To conquer a city or a country is psychologically equivalent to conquer
a
woman. (Cf. Country).
“We did not know
he could deal with 10 women,” he said, according to the Post and Agence
France-Presse accounts, apparently referring to the complaints by
several women
that Mr. Katsav harassed them or worse.
Kommersant’s
version — citing the remarks in Russian — was cruder. “He turned out to
be
quite a powerful man,” the paper’s reporter in the official Kremlin
pool,
Andrei Kolesnikov, quoted Mr. Putin as saying. “He raped 10 women. I
never
expected it from him. He surprised all of us. We all envy him.”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/world/europe/19cnd-putin.html?hp&ex=1161316800&en=511545f100ad49e3&ei=5094&partner=homepage
)
President Katzav is the image
of the
State of Israel. A joke on him is a joke on the people whom he
represents.
Therefore, the quite a powerful man who raped 10
women are Putin, who
is quite a rough politician is delighted at the thought of raping
countries. He
said to Olmert and to the world – through a not by accident turned
on and
activated microphone – “You see, we the Russians are not the only ones
who
violate countries – such as Chechnya
– you the Israelis are ‘more
powerful’, you
raped ten times more” [3].
Apparently, namely at the manifest level,
it is some sort of a joke. However, why should a head of state like
Putin
indulge in such an idiotic joke, had it not been because of the
perceived
latent relevance to state affairs? As Freud has shown, jokes are never
innocent
expressions, and are always highly charged with meaning.
The Israeli
public, which in its own eyes represents a filial instance (as anybody else feels about himself), and not a paternal image as they are perceived by the Gentiles, is consumed by an unrestrained sense of guilt for having
raped
…So justice
shall be done
Exeunt
.
[1] Not by accident, like Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
[2] “Symbolism in Dreams”, in “Introductory Lectures on
Psychoanalysis”, in The Standard Edition of the Complete
Psychological Works
of Sigmund Freud, The Hogarth Press,
[3]
Putin's remarks are always very attentively directed and are never "slips of the tongue" or gaffes. When he says to Bush: "We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly.", everybody laughs, because it seems a joke. However, the intention is to deflect criticism from himself back towards the accuser. When he says: that Italy was "the cradle of the mafia" and that "a lot of Spanish mayors were in jail for corruption.", it is obvious that he is fighting back using the same terms that were used against himself. It is not a "gaffe".
So, it is the same when he apparently "jokes" on President Katzav raping women.
P.S. More on Guilt (Nov.1, 2006)
Here I found an interesting comment by George Soros:
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....
( Blinded by a concept
By George Soros | August 31, 2006
George Soros for sure is not an anti - Semite, being a warm hearted Jew himself, very attentive and well intentioned towards the future and welfare of Israel. A honourable man, as Mark Anthony says of Brutus. Moreover, he is not alone in criticizing Israel. Self -criticism must be welcome, indicating a humanitarian, progressive and self conscious society.
However, is it only justified self criticism, or is it a symptom of a deeper malaise? It seems that the Jews themselves, Israelis and not, are the main protagonists of the Chorus of the Goats, musically commenting the destiny of the tragic hero while he is progressively led, step after step, toward the altar on which he will be finally sacrificed. By his own fault, of course (what else?!)
What impressed me most is the a priori assumption, in this article as in many other articles infesting the Israeli press, that what our enemy does is always a direct consequence of what we (the Israelis) do. A reaction to our misbehavior.
There is never the slightest hint that what Israel does might well have no impact at all on the final acting out by the Arabs, simply because they are engulfed in their own mental labyrinth and compulsion to repeat. Nobody never assumes that they commit suicide because that is their need.
The a priori assumption is always that the Arabs respond to Israeli behaviour, and not to their own compulsory needs.
Therefore, if there is no peace it must be because Israel did not manage the crisis - this one as the previous ones - properly.
Israel is always the one to blame, because it does not manage properly the situation.
Well, that is exactly the way, and the only way, in which a little child is able to make an interpretation of what is inflicted on him by the outer world.
The Humus which feeds such an interpretation is the child natural narcissism and his endogenous sense of guilt. If its rains, if he is abused, if his parents die or are ill, if exile, pest and fire befall on him, it must be because he acted badly. The only key the little child has is to search into his own impulses and instinctual needs. If it thunders, it is not because of a meteorological configuration, dependent on the outside world and independent of himself, but because God (the Father) is angry, and that because of his erections.