The arrogance of Israel
These words: ‘We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem’ and therefore this attitude, will bring rivers of blood.
They were said before the last lebanon war.
But they are the norm, young Israelis boasting of their Armaments industry, of their quest for hegemony.
In 1982 they came back from Lebanon wearing Tshirts saying ‘Free Lebanon’.
And so on and so forth.
The joys of youth funneled into nationalism.
To love your Mother is instinct
It does not require a religion
Put religion in charge of the state and then the maternal bond is also political.
No one on earth could argue against the love and the bond between a mother and child.
But then the state comes along and says your child for the army. With a priest to bless the proceedings.
And the child goes off to fight for the country with its mothers blessing.
Mothers are naturally protective of their families, the race, the culture, the community, the food, the rituals, and then came along the nation state.
Bless the mothers
Do the Mothers get a chance to tell the state to go away?
Substituting maternal love for the state:
substitute adjective = a person or thing that takes the place or function of another.
So could it really be natural for a mother to wish her child to a war of conquest?
I have seen parents in Lebanon exercising little children of two, in order to train them for war.
There is some kind of sophisticated reverse sublimation in the combination of a colonial state with religion governing the family. To empower the Mother to induce her children to conquer.
sub·li·ma·tion \ˌsə-blə-ˈmā-shən\ noun to divert the expression of (an instinctual desire or impulse) from its unacceptable form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable
