Part two
It is not surprising
that there are many Palestinians who are victims. Also, it’s no surprise that
Hamas has many willing supporters and doesn’t need to advertise for
recruitment. Scarcity, economic and educational limitations, poverty and
negative self-feelings provides a fertile breeding ground for developing a
sense of hopelessness, hate, envy, aggression, death and destruction. Providing
weapons and rockets with the illusion of open borders or killing infidels will
not solve the problem psychologically. It will take more than a democracy or a
free state to free the Palestinians from their emotional shackles.
Taking a look at the sadistic orientation of these
individuals, we find at one extreme of the continuum members who join and
become part of a terrorist group. These terrorists are also individuals that
have what appears to have a want or a love of death and destruction. They seem
to worship force and express a drive or wish to kill. We can call them
necrophilia’s. We might even say their motto is something like “long-live
death.” They are very different from the majority-those individuals who want to
preserve life; who have a drive to survive, grow and become creative and productive.
In other words, the majority want to build not to destroy or demolish.
Remember Freud talked about two instinctual drives in man-Eros
(life living instinct) and Thanatos (death instinct). However, it’s safe to say
that growing up with scarcities in a
social-economic environment along with interpreting religious teachings in a
sadistic way, being around much death, illness and injury, with fright, and
anxiety as usual occurrences also plays a significant part in the development
of the personality and character types that thrive on death.
It seems that these terrorists have a drive or orientation
towards necrophilia, which seems to dominate their personality and seems to be
stronger than loving and embracing life. It seems that these individuals appear
to be attracted and fascinated by all that is dead like corpses and decay. Not
only that their thinking and talk centers on destruction, killing, building
bombs, obsessively plotting and planning. For these, they seem to love force
and power and have a great capacity to kill-it seems to be their way of life. They
clearly despise those that lack power and pray on innocents, unsuspecting children,
women and older adults. They shamefully cover their faces, they hide among
others, they live underground, and they even shoot their weapons in the air as
some symbolic demonstration at funerals as to say “look at me, aren’t I strong
and powerful, look what I can do.”
These necrophilia’s would rather lose their life like in a
suicide bombing and are willing to kill or die for what they rationalize as
injustice, revenge, religious meaning and economic gain. In fact, killing
others is made easier because they don’t actually perceive and kill people as
people. Instead, they think of their victims as actually innate objects or
things. There also without conscience, and unable to concern themselves about
others.
Thank goodness necrophilia orientation doesn’t dominate
mankind. That does not mean you ignore this kind. As we know, there is much
misery in the world and with misery, we tend to find these dynamics. No one
ever said it’s easy, since we have a lot of work to do to make things better
for all.
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