This article examines and helps explain the pathology of Israeli irrational and brutal behaviour toward Lebanon and Palestine.

Many Israeli intelligentsia are making a similar diagnosis of Israeli society. With some 200 to 500 nuclear weapons and U.S. support Israel thinks it is invulnerable. It believes it can bomb the UN and ignore UN resolutions. It makes excuses to justify grossly disproportionate aggression and expansion.. It doesn't want independent UN witnesses in Lebanon. Israeli extremism matches that of the Bush Administration. That's one reason Bush's U.S. supports and funds anything Israel does. Both the U.S. and Israel have huge nuclear arsenals. Bush's new nuclear doctrines allow him to legally (in U.S. law) wage a pre-emptive nuclear war and/or introduce nuclear weapons into a conventional military situation. American neocon Zionists occupy top positions in the Bush Administration. They are long-time supporters and apologists for Israeli policies. Bush Christian Fundamentalists look forward to a final Armageddon battle in Israel as predicted in the Bible.

They believe God will destroy the world then rule for 1,000 years. Thus we have two types of extreme Fundamentalist governments co-operating together in making wars against Islamic states in the middle east. Both are using very effective war propaganda and covert action departments to further their war policies and gain public support. Both states have committed huge war crimes and are unlikely to back down or look for some peaceful way to back away from their escalating wars. Their strategy has worked so far and all 'Coalition-of-the-Willing' governments - the U.S., UK and Australia, have been re-elected.

The media are firmly on side, so according to U.S. and Israeli standards and objectives, they have strong reasons to continue their war strategies. It's a dangerous gamble that could result in huge destruction with millions dead. Both the U.S. in Iraq, and Israel in Lebanon and Palestine have indicated that they are willing to inflict large casualties on the populations they attack. They name all opponents as 'terrorists' and then justify their mass killings as part of their
"war on terror". It's a simple, easy - to - expose strategy that has nevertheless worked for both states. They are both filled with Hubris and confidence as they step up their genocide in the Islamic world. Can they be stopped?

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The Pathology Of Israeli Power

By Issa Khalaf, July 30, 2006

As we witness the unfolding spectacle of ferocious, indiscriminate violence, destruction, and brutality in Gaza and Lebanon, it's difficult to resist the conclusion that there is something terribly wrong with the Israeli state and society. It's as though all moral and psychological constraints and boundaries have been breached, deviancy normalized. Not that state terrorism, deliberate aggression, extreme disproportionate force, and massive violations of international humanitarian law are new to the Israeli state: from 1948, the list is long, the evidence widely available. And anyway, in this case, disproportionality - a concept actually inapplicable to the evil being rained on defenseless Lebanon or the genocide in Palestine - implies that Israel is reacting to others' provocations and acts of aggression, as if the Palestine problem began with Hamas and Hizballah's capture of Israeli soldiers, or as if only Israel has the right to use force to defend itself while its enemies do not, a concept apparently supported by the West, never mind the slavish idiocy of Bush administration pronouncements.

The Israeli self-image of rationality, self-confidence, restraint, pragmatism, and marshal moral superiority are delusions and myths, constructed to protect the Israeli psyche, manipulated by the state to keep alive the specter of existential terror in the Israeli public and to disguise the state's raison d'etre, expansion and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and maintain the deeply sociologically and institutionally entrenched Israeli military, increasingly blurring the lines between a civilian and military state.

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