The Dahiya doctrine and Hannibal directive are key to making sense of Israel's actions in Gaza over the past two years, and yet the BBC hasn't mentioned them once in its coverage since 7 October 2023. Harriet Williamson reports.
ttbomk, the “fear the Jews: they are behind all evil” conspiracist-nationalists do hold such things to be true.
And they are vocal about it, so your not having heard about such things doesn’t mean that such assertions are not made.
I was told, a few decades ago, that in Europe the centuries-long sequence went sorta like this:
Jews are farmers
conspiracist-nationalists spread fear about “Jews are taking/owning all our farmland”, so therefore…
farmland gets taken away from Jews, which means, that they have to earn a living by other means, so therefore
they become clockmakers, lawyers, doctors, etc, which therefore
creates leverage for conspiracists to assert that they’re conspiring & taking all these skilled-work jobs, because it’s their world-subjugation program…
etc…
IOW, it doesn’t matter what people do: prejudice is going to claim “justification”, relentlessly.
Machiavellianism is a mental-illness, or worse, a hardwiring-of-brain.
ttbomk, the “fear the Jews: they are behind all evil” conspiracist-nationalists do hold such things to be true.
And they are vocal about it, so your not having heard about such things doesn’t mean that such assertions are not made.
I was told, a few decades ago, that in Europe the centuries-long sequence went sorta like this:
etc…
IOW, it doesn’t matter what people do: prejudice is going to claim “justification”, relentlessly.
Machiavellianism is a mental-illness, or worse, a hardwiring-of-brain.
Here’s some objectivity, however…
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1422308/palestinian-territories-israel-number-fatalities-and-injuries-caused-by-the-israel-and-hamas-war/