Three widespread Israeli diseases

By Issa Al-Shuaibi

When David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the occupying state on May 15, 1948, and at his side was his chief aide Moshe Dayan, who would later become Minister of War, he asked him a question full of apprehension and anxiety: How long will this state last? The leader of the Zionist Haganah gang and head of the first government responded: When we are defeated in the first battle with the Arabs, as it will be the first defeat and the last battle.

This answer was not improvised; it was a brief diagnosis of the nature of the formative dilemma, or say the house of the disease from which there is no cure, the source of all the contagious epidemics that spread later. Moreover, this early prophecy constitutes the golden key to understanding the essence of the subsequent preemptive wars, and realizing the significance of each. These expansionist policies were deeply rooted in the mentality of an entity that kept its sights set on preventing the first defeat at all costs, and preventing any potential danger that might destroy the life of the just emerging colonial project.

The demonic plant stick intensified with amazing speed, and strengthened due to many factors, and at a later stage it became a fortified fortress, and it continued to accumulate elements of its own capabilities, the basis of which was the advanced air force, until the plant became a poisonous tree, a large regional state, but it remained, despite all that it gained from a borrowed power, fearing for itself from the attack, and anticipating its tomorrow and its possible changes, so it began doing everything in its power to increase, including possessing the nuclear bomb, to secure its day, and to intimidate the rest of its neighbors.

In the midst of all of this, the state of occupation and expansion was afflicted with a long series of chronic diseases, the symptoms of which remained hidden from view by a series of military, scientific and economic successes, which reinforced the impressionistic image formed about it, especially of the invincible army and superior intelligence services, until all its ills were revealed at once. One day, on the glorious 7th of October, all the manifestations of its weakness became evident more clearly than before, especially during the ongoing round-the-clock war in the Gaza Strip.

In this article, the introduction of which is too long, we will focus the light only on three self-generated diseases, which are not among them the disease of extremism and fascism, or the disease of insanity and criminality or anything else. The first of which is the disease of fatal arrogance and excessive self-confidence, not to mention the belief that power alone... and even more brute force, if necessary, is capable of solving problems and imposing abstract facts, according to the law of force and not the force of law, as well as intimidating the entire surrounding environment, and thus dictating humiliating peace treaties, as happened, for example, in the Abrahamic Accords.

This incurable disease has settled in the recesses of the collective mentality of the settler community, generation after generation, and its malicious symptoms have become evident to everyone with insight, as the long occupation diaries continued to tell us, morning and evening, until the Al-Aqsa flood occurred and made the turning point in the course of the long conflict. Then came the epic of steadfastness and valiant resistance, transmitted in audio and video from the Gaza Strip, in a way that exceeded all prior expectations, which will awaken the arrogant from their sluggish belief in power, and confirm to them the fact that Palestinian times have changed irrevocably.

The second disease, derived from the previous one, is underestimating the enemy in front of it, and completely belittling him, if not disdainful of him, as these arrogant people often viewed the Arabs and Palestinians as a people of ignorant shepherds, or terrorists who shoot and run, helpless in the face of an advanced modern state which blinded their eyes and deafened their ears, until the earth was shaken on October 7, and the earth brought forth its burdens in the Gazan battles that established what came after them, and here they are today, drinking the cup of humiliation, dose by dose, and discovering the sin of underestimation.

The scourge of the third disease, chronic in turn, and perhaps historical at its root, remains distrust of everything, and fatal doubt regarding the intentions of everyone around them, and sometimes even of themselves. In order not to spend much time diagnosing the symptoms of this inherited Jewish illness, it is sufficient for us to review what happened recently in Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, when the occupation army killed three settler prisoners who were in the possession of the resistance, and killed them, even though they were raising the white flag and speaking in Hebrew for help, simply because of suspicion that the matter was an ambush and a plot, or as a result of the disease of suspicion itself, which became more and more severe after two and a half months have passed since the deadly confusion in the Gaza Strip.

Source: Alaraby Aljadeed