The Essence of Childhood.

So easily destroyed

These posts explore the themes developed in my monograph, Narcisso-Fascism, which is itself a real-world test of the central concepts of the Biocognitive Model of Mind for psychiatry.

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What follows is utterly repugnant.

On June 26^th, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (ICI), submitted another report to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHR) which “examines Israeli violations and crimes against Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as their short- to long-term impact on children, between 7 October 2023 and 31 March 2026.” The 94 page report, titled “The essence of childhood has been destroyed,” is available at UNHQ online, click this code: A/HRC/62/CRP.2.

In language rendered all the more damning by the lack of emotion, it provides forensic detail of the carefully planned and executed attacks on Palestinian children, mainly in Gaza but also the Occupied West Bank, by members of the Israeli military. The Commission chairman, Mr Justice Srinivasan Muralidhar, of India, also gave an interview on RT India in which he described how Israeli troops deliberately target babies, to the extent of shooting them through the head while they are being breastfed without injuring the mother. This requires considerable skill and determination. Mr Muralidhar said:

When you shoot a 10-day-old baby breastfeeding on his mother… through his head, you can by no means label such a baby as an enemy of the State of Israel and justify these kinds of attacks.

Their systematic, genocidal cruelty is one side of the matter. For the tens of thousands of murdered children, their families will never see them grow up, a monstrous crime in its own right. The other side is the destruction of the surviving children’s lives. They have had no schooling for three years and their schools and universities have been deliberately destroyed, even bulldozed. They live in a demolition zone, deprived of all but the barest essentials of life, unable to play, unable to see their relatives or friends. Their families are devastated, their health blighted, even their teeth ruined, and there is no recovering. Mentally, they will suffer to the same extent that Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide suffered, although we could hope their communities are more forgiving than Israelis were of survivors of the Holocaust.

This report cannot be dismissed as a case of rogue troops defying orders, or of antisemitic propaganda. It proves at the level of criminal responsibility that these appalling crimes are the direct result of deliberately-formulated and freely-broadcast Israeli government policy. Time and time again, senior Israeli officials including cabinet officers state that the destruction of the Palestinian people is their life’s ambition, and part of that is eliminating every Palestinian child since they will grow up to hate Israel, they can’t help themselves. This stems from the pervasive Zionist fantasy that all gentiles hate Jews as an innate compulsion, and disregards the twin facts of ceaseless brutal Israeli aggression and that the great majority of gentiles around the world who do not hate Jews. These include large numbers of very powerful people in the West, such as the leaders of the US, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, so-called Christian Zionists and many others, who are actively aiding and abetting the ceaseless Israeli wars against the Muslim nations of West Asia. The US and other countries are not sending weapons to Israel and funding their military because they are in the grip of an uncontrollable hatred of Jews. That is a lie. If anything, their barely-concealed racism is directed against the indigenous populations of West Asia.

Every fair-minded person should be familiar with this report, although not everybody will be able to read it. It is the latest of many issued by ICI in the face of frenzied opposition from the Israeli government and their powerful supporters in the West. For example, ICC prosecutor Mr Karim Khan, who issued the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and others, has recently revealed threats that were made against him if he did so. He went ahead anyway. But when the “essence of childhood is destroyed,” what does it tell us about the whole “Greater Israel” project, as implemented by the “most moral army in the world”? We are told that the reason Israel is constantly pushing beyond its borders, driving millions of people from their ancestral homes and destroying everything so they can’t return is that Zionists are fulfilling God’s plan for them. That’s all very well but as Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion said as early as 1956:

Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it’s true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? [1, p99].

Nobody should ever doubt that ethnic cleansing is and always has been their plan, to take the “promised land” back again and to clear it of any “defilement.” Once they take control of it, they will not return it. Recovering the land is a divine mission but ipso facto, the idea of handing it back again is inconceivable as it would be the most grievous sin, a denial of the divine plan. That’s interesting, they’re certainly not the first people on earth to believe they had a stronger claim on land than its indigenous population. All the European countries in their many colonies, the US expanding into native tribal territories, the Nazis pushing into the USSR, Japan invading China, on and on. They all had a reason based on the idea of a hierarchy of races, religions, etc., in which their tribe was on top and all the others down below. Humans do this, the joy of dominating others is hard-wired into us and, without strong social restraints, it takes control just because being on top is so exhilerating. This is so fundamental that hierarchies are built into practically every aspect of every human society that has ever been. In addition, Israel is the only country in the world that has not defined either its borders, so they can keep expanding them, or its citizens, so it can deprive non-Jews of civil rights. By this means, domination is covertly written into their constitution.

Israel’s drive to dominate is perhaps a little different from say Nazi Germany as they say: “We’re special because God appointed us to be, he made a covenant with our ancestors and we have to fulfill it. By expelling our neighbours, we are actually doing good works.” However, on the ground in the rubble of Gaza and for the people being expelled, that’s no different from Hitler’s view that unless Germany could reach its proper place as leader of the world, humanity was likely to slide into a new dark age. However, we’ll put that aside and focus on the Covenant, which said: “I will give you this land if you keep my law” (Deuteronomy 11:8-32 among others; emphasis added).

If you keep my law. For a devout Jew, this isn’t quite the cakewalk it seems to be. Turns out it’s a covenant with a catch as there are 613 laws they must observe, 248 positive (Thou shalts) and 365 negative (Thou shalt nots). Since the destruction of the second temple by the Romans in 70AD, a lot of them have fallen into abeyance, also burnt offerings and stonings seem to have gone out of fashion. However, that still leaves an awful lot of very strict laws. Negative rule No. 57, for example, from Deuteronomy 20:19 says “Do not destroy fruit trees.” Regardless, the first thing the marauding bands of “settlers” do on their regular, carefully planned and state-protected pogroms do is destroy the olive and orange groves in Palestinian villages. Similarly:

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s (Deuteronomy 5:21).

Coveting just is the essence of Zionism, that’s what it’s about: remove the coveting of the neighbour’s land and there is no Zionism. Above all, Deuteronomy 5:17 states simply “Thou shalt not kill.” There doesn’t seem to be much wriggle room in that, so when the Israeli army rock up to a Palestinian village and announce, “Hi folks, we’re God’s little helpers and he says you gotta F off but just to prove the point, we’ll shoot a few of you and set fire to your houses and farms,” there would appear to be a bit of cognitive dissonance. Except they don’t show it. In all the videos the troops post of themselves blowing up schools and hospitals, they seem to be having a whale of a time, laughing and joking with no sign of upset at all. In the UN OCHR report, troops even report that they are commended for shooting children. How does this happen? 92% of Israeli Jews fully support their government in its genocidal activities, and plenty think they should do more. How can they say, on the one hand, “By destroying Gaza and Lebanon and Iran, we’re doing God’s will,” and on the other, break every known divine law, including sex with animals (Leviticus 18:23)?

There is an answer but it isn’t widely known among gentiles: in simple terms, non-Jews aren’t actually human. According to the Kabala, Jews come from the divine sphere but goyim come from the Satanic sphere so, by wiping them out, Jewish troops are simply cleaning out pollution and paving the way for their messiah. Among many others, historians Shahak and Mezvinsky mention the enormously influential American Rabbi Menachem Schneerson (1902-1994), leader of the Chabad sect (of which J Kushner is a powerful member) and mentor of one Binyamin Mileikowsky (aka Netanyahu):

The difference of the inner quality, however, is so great that the bodies (of Jews and non-Jews) should be considered as completely different species … An even greater difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness [2, Chap 4].

That’s pretty clear but it’s not isolated: they quote the Rabbis Kook (father and son) who believed:

… the Lurianic doctrine that non-Jews have satanic souls: ‘Souls of non-Jews come entirely from the female part of the satanic sphere. For this reason souls of non-Jews are called evil, not good, and are created without [divine] knowledge’ [2, Chap 4].

When Zionists say that all goyim hate Jews as a natural phenomenon, it is what the Freudians call a projection: attributing to another person motives or beliefs which one holds oneself but which are in some sense forbidden or prohibited. The proof of the projection is that if all gentiles hate Jews in their DNA, there would be no Christian Zionists. End of story. Speaking of DNA, Shahak and Mezvinsky continue:

Rabbi Ginsberg, supporter of Chabad Hassids and Goldstein, ‘… speaks freely of Jews’ genetic-based, spiritual superiority over non-Jews. It is a superiority that he asserts invests Jewish life with greater value in the eyes of the Torah ... If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA … There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.’ (Baruch Goldstein was the fanatical Jewish American physician who murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994. He is widely revered as a great Jewish hero in Israel and in the diaspora and people make pilgrimages to his grave).

This is the mental set that encourages perfectly healthy, sane, intelligent, educated young men (and quite a few women) to use children for target practice. The troops have been raised in the atmosphere that constantly denigrates and debases their neighbours as subhuman, animals in human form, satanic, defilers of the divine plan and so on, as described by educator and professor, Nurit Peled Elhanan (sister of Miko Peled). This sort of brainwashing, this abomination of one’s neighbours is human. This is what humans do. It has absolutely nothing to do with race, religion, intelligence, education, nationality, tribe, wealth, size, you name it. Humans are hierarchical animals, we love to dominate but at the same time, we will fight to the end for freedom from domination. If the Zionists think they can pound their neighbours hard enough, they will give in and either accept a form of slavery or disappear quietly, they’re completely wrong. The Palestinians will not accept it, any more than you or I would accept it. Moreover, worldwide, a generation is now coming of age who have seen that the entire Zionist project is a crime from beginning to end. The self-styled “most moral army in the world” turns out to be a bunch of cowardly murderers.

Zionism is a political movement. It is not a religion, it is not a race, so it is subject to the same criticism as any other political movement (see this recent decision by an Australian court that antizionism is not racism). Zionism is heretical as it purports to use their Torah (first five books of the Christian bible) as the justification of their expansion yet they ignore the most basic rules: “Thou shalt not kill” isn’t open to interpretation. That is, they pick and choose the bits that suit their innate drive to dominate, and laugh at the rest. Zionism is idolatrous, in that it elevates the land previously known as Palestine to the level of an idol, the pursuit of which is more important than following the vast majority of rules of the religion, thereby overriding the main message of Judaism, which is a religion of peace and contemplation. Zionism is a criminal endeavour, in that it deliberately sets out to steal other people’s land and to kill them if they resist. These are crimes as defined in the UN Charter and in many other points in international humanitarian law. Israel is a member of the UN and has signed the Charter but routinely breaks it: expansion was written into the Zionist plan from the very beginning and has been elaborated a million times since.

Everybody should have a copy of the ICI report on the destruction of childhood in Gaza and the occupied territories by Israel. Not everybody will want to or be able to read it but when your grandchildren ask: “What did you do for the children of Gaza?” what will you tell them?

PS. If you can face it, here is an interview that sets out part of the endless corruption of the Kushner/Trump branch of the Epstein class. It is completely insane. I’ll correct that. The insanity is that these people don’t see anything wrong with what they’re doing and fully expect to be able to keep getting away with it. The day of reckoning is approaching.

References:

1. Goldmann N. (1976/78). The Jewish Paradox. Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London.

2. Shahak I, Mezvinsky N (1999). Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. Pluto Press: London.

(Both of these works are available as pdf on line. And yes, I am aware of the controversy surrounding Shahak, most of which was hasbara).

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My critical works are best approached in this order:

The case against mainstream psychiatry:

McLaren N (2024). Theories in Psychiatry: building a post-positivist psychiatry. Ann Arbor, MI: Future Psychiatry Press. Amazon (this also covers a range of modern philosophers, showing that their work cannot be extended to account for mental disorder).

Development and justification of the biocognitive model:

McLaren N (2021): Natural Dualism and Mental Disorder: The biocognitive model for psychiatry. London, Routledge. At Amazon.

Clinical application of the biocognitive model:

McLaren N (2018). Anxiety: The Inside Story. Ann Arbor, MI: Future Psychiatry Press. At Amazon.

Testing the biocognitive model in an unrelated field:

McLaren N (2023): Narcisso-Fascism: The psychopathology of right wing extremism. Ann Arbor, MI: Future Psychiatry Press. At Amazon.

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