The Normalcy of Cultural Psychotic Sadism

"The riots of 1929 were driven by a campaign of incitement and lies perpetuated by Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the spiritual and political leader of Palestine’s Muslims under the British Mandate. Husseini had spent the year preceding the massacre galvanizing Islamic sentiment against Palestine’s Jewish minority. He fomented support for his cause by claiming that the Jews of Palestine sought to destroy Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque to rebuild their ancient Temple, upon whose ruins Al-Aqsa was built. In sermons at Al-Aqsa the day before the massacre in Hebron, clerics called on the faithful to defend Al-Aqsa from the Jews. Armed worshippers flowed from the mosque and down to the Old City, where they attacked Jewish passersby and set fire to Jewish shops. Within hours, the riots spread throughout the country, killing 133 Jews across Palestine and wounding nearly 400 others."

"Jews had lived in Hebron since biblical times, their lives centered around the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah are believed to be buried. Much like the Jews who were killed on Oct. 7 were not settlers, the Jews killed in Hebron in 1929 were not Zionists. They did not need to be. They just needed to be Jewish."

"One of the world’s most ancient Jewish communities, composed of some 800 people before the massacre, was decimated, along with centuries of coexistence that had made Hebron a model of peace between Jews and Muslims. In the aftermath of the attack, the British authorities that ruled Palestine forced the Jews of Hebron to evacuate, turning them into refugees."

Yardena Schwartz, Tablet Magazine

 

"There can, in our view, be no doubt that racial animosity on the part of the Arabs, consequent upon the disappointment of their national political aspirations and fer for their economic future, was the fundamental cause of the outbreak of August last."

British Shaw commission 

Israeli soldiers at the forensic center in the Shura military base near Ramle, where hundreds of dead bodies arrived since the October 7 Hamas onslaught, October 24, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

 

Only a culture that distinguishes itself through a pathology of psychotic events replete with an invasive onslaught surprising civilian residents of towns and villages for the distinct purpose of inflicting inhuman acts of violent rage and hatred could fail to be shamed after its first such breakdown of human behaviour running completely counter to our best instincts, could or would retain the memory not in shame, but as a sterling example of what had once been done, could and would be repeated. For as long as it would take to destroy those it considers a hated impediment to their own aspirations.

If those aspirations are consumed with the fixed idea that land not theirs should be theirs in perpetuity rather than the legitimate inheritors of ancestral patrimony, they have proven that nothing will dissuade them from their course of action; in effect a genocide. Imagine a scenario of recent vintage that has shocked the world in its crude and sadistic savagery where a violent invasion led to planned mass rape, slaughter, abductions of  children and the elderly, torture and mutilation of helpless civilians. That happened on October 7 of this year.

Then there are unsettling details such as house-to-house searches for frightened occupants where butchery took place, or bombs or fires set to destroy the lives of quavering people hiding in safe rooms; where  young girls and women were raped, tortured and raped again, where people were mutilated for the amusement of the invaders relishing their agonies before death took them. A baker's head thrust into a stove. A Rabbi's brain extracted from his skull. A Jewish woman hung by her feet. Breasts, noses, hands cut off bodies.

That is a description of an event that occurred in 1929, in Hebron when 3,000 Muslim Arabs armed with clubs and swords and knives mobbed the town in a frenzy of bloodlust. Add beheading babies, baking them alive in ovens, mass raping girls and women, abducting 240 infants, elderly, infirm, foreign farm workers, soldiers, and you've moved forward in time to October 7, 2023 when Palestinian Muslim Arabs reenacted scenes of stark horror on Israelis in southern Israel close to the Gaza border.

 

Zaka personnel collect clothes that belong to the victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 19, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

 

In Hebron in 1929, Jewish babies were thrown by Arab gangs into fires.  In 2023 babies were baked in the ovens their Jewish mothers busied themselves in their kitchens to prepare meals for their families on normal days. Instead those Jewish mothers were forced to bear witness to the unspeakable atrocities committed by Hamas operatives in pre-planned horrors designed to convince Israel it has no business installing itself where Palestinian Arabs aspire to live and reproduce.

In that earlier event, hundreds of Muslims shouting "Allah is great! Down with the Jews!" inside the Jaffa gate, seeing a Jewish man shouted "Here is a Jew" then seized him and used daggers to repeatedly stab him to death. Viewings of bodies slaughtered that day were refused by authorities in view of the fact they had been unrecognizably mutilated. In the current rendition of a similar atrocity, months after the October 7 tragedy pathologists and medical experts are still trying to identify the remains of Israelis whose corpses have been burned beyond recognition, their bones shattered and scattered.

Not to be overlooked was the eager cooperation in both instances of ordinary Muslims in the orgy of slaughter and rape and mutilation of Jews. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PLFP may have been the active fomenters and brutalizers, but they were eagerly joined by hordes of ordinary Palestinian Gazans for whom the opportunity to join the raping, the murders, the hostage-taking appeared irresistible. And far from ordinary Gazan civilians reacting in horror to what their rulers did, they applauded the injured and frightened trophies brought back to Gaza, celebrating a victory over Israel in the guise of captured infants, grandparents, women and soldiers.

Personal effects are scattered around the Supernova Music Festival site, where hundreds were killed and dozens taken by Hamas.  Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images