{"id":164009,"date":"2020-07-06T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=164009"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:25:11","slug":"the-west-turns-a-blind-eye-as-israels-apartheid-and-other-illegalities-develop-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/07\/the-west-turns-a-blind-eye-as-israels-apartheid-and-other-illegalities-develop-further\/","title":{"rendered":"The West Turns a Blind Eye as Israel\u2019s Apartheid and Other Illegalities Develop Further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>1 Jul 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Another tragic turning point for the \u2013 falling \u2013 West as civilization. Its moral irresponsibility is expressed by its roaring silence on this crystal clear and gross violation of international law and evil done to the Palestinian people for decades.<\/p>\n<p>It can be seen as a particularly nasty, nationalist form of a victim psychology \u00e0 la Sigmund Freud\u2019s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Repetition_compulsion\" >Wiederholunszwang<\/a><\/em> and Alice Miller\u2019s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.innerintegration.com\/blog\/prisoners-of-childhood-a-commentary-on-alice-miller-s-the-drama-of-a-gifted-child\" >repetition compulsion<\/a><\/em> \u2013 you project onto others today what was done to you earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that <em>exceptionalism <\/em>(like the US), state formation through ethnic cleansing (like the US), a belief in being a Chosen People (like the US), being an extremely militarist, over-armed and nuclear power (like the US) and seeing enemies everywhere without the thought that your own behaviour may create some of them \u2013 leading to constant fear\/paranoia \u2013 and you have most of a recipe for <em>self-destruction<\/em> (like the US).<\/p>\n<p>Two leading countries, with the largest Jewish population \u2013 84% of all Jews \u2013 on their way down and placing themselves outside civilised community.<\/p>\n<p>How good it would be for the world and for themselves if many more Jewish people \u2013 loud and clear \u2013 spearheaded a moral revolution against the mechanisms underlying these two states.<\/p>\n<p>Today \u2013 Annexation Day \u2013 CNN, BBC, the Danish Broadcasting, the Swedish Television, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, Russia Today . . . all choose to either not mention the Annexation at all or place it very far down on their frontpage.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Note: <\/strong>Study an excellently informative and visual mapping of the Annexation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/07\/palestine-and-israel-mapping-an-annexation\/\" >HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jan-oberg-e1544531797544.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-123949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jan-oberg-e1544531797544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>TFF Director Prof. Jan Oberg is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2020\/07\/01\/obergcomment-today-israels-apartheid-and-other-illegalities-develop-further-the-west-turning-its-blind-eye\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 transnational.live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Jul 2020 &#8211; Another tragic turning point for the \u2013 falling \u2013 West as civilization. Its moral irresponsibility is expressed by its roaring silence on this crystal clear and gross violation of international law and evil done to the Palestinian people for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":123949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[120,1829,1030,87,267,1029,487,2395,88,771,1027,427,85,109,287,1572,985,880,292,70,126,1025,886],"class_list":["post-164009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-conflict","tag-coronavirus","tag-fatah","tag-gaza","tag-geopolitics","tag-hamas","tag-human-rights","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-israel","tag-nakba","tag-oslo-accords","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-settlers","tag-social-justice","tag-state-terrorism","tag-un","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264268,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164009\/revisions\/264268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}