{"id":246373,"date":"2023-10-23T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=246373"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:20:08","slug":"israels-gaza-massacre-are-we-witnessing-the-demonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/israels-gaza-massacre-are-we-witnessing-the-demonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s Gaza Massacre: Are We Witnessing the DEMONIC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

17 Oct 2023 –<\/em> Are we witnessing the unleashing of unimaginable evil as Israel attempts to completely eliminate Hamas by violently making Gaza unlivable?\u00a0 Trapped Palestinian civilians plea for outside intervention, but the U.S. and European governments look the other way proclaiming \u201cfull support” for Israel no matter what.<\/p>\n

About 40 percent of the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are children. Death and destruction are everywhere.\u00a0 Has Israel’s rage and grief over the Hamas attack on civilians opened the door to revenge and to the DEMONIC?\u00a0 President Biden announces he is going to Israel.\u00a0 Will meeting with Israel’s Zionist leadership cause him to change his mind and to break the (evil) spell?<\/p>\n

The irrational lust for the death and destruction of all things Gazan perhaps\u00a0can be understood as the unconscious influence of an almost supernatural (demonic) force wherein good people accept and call for unimaginable evil telling themselves it is necessary and justified.<\/p>\n

In “Truths about Evil, Sin, & the Demonic” (Byron Belitsos, 2023) we are warned by theologian David Ray Griffin that the demonic may be a real power which is driving the world in a direction “diametrically opposed to divine purposes.”<\/p>\n

It may seem strange to say that severe global crises may be due to the influence of \u201cdemonic power.” Griffin argues that, despite being highly educated and smart, we may be possessed by a “demonic power that is leading us, trance-like, into self-destruction.”\u00a0 What surprises me is Griffin’s statement that we can experience the demonic both when hate leads to destructive actions, but also when “indifference” leads to a failure to take action against evil.<\/p>\n

The seemingly senseless, immoral, violent catastrophes we are experiencing in Gaza\/Palestine\/Israel and Ukraine could erupt to WWIII dimensions, or to a nuclear war.\u00a0 Meanwhile, poverty, migrant misery, homelessness haunt even rich nations like the U.S. and Europe.\u00a0 Climate change adds another global threat.<\/p>\n

Israel has announced its intention to bury Gaza to eliminate Hamas which it says is a “terrorist” organization.\u00a0 Yet for Palestinians, Hamas militants may be seen as freedom fighters.<\/p>\n

It occurs to me that\u00a0the devil (Satan), if it exists, is the great trickster. Israel thinks it is morally justified to use collective punishment. How else can we understand Israel’s stated intention to destroy all things Gazan in order to destroy Hamas (“terrorists”) when Gaza has 2 million innocent civilians trapped in what is described as an “open air prison”?<\/p>\n

Beware Israel:\u00a0 The Bible (2 Corinthians 11: 14-15) warns us of Satan as the great deceiver:\u00a0 “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So, it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. ”<\/p>\n

Israel’s spokespersons, with a wink and a nod, will claim they are doing their best to avoid killing civilians, while explaining that they must completely wipe out Gaza to wipe out Hamas.\u00a0 Hamas will argue that they had no choice but to attack Israel’s civilians who are complicit in years of Israeli oppression, apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

Ironically, both Israel and the U.S. government have a lengthy documented history of\u00a0extreme terrorism:<\/em>\u00a0 Israel’s ongoing forceful stealing of Palestinian lands and homes.\u00a0 The U.S. “shock & awe” military invasion of Iraq.\u00a0 Covert operations by the CIA and\/or Mossad (e.g., 9\/11 false flag operation, overthrowing legally elected governments, assassinations, and illegal economic warfare a form of indirect murder).<\/p>\n

Later, after the widespread excitement of death and destruction (the demonic in action) has worn off, the gravity and sin of collective punishment (mass murder) will penetrate the mind and hearts of even some of the most ardent supporters of war, and then there will be demands for Nuremberg-like trials or the International Criminal Court to bring to justice the political and military leadership of both Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

The wars in Palestine\/Israel and Ukraine\/Russia could not be prevented (or stopped) by the United Nations. Why?\u00a0 The UN Charter is wrong.\u00a0The UN is frustrated and unable to carry out its most important tasks of ending wars and eliminating nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

World Federalists have an intriguing solution:<\/p>\n

The UN General Assembly can launch Charter Review under Article 109(c) and use the\u00a0Earth Constitution<\/em>\u00a0as its guide, model and authority to transform to a “new UN” forming a democratic world federation (world union) with a governing design with the capacity to end war itself.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Roger Kotila, Ph.D. is a peace activist and a psychologist (ret.) with many years of clinical experience with the California Dept. of Corrections doing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment with inmates. President of Democratic World Federalists he is co-editor of <\/em>DWF NEWS, and editor of <\/em>Earth Federation News & Views.\u00a0He supports a \u201cnew UN\u201d under the\u00a0Earth Constitution. <\/em>www.earthfederation.info<\/em><\/a> Email:\u00a0<\/em>earthstarradio@aol.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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