The Art of War: Hear, O Israel - Know Thy Enemy!

The relevance of a quote from Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法) to the current Israeli - Gaza Palestinian conflict.

Psychological displacement, whereby an individual redirects a reaction from the rightful recipient onto another person or object, is often described as a "defence mechanism" without recognizing the fact that such defences only exist when the individual concerned has an unresolved psychological history.

For example, António Guterres (UN secretary general) said that the Hamas atrocities of the 7th of October 2023 were the result of "56 years of suffocating occupation".

This is not true. Using the same terms of reference, it would be more accurate to say that the atrocities happened because of the "56+ months of childhood post-trauma* indoctrination" that only needed to be fine-tuned by Hamas training in order to produce hybrid killing machines. Such terrorists are "Human In Shape Only" ("HISO") because they do not exist in the natural world.

Mr Guterres' statement shifts the blame from the accumulative effects of Palestinian cultural conditioning and implicitly puts it on to Israel. This mental gymnastic is consistent with an individual who has unresolved psychological issues from having met the core corruption within an Hamas terrorist at some point earlier in their life; usually infancy, of course.

Considering Mr Guterres position in the United Nations, and the degree of influence that goes with it, the danger for Israel is that by focussing on the very real plight of the Palestinians, he will begin idealizing their "innocence", and at the same time, unconsciously start demonizing Israel. This would be picked up on - and perhaps amplified - by those who look to the UN for leadership.

"Know Thy Enemy" in this instance means recognizing that it is not Mr Guterres who is the problem, but that his psychological history. may be.

I have one Flickr post already in the pipeline. After that, I'll suggest one method of removing the secretary-general's blinkers (and I'll add a link to it here).

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An AI Art (artificial intelligence) image of a hemp burlap hessian-covered table upon which is a copy of Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法), from which "Know Thy Enemy" has been paraphrased.

Above and to the right of the book are various bladed objects and other militaria; to the left are several bunches of berries with withered leaves, red berries symbolise life, and dried berries, death.

Notes

*Specifically, the archeotrauma (alt. archaeotrauma, the psychological wound human beings and other animals sustain when their spirit is "broken".

Also see Evolution and Psychology Research (just a bare-bones holding page at the time of writing, but one that outlines unconventional areas of interest).

Taken in: Israel / Jerusalem / Newé Sha’anan (show map)

Taken on: December 18, 2023

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