Killing is not easy. It was explained a few months ago by Yishai Sarid, writer, also an officer in the Israeli army in the eighties. Killing face to face is not easy, although the news seems to want to deny it. Facing another human being and taking their life is difficult, most people were not born for it. During World War II, the United States discovered that only one in five soldiers fired at the enemy with the intention of annihilating them, the rest fired into the air, or did not shoot at all.
Since then, modern armies have teams of psychologists who teach soldiers. The result was seen in Vietnam, when four out of every five infantry soldiers were already shooting to kill. Sarid tells it in his novel Victoriosa (Sigilo/Club Editor), a reading to recommend for all those fleeing from X and his lies and manipulations. We spoke with Sarid in Barcelona and he explained to us that there are always natural killers, but 99.9 percent are not like that. Sadists who enjoy causing harm. The rest, the army, all the armies, must train them. And then heal them, because no one returns from combat with their spirit unharmed. Some never come back, mentally. We also saw that in Vietnam and they see it in Israel.
So what moves a human being to display another human's body twisted, half-naked, legs in such an unnatural position, while spitting on his head? The body of a woman, a young German woman who had gone to a rave, to a music festival, to have fun. Maybe those key words are, woman, music, joy. For Hamas terrorists, as for IS, they are anathema. Their goal is hell, although they reserve the houris for themselves.
Another image of barbarism: a terrorist drags a woman, young again, by the hair. She turns around and a large blood stain is seen on her pants, she has been raped. The terrorist forces her into a military vehicle, more Hamas men get on. What will happen next is something we imagine, but we dare not verbalize. In the background, the terrorist thanks his God.
What moves a human being to such extreme cruelty? They are certainly not the Palestinians, to whom they do so much harm, nor do they think about them or care about them, even though they wrap themselves in their flag. Nor injustices, or else the world would be a succession of savages more than it already is.z Are there schools to learn to hate? There, and with its contextualizers, we could begin.
