Killing is not easy. It was explained a few months ago by Yishai Sarid, writer, also an officer in the Israeli army in the 1980s. Killing face-to-face is not easy, despite what the news media seem to want to deny. Facing another human being and taking their life is hard, most people are not born for it. During the Second World War, the United States found that only one in five soldiers fired at the enemy with the intention of annihilating him, the rest did so in the air, or did not fire at all.
Since then, modern armies have teams of psychologists who teach soldiers. The result was seen in Vietnam, when four out of five infantrymen were already shooting to kill. Sarid explains it in the novel Victoriosa (Club Editor/Sigilo), a read to recommend for all those running away from X and his lies and manipulations. We spoke to Sarid in Barcelona and he explained that there are always natural killers, but 99.9 percent of them are not like that. Sadists who enjoy hurting. For the rest, the army, all armies, must train them. And then heal them, because no one comes back from combat with the spirit unscathed. Some never come back, mentally. We also saw this in Vietnam and they see it in Israel.
So, what drives a human being to display the body of another human being screwed up, 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, a music festival, to have fun, as young people do. Maybe it's these key words, woman, music, joy. For the terrorists of Hamas, as for the Islamic State, they are anathema. Their goal is hell, even if they reserve the hurries.
Another image of barbarism: a terrorist drags a woman, also young, by her hair. She turns around and sees a large blood stain on her pants, she has been raped. The terrorist forces her into a military vehicle, more Hamas men get on. We imagine what will happen next, but we dare not verbalize it. In the background, the terrorist thanks his God.
What drives a human being to such extreme cruelty? It is certainly not the Palestinians, to whom they do so much harm, they neither think about it nor care about it, even if they wrap themselves in their flag. Nor injustices, or else the world would be a greater succession of savages than it already is. Are there schools to learn to hate? This is where, and for its contextualizers, we could start.
