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2020-04-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Israeli please-like-us syndrome - another disease we must conquer
[Arutz 7] - ...Earlier in the program, Dayan explored the new ’Operations Center’ for the ’War against the Corona Pandemic’. For the first time, medical professionals were working together with experts from the armed forces, the security industries and the Mossad, one of Israel’s intelligence agencies. Viewers were shown how this new collaboration is enabling Israel to acquire medical supplies that the Health Ministry and hospitals would have been unable to appropriate on their own. Not only that -- laboratories that engineer weaponry have now been put to the task of engineering re-usable masks and respirators. Israeli ingenuity at its best.

In an interview with H’, Director of the Mossad’s Technology Department, a highly impressed Dayan suggested that the collaboration may open up opportunities previously unimaginable. She wondered how:

"... with respect to Iran, the new enemy may be useful, perhaps, in the war against old enemies. A new world of possibilities may open up for the Mossad. ... I am just thinking ‐ this comes from me and not from you -- what would an Iranian nuclear scientist be prepared to do today in order for someone to resuscitate his mother?

In this one question, Dayan shows us that there is an infection beyond which many Israelis seem unable, or unwilling, to move. That is the ’See-what-we-can-do-for-you? So-like-us’ syndrome.

Much of Israeli hasbara concerns itself with describing new medical and technological inventions each of which improves the lives of so many people around the world. And if we do such good for humanity and publicize it, the thinking apparently goes, maybe they will stop hating us and maybe the UN will stop passing resolutions attacking Israel’s right to exist.

I doubt that any Iranian nuclear scientist or political leader would change his or her mind about Israel because an Israeli invention was needed to resuscitate his or her mother. After all, Hamas arch-enemy Ismail Haniyeh’s daughter, granddaughter and mother-in-law were all treated in Israeli hospitals. Hamas senior official Moussa Abu Marzouk’s sister was treated for advanced stage cancer in an Israeli hospital. PLO leader Jibril Rajoub received medical treatment in Israel. None of this changed their attitudes and they continue to promote terrorism against Israel and challenge its legitimacy as a state.

Efforts to overcome the Coronavirus depended upon first isolating the virus and identifying it by means of genome sequencing and electron microscopy. Then researchers discovered how the virus attacks the human body and they are now looking for drugs that impede Corona’s ability to use our own proteins against ourselves, the essence of how we get sick and die.

Everyone knows that Corona causes sickness. On the other hand, those who are under the spell of the please-like-us syndrome do not realize that they are ill; in fact, they think their attitude is the cure for what ails Israel.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-02 01:42|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Thanks mods.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-02 02:09||   2020-04-02 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 You don't perform acts of virtue to impress the subjects. You perform them because they're the right thing to do.

This "we should only ever do something virtuous if it benefits Israel" idea is horrific.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-04-02 02:52||   2020-04-02 02:52|| Front Page Top

#3 What is horrific is how every piece of data impacting your twisted mind gets twisted 'erb.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-02 03:00||   2020-04-02 03:00|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 - the mask slips
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-02 05:50||   2020-04-02 05:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The mask of wanting to do good things because I'm a good person? Yeah how horrible to show that to the world.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2020-04-02 08:47||   2020-04-02 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 The Jooo hate
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-02 09:29||   2020-04-02 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 If you only do deeds because it's to your advantage to do so, you are not virtuous. You are selfish.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-04-02 13:39||   2020-04-02 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Herb is a NeoCon now?
Posted by magpie 2020-04-02 14:00||   2020-04-02 14:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Conversely, one could say there's an inclination in some to advocate not doing the right thing, lest it somehow benefit Israel. Like being thankful.

What's that about ?

I'd like to add that bigoted bastard that I am, I am critical of educated, developed societies wanting to share the cure with savage islamist communities harboring terrorism and thuggery.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-02 14:38||   2020-04-02 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 This problem affects Western Civilization (such as it is) as a whole, not just Israel.

And self-interest is always mixed into altruism, even among the animals.
Posted by charger 2020-04-02 15:05||   2020-04-02 15:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Which good deeds should I do?
Posted by James  2020-04-02 17:35|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2020-04-02 17:35|| Front Page Top

#12  This "we should only ever do something virtuous if it benefits Israel" idea is horrific

You misread the piece, Mr. McCoy. Having done the thing because it was the right thing to do, they are trumpeting it to persuade those who hate Israel to notice and for selfish reasons of their own stop hating.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-02 19:24||   2020-04-02 19:24|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ But that's so much more fun for those so inclined
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-02 20:08||   2020-04-02 20:08|| Front Page Top

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