by havanagilla » Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:41 pm
Israeli media cites between 400 to 600 deaths in lebanon, half of which are children (that's usually the general descriptions). The apparent disregard for civilian casualties including children, reflect, IMHO, the same disregard within. Children are treated, by and large, as "objects", domestically, and I can assume that any such child, when grown up, treats herself/himself as an object and carries the need to annihilate "the child" in general, be it a child who is Israeli or even easier, a child who is "other"/enemy. In the last few years one can read a lot of essays against "people who breed too many kids" (referring usually to arab or jewish orthodox families, using the terms usually applicable to insects or animals, or better still "parasites"), and an internalized consent to the "population control" trends. While the Jewish religion makes it imperative to breed, the more the merrier, the Israeli new "neo liberal" -fascist trend, became an enemy of children, maternity, mothering, fathering, etc. this converges, in an interesting way, with fundamentalists' essentialist/racist negation of the other, with some genocidal "biblical" trends. So you have a cocktail of mostly fascists spiced up with fundies...not very good for life in general... <p></p><i></i>