There is something incredibly Freudian about what Israel has done to the Palestinians. Nazis dehumanized Jews, and that abuse somehow became the psychological underpinning of their new nation. The parallels are so complete that they almost cannot be distinguished. Strangely, and this may be closer to the truth than we want to admit, it seems as if the massive concentration camp known as Gaza has been kept and maintained as a form of catharsis for the state of Israel. An outlet for their aggression and revenge. They relive historical wounds in the role of aggressor by inflicting those same wounds on another population. Worse, they feel entitled to do so. This phenomenon has been observed among serial killers, rapists, child molesters, et cetera. They do it because it was done to them. But now their captive population is almost gone. Will Israel seek a new population to inflict ritualistic cruelty upon? Or will they, after 80 years, finally heal?
Or maybe this is totally off base, but we must make sense of it. We’ve witnessed a modern genocide. We have the footage, we have the figures, we have video evidence of the statements made by Israeli officials and their American counterparts. We’ve watched an act of total, nihilistic depravity play out in full view of the world. Even worse, Israel acted with impunity. No one with the power to stop it did so. Aside from Trump. This demands understanding.
A video from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site after it was dismantled in northern Gaza.
More than 2,500 Palestinians were killed in these sites while desperately seeking food pic.twitter.com/rPXlq5UMwU
— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) October 10, 2025
