Israel’s Assault on the Nervous System of Palestine: Weaponizing Empathy, Grief and Trust to Engineer Collapse
Thanks to Who D. Who for recommending this article... Israel’s Assault on the Nervous System of Palestine: Weaponizing Empathy, Grief and Trust to Engineer Collapse Rima Najjar Israel’s war on Gaza is not just physical — it’s neurological. This visual renders the nervous system under siege: empathy frayed, grief surveilled, trust weaponized. A child reaches for memory as drones mimic care. The assault is intimate, algorithmic, and global. Author’s Note Israel’s war in Gaza is an assault on the nervous system itself. This essay documents how Israel weaponizes fundamental human reflexes — empathy, grief, trust, the instinct to survive — to engineer Palestinian societal collapse. It does so by dismantling perception , using cloned voices, fraudulent maps, and mimicked care to bait, betray, and sabotage. Palestinians are resisting through a collective project: to protect empathy, to sanctify grief, and to safeguard identity against Israel’s systematic assault targeting the...
