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Israel’s Assault on the Nervous System of Palestine: Weaponizing Empathy, Grief and Trust to Engineer Collapse

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 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...

A Revolution, not a Recalibration (That's What we Want)

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  A Revolution, not a Recalibration (That's What we Want) The pack of wolves that devoured Gaza are trying to lull us to sleep, but we must be adamant: institutions and norms that have betrayed humanity must not be allowed to survive the Gaza Holocaust Alon Mizrahi I am not, and never have been, a man of institutions and establishments. The combination of architecture and authority has always given me an actual fear of death; whenever I faced such a combination, since my first day in school, I had to run away or engage very lightly, always with an eye on the nearest exit. When I wrote my first book (dedicated to the subject of freedom) in the politically useless language of Hebrew, much of it was about the danger establishments posed to personal, philosophical, and political liberty. Granted, I grew up and spent my life in the deeply conflicted and now notoriously deranged Israel, where establishments are actually tools of merciless colonization, but anti-establishmentarianism is n...