The so-called Palestinian people have been playing games, perpetually changing the rules, and leaving the greatest think tanks of the world in a quandary. The ‘Palestinian’ people’s self-defeating, childish behavior can be understood in the context of scientific principles.

Scientists agree ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Just as higher organisms retain characteristics of lower ones, adulthood retains characteristics of childhood. Macro-organisms retain characteristics of micro-organisms and social institutions such as governments retain characteristics of individuals. Pathologies of a people derive from pathologies of the individuals.

The pathological behavior of the so called-Palestinian people parallels individual pathology. If the behaviors were an individual’s, what would a certified professional diagnose as the specific pathology? At first blush, clinical sadism would be the initial diagnostic impression.

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The vicarious and direct thrill over the Ramallah lynching, the mutilation murders of the boys in Tekoa, the frenzied dancing during the World Trade Center attacks – all would seem to imply that the so-called Palestinians suffer from clinical sadism. But there’s more to it than that. When behavior sabotages the individual?s best interest, it becomes a compulsion or an addition.

In a compulsion, regardless of the consequences, the individual is driven by the turmoil of torturous anxiety to repeat a certain behavior over and over. Where the compulsion drives the individual into a downward spiral of self-destruction, it is an addiction.

Addicts are convincing. They wear their sincerity on their sleeve and, at the drop of a hat, solicit compassion and readily propose plans and programs to curb their addiction. They set up people around them to play out a recurrent script. They first find a rescuer, usually after they hit rock bottom. They reward the rescuers with boundless praise for saving them. Once the rescuer is hooked, the rescuer is taken advantage of and becomes a patsy. By frustrating the rescuer’s efforts and then using the patsy to further their addiction, the patsy becomes the persecutor, which then justifies the addicts’ falling off the wagon.

Whether it is drugs, alcohol, gambling, compulsive eating, or sex addiction, the cycle is the same. With each failure, other reasonable plans for rehabilitation are offered and all fail. The only stopgap is social support with other addicts in AA, NA, GA, OA, or SAA groups. As long as they remain in the group, the social support of like-minded individuals restrains their acting out the compulsive-addiction.

What is true about a person is partially true of a people. The so-called Palestinian people are on a self-destructive downward spiral and cannot refrain from terrorism any more than a hard-core heroin addict will drop the habit.

The ‘Palestinians’ by now could have had their own country on 95 percent of biblical Judea, Samaria and Gaza. To compensate for the 5 percent, they would have received the same landmass adjacent to Gaza. They would have had joint control over Jerusalem. They would have been granted 30 billion dollars from the United States alone for development and for settling the refugees that fled this area since 1948. Instead of open sewers running through Shechem, they could have had a sewer treatment plant. Their citizens could have been free to enter Israel and earn a fortune.

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Shmuel Nuemann resides in the Shomron region of Israel, where he is actively involved in creating communities for English-speaking olim and an emigration plan for Palestinians. He maintains the following websites: www.shomronhomestead.com and www.emigration.net/sponsors.