On March 24th, an airliner carrying 150 people
crashed into the French Alps. Immediately, the announcement of this tragedy
dominated the news all around the world.
For over a week now, it has been investigated and analyzed from every
possible angle. The most horrendous aspect of this story is that the co-pilot,
Andreas Lubitz, locked the pilot out of the cockpit, and deliberately crashed
the plane. Every day and every night
since then, the airline, medical and news industries have been pulling their
hair out asking how this could have happened. How could anyone so mentally
unstable be allowed to be put in a position where he could cause such a horrifying
act of terror? Could the people who knew him not see that he was mentally ill?
That question must run through the mind of every passenger stepping
on a plane.
We follow the airline accidents and hijackings because we
know that it could happen to us. (However, statistics show that the odds of
being killed in an airline crash is 1 in 9 million, which means that you would
have to fly every day for 19,000 years to die in an airline crash.) However, on
the other hand, it is happening every day to the Palestinians,
and it has been happening for over sixty years.
So, my question has a much broader scope and far greater consequences:
Is Benjamin Netanyahu
mentally ill?
He is obviously paranoid. He caused, not just the crash of one
plane full of people, but he deliberately caused the crash of tons
of bombs into buildings full of men, women and children. He dropped burning white phosphorus on
defenseless people. He
blew up power plants, schools, mosques, hospitals and homes leaving thousands
dead and tens of thousands destitute. We
are quick to question the sanity of a 28 year old co-pilot who deliberately
caused the death of 149 innocent people. But, who questions the sanity of a man
who babbled one thing on Monday and the exact opposite the next day and then announced
that both statements were the same. Apparently, in his mind, “there will never
be a Palestinian state” and “I still support a Palestinian state,” were not
contradictory.
And now, Netanyahu is panic stricken over the possible
easing of tensions between the US
and Iran .
On March 30 he actually said, “an emerging agreement in Lausanne
sends a message that there is no price for aggression, – on the contrary, Iran
gets a prize for its aggression.” [1] Really?
Strange that he has nothing to say about the pass he gets for Israel ’s aggression against the people of Palestine as he holds up
the occupation of Palestinian land and
water like a prize. I say again, no rational thinking person could possibly
miss the “transference” of his conduct unto the perceived actions of his
victims. A healthy mind would at least
recognize that others would see the distortion.
But, what can we expect from a paranoid leader of a paranoid
nation but a paranoid response to any situation?
Co-pilot Lubitz, deliberately killed 149 innocent people and
the media is 24/7 proving that he was mentally unstable. Netanyahu deliberately killed … only God
knows how many … but thousands and thousands.
Count the wars he has hyped and it could be counted into the millions. I
think Netanyahu is showing signs of mental instability and should never have been
put into a position of power.
Thomas Are
April 2, 2015
[1] Earmon
Murphy, Day before deadline, Iran
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