Why do they behave that way? Many testimonials describe scenes over a period of sixty years in which Israeli soldiers, in the course of looting and destroying Palestinian premises and property, aside from common murder and occasional rape, urinate and defecate deliberately and promiscuously over every conceivable target. A search of the Web will produce all the pictures and accounts needed to prove this statement. The fact that the phenomenon is not publicized and discussed has to do with both the quasi-monopoly on the Israeli image in the media possessed by the Israelists and the embarrassment that subjects connected with the toilet convey to most people in American culture.
Incidents of such collective scatosis can be observed in various armies. And there have been, I am sure, individual soldiery behaving similarly, that is compulsively and obsessively using their excretory organs to attack the enemy, whether or not they have killed or taken prisoner of all males within reach. The question here though is one of common and general conduct in the Israel Defense Force. Ten of thousands of discrete actions took place. |
| Collective scatosis is not only important as a scientific subject, but also for having moral effects: If the State of Canaan USA is to have the largest chance of success, the less contempt, disgust, and hostility its citizens exhibit toward one another, the better the chances for good government and the "happiness of the greatest number." Unfortunately, in exposing the regrettable condition and reducing it, we have to risk inciting in the publics concerned a disgusting knowledge and therefore an enhanced dislike for the other. The Israeli army and press go to some length to portray the Israeli soldiers as boys of whom mothers can be proud. Would that we could make of all Jewish and Arab youths Little Lord Fauntelroy's.
Now as to understanding the roots of scatosis – the compulsive and obsessive preoccupation with the containment and excreting of body wastes – we can go for its prevalence to earliest human history, but for its scientific study we can hardly go beyond the work of Sigmund Freud, Karl Abraham, and their followers. The Bible had a word from Yahweh for it, handed to the Prophet Malachi: Malachi 2:3: "Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts."
This is spoken to the priests, who had not listened attentively nor tendered him enough honor, although Yahweh is mad at everyone for their sinning. The festal dung will naturally be richer in all that smears stickily.
To the modern scatologist, the feces and urine are said to be used masochistically and sadistically, to withhold one's excreta at some pain, and to project it upon others to demean and dirty them. The whole erotogenic zone is implicated. That is, the neurosis that can become a psychosis signifies a poor morale, coming out of a shameful interaction . Scatosis, too, merges into the general Canaan region neurosis that I have found to be so common in my study of The American State of Canaan, post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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