Israel and ISIS
Israel and ISIS are similar in several fundamental ways. Under the headline Disagreement in the UN: Is the IDF like ISIS?” Itamar Eichner reports for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot on 28 May 2015 that the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, recommends including the Israeli army in a black list comprised of bodies such as al Qaida, Boko Haram, ISIS and the Taliban, due to the extensive killing and injuring of children during last summer's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. The last war on the Gaza Strip resulted in the death of over 500 children and the injury of some 3,000. Interesting whether Yedioth Ahronot specifically paired ISIS and not another terrorist organisation with Israel as it is very easy to compare the two, or conversely because such a comparison is unthinkable. In my opinion that comparison is apt and even jumps out at you, when it's obvious that Israel is an army that possesses a country, just like ISIS. Moreover, these two countries are built on the same principle. Israel on the Jewish religion and ISIS on Islam. The true citizens of the ISIS state are Muslims and the true citizens of the state of Israel are Jews. What is more interesting is that both countries define their religion as a nationality. Israel is the state of the Jewish nation and ISIS is the state of the Islamic nation. Both of these countries exhibit deep disdain and hatred for other religions, although the similarities don't end here. Israel lies on territories stolen from others, from Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and in the past from Jordan and Egypt. ISIS also lies on territories stolen from others – Iraq and Syria. By the way, neither country is willing to determine that its current borders are final. Both of them are waiting for the good God to fashion their borders. As both the state of ISIS and the state of Israel are founded on the basis of religion, their supporters are not limited to a specific territory or even a specific continent.The state of Israel is continuously enlisting young people of the Jewish religion from various countries to come support it, to strengthen their belief in the superiority of their religion and to join its army (do you know the Birthright programme?). ISIS acts in exactly the same manner, also tempting young Muslims from the entire world. An additional striking similarity exists between Israel and ISIS in the importance they attribute to propaganda. Both countries have public relations experts, directors, spokespersons and religious figures throughout the world, some of whom are volunteers. The most important part of the propaganda of these two entities is the propaganda of horror which is intended to exhaust those under its control. Both of them use public executions of enemies to impose terror on the ruled population, even though the form of implementation differs. Israel executes political and military leaders after a secret administrative mechanism passes judgement. The implementation is via a drone attack on the condemned person and others in his surroundings. Until not so long ago Israel sent its pilots as flying hangmen, who executed the condemned publicly, in front of everyone. Recently the pilots were replaced with flying robots, but this doesn't matter as people are behind the robots. ISIS executes its enemies by hand and in a primitive manner, by volunteer or volunteered hangmen. The sole difference between Israel and ISIS in their terror propaganda is that Israel hides from its citizens the photos of the crimes it commits so that hypocritical intellectuals can contend that Israel does not have the death penalty. ISIS, on the other hand, for purposes of internal discipline and to rally its ranks, prefers open executions that are broadcast. Indeed, Israel and ISIS are like two drops of blood. When will a civil war break out between them? 1 June 2015
Eli Aminov.