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Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin
Psychoanalyst & Counter Terrorist Expert

Hamas & Islamic Jihad’ s “Mondial” Pissing Match

The Dictionary of Desperanto

Entry: Rocket Launching Competition between Hamas and Islamic Jihad – Who can shoot the farthest missile to Tel Aviv?

Islamic terrorists never got the opportunity to play as they were forced by the elders of their shame-honor community to learn revenge killing through being constantly embattled in order to ward off being scapegoated and shamed. Their shame is great. Their rage exceeds murder itself.

So how might we understand this aberrant lethal behavior at an “x-ray cum MRI” unconscious level?

They are like little boys who are trying to shoot their pee the farthest in order to mark the ground like a dog who urinates and thereby leaves its scent.

You can’t even say that these guys are old enough to engage in a game of who can ejaculate the farthest.

The land that they pee on is unconsciously the body of their mother, their Umm from whom they are never permitted to separate. Their terror though is of the female body. Galina Bleich named their terror — Ferror – terror of the female body.

Unfortunately we are mere substitutes for their “venerated and repudiated” Ummi, Umm, Umma – mommy, mother and the motherland.

To know and understand the unconscious psychodynamics of such disturbed group relations involving Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s mutual paranoia, helps to disengage from forming an identification with their aggression by seeing how infantile their behavior really is, even though it is lethal.The roots of such aberrant morality lies in their tragically disturbed early childhood. To them, shooting rockets is a game, a competition. They have no empathy. After all they were treated like objects as infants and children themselves. Their “protector” in their skewed family system remains their “murderer” who cleanses group honor with blood should they bring disgrace on the group.

There is no winner in this Islamic “Mondial” only tragically misguided impotent men.

About the Author
Dr. Kobrin made aliyah in 2010 and is an internationally renowned counterterrorism expert and psychoanalyst holding a PhD in Islamic literature, aljamía 16th c. Author of five books. She has conducted prison interviews, a former military contractor with an academic appointment as external expert at La Universidad de Granada. She is a senior research analyst for The Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism Center. She also works in citizen diplomacy. In August 2020 she was the first Israeli to be live-streamed from Islamabad.