These days we are surrounded by hatred that it seems we have almost never known before in its intensity and distribution, especially after the seventh of October. Here is a brief overview of this topic.
Aristotle, seeing hatred as distinct from anger and rage, described hatred as a desire to destroy an object and cannot be cured in time.
You are angry for a reason, but hatred can be for no apparent reason. It can fall on a person in a relationship or family, or it can even fall on entire nations, as in the case of the never-ending forms of anti-Semitism.
The hate doesn’t stop until it reaches one of two stats; Either detachment from the object of hatred, or a desire to destroy this object. (If you can’t disconnect – you want to destroy).
By this we can see that hatred, unlike other negative emotions, is total, and will not decrease until it reaches one of these two states.
If we compare them to weapons, then negative emotions are like a bow and arrow, while hatred is more like a hydrogen bomb.
If we return to anti-Semitism, we can notice that the massive hatred of a few peaceful communities of scattering Jews in exile – boiled and intensified over time, until it reached its final goal, the complete distraction of all Jews, in all places, one after the other, this execution was carried out by several nations in the war The second world, led by the Germans, who were the operative ‘hand’ that governs the hatred (anti-Semitism) for the mass killing (6,000,000) of Jews. (And this happened only 80 years ago, some of the survivors are still alive).
Now it is the Arabs and a large part of the world who hate the Israelis and the Jews.
The Jews needed nearly 2000 years to wake up to this tremendous hatred. Zionism broke out before the Holocaust, it emerged at the end of the 19th century in Central and Eastern Europe as a national revival movement, (returning to the State of Israel). In response to newer waves of antisemitism.
But nowadays anti-Semitism is rising again:
People talk about antisemitism, but antisemitism is only a symptom and an expression of the living force behind it: hatred.
Hate is not a normal emotion. It is not an integral part of the natural emotional system. It’s more of a toxic influence, or a disease that infects the hater. It happens to him, while he is passive.
And if there is no disconnection (from the hated object) or its destruction, in one way or another – the hatred may become uncontrollable.
One of the main causes of any hatred is dehumanization of the object of hatred (or treating him as an enemy).
When in the dynamics of hatred it is impossible to feel compassion or empathy towards him.
Hate neither emerges nor breaks out of us, we are ‘invaded’ by it. It is an influence looking for a person or a nation to nest on.
A hateful person, or a nation, can be said to possess it.
The hate that is written here is not just being against someone, not forgiving, not antagonistic, not discriminating and so on. Hate is on a whole other level.
And finally: in a relationship or family, if the atmosphere is one of unconditional love – no hatred can exist.
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quotes:
Gabriel