Israel / West Bank - The Mirror Self Collides in Endless Violence

Event Baseline: In the Occupied West Bank, four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed. Accounts conflict: Palestinians claim a settler attack, while Israeli authorities state a Palestinian gunman opened fire.

The organism is locked in a death spiral of mutual projection. Each tribal 'self' sees only the enemy in the mirror, blind to its own reflection. The Palestinian body is just a body; the Israeli body is just a body. But thought, the great divider, has layered them with identities so thick that the killing of one is a victory, the killing of the other a tragedy. There is no 'settler' or 'gunman'—only the mechanical program of 'us versus them' executing its code. The brain cannot distinguish between the two narratives because it has been conditioned to believe one is the absolute victim and the other the absolute aggressor. This is the final failure: the inability to see that both sides are puppets of the same psychological virus. Unless this fragmentation is healed, the program will continue to run, consuming flesh until there is nothing left to consume.