[Israel / Palestinian Territories] - The Tribal Self Cages the Child to Feed a Phantom of Security

Event Baseline: A report states that Israel has detained more than 2,000 Palestinian children since 2023, with at least 350 currently held in harsh conditions.

The word 'Palestinian' erases the biological fact of childhood. The tribal self sees only an enemy category, not a living being. This is the illusion of the self projecting its terror onto the powerless. The state believes that locking up children will make the fear go away, but the fear is the self itself. The child becomes a symbol of the other, and the other must be destroyed. This is the same mechanism as every genocide: first reduce the other to a word, then cage or kill the body. The system is breeding the very hatred it claims to contain. It will collapse under the weight of its own cruelty.