Normal People Can't Get Israel

Just as the blind can't get the color red

All in all, normalcy is a nice thing to have. A sense of normalcy, as we know, allows for periods of stability and calm, and it makes work and life, as well as work-life balance, easier on us. Normalcy lets you have nice quiet moments with friends and family, maybe buy a home and a car, and explore new destinations periodically. It is not a bad thing at all to have normalcy. It ties things together rather smoothly.

It doesn’t help with everything though. Recognizing, resisting, and organizing against sheer evil, for instance, is not something you learn from a normalcy-themed existence.

Say normalcy does not prepare for babies being thrown off a balcony onto the pavement 8 stories below. But this is too terrible to even imagine, so let me replace this spectacle of horror with something else: babies being blown to bits by bunker busters and 1-ton bombs, and then, if some of them somehow, miraculously survive, they are left to die under rubble or maybe get amputated without anesthesia and then die anonymously, as no one came to claim them, on a bloodied hospital floor.

Normalcy does not allow most people to see Israel as a psychopath who stands and throws babies every minute onto the pavement, to mock them as they break and die, and it does not allow them to see the US as a police force that arrives on the scene to make sure no one is going to interrupt with the baby massacre.

The two images below were released by official Israel. They are meant to give strength and power. Do you get it?