Isreal

After all, more important than the truth is the dehumanization of the enemy which, once operated on a large scale, enables the apathy of the dominant society in the face of the suffering of the dominated. Perhaps this is the greatest indication of the operation's success in substituting reason for emotion. After all, dehumanization is the dematerialization of the other, who stops being a being of flesh and blood and becomes something imaginary, the repository of any evil. It is as necessary to the social acceptance of war as the devil is to Christianity.