The rule of the second bomb

How left discourse influenced the perception of war. "Inelerant" look from Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is in the information blockade and should be ready for the blockade of economic. Experts talk about the growing isolation of Israel. “When the war ends, the situation will not return to the previous status quo, the idea of ​​people about Israel has changed irreversibly,” analysts say.

“At the festival in the gent, the concert of the Israeli conductor was canceled,“ another country announced a boycott of the Eurovision from Israel ”,“ Italy called for the Israeli football team from the competitions ”-similar news appear on the tape of news agencies almost daily.

From the very beginning of the operation in Gaza, it was clear that Israel has several weeks in stock, a maximum of months. After that, world public opinion will finally move away from shock on October 7 and will begin to pressure more vigorously on Israel.

But the war dragged on, and Israeli diplomacy failed.

Plus, Israeli ministers and deputies are constantly showing off to the radicalized electorate to the detriment of the country's reputation. Plus, the absence is not like investigations, but at least some intelligible information even for the most egregious incidents like the murder of five-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab and her family. Plus, the habit of responding to any accusations, regardless of the degree of their validity, controls in “anti -Semitism” and “bloody party”. Plus…

Only all this is actually unimportant. Because Havier Bardem and Tilda Swinton still can not please. As you can’t please Harvard and Berkeley, on Kogresswum Okasio-Cortes and Ilkhan Omar, to voters of Pedro Sanchez, Melanshon and Sarah Wagenknecht. On anthropologists and genocide, on Amnesty International* and Human Rights Watch*, on intellectuals in kufi and doctors without borders. And most importantly - on simple viewers, readers of newspapers and users of social networks, absorbing almost two years in 24/7 mode of photographs of crippled children and destroyed hospitals.

There could be several times less victims in gas. Representatives of the IDF could give detailed press conferences. In power in Israel, not Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir, but Bennett and Lapid, could not be in Israel. But any Israeli government would have to answer on October 7 by Gaza bombing. And there would be dead children and destroyed hospitals. And there would be a sacred sacrifice-not mentioned above Hind Rajab, so some other photogenic child. So, the reaction in the world would be exactly the same as now. Well, maybe a degree of indignation would be a little lower. And all the same.

Because the main problem is in the language. Not in English, French or Spanish, but in the conceptual language, with the help of which a citizen of the “collective West” digested the information received.

It is customary to talk about the war in the modern world in the language of international humanitarian law. Descriptions of war in the main media are carried out in the language of reports and reports of human rights organizations adapted to the mass consumer.

It would be strange to deny the significance of this language. The only problem with him is that he was created for another. It is not adapted to describe the war. He can describe only part instead of the whole, and not the most important part, but at the same time aggressively claims to be total.

The war with this approach appears to be a kind of competition to save the lives of the civilian population. But if it were so, it would be easier and more correctly not to start wars at all - then certainly everyone would have survived. There really is nothing good in wars, and, of course, it is better to fight as little as possible. However, sometimes it still has to be.

Bunin recalled how the Tolstoyites besieged their teachers who came to Moscow with various questions, for example: “Lev Nikolaevich, but what should I do if a tiger attacks me?” And Tolstoy became embarrassedly laughed: “What a tiger, where is the tiger? I have not met a single tiger in my whole life. ”

However, several decades later, tigers near Moscow still appeared. German heavy tanks "Tiger". And no matter how the non -resistant you are, but to the question that Tolstoy men asked Tolstoy, then I had to answer seriously.

However, the current pacifist and at the sight of real tigers is ready to continue to talk about disarmament and non -resistance. More and more often, anti -Israeli statements are accompanied by words about the inadmissibility of the war - any war, regardless of the reason - and curses to the manufacturers of weapons. The University of Pisa, breaking cooperation with Israeli universities, states in the same document that it does not support and does not take part in any activity aimed at the production, development or improvement of weapons and warfare systems. Numerous musicians, actors and poets say the same words about the same words.

Or here the Chief Norwegian expert in the Middle East explains why the attitude towards Israel has changed so much in Norway over the past decades. In the early 80s, he says, thousands of Norwegian soldiers went to the region to serve as part of the UN peacekeepers. “These are by no means representatives of left -winged circles. These are conservatives who signed up for the role of 100%support of Israel. When they finished the service, almost 100% of them were against Israel. ” Cause? “Because they were fed with a fairy tale, but it turned out that Israel is a strong, occupying side.”

That is, "strong" is now a landoratif. It is a shame to be strong, fashionable to be weak, small and defenseless. Or at least imitate smallness and defenselessness.

I talked with several human rights activists and asked all of them the same question: “Two bombs are dropped on a certain military object. One hit the target, and the other deviates from the goal and affects the residential building or, say, a cafe. Which of these bombs is more important for you, so to speak? Which one is your attention to? " My interlocutors were honest people, so they all answered: "Of course, the second."

Human rights activists - of course, are not left -wing activists, but real ones - do very important work. It is they who make politicians think about how to minimize losses among civilians. They do not allow the generals to burn auls as a revenge for a terrorist attack arranged by one of the residents there. They achieve trial of guilty of war crimes.

Simply, reading human rights documents, we must always remember that they are written by people who notice only the second bomb. And the essence of the war expresses the first.

Because the war has its own language and its own logic. A bomb that got into a cafe is a tragic and, alas, inevitable accident. But the bomb, which hit the target, allows you to understand why the war is waged, what tasks it has, how it should end.

There is such a term - "accompanying damage." Cruel and inhuman, but truthful. You can not judge the war by what is “accompanied by”, which is the periphery for her. But this is how the modern world judges.

They say that the media constantly write about the war in gas. But this is not true. They write a lot about the victims of the war, and about the war itself - practically nothing. How much did you see in the Neurian news press about blown up tunnels, identified objects of the Hamas infrastructure, liquidated militants - that is, about what constitutes the essence of the war? And this is not a bias, but the same "law of the second bomb." According to which the only thing that is worthy of the description is the suffering of civilians.

And this, in general, speaks well of the writers. Good people sympathize with the civilian population who fell into the millstones of war. Only for some reason, when reading their articles, one place from Joan Rowling is all the time. “Oh, just don’t pretend that you understand at least something in Quiddich,” Ginny Hermione cut off. - Then you can’t get into shame! ” What does the translation mean: if your name is Norway and you fought for the last time in 1814, and even then two weeks, then talk to health with Sweden about your Skandinavian and do not give advice to the country that was not lucky to be born in a completely different region and therefore have to fight all of its nearly 80-year history.

And here a logical question arises. Well, let's say everything is so, but why Israel? Where does such attention and such hatred come from? Why does the Middle East give rise to all this collective psychosis?

Why are luminous people with Palestinian flags rush at the “vuelt” under the wheels of Israeli bicycles, and the Spanish prime minister publicly admire the feat of hooligans who torn the race? How many countries or Africa are in Asia or Africa for decades there are wars and massacre, residents are begging, and all sorts of politically (or even just ethnically) unreliable are sitting in prisons or disappear without a trace?

The fact is that Israel - just because of its size and geographical position - turned out to be too visible an example of how this world is arranged.

Such an obvious island of civilization in the ocean of barbarism. Moreover, an island that has the impudence to resist barbarism and even defeat it. Which, of course, contradicts all neo -Marxist ethics.

And Marxism-Saidism became an Erzatz-religion in a post-Christian society. And her followers are religious fanatics shrugging on any Hamasnik. Their scripture says: the oppressed is always right. If the oppressed cuts children and women (the option - explodes buses), then this is the realization of his inalienable right to a liberation struggle. You can slightly scold him for excesses, but you can’t sympathize with his holy cause. Hence the shot down system of recognition of “your or foe”, the indifference of good and evil, norms and its violations.

To understand how it all looks in practice, it is enough to listen to Lucy Green’s monologue, after which she left Breakfast Show Alexander Poyshchev **. “There is no reverse racism, it can only be in the direction of the oppressed group”, “Women are always inhibited group, it is a constant”, “There can be no situation when African Americans once - and become an unsuccessful group, because they are oppressed in life”, etc. Look at this fragment, it is very indicative. The main thing there is not even words, but an incredible aplomb of the adherent of the only true teaching, talking with a full profane that is not enlightened by the light of truth.

Like any religion, Marxism-Saydism forms its system of prohibitions. His vocabulary is a set of stop words, the only purpose of which is to prevent discussions on the merits. On the right is the rudiment of colonialism, on the left is a relic of imperial consciousness, from below - male chauvinism, from above - white superiority.

Suppose, you say, Israel differs from Norway in that in Israel you can think about the voices of unpromformed groups as much as you like, but upon exiting the university fence it is found that the unfortunate subaltern is sleeping and sees how to kill you, so before it would be concerned about the right to say it. And the educated interlocutor answers you: “The expression“ Subaltern sleeps and sees how to kill me ”is a polarized representativeness, describing“ other ”as an enemy that has a common intention to destroy the“ we ”group. This is a classic racist scheme. ”

But what about the reality given to us in the sensations? With all sociology, surveys, research confirming these sensations? But no way. The red flag is placed: it is impossible here, racism begins behind the flag.

And even the most intelligent and thin people get used to these flags, to this emasculated political correct language that, having got into a normal environment, they feel discomfort and do not not. Say, the bright and talented David belt, the long-term editor of the New Yorkker magazine, wrote a large, rather meaningful and completely moderate article to Israel. And among other things, he noted that in Israel “public debate, especially on television, are often noted by racist and reactionary rhetoric”. And this is just a free discussion, without red flags, stop-words and forbidden topics, it looks like this. People express their opinion and do not think that on this subject it is written in the catechism of the young Marxist.

Moreover, the belt is undoubtedly not a Marxist. But the language of the left sectarians penetrates the mainstream and format it for itself. You do not need to be a radical activist to let this optics into himself and allow her to determine your feelings and your behavior. This, by the way, is the reason for the mass of missing actions. Participants of any action of this kind are divided into a relatively small ideologically charged core and joined. These rushing gas are not so disturbed, but not to go ... Is this, I'm inelerant, unempatic? Or maybe in me somewhere deep inside sits, hiding, racist and reactionary rhetoric? ..

Once upon a time, one friend of Hippie told me how he lived in a suburb of Paris and a friend-American friend came to visit him. At the entrance, she was intercepted by the Arab kid: "Aunt, let me ride on a bike." “Well, take a ride, only five minutes, otherwise I'm in a hurry,” Aunt said. The guy rode 15 minutes instead of five, and returning, asked for a bicycle for his friend. The American refused: you, they say, deceived me so - rode longer than you and I agreed, and now I have no time left. The teenager gave the bicycle, but at the same time said to the hostess: "U-oo, racist!" In the apartment to my friend, the American rose in tears: “Did he really think that I did not give him a bicycle, because I have something against the Arabs? We must find him and explain it. ”

I remember then I did not believe the narrator. Well, people can’t see reality so much, I thought. And now I believe: yes, that’s how it was, exactly this way these manipulations work. And millions of people are underway.

In general, the Cheshire cat was right:

- We are all crazy here. I'm crazy. You are crazy.

- Why am I crazy?

- Because you're here.

In the remarkable film “500 days of summer”, the hero works in a company that produces postcards with congratulatory and motivating signatures: “Congratulations on the birth of a son!”, “You can do it!”, “Happy Valentine's Day, Sun, I love you!” etc. In the end, he explodes and quits from this office, finally explaining that people buy such postcards not because they want to tell about their feelings, but because they lack their words and they are afraid to say “from themselves”: “Let's stop plucking their mouths. People must say what they feel, and not repeat the words imposed by them. ”

Left discourse is a set of such cards that drive a person into a narrow corridor of prescribed collective feelings. Enterprise for the distribution of correct thoughts, phrases and emotions.

As a child, I loved the book of Leila Berg “The Adventures of the Slot”. There, the father of one of the heroes cut off his finger, and friends decided to arrange a charitable performance on this occasion. In particular, they found a parrot and taught him a single phrase. The parrot was said: “What a terrible misfortune!”, And in response he trembled with wings and repeated: “The be-ethnic Mr. Henissi! Bee-day Mr. Henissi! ”

And now every time I look at American students in Kufi, at the inhabitants of Paris with Palestinian flags, discussing the “genocide” and “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, to the secular public, which arranges a multi -minute standing ovation to the film “Voice of Hind Rajab”, I recall this trained parrot and hear his complainant plaster. Excuse me, my dear parrots, if I offended someone,-Nothing Personal, I just analyze the social phenomenon.

Israel is so annoying Europeans also because it is a metaphor for Europe, European civilization. Which in fact is exactly the same island in a sea of ​​barbarism, just larger than the size and therefore has the opportunity to pretend that this is not so. And Israel constantly reminds of this, as if to say: if you want to survive - be like me. Of course, this is nervous, this is if you begin to truly think about what is happening-it undermines the faith in the God of the Scriptures. Who will like this! So people are offended, they go to rallies, demand to stop the atrocities of the Israeli military.

I will allow myself a short retreat about the similarity of the fate and the difference in attitude. Three years ago, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union Josep Borrel, in one of the performances, compared Europe with a garden surrounded by jungle. The fighter, of course, was immediately branded as a racist and a colonialist, and he apologized for a long time - they say, he did not mean anything like that - and he swore that he was alien to the morally obsolete Eurocentrism. Although it would seem, if you are one of the leaders of the European Union, then how can you not be a Eurocentrist?

About twenty before the fighter, the Almost the same metaphor was used by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who called Israel Villa in the jungle. Since in Israel with political correctness the situation is normal, that is, about in any way (recall once again the impressions of the belt from Israeli television), Bonmo Barack everyone really liked and is actively used by Israeli politicians and journalists. Moreover, the hut is not some extreme right like Ben Guyra. For the sake of a peace treaty, he was even ready to divide Jerusalem with Yasir Arafat. It’s just like an Israeli he used to look at the world soberly and talk about what he sees, without euphemisms.

Я думаю, это тоже одна из причин израилефобии. Если ты живешь в постоянном страхе сказать что-нибудь не то, трудно симпатизировать тем, кто спокойно называет вещи своими именами.

Скажи кто-нибудь тому же Боррелю, что европейским чиновникам его уровня не худо бы приносить присягу на листочке бумаги с надписью The West is the best, что бы с ним, бедным, было, если его от слова «европоцентризм» так подбрасывает?

Есть и еще одна причина. Может быть, главная. Неуютно осознавать, что ты живешь в мире, отделенном от первобытного хаоса и хтони какой-то хрупкой условностью — картонными декорациями, театральным задником или защитной стеной, которая на поверку оказывается не прочнее того самого задника. Что твой приятель, с которым ты утром пьешь кофе в университетском кафе, желает тебе самой настоящей, неметафорической смерти — за века колониального господства, за богатство твоей страны, за то, что женщины в твоем мире ходят с непокрытой головой (For our women unveiled, our slaves and our gold, как пел Леонард Коэн). А современный человек всеми силами избегает столкновения с неуютом, дискомфортом, со всем потенциально травмирующим. Гораздо легче счесть, что дикарства и варварства не существует, что во всем виноваты угнетение, подавление, оккупация…

Двадцать лет назад Василий Аксенов написал роман «Вольтерьянцы и вольтерьянки» и даже получил за него главную на тот момент российскую литературную премию — Букеровскую. XVIII век, Екатерина, Вольтер, балы, фортепьяны, философские разговоры, галантная любовь, вера в неостановимость прогресса. И только временами на заднем плане мелькают какие-то неприятные люди — оборванные, ощеренные, с драными ноздрями и пьяной ненавистью в глазах. А в финале они вдруг вырываются на авансцену, вторгаются в пространство вольтеровской утопии — и убивают, пытают, насилуют всех без разбора куртуазных героев и героинь.

И ведь пугачевщина тоже возникла «не в вакууме», как некогда выразился генсек ООН про 7 октября. И екатерининская Россия была тем еще раем. И за фасадом рококо и классицизма, менуэтов и реверансов происходили вполне жуткие вещи. Но ни автор, ни герои при зрелище погрома отчего-то не задаются вопросом о стоящей за убийцами и насильниками великой сермяжной правде. А просто ловят главного бунтовщика и…

— Я кликнул драгунам, чтоб привязали гада к пушке, брюхом в жерло. Он что-то еще бормотал, изрыгал сквернословия, смешанные с молитвой, весь изливался жидкостями и слизью. Я поджег фитиль. Пушка, крепостная коронада, развалила его на две части.

— Сие не казнь, брат мой, а расплата, — пробормотал Михаил. — Не знаю, мог ли бы я сделать, как ты, но ты ж мой брат… и ты это сделал за нас!

* Властями РФ организация признана нежелательной, ее деятельность в России запрещена.

** Минюстом РФ внесен в реестр «иностранных агентов».