"Hamas, Hamas, all Jews need to be gassed".My, my the country that hid Anne Frank and produced Corrie Tenboom. This is so sad that 60 years ago the Dutch were so brave in their support of Jews. Tolerance has developed into hatred because evil cannot be confronted.
I think what you said is precisely the essence of the Helsiki syndrom: the identification with and justifying of the cause of the kidnapping on the part of the victim.
This term is applied, as you know, to the individual cases of kidnapping. What we witness, however, is this syndrom on a social, rather than personal, level.
It was and is foolish to think that the West has won the Cold war; rather, it has ended in mutual destruction. Whereas the Soviet Block and Union have ceased to exist as entities, the West, has been entirely transformed away from its foundations. The Marxist thinking in terms of groups rather than individuals has prevailed and produced the "vicitimization view" of the world, formalized recently as multiculturalism.
Thus, faced with the prolonged attack from the Marxist ideology since 1840s, the West started to identify with its "kidnapper." As in the orthodox application of the Helsinki syndrom, the duration of time is essential: the change from fear and anger to support of the attackers requires considerable time. Two elements, in fact, are neded to to produce the sysndrom: a reasonably long period of kidnapping, and the constant, indoctrinating interaction between the offender and his victim. As their result, the victim begins first to put a human face on the kidnapper; then understands, while disagreeing with them, the reasons for his actions; and, finally, takes his position.
Sound familiar? Where do you think the "humanization" of Arafat come from? Why it is that all the suffering of the Palestinians has a human face, feelings, and emotions? Where in the media are similarly tearful funerals of the Jewish victims?
Heer at home, too, women suffer but not men. From anecdotal portrayal of men as unable to feel to the social and governmental emphasis on the breast cancer at the expense of prostate cancer, although both kill comparable number of people. In complete similarity, too, there is a humanization of the suffering from injustice by a black person but not white in the same cercumstances.
Underneath all of this is the essentially Marxist idea of thinking in terms of groups rather than individuals, and bringing justice to the underprivileged groups, again, rather than individuals.
And you are abolutely correct, sir/madam, when you say that when evil cannot be confronted, a shift in judgement invariably occurs. A kindap victim, out of helplessness, takes the position of the attacker. The West has been kidnapped by Marxism and unable, for for a long time, to confront it due to the military might of the Soviet Union. It has developed the Helsinki syndrom, and there are only a few of us left who can see that we are afflicted.
No, evil cannot be confronted. This is the country that has legalized euthanasia of children up to 15 years old, if parents and doctors deem these children's lives unworthy of living. No, the Dutch have lost their moral compass altogether.