The Ongoing Suicide Practices of the Israeli People, and Why Most Can't See Their Own Demise

Help End Israeli People's Suicide.

Many Israelis believe that their actions against Palestinians are necessary and morally justified. That may only sound reasonable to persons who are unaware that their senses are deceiving them. Most humans never heard of the hidden flaw in our senses affecting us all in ways far more damaging than we can imagine. Currently, the human senses perceive everything in terms of me and everything else; however, that kind of experience is contradictory to how everything exists, and simple science and logic can explain it. The truth is that human understanding of how we exist is ungrounded and full of contradictions to what the facts of life tell us. Certainly, all humans exist, and everyone possesses a valid sense of self, no one is denying that. However, the problem is that we imagine ourselves to be a unique self full of our own essence that makes us who we are and therefore different from everyone else. We believe that our self is one unchanging entity existing under its own power and not a product of the entirety of existence. However, the closer and closer we look at how exist, we discover that we are a product of countless physical and nonphysical parts of the whole existence. None of these parts are singular and unchanging entities, or a self that we think we are. The part of our bodies and each moment of our mind did not establish itself in its own right (effort or will), they are a product of complex processes of the whole.

If there were such a separate and singular I, we believe in, not produced by everything else (the entirety), but established in its own effort—it should become clearer and clearer with an analysis as to whether it exists as either mind or body, or the collection of mind and body, or different and unrelated from mind and body. However, the closer you look, the more this kind of self we believe in is not found. This turns out to be the case for everyone and everything, for all phenomena. Everyone is identical without any different essence of its own, we are without different selves. 

So, the perception of ourselves and others is simply a trick produced by our senses and our mind's labels such as "me" and "them". Labels are the only difference between people.

Because we exist without a self, any actions we take against "others" are actions against ourselves. Guess who is going to have to experience the result of our actions? Correct, us!

Therefore, any negative actions of Israeli people against Palestinians are equivalent to unconscious suicide practices. Most Israelis think, “I have always been an Israeli and they have always been Palestinians.” These beliefs are unfounded, superstitious, and based on unfamiliarity with how everyone exists and are now causing everyone tons of grief and no release in sight.

Here is the proof of our claims.

If Israelis and Palestinians possessed their own self, it would be easy to find that kind of self, it would have to be:

1. One unchanging thing

2. Not a product of something else

3. Existing as a self without the label of "self" coming from our mind.

Everybody agrees that every self must be 1 entity otherwise, they cannot be considered as a self. Everyone also agrees that what is a product of something else can't be considered a self (have one's essence), as it would not be any different from what produced it.

There are only 4 ways that a self could exist, it must be either:

1. the physical aspect (body)

2. the nonphysical aspect (mind)

3. only certain parts of the body & mind

4. completely different and unrelated from the body & mind, or its parts

Let's examine point 1: Is the body the self?

The closer we look at the physical form, we discover that there is no such thing as one body, and it is 100% a product of something else (atoms of carbon, nitrogen, calcium, oxygen, phosphorous, hydrogen, adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine). The fact is a body is not one but made of parts like the head, torso, arms, and legs, and each is made of countless parts like cells, atoms, and quarks. All of these are products of food and previous male and female (parents) reproductive fluids. So, the self is not the body, since the body is not a singular entity and a product of something else.

Let's examine point 2: Is the mind the self?

Upon closer inspection of the mind, we discover that the mind is not one unchanging entity. Since the mind is space-like, it is also made up of space-like parts. Also, the mind is a consciousness that perceives, feels, and thinks). This creates the sense of moment-to-moment existence as we know it. Each moment of existence is not one unchanging thing, as each was generated by the previous moment which produces the present moment, which will create the future moment, and so on. Each moment is made up of an infinite number of ever-shorter moments, none of them are singular and each is a product of a previous moment of mind. The mind is not a self as it is not singular and is a product of the previous moments of the mind.

Let's examine point 3: Is the self only certain parts of the body & mind? 

Every part of the body and mind is not one unchanging thing. They are made of ever smaller nonsingular parts, and everything is a product of something else, thus no part of the body or mind can be a self.

Let's examine point 4: Is the self different and unrelated from the body and mind, or its parts?

There has been no known self different and unrelated from the countless parts of their physical and nonphysical aspects, or its parts. If there was such a self, it would have to be different and unrelated to the physical and non-physical aspects of the mind. This kind of self does not exist. A person has always been the countless parts of the body and mind. So, no self is different or unrelated to the body or mind or its parts.

To conclude, our senses provide us with an experience of self and others and we're convinced that each of us must possess a unique essence that makes our self and thus it must be different from everybody else's. Surprisingly this common perception and belief are 100% false and simple science and logic provide us with explanation that contradicts them. If we look at the facts of life they tell us that no living being is a singular unchanging entity possessing an essence of its own, instead, each of us is like an everchanging puzzle produced by the entirety of existence. This makes us all identical.

Thus it is not logical to treat any person as another self. If there is no singular self, thus there cannot be a second self, and so on, simple logic. Therefore, Israeli and Palestinian actions against one another are actions against themselves, like suicide.

This ongoing suicide of the Israeli and Palestinian people is due to our ignorance of how everyone exists and our belief in a unique, autonomous self instead. As we discovered earlier this kind of self simply does not exist. Let’s help end this ongoing suicide of the Israeli and Palestinian people. Isn't it time we put an end to this endless cycle of deception and return to humanity's true nature of perfect harmony and happiness? 

Big thanks to Raven Barns and Alexandra Sullivan.