Science of Violence

A Chinese saying "the nail that rises receives the blow" suggests harsh consequences await those who fail to conform. In Communist China, this threat still holds as true as back in bad old imperial days where dissenters were publicly flayed alive in a grotesque barbarism called "ling chi" or the death of a thousand cuts, only now the victims are killed more privately by lethal injection (which recently replaced a bullet to the neck or head in a public venue) before their organs are harvested for sale and transplant or their bodies sold for plastination or research. The Chinese are by no means alone when it comes to tyrannical intimidation. Their Communist brethren in North Korea have concentration camps in their prisoner nation and ad hoc firing squads for those unlucky enough to have crossed some imagined line in the minds of politburo officials (their deaths engendered by a quest for food for their families into neighboring Red China or for reading a Bible verse). The Islamic Republic of Iran gunned down or ran over those engaged in civil disobedience, then hanged at least a couple of protesters with the declared intention to hang at least nine more. This bandit state that has violated international norms by seizing an embassy and abducts wayward foreigners every chance it can and believes the world will kowtow once a nuclear arsenal has been acquired and the Zionist entity vanquished. Israel is not a hapless protester or helpless bystander but a phoenix risen from the ashes of the Holocaust with a nuclear umbrella of her own which may rival or even surpass the atomic armories of Red China and France, giving the Jews a deterrent or retaliatory capacity only surpassed by Russia and the US. Rest assured, that though their focus has been and will remain the preservation of innocent lives, the Israelis have not been idling the last forty-five years in Dimona and are as practiced and capable at the art and science of war as any nation on earth.