When it comes to Israel, the hatred becomes so intense that people who are otherwise perfectly intelligent will hold completely contradictory beliefs at the exact same time, without even noticing. Israel is an all-powerful state with one of the most sophisticated intelligence services on earth, so a terrorist attack can’t possibly be a security failure. Israel must have known. Israel must have allowed it. Maybe Israel even wanted it. But Israel is also apparently a weak little country that couldn’t survive for five minutes without the United States. Israel supposedly controls Washington, but is also Washington’s helpless puppet. Israeli intelligence is propaganda and can never be trusted, until an Israeli intelligence assessment contains something useful to their argument. Then suddenly it’s definitive proof. If Israelis foil an attempted hijacking or terrorist attack, it was probably staged. Israel is apparently too dishonest for the attack to have been real. But if Israel fails to stop an attack, that itself is proof of a conspiracy, because Israel is apparently too competent for the failure to have been real. If an Israeli bomb hits the wrong building, mistakes are impossible. Israel knew exactly what it was doing. But if Israel precisely hits a senior terrorist in a specific apartment in a high-rise building, in a strike that looks like something straight out of a movie, suddenly precision is impossible. Israel must have been bombing indiscriminately and just happened to get incredibly lucky. If Israel warns civilians before an attack, the warnings are “psychological warfare.” If it doesn’t provide enough warning, that proves it wanted civilians dead. If Israel evacuates civilians from a combat zone, it’s “ethnic cleansing.” If it tells them to remain somewhere safer, it’s a “concentration camp.” If civilians remain in the battlefield and are killed, Israel deliberately targeted them. If Israel responds immediately, it was clearly waiting for an excuse. If Israel waits, deliberates, and investigates, the delay proves there’s a cover-up, or that they are weak. If Israel produces evidence, the evidence is fabricated. If Israel doesn’t immediately release sensitive intelligence, the absence of evidence proves Israel is lying. Israel is simultaneously omnipotent and helpless, cunning and incompetent, controlling America and controlled by America, incapable of making an honest mistake yet somehow constantly making catastrophic mistakes. Every road somehow arrives at the same destination: Israel is guilty. It’s brain rot. There’s no other way to describe it.