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PEACESOURCE.NET AIMS TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LINK SITE FOR THE NPT AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ISSUES.  PROJECTION OF EVIL ONTO OTHERS AND GOOD ONTO GOD ARE PERHAPS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSES OF WAR.

The following article shows how demonisation and the pathologising and dehumanisation of the other is the necessary precursor for war and genocide.

This is a quotation from Barrie Machin  The Moral premises of Nuclear War, $5 at Lulu.com.

You may also purchase by the same author: Every Day is 9/11 for $6.02 download. Non-christian natives were by definition allied to the demonic, evil and inhuman category of beings. Bodley (1975) estimates 50 million tribal people perished between 1780 and 1930. The murder of Latin American Indians began much earlier of course; the foundation of this exploration and extermination was a categorization of Otherness.
Otherness and projection of evil, the Satanizing of the victim seem inevitable components of state formation.
In the twentieth century these crusading murderous tendencies have reached new heights of perfection culminating in the holocaust of the Second World War (Kenrick and Puxon, 1972). Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only possible by a similar kind of exclusion   as a race beyond the pale with antihuman characteristics. The Japanese, as much as anything else, were punished for having different definitions of conduct and contrasting concepts of the person.

The pathologising of the ‘Other’ is a necessary component of the most bestial human behaviour, stripping away the last vestiges of civilized behaviour, appealing to the basest bigotry and ignorance and tearing away the rules and conveniences of war that have so frequently governed face to face conflict between men, creating groups of people to whom the rules of conduct including the rules of war cease to apply (Hirst and Wolley, 1982). Because of their imagined crimes they cease to be seen as human beings and as a consequence may be submitted even in the imagination to the most mind defying inhuman acts.
The main point here is that the premise of the possibility of nuclear war could only be based on a prior pathologising of the enemy by the attribution of all possible means of evil onto that enemy. Without this dehumanizing ideology even nuclear retaliation would be inconceivable. It is only possible to consider such an act against something so absolutely evil that it no longer shares the remotest resemblance to a human being. It would appear that the capacity to stereotype large masses of the population prior to their extermination is preceded by, or highly correlated with, the technological means of their removal. 'Once a nation base's its security on an absolute weapon, such as the atom bomb, it becomes psychologically necessary to believe in an absolute enemy.'

But we must end all racial hatred in schools the Palestinian media watch gives examples

http://www.pmw.org.il/

Both sides eat their children with such hatred.

A Lesson in Humility for the Smug West
 
By William Dalrymple
 
The West has a strong militaristic tradition of attacking and invading the countries of those we think of as savages, and of wiping out the less-developed peoples of four continents as part of our civilising mission. The list of western genocides that preceded and set the scene for the Holocaust is a terrible one.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18587.htm