It is funny to me to see members of Obama’s administration call Israeli PM Netanyahu a coward. Bib is many things, but a coward is not among them. From his Wiki page:
Netanyahu joined the Israel Defense Forces during the Six-Day War in 1967, and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He took part in many missions, including Operation Inferno (1968), Operation Gift (1968) and Operation Isotope (1972), during which he was shot in the shoulder. He fought on the front lines in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, taking part in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, and then leading a commando assault deep into Syrian territory.[3] He achieved the rank of captain before being discharged.
He was in the US at college when the Yom Kippur War started. He hopped a plane back, and in a few days was back in his old position in the most elite unit is Israeli Spec Ops. He later returned to the US to complete his degree. It is without doubt that even a cursory pass through Netanyahu’s memories would probably make the most hardened badass’ hair stand on end.
So why launch such an attack? If you are intimately familiar with the psychology, you’ll immediately see that this was an amygdala hijack directed at Netanyahu. Like many such attempts by narcissists, it was predicated on an understanding of human psychology that arose from the narcissist’s self examination of themselves, and thus it assumes the narcissist’s malady is ever-present in everyone.
Whoever launched the attack is deeply fearful of seeing someone point out their own cowardice publicly, and tie it to some concrete action they took, or failed to take. They assume Netanyahu is deeply ashamed of his own cowardice too, so they are trying to launch the type of attack which would most cripple them psychologically. Of course, I’m pretty sure it had the same effect as a pimply teen going down to Delta Force headquarters, standing outside the gate, and yelling “Coward!” at the cars, as they pass by.
These types of personal attacks with narcissists can just happen, but more often they are planned attacks designed to lash out for some perceived personal slight that deeply wounded the narcissist’s sense of superiority, which of course is the defense the narcissist uses to keep the crippling terror of an amygdala hijack at bay. It is not at all impossible that Netanyahu has done something recently behind the scenes which has frustrated people in the White House, perhaps even someone in particular, and this is their version of payback, custom tailored to most cripple an individual who thinks just like them. That it appears so psychologically projected makes me wonder if the decision to do this didn’t originate with Obama himself.
It make me think about how things must be unraveling inside the White House now that Dear Leader and his entire entourage are being criticized by leftists afraid of seeing the Obama administration’s failures reflect back badly upon the movement. Groups of narcissists can become amygdala echo chambers. One get’s hijacked and tries to relieve the strain by hijacking two others himself. Like nuclear fission, it can create a very unpleasant environment.
This site is fantastic. I’ve never seen anything like it, with explanations being understandable and quite brilliant. Before reading this section, I was going to
ask if narcs ever do these unintentionally by chance and this section answered
my question. My father and mother are both narcs-my father is quite skilled in
his stunts and had been triggering me since the day I was born, practically.
Honestly, I can’t understand why someone would treat a child this way, much
less your own child. It’s disgusting and unfair. Thanks for making this clear to
me after all these years. It really helps to understand it and helps to prevent it.
Unfortunately, my parents aren’t the only narcs I have to deal with. I think everyone
won’t be having anymore “fun” winding me up. Thanks for the site.
It is a real war between good and evil, and I sympathize with those still in the trenches, so I get great pleasure from replies like this. Thank you.
You are very welcome but the Thank Yous should go entirely to you. This site has
helped more than I can convey. Now the narcs I am still around don’t get me wound
up because I know what to do, instead of very rarely chancing on the right
thing to get them to back off. It was very rare that I did-now I do and it really works
and is sort of fun. I truly never have understood why some people don’t like to see
other people happy and doing well. I love to see other people with happiness and
success in their lives and I love to be happy with them-when people are upset and
having problems it bothers me immensely. I just emotionally don’t get narcs-but
I do now logically and that’s just what I needed-it makes narc kind of “sense”.
Once again-bless you.