Psychiatrist of Netanyahu Commits Suicide
Saturday, 12 June 2010 00:05 Michael K. Smith
Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide
Anguished Suicide Note Cites ‘Deluge of Doublethink’ In Driving Kind-Hearted Shrink to Despair
Moshe Yatom, a prominent Israeli psychiatrist who successfully cured the most extreme forms of mental illness throughout a distinguished career, was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv yesterday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note at his side explained that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been his patient for the last nine years, had “sucked the life right out of me.”
“I can’t take it anymore,” wrote Yatom. “Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation, there’s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckes.”
Psychiatrists are familiar with the human tendency to massage the truth to avoid confronting emotionally troubling material, but Yatom was apparently stunned at what he called the “waterfall of lies” gushing from his most illustrious patient. His personal diary details the steady disintegration of his once invincible personality under the barrage of self-serving rationalizations put forth by Netanyahu.
“I’m completely shocked,” said neighbor Yossi Bechor, whose family regularly vacationed with Yatom’s family. “Moshe was the epitome of the fully-integrated personality and had cured dozens of schizophrenics before beginning work on Bibi. There was no outward indication that his case was any different from the others.”
But it was. Yatom grew increasingly depressed at his complete lack of progress in getting the Prime Minister to acknowledge reality, and he eventually suffered a series of strokes when attempting to grasp Netanyahu’s thinking, which he characterized in one diary entry as “a black hole of self-contradiction.”
The first of Yatom’s strokes occurred when Netanyahu offered his opinion that the 911 attacks on Washington and New York “were good.” The second followed a session in which Netanyahu insisted that Iran and Nazi Germany were identical. And the third occurred after the Prime Minister declared Iran’s nuclear energy program was a “flying gas chamber,” and that all Jews everywhere “lived permanently in Auschwitz.” Yatom’s efforts to calm Netanyahu’s hysteria were extremely taxing emotionally and routinely ended in failure. “The alibi is always the same with him,” complained another diary entry. “The Jews are on the verge of annihilation at the hands of the racist goyim and the only way to save the day is to carry out one final massacre.”
Yatom was apparently working on converting his diary into a book about the Netanyahu case. Several chapters of an unfinished manuscript, entitled “Psychotic On Steroids,” were found in his study. The excerpt below offers a rare glimpse at the inner workings of a Prime Minister’s mind, at the same time as it reveals the daunting challenge Yatom faced in seeking to guide it to rationality:
Monday, March 8
“Bibi came by at three for his afternoon session. At four he refused to leave and claimed my house was actually his. Then he locked me in the basement overnight while he lavishly entertained his friends upstairs. When I tried to escape, he called me a terrorist and put me in shackles. I begged for mercy, but he said he could hardly grant it to someone who didn’t even exist.”
Instead of committing suicide....he should have killed Netanyahu!
“I can’t take it anymore,” wrote Yatom. “Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation, there’s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckes.”
so true!!
Good night lads and good luck, am shutting down :)
i'm fully agreed that there must not be uninvited dogs to poke their noses to sort out someone internal issues.
Keep in touch.. Perhaps one day I might be back in Sunny Doha...
John: "I worry about my country's actions" .. Well said. We all should...
its called the blame game , am not sure if there is a WC competition for it or not :)
John
i'm sure, ppl back in my country are more loyal than me, and they are doing best of their job.
Hope that no Harry and Potter will cry under the sky in mountains of Afghanistan in midnight.
btw, Netanyahu has already played a dirty roll, now its make no difference if he die or live longer.
Some problems need to be sorted out internally, we can just blame others for our internal mistakes, if I don't study for my exam and fail, I should blame myself only, but if my neighbour is drilling over my head, I better cut off his power source.
I wish I could hang out with brit but the bugger left Doha and is sitting in England watching the world cup in HD..
Britexpat you are one QLer I would have really liked to meet :)
Because they claim all the time that "they like to help", they like to remove bad dictators, forgetting the ones in Cuba and North Korea of course !
General & John
if i sum up ur comments, and co relate it with current scenario, facing my country, i've no right to raise my voice against the bloody invaders, bcoz earlier from 90's till 9/11, they were fighting with each other???
every problem has internal and external factors, am not blaming it on Mogul, what am saying is, Arabs went back to point of origin (zero) if not below :) , All civilizations take a bell shape graph (normal distribution).
stop hanging out with britexpat, he is bad for your mental health :0)
I have to disagree partially, They pulled out of Somalia, look at Somalia today! remember the genocides in Rwanda? the world was crying for help, did they care? nada. The US set a great example in many areas, notably science and technology, am not denying it, but since WWII they been exerting power on all poor nations, especially in this region.
Oldest civilization true, but just like with the Egyptians and other civilizations, they lost it , the Arabs lost it all when the Mogul threw every single book in the Euphrates river (Library of Alexandria for the Egyptians). As britexpat said before, any increase in wages for the poor hard workers will come out of our salaries (most likely). lets stick to the "pearls", shall we...
I have decided to be sensible from today onwards hamada :o)
Going to be very hard :-P
Mate, whatever you are drinking, please pass me some :0)
hamada we all know the problems with our respective governments but hearing it from someone else always gets a defensive reaction :o)
Don't cast your pearls before swine.
This region is still young, like a baby who is trying to walk,so its still early for them.Am not defending discrimination, racism or slavery by any means.However I don't like people lecturing me when your own country is still practising all kind of (torturing, child labour, cheap labour,discrimination, racism..etc), I posted something I got in my inbox , just to test the water of QLers, but honestly I didn't expect him to take it so personal. you can have all kind of laws written, but lets face it, there was a strong form of racism/segregation in the US til 60s, especially in the south.
Again , General, am really sorry if I offended you, I have some great American friends and surprisingly they share my opinion about your gov :)
She is cute :0)
Don't take it personal, as I mentioned before nothing against you or any other American, strictly business.
What about that sexy minx Tzipi Livni ???
That's all for me, it's time to hit the sheets. It made my night to annoy someone you tonight, hamadaCZ. I read so many posts by people like you that bash Israel, the US and everyone else. You like to sit up on your perch and throw stones at every other country in the world when your own are committing major humanitarian rights violations. I've always fully admitted that my country has made mistakes. We've usually learned from them and moved on to make things better for everyone. The difference is, I would never post propaganda bashing any nation in the world, except on specific policies they may have officially proposed/enacted....good or bad. Later..........
Israel is enslaving you.
I think he took it too personally.
You can believe whatever you want to believe about foreign affairs. I wish we COULD ignore everything going on in the ret of the world. I'll bet you wish the world would ignore the slavery you have going on over here, right? Everyone should just ignore everything, then everything will be just fine, right? Bury your head in the burning hot sand and things will be just fine. People who systematically enslave other people don't deserve a voice on the international stage. There's really no difference whats going on here to whats happening in North Korea and the other major human rights violating countries. You have no right to shake your fist at ANY other nation....none. You can hate Israel all you like, but they're not enslaving over 10 million people right now.
Yeah John, I like that name "Bibi" , a Czech girl used to call me "Bibi" instead of Habibi :)
Typo :) sorry, what about segregation ? was it abolished in the south 100 years ago as well ?
I admit I was taken in but I still stand by my earlier comment, If I was his psychiatrist, I would kill him and then commit suicide.
How about you get the hell out of every other nation's business and let the innocent lives survive instead of bombing everyone for a reason or a forged reason.
Not at all, I got the article in my inbox, so I googled the names first before posting, it was clear but I really liked the story.
How about you stop pointing fingers at every other nation and look at your own issues first? Until you have things perfectly ironed out on your own soil what right do you have to say how bad someone else is? I will never spare you a headache....i owe you nothing
He went off topic and started very defensive, I already admited to him and others several times, the exploitation of labour is wrong. He needs to realise that he shouldn't back such his country's political agenda. He claims that they removed a dictator ? so ? you killed 1 million Iraqi and polluted their country with depleted uranium for the sake of what ? Humanity ?
Am not defending slavery or any kind of human trafficking, my point is simple and clear, nothing against you in person, but am against your gov, so please spare me the headache.
hamada that's one thing I don't understand and can never relate too. If someone questions something wrong in Qatar, why do people point to the flaws of US??
It's like saying so what if we are doing something wrong, even US is doing something wrong.. Why this benchmarking with US for such issues?
We are in Qatar, we care about what is happening in Qatar, who cares what US did or is doing. If they did something bad, do we have to act just as bad to get the scores even?
Am not lashing out, Gulf countries abolished racism under international pressure in 60s, but my point is every nation on this planet has used some form of cheap labour/slavery to create its wealth. Is it justifiable ? No. Can I stop it?No. Can I do something ? Yes. However whatever am capable of doing will be limited. Nothing personal against Americans, I like them, but I don't like their gov policy towards this region.
I see you'd like to defend this slavery huh? Ok, well, over 100 yrs ago we fought a civil war to END slavery. Here it is 2010 and you and the gulf countries are condoning it. At least we woke up as a nation, 200 yrs ago, and decided it was barbaric to do this to other human beings as a matter of public policy. We are not perfect, by any means. I would take ousting a horrific dictator under false pretenses, rather then condoning slavery any day. You have no room to talk about any other nation. In any event, it sounds like this article made you a bigger fool than you already sound anyway, since it's bogus. See how easily lead around you are?
I didnt do it! :P
all valid points.....and I agree with them.
However, are you sure you were not somewhat taken in? :P
But his elder brother Jonatan was a hero!
I didn't , I felt it, but I thought why not, every point he mentioned is worth thinking, btw my name is John Smith :)
No one is perfect, nothing against you, stop defending your country, you are wasting trillions of dollars on a state sponsored terrorism and you are torturing thousands of prisoners, don't make dig out your dirty south history of slavery and KKK, so please don't take it personal. Every country on this planet has used some form of slavery to build their economy, so atleast Qatar didn't colonise or exterminate any other nation. You are wasting your tax money on unjustified wars, everyday you are gaining more enemies, seriously wake up dude.
general I agree with you on that but unfortunately nobody cares.
Psychiatrist falling prey to hysteria!
I think Netanyahu could do a better job as a psychiatrist to Yatom.
(Palestinian Telegraph)
It is very jokey in style......do you think that is how one would write a suicide note?
Plus Michael K. Smith is a writer of fiction - it's a comedy piece, either:
the paper didn't understand the humour and thought it real,
or, it disingenuously published it as propaganda to fool the public,
or, it really didn't think anyone would take it seriously and really believe it was true.
I suspect the last reason.....unfortunately I think you fell for it hamada.
:)
Don't you like that name "Bibi" ?
Kids have been working on farms since the dawn of time. It's hardly comparable to the atrocities and human rights violations that are going on over here. Let just 1 person reading this message refute the fact that the Indians, Sri Lankans, Filipinos, etc are being treated worse than animals here in the gulf. Go visit a "labor camp" where 8 men are stuffed into a 3m x 3m room and being paid 500QR per month......this is if they are actually paid at all! Most of the slaves aren't even paid because their slave owners don't feel like paying them. It's disgusting.....you have no right to post anything about anyone doing anything wrong to anyone else in the world when there are such atrocities being committed by your own people. There's a saying you might be familiar with... "those in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones" ...this applies here......hypocrites....all of you...think about it.
You and others like you post these things about how bad XYZ country is, yet you're not perfect. Straighten out your own affairs before you cast stones against some other country, whomever they are!
Even if this article is correct 100%, usually such info won't leak easily outside, so difficult to tell mate.
Also interesting to note the comments on that blog, nobody believes it to be true. I must admit, I fell for it too after reading it the first time.
nomerci, yes I agree with you, sorry. I got emotional because they are planning to block the new aid vessel shipping from Lebanese shores, honestly either the UN force Israel to allow more aid in or stop them from blocking the aid ships. This blockade has to stop.
When did he commit suicide.
This article written on 12th june says it happened yesterday i.e. 11th June.
The blog link below written on 8th June also says yesterday i.e. 7th June. I am confused, can anyone clarify?
http://legalienate.blogspot.com/2010/06/psychiatrist-of-israeli-prime-minister.html
This proves that israeli pm is a mentally ill person.... The doctor was so honest to him self that he killed him self...., RIP
Its wrong, am against it, as in your country, you are using children for farming, even a worse case
http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/report_child_labor_on_american_farms
Well, we better wait and see then. Too early to make any judgement.
Your people are committing the worst mass slavery in the history of mankind, yet you want to throw stones at Israel for occupying some land? There are 10 million ex-pats building up the skyscrapers in the gulf area and being treated worse than pigs and donkeys by their slave owners. You don't see anything wrong with this? How about YOU get out there in the 50 degree heat and swing a hammer? Go away, you're joke...
I usually trust Haartz and find that they are quite credible.. However, since the Right wing PM is involved, they may have decided to stay Shtum :O)
Hamada, the words you mentioned in your last post sound rather cliche. We have heard them many times, and yes, a lot people believe them to be true, but many others do not.
So articles like this do what some people see as "the cause" no good. IMHO
Whether its a hoax or not, the points are still valid.
hamada, thanks for the link. Seems to be a credible source.
I think this would be manna to so many news carriers, but I have not seen this published/ mentioned anywhere else.
I am sorry, but this feels a bit fishy to me.
Well if you can't see this is a hoax, and a very transparant one at that,.......I really don't know what to say.
Whether its a hoax or not, every point mentioned is worth 5 seconds of thinking “Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation".
Are you really surprised ? you are wiser than that.
You are entitled to your own opinion, your country can fool some of the people sometimes.Don't take it too personal, nothing against you as an American, really.
If I was him, I would have killed Netanyahu before committing suicide.
I googled the story and am surprised that Haartz or any of the other Jewish dailies aren't carrying it..
Perhaps it's a hoax ..
http://www.globalpost.com/webblog/israel-and-palestine/psychiatrist-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-commits-suicide
Michael K. Smith is the author of "Portraits of Empire" and "The Madness of King George,"
The Arabs will resort to posting this kind of silly crap as propaganda for their hate campaign against Israel.....pathetic...makes me LMAO!! Is this the best you can do? Really??
Hamada, can you please post a link to the article?
netanyahu needs to commit suicide. how could a graduate of MIT think so selfishly and inhumanely.
He was not a very good psychiatrist after all.
An honest man who couldn't take it anymore,RIP.