By
GS Don Morris, Ph.d.
Take advantage of the situation-never let a good
…fail. Let us examine what has
happened-again. Internal Israeli politics have ramped up regarding housing
units in Judea and Samaria. The issue has become a nightmare for all of us here
in Israel. Our Prime Minister finally made a decision and of course the
“winners” are smiling, the “losers” are not only frowning they are truly p…..
off. Conveniently Mr. Abbas seizes upon this moment and offers “offers
dialogue for prisoners, arming police” and if Israel engages
in a full settlement freeze, he will be willing to actually sit down with us
and resume talks. In return for certain gestures (code for reward irresponsible
behavior) Abbas and his crew will grant us a seat at a table to discuss the
future. Let us stop this insanity-you do not alter any behavior situation or
act by continuing the same reinforcement process.
Let’s ask ourselves what do we know about human
behavior. You don’t have to be a
psychologist or behavior therapist to know some simple, common sense behavior
concepts. Let us examine how you treat your own children.
When your child misbehaves or displays inappropriate
behavior do you ignore it? Let’s
say yes, you ignore it up to a point in time-for most of us when the same
behavior shows up time after time-my rule is 3-what is your rule before you
intervene and take action so the behavior changes?
The actual technique varies from one person to another
but the nature of something called reinforcement is basically the same for all
of us. You know it as do I. Common sense and your own life experiences taught
you the truth. It is just this simple: to change a behavior do not reinforce
the inappropriate behavior. When your child acts out do you smile, give him/her
a treat-of course not. You know not to reward this behavior. Have you, as your
children grew in age and ability to understand required your child to learn
about personal responsibility? For example, if your child is asked to clean up
his/her room and does not do it, do you hold the child accountable? When you don’t, ever notice how the
child simply keeps on repeating the same behavior?
Of course you know this and have done a good job raising
self-reliant responsible young adults-they have learned how to act in order to
fit within their community and thus be respected as a thoughtful, caring and
responsible young person.
Isn’t it amazing how this foundational behavior
principle is not used with the “Palestinian” leadership? Yes, the preceding
principle applies conceptually to the Israeli-Arab arena. Every time we in
Israel have been forced to make concessions the outcome has resulted in
attacks, injuries, deaths and continued aberrant behavior by our “neighbors”.
There is NO CHANGE in their behavior.
Once again, Abbas and company visit the “giving well” of
appeasement-why? You know the
answer; that’s it, say it out loud. Just as a spoiled child, one who does not
have to learn how to grow up, the international community has failed as a
constructive “nation building parent”.
This behavior technique has morphed into a cognitive
warfare weapon. It is part of their weapon cache and is used time after time.
Our enemy understands how important cognitive warfare is in terms of shaping
the international narrative against Israel.
The West refuses to stand up for basic human behavior
principles-it refuses to defend its behavioral values and allows its enemies to
control the cognitive battlefield. The political correctness, another cognitive
tool used by our adversaries, has us heading along the path of destruction-our
homes have been infiltrated by “ideas” meant to destroy us.
Note how our enemy does not hesitate to offend us in
every way, every day. They do not “buy into’ PC; they have learned that our
Achilles heel in the West is our perceived need to be liked as we actually
worry about offending others. Our enemy uses this powerful cognitive weapon-is
it not time to stand and defend ourselves? Do we not do this on the
battlefield? It is time to stand united against the weapons of mass
disintegration of American values and ideals. Stop rewarding actions that do
not change behavior in a responsible manner.
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