Echoes from Hebron Continue to be Heard: Battling the Hamans That Live Around Us - and Also Within Us

This idea appears in many religions because it is responding to the ubiquitous psychological tendency to assign the contents of one's disowned dark side to the "Other," so that we can be all good and they become all bad. Carl Jung called this "the projection of the shadow."

The members of Kach are more similar to members of the terrorist group Hamas than they are to most Israelis. As Sting says in the song "If the Russians Love Their Children Too," "We share the same biology regardless of ideology." We also share the same psychology -- granted, with cultural, familial and individual variations on the theme.

I have observed that the most violent people and cultures, including Nazis and Serbs, are characterized by severe splits between the masculine and feminine. We do not find primitive violence in people and cultures where there is equality, respect, relationship and interaction between males and females, as well as an acceptance of men's "feminine side" and women's "masculine side."