What happens when a nation built on memory learns to forget compassion?

In Children of Abraham and the Death of Compassion, Malik Mukhtar delivers a penetrating moral and historical examination of how fear, trauma and ideology can hollow out a society's ethical core. Drawing on history, political culture and collective memory, this book traces how moral inheritance—once grounded in shared human dignity—is gradually replaced by suspicion, dehumanization and normalized violence.

Moving beyond battlefield events, the book interrogates the deeper architecture of forgetting: how education, security doctrine, national mythology and inherited trauma reshape moral perception itself. It asks not only what is done in the name of survival, but what is lost when compassion is framed as weakness and humanity as a liability.

This final volume completes a five-book series documenting The anatomy of moral collapse in the modern age. While rooted in the history of Israel and Palestine, the questions it raises extend far beyond one nation or one conflict. It is a study of how civilizations reconcile—or fail to reconcile—power with conscience, memory with mercy and survival with moral responsibility.

Written with clarity, restraint, and moral urgency, Children of Abraham and the Death of Compassion is not a call to outrage, but a call to reckoning.

This book is the concluding volume of The Anatomy of Moral Collapse, a five-book nonfiction series examining ideology, necropolitics, humanitarian control, digital spectatorship and ethical amnesia in the context of the Gaza catastrophe and its global witnesses.

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