AND WE CAN PROVE IT! SORT OF..." It is a source of endless amazement to me how alike abusive types are. How they follow similar patterns and once you see them as they truly are... its so obvious you wonder how politicians and diplomats, let alone trained therapists miss it SO MANY TIMES. I talk a lot about malignant narcissism because I was exposed to it for so many years. For many years I thought that was NORMAL behavior too. My childhood was colored and skewed by a narcissistic parent . Because of narcissists I will never, ever have another intimate relationship in my life. It's not that I don't want to - it's that I literally can't. And therefore, won't. Spotted this piece on Hamas and thought, "there they go again. abusive & self-absorbed. that's familiar." You see, narcissistically-skewed groups like Hamas fall into these same patterns. Called on for proof, evidence or truth... they can't really produce it. When they can...