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Israel is a kind of Jewish ISIS

However far humanity has advanced in science, technology and reason, and however much all this progress has been reflected in politics, international relations and strategic plans, one side of the world seems to go on living in a time thousands of years ago. Moreover, that side of the world is precisely the center where scientific development, enlightenment, technical development and strategic reason have also been recorded the most.
This is a contradiction sufficient in fact to render all sociological analyses and all theoretical approaches to international relations completely invalid..
In this very environment of the world we live in, which is said to have reached the Age of Secularization, relying on the US, which is regarded as the most civilized of the civilized world, with the power and strategy it draws from it, Israel declares the lands it occupies at the heart of the Middle East to be a pure Jewish State, and not only that, it declares Israel to be the historical homeland of all Jews in the world.
Settling in one stroke the constitutional problem that has continued for years, it also accepts that Jewish Sharia will be taken as the reference in law. It announces to the whole world that all Jews in the world have the right to return to Israel and that the capital of this state is Jerusalem.
With this law, which automatically reduces everyone living as citizens in its own country to a second-class level, while Jews from different countries of the world are encouraged to come and settle in Israel solely by virtue of being Jewish, a racist-fascist regime far worse than the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa gains official standing, being grounded on religious foundations.
Yet for nearly a century the social sciences have recognized no alternative to the idea that secularization, that is, worldliness, laicization, is an increasingly dominant way of thought and life in the world.
For example, it has not been long since the famous sociologist Charles Taylor published his voluminous book titled Secular Age, as an expression characterizing the world we live in. After looking at this literature, when you also look at US policy on the Middle East and Israel, you cannot help getting the impression that events are taking place in entirely different times, even worlds.
Israel is trying to follow step by step a program that is written, or that it thinks is written, in the Torah and the Talmud. We say "that it thinks is written" again, because the ideological movement known as Zionism, which today also includes declaring Israel a Jewish State, is in the end something that "a portion" of Jews, even if a majority, understand from the Jewish Holy texts. There are also those among Jews who think that the Jewish Holy texts do not require such an ideology or political theology, and indeed that such an interpretation is a perverse imposition.
Of course it is not for us to decide this. Whether the Jewish holy texts really command such a thing or not is of course not for non-Jews to decide. Least of all is there either any need or any propriety for anyone to sing from the outside about what genuine Judaism is and is not.
But even though we cannot do this, we have eyes to see, ears to hear, and feelings to live through the fact that this interpretation by some Jews plunges the world into great unrest, terror, an atmosphere of violence, and oppresses humanity.. We bear witness that this interpretation is a historical reactionism, that by imposing the tensions of its own time on the whole world it takes the whole world backwards.
Muslims do not force anyone to live in their time. In essence, Muslims have adopted the Hijra as a way of existence. The Hijra is doing what the time lived in requires, following history in the direction of its own flow, not turning history back.
Just as Muslims do not claim to return to the conditions of 1400 years ago, they are not striving to "impose on all people some models they imagine today" about 1400 years ago. The claim and effort of Muslims is the application, in today's conditions, of the very basic, simple universal principles of Islam that can be applied by everyone and are certainly beneficial for everyone: justice, freedom, human dignity, the rejection of servitude of one person to another.
The alternative to a world in which the strong crush and oppress the weak does not require going back 1400 years; it is a principle that can be applied at all times and in all places.
The principle of justice can be applied at all times and in all places; it does not require going back in time. Zionism, on the other hand, requires going back in time.
What Israel does today, with the open and boorish support of the US and the silent support of the EU countries, is a practice that takes the world thousands of years behind today's historical context and its scientific, intellectual and rational development.
Try reading the law text Israel has issued by putting "Muslim" wherever "Jewish" appears and "Islamic Sharia" wherever "Jewish Sharia" appears. What emerges is a perfect DEAŞ terror state.
Almost all the Muslims of the world have rejected DEAŞ as contrary to the basic principles, the style, the texts, the culture and the history of Islam. Because Islam is not a Zionist religion. The name of the Zionist interpretation that has come out of Islam is DEAŞ.
Claiming that one can carry historical lived experience word for word to the present day or to other places by ignoring historical lived experience and skipping culture, learning, wisdom and purification, through a shallow and bigoted reading of the text, is the epitome of Zionism.
Zionism is dangerous, and the fact that the world's most powerful country today, the US, carries this danger makes it much more dangerous.