Where does Israel's aggression get the audacity it needs?

Israel's launching of a new attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque on a day of Ramadan, provoking Muslims all over the world, is in a sense a customary Israeli insolence and aggression. Israel in any case carries out such activities especially at the most sensitive times for Muslims, as if at moments when it estimates that their reaction will be greatest. It is as though Israel has no concern at all about conducting its aggression and expansionism quietly.

At a time when Muslims' spirit and feelings of congregation for worship are at their peak on the Night of Qadr, is Israel unaware that such moves will create a strong public opinion against it all over the world and will fuel and justify strong anti-Semitic feelings?

In fact, precisely these timings and this recklessness of Israeli aggression have laid bare the entire map of the accusations of anti-Semitism and of Israel's general style of politics. Hostility to Jews is of no concern to Israel anyway. It merely benefits from it and feeds on it. In today's world, with these acts of aggression, it is in effect testing a communication-politics-hegemony defense system that it has developed up to now in certain areas. Whatever it does, whatever human rights violation it commits, whatever UN resolution it refuses to recognize, whatever occupation attempt it undertakes, it is testing the ineffectiveness of every possibility of counter-communication or actual sanction that might develop against it.

The overwhelming hegemony it already holds over American public opinion, politics, media and academia is more than ready and tuned to see and present every one of its violations, its disregard of rules, its terror, within the framework of an innocent self-defense. All American politicians have been taken hostage. There is no lobby, no political will and no media power that could act against it, that could see and reflect what it does as it is.

Perhaps there may be pressures coming indirectly from European and Muslim public opinion. But especially with the operations it has recently displayed on Islamic countries through Kushner's handiwork, that front too seems to have been taken care of. Among the whole Muslim world, with its population of 1.7 billion, no voice is raised against Israel's most radical apartheid practices and its violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Muslims' sanctuary.

Israel knew this, and today it has put itself at ease by testing it. Yet in 1969 an attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque led the entire Islamic world, 50 years after its dissolution, to remember itself again and to come together under the roof of an Organization of the Islamic Conference. That roof had somehow made the existence of an Islamic world felt up to now. Today much worse violations do not even lead this conference to convene, to move into action, to express a sense of being hurt, or even to establish a deterrent language by showing the boundless power of sanction in its hands to prevent these violations.

Yet the power potential of 57 Muslim countries with a population of 1.7 billion exists nowhere else. But this potential has been paralyzed step by step by Israel's international Zionist policies. Arab countries that, until two years ago, did not officially recognize Israel's existence have entered a race to "normalize" their relations with it precisely in the periods when Israel escalates its terror the most and increases its violations most insolently.

Even the political bribes they received in return for this great concession, this great sale, remain very small, with all their immorality. In this exchange in which they are in absolute loss, Israel, with its latest attacks in which it has raised the bar still further and overstepped the limit a little more, has by now even passed the stage of testing this power. Now, self-confident, it continues its occupations, whose end is uncertain, though of course their goal is clear to itself, from where it left off.

On the US front, Israel is a lord for the incoming president and a pasha for the outgoing one. While the policy the Trump administration conducted through its son-in-law turned the US into a Zionist apparatus that trailed after the terror state Israel more actively than at any time in its history, it was also seen that all this sacrifice gained it nothing. In the elections the Zionist lobbies supported not Trump but Biden.

As for Joe Biden, who describes himself as the most Zionist politician in US history and whose statement "I support Israel under all circumstances" is well known, no reaction or objection to all these violations is expected from him anyway.

Yet that same Biden was eager to be the first among US presidents to use the expression "Armenian genocide" about an event said to have taken place 106 years ago. David Hirst, Editor-in-Chief of Middle East Eye, rightly reminds that if Biden wants to make a difference he should speak not of the past but of what is taking place right under his nose.

If Biden harbors the slightest sincerity about the tragedies that have befallen humanity, without distinction of race or religion, he should come from history to the present, should actually make history, and should begin with the greatest serial violator of human rights, that is, Israel. Israel, whose injustices and discrimination that fit the internationally agreed definition of racial discrimination (apartheid) are established beyond doubt by reports published one after another by human rights organizations, or by testimonies that take place every day before everyone's eyes and cannot be ignored.

I think it is futile to expect such a voice from Biden. Israel too acts with the ease of having bought this futility. It has also bound the Arab front for now. These make it still more audacious.

Thinking that no obstacle remains before it, it continues its occupations, its violations, its genocide. But the obstacle will come, and is coming, from a place it never expected, and perhaps we never expected either.