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Watching a temple burn and children being slaughtered, laughing, in front of the Wailing Wall

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Israel, which the UN also regards as an occupier in the regions where it stands, continues in a spoiled manner the terror it carries out there, disregarding UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements. Because there is a US that spoils it whatever it does. Because the US policies that spoil it have in turn been occupied by Israel.

Before Jerusalem was occupied, the US was occupied, Europe was occupied. Many states of the world that think themselves states have been occupied.

It was not said in vain: "Jerusalem is not just Jerusalem, it is a mirror of our world." Whatever there is in the world is reflected there, or the reverse: whatever happens in Jerusalem is reflected onto the world. The terror displayed in Jerusalem today is the logic of the terror that prevails in the world. Just as the terror Israel carries out in Jerusalem is not called terror, in the world too no one calls the real terror terror, but the victims of that terror can be accused of being terrorists even when they raise their arms to shield their heads. Such hypocrisy, which holds sway in the world regarding the definition of terror, begins with Israel's shameless, lying practices in Jerusalem.

Among the ten commandments of its book it says "you shall not lie." But with propaganda and perception activities, using techniques and methods unprecedented in the history of the world, it turns the whole reality and truth of the world inside out. Because it thinks it has no debt of truth toward the masses to whom it lies.

The sense of superiority it derives from its understanding of religion (by distorting its religion, of course) makes it feel, in the mildest sense of the word, "irresponsible" toward other people. Even if its book said "you shall not kill," this means only that you shall not kill those of your own religion. If it said "you shall not lie," it meant only that you shall not lie to Jews. If it said "you shall not steal," it wanted to say only that you shall not steal the property of your Jewish brother. Toward non-Jews there is no "responsibility" at all. They are not even counted as human. "You shall not take interest" means you shall not take interest from Jews. There is no harm in taking it from those outside. There is no harm in killing a Palestinian or stealing his property, because there is no responsibility toward them.

There is also no point in showing respect for their houses of worship, since those houses of worship have no reality, no truth anyway. In those houses of worship, mosques or churches, Muslims or Christians pray in vain with their fabricated religions, and worship in a way that consists of superstitions of no benefit or meaning. What is essential is their own worship, their own houses of worship, their own beliefs, their own religion, their own communities.

With this understanding, even if 2,500 years have passed, these lands belong to them. Whatever has happened here for 2,500 years, whoever has settled here, whatever they themselves may have accumulated elsewhere. What is essential is the bond between themselves and this Zion. Whether international property law accepts this or not, they do not care. They will return here. Even if the peace of the whole world is to be disturbed in order to do this, it makes no difference. The suffering of others has no importance. God created all people to serve them anyway. They have no ethical responsibility toward them. They have neither an obligation to respect their beliefs nor a duty to hear the sufferings they undergo.

From the moment they came to Palestine they have not stepped back for a single day from realizing the Zionist goals they set before themselves step by step. All the international initiatives toward "peace" and "agreement" that have occurred from time to time have been, for Israel, only opportunities to gain a little time. On the very day they made the agreements, they continued to settle Jews brought from the other end of the world in place of the Palestinians whom they forcibly drove from their homes and whose property and lives they "stole."

The latest attack too is taking place in East Jerusalem, in the Cerrah neighborhood, on the occasion of forcibly uprooting Palestinians in order to settle Jewish settlers in homes belonging to Palestinians. Against the resistance to this operation, Israel, as it always does, carries out, as if threatening all Palestinians, one of its routine attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, but this time raising the bar. This attack raises the bar in every respect, because for the Zionists it is regarded as a stage in an occupation advancing step by step.

When looking at Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Zionists always imagine its destruction or its burning. They have no respect for the people worshipping there. Because their religions are false anyway, and their worship is of no benefit to themselves either. This understanding inevitably gives birth to the world's most dangerous, most bigoted, most merciless approach. The essence of terror, of inhuman racism, of murder and of genocide lies in this approach.

When the fire they had dreamed of at Al-Aqsa Mosque was carried out by terrorist-Zionist Israeli soldiers, the stomping of a crowded Israeli mass in the square in front of the historic Wailing Wall in a great display of joy was recorded in human history as a black scene.

Moreover, that fire was accompanied by the news of the deaths of 26 Palestinians, among them more than 10 women and children. To laugh, in front of the Wailing Wall, at a situation for which one should precisely weep, with animal-like, giddy displays of joy. What monstrous feelings these are. Has what has been accumulated for years in front of that wailing wall been only grudge and hatred? Have only monstrous feelings been nurtured there?

This understanding, in which there is not the slightest sign of respect or empathy for the mosque, for human life, for the death of children, is the greatest catastrophe that can befall the world.

That Al-Aqsa Mosque, which with the world order it represents allowed the Jews for centuries to live in security, far from massacres, persecutions and threats.

To destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque in fact means, sooner or later, the destruction of the only refuge to which the Jews have taken shelter throughout history and to which they will, sooner or later, have to take shelter again. Do they know this, I wonder?