The more Israel attacks, the more it sinks, taking its friends down with it

Today the tragic scenes caused by Israel's savage attacks on Gaza, which have reached the dimensions of genocide, whatever anyone says, wash off all the make-up of the so-called civilised world we live in, lower its masks and lay bare, in all its filth, the racism, savagery and barbarism behind it. The solidarities set in motion by the attacks of genocidal Israel of course also clarify the lines. On one side, with every bomb that falls, one sees how false is the claim to all these values of Western civilisation, which for the last two centuries has been selling humanity democracy, humanism, human rights, freedoms and universal values. Every bomb that falls on innocent civilians, every infant death it causes, is in fact a test for the West as it is for everyone. By rushing to the aid of Israel, with its unlimited capacity to kill children and civilians, instead of saying stop to it, the US shows that behind a superpower representing all the acquis of the modern world there is no value to be trusted or believed.

EVERYTHING WE LIVE THROUGH HAS A PLACE IN THE BOOK

If only our Qur'an-historicist theologians could also see what kind of barbarism lies behind that glittering appearance of the modern world. I don't know, perhaps they do see. If their eyes are not opened in the face of this scene, if they still cannot see that history stopped at the point where the Qur'an was revealed and continues from there, I do not know what else will open their eyes. When you see that the rationalism, science, philosophy and of course technology on which Western civilisation rests today have not been able to change the basic character of man and that man's distance from asfal al-safilin has not been closed at all, you begin to live contemporaneously with the Qur'an anyway.

Instead of daring to bring the Qur'an to our own imagined time, we see the illusions, showcases and masks of the sovereigns of our time who claim lordship, and open our eyes to the real time of the Qur'an. In this time we see that the human characters typified in the Qur'an and the rulings about them have not changed one iota. After the great corruption on earth that people who regard themselves as superior to all other people, a chosen race, committed in the past, we are not far from the time of the great catastrophe that befell them for what they did. Of course, now the great corruption that the same people have undertaken with the same motivation, and the fated end, are approaching just as written in the Book.

Israel is preparing its own end, advancing step by step toward its own collapse. Committing the most unpleasant, ugliest and basest crimes, so as to leave no one in the world whose hatred it has not earned, it is digging its own well.

CARELESS AND SLOPPY EVEN WHEN LYING

And we see plainly: the Jews are being brought down not because they are Jews but because they have strayed from the Jewish mission entrusted to them in the Book. Peace be upon the People of the Book Jews who regard Israel's genocidal Zionist policies as a betrayal of God's trust and who show this stance today with their protests.

Israel, which has been constantly pampered by the US and Europe since the day it was founded, plunged like a dagger into the heart of the Middle East, has recklessly poured vitriol on the root of everything there is in the name of human rights, international law, the law of war and the most basic human values. Just as it has recognised none of the UN's resolutions on leaving the lands it occupies, it has made open racist practices routine with the apartheid regime it applies on these lands, constantly targeting arbitrary arrests and the lives, property, sanctities and freedom of people.

The massacres of civilians, women, children and babies caused by constantly bombing civilian targets in the siege it has been applying against Gaza for 17 years took place before the eyes of the world. It did not even feel the need to hide any of this. Even in the crimes it denies, it contented itself with perfunctory defences, as if mocking people's intelligence. Even in these defences there is a challenge that no one can judge it. Even while denying responsibility for the hospital it bombed most recently, there is the insolence and sloppiness of "even if it comes out, who can say anything?" Careless and sloppy even when lying. Because it feels assured that no one can judge it. Because it is an unpleasant apprentice who, in the shadow of the sovereign, has been granted the privilege of committing unlimited crime, injustice and banditry.

Yet this time the situation is somewhat different. This time its recklessness and insolence stem not only from its spoiledness but also from the fury caused by a defeat it has tasted for the first time. Like everyone who rises in anger, it too is embarking on things that are fated to end in loss. The angry vengeance operations it has undertaken both prepare its own end and expose all the scams of those who love it and lower their masks. Thus, while sinking itself, Israel is sinking the US and Europe too.

THE EVENT DID NOT BEGIN ON 7 OCTOBER

Some people, ignoring the occupation and genocide policies Israel has pursued step by step since 1947, talk of Hamas having attacked out of the blue on 7 October. As if this whole war that is being lived began on 7 October. Yet 7 October is nothing but a reaction of resistance put forth at this scale for the first time against an Israeli aggression that has been going on for 75 years. Of course this time Hamas's is more than a reaction, it is an action, but again an action put forth for the first time against 75 years of one-sided Zionist aggression.

To those who say that Hamas, the perpetrator of this action, is the only cause of Israeli aggression, the greatest answer is what has been happening in the West Bank, where Hamas is not present at all. There, though there is no Hamas, the Israeli occupation forces, since periods when there was no Hamas at all, never said stop to their occupations and massacres. Until August of this year it killed a total of 37 Palestinians out of the blue, either by settlers' arbitrary fire or by police-soldier fire, and arrested hundreds of people. Thousands of Palestinians arbitrarily taken are currently held as prisoners in Israeli dungeons. In the West Bank, being detained requires no more reason than that you glanced sideways at a passing settler-thief or that the settler-thief felt a sideways glance.

Israel constantly does not refrain from presenting itself as the victim, the target of Hamas's attacks. But what kind of victimhood, what kind of oppressed state is it that can keep its own oppressor under siege in a concentration camp for 17 years?