Israel's eighth-decade syndrome

On the day we enter the second 100th year of the Republic, the state of the world we are in is as follows: In the end, the great War in which the Republic was founded also brought with it the establishment of an order of occupation and colonialism on the lands of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, and this order continues to give the peoples of this geography blood, tears, destruction and unrest. Türkiye was the first and only Islamic country to recognise the occupier Israel, founded in 1947, as a state. Israel, as a Jewish Shariah state, takes all its references from its holy books and commits crimes against humanity and applies genocide against the Palestinian people on the lands it occupies.

Before the eyes of the world, while Israel savagely and barbarically bombs all civilian places without exception, hospitals, schools, marketplaces, mosques, churches, the bodies of the innocent children who die are displayed for all to see. Not only do these images stir the conscience of no European who is a representative of "contemporary civilisation," but Netenhayu can even say that what he does accords with what is told in the Torah.

Netanyahu, who prayed on behalf of the whole country for the Israeli soldiers, said that the Israeli soldiers who shed the blood of these innocent children had joined the history of Judaism, which has fought for Israel for 3 thousand years, and promised that against Hamas they would see the "prophecy" in the Torah's book of "Isaiah." The meaning of this promise is that it has set its eyes on the lands stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates on entirely religious grounds. There is of course no point in saying here that this religion is distorted and a Zionist fabrication and invention.

The same Netanyahu, two days later, in another speech, this time referring to the Torah saying "Remember what the Amalekites did to you," said "we remember and we are fighting." What this identification established between the Gazans and the Amalekites who lived exactly 3100 years ago means is very clear to Jews and Christians alike. According to Jewish history, the Amalekites, who were thought to have harassed them upon the founding of the state of Israel in the 11th century BC, were decided to be removed entirely by the very command of the Lord Yahweh, and 'from man to woman, from child to infant at the breast, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey, all were killed without distinction.' Even the infants nursing in the cradle were killed in this massacre. The interesting part is that the Amalekites whom Netenyahu identifies with Hamas through this anachronistic interpretation, when they captured the cities of the Children of Israel, 'killed none of the women, but took them all captive, from small to great, drove them off and went on their way.' So the identification matches exactly. That in such a comparison he can fit himself to the side of the killer, the criminal, the oppressor also shows what kind of sick soul we face. That even such an interpretation, which poses an open danger to humanity, can receive collective approval in Europe is another tragic dimension.

So if we think that the children's corpses displayed in the massacre Netenyahu is carrying out today against the people of Gaza with great fury might stir someone's conscience or stop him, it is in vain. These images further increase the religious excitement and fervour of a very broad section of Jews.

The state of Europe a hundred years later is that it supports in every respect all the aggression of Israel, which as this religious state has become a threat to humanity. It sets aside all its claims of secularism, humanism, humanity, human rights and democracy when it comes to Israel.

While Netanyahu, citing references from the holy book, ties the responsibility for the massacres he commits to a Torah prophecy, a very interesting other prophecy came from Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida. If you believe and trust so much in the prophecies in your own book, said Abu Obeida, let me tell you of a prophecy that reminds you of your end too.

Referring to a prophecy circulating in Israeli circles, Abu Obeida used the words: "The time of Zionism's defeat has begun and the curse of the eighties will fall upon them. They should return to the Torah and the Talmud and read them carefully, and wait impatiently for the time of their humiliation." What he said in fact points, for Jews who truly take the Torah and the prophecies derived from it seriously today, to a well-known prophecy that should truly be taken seriously. The eighth decade is also the time frame in which all the states Israel founded in history collapsed, and there is no guarantee that it will not repeat for the present state. On the contrary, all the signs indicate that all of Israel's aggressive moves in the eighth decade of its founding are driving it only towards destruction.

That it can carry out so many massacres today is a sign neither of power nor of longevity; at most it shows that a hatred that the reason and conscience of the whole world will reject is accumulating to the point of explosion. In all European cities, even in London, the capital of Britain, which paved the way for Israel's founding, the anger accumulated against Israel has reached the point of explosion.

In a report broadcast on Al Jazeera, extensive space was given to an article former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak published last year in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. In this article, before the 80th anniversary of its founding, Barak voiced his concerns about Israel's imminent disappearance in these words: "Jewish history indicates that, apart from two exceptional periods, the Jews have not had a state that lasted more than 80 years... Throughout Jewish history, the Jews have not had a state exceeding 80 years apart from two periods: the era of King David and the Hasmonean era, and both periods came to the brink of disintegration in the eighth decade."

He added that the Hebrew-Zionist state's current experience is the third experience and that it is now living its eighth decade, and that he fears the curse of the eighth decade will befall it as it befell its predecessors.

In fact in the same article Barak also noted that it is not only they who are affected by the curse of the eighties: "In America a civil war broke out in its eighth decade, Italy turned into a fascist state in its eighth decade, Germany turned into a Nazi state in its eighth decade and this caused its defeat and division, in its eighth decade Germany turned into a Nazi state. The Soviet Union, which made a communist revolution, dissolved, collapsed and fragmented in its eighth decade."

Barak, who throughout the article tries to explain the events Israel is living entirely in the company of the Talmud's warnings, tries again with touches from the Talmud to determine a strategy. Proceeding from the finding that Israel is in a harsh environment where the weak are shown no mercy, he points to the terrible consequences of underestimating any threat and recommends following a more aggressive policy to intimidate, crush and destroy enemies, together of course with his criticisms of the current administrations.

Yet it is evident that he does not notice that the eighth-decade syndrome has turned into a perfect self-fulfilling prophecy. Neither does he, nor do those who interpret this prophecy in this way and think that becoming even more aggressive in the name of taking precautions is the solution. If they want to learn a lesson, it is enough to look at Pharaoh. Pharaoh too had thought that killing Moses, whom he foresaw would bring about his end, in his cradle would be a precaution, but this very precaution itself, the massacres of babies he committed in the name of this precaution, brought about his end.

The genocides it is carrying out against Gaza show that Israel has been caught by the eighth-decade syndrome. The steps it takes to escape its fated end bring it even closer to its end, and it is not even aware of it.