Israel's ostrich propaganda

Since October 7, the terrorist state of Israel has been forced to spend, down to the last penny, all the propaganda capital it had accumulated over its history. The Al-Aqsa Flood has made it squander, in the most foolish and wasteful manner, the Holocaust capital it had been exploiting to the hilt until now. It has stripped Israel of its monopoly on the status of genocide victim. Now Israel has once again appeared before the whole world not as a victim of genocide but as its most savage perpetrator. Moreover, this is not an image produced by propaganda illusions. It is an image caught red-handed, under the witness of the whole world, visible to everyone, unable to remain unseen, one that jumps out at everyone's eyes by the sheer force of its reality.

Yet Israel had been working for a century to carry out its own propaganda of victimhood, to prove that it is the sole rightful claimant, the sole heir to this land. The story that this land was promised to it by God obviously has no side that binds anyone or that could be considered justified. Perhaps this fundamental reason may have some validity in the eyes of its Zionist and Evangelist friends and of the slaves it has persuaded with money and position. But in the world we live in, with the logic of law that is, for better or worse, in force, there is no way of explaining it on that basis. In that case, the literature about the right to take refuge in a homeland in the most humane manner, owing to the persecution and pursuit it has suffered around the world for centuries, comes into play, and whether it is swallowed or not, whether people buy it or not, Israel was trying to secure its own legitimacy around this story.

Both stories could in fact have no foundation or justification. If a land was needed, America had vast empty tracts; those who love the Jews so much could have given them those lands. If the Europeans who subjected them to genocide had given them a place of the same scale from their own lands, it would not have been such a great calamity for the world. It would not have been such a burden for themselves either.

When Britain, which held the final command of the Crusader armies, recaptured Jerusalem from Saladin 720 years later, having taken Jerusalem, the cause of all the Crusades, why did they present it on a golden platter and withdraw to the Jews, whom they hated at least as much as they hated Muslims? Going on this question alone, many pending questions come alive, maddeningly, in our minds. Let us pass over it for now.

Israel is a story. Its existence is a story, its mighty invincible army is a story, its victimhood and its right of defense are yet another story altogether. All this story is sustained through intense propaganda, instilling in people's hearts fear when needed, a feeling of pity when needed, and when needed a religiosity that amounts to nothing but racism. Of course, for those who understand none of this, there are threats made in reliance on its Evangelist friends. The warning of the baby-killer, genocidal Netanyahu to the Arab countries that might raise their voices against all these massacres committed against Muslims, "Sit where you are sitting, keep quiet if you want to protect your seats!", also points to the different fuels that run Israel's propaganda machine. Persuasion never needs a logic, a piece of evidence, a rationality. In the end everyone will have to accept what Israel says, whether lovingly or with resentment.

Its thinking that it has controlled perceptions about itself across the whole world in the latest war rests on far more self-confidence than is supposed. The voices of people of conscience who have poured into squares all over the world are evidently not regarded as very important. There are no real decision-makers whom they could persuade. To Israel it evidently looks as if they are just shouting and yelling to themselves. After all, the leaders of those peoples are as good as in the bag. The Arab peoples hate Israel enough to drown it in a spoonful of water, but what does it matter, their leaders are a partridge already cooked in the bag. Just look: Muslim and Arab blood is being spilled, Muslim and Arab honor is being trampled, and yet at a word from Netanyahu they all fall into line, and not one of them even develops the desire to deny the shameful reality that Netanyahu's word implies for them, or even to object to the position he assigns them.

Even so, Israel is aware that the firmament of perceptions about itself was shattered into pieces on October 7. It is trying to pull itself together. But the more it tries to pull itself together, the more it sinks.

It thinks it has managed the perceptions about the massacres it commits sufficiently in many media, but evidently it considered that it could not control only one medium, X, sufficiently.

It supposed that if it controlled that one too, all perceptions would turn in its favor. It took none other than Elon Musk, a man smart enough to deserve being the richest man in the world, and subjected him to training so as to treat him as the most dim-witted man in the world. What kind of mind, what kind of state of mind is it that tries to tell a "child-killer Hamas story" with unexploded rounds belonging to the Israeli army placed inside a perfectly intact empty crib? Is it playing the fool, or taking people for fools? Is it, insolently, saying: this is the story you must believe, is it not your place to ask what the truth of the matter is? Whatever it is saying, and to whomever it is saying it, it is very clear that both its own word and its addressees are deemed condemned to a wrong (darkness). Or is it the stupidity of imagining, like an ostrich, that burying only one's own eyes in the sand means nobody will see anything?

Yet on the other side there is a truth shining plainly, like the sun. There is the manifest reality of the rightfulness of Hamas's struggle, which, compared with before October 7, needs no propaganda, no promotion, no narration anywhere in the world. Out of that reality come its faith, its heroism, its nobility, its beauty, its compassion, its innocence, which make the whole world envy it.

What good would it do if you convinced Elon Musk? Do you suppose it was thanks to X that Israel's savage genocidal conduct and the heroism and rightfulness of Hamas and Palestine were seen in the world? At most, X, by not remaining blind to this truth and by reflecting it to others, saved its own human honor.

What did the official spokesman of the Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, say? "We ask help from no one. We ask help only from God. And He sends us His help through whomever He deems worthy."

This is such a cause that in it, those who help Gaza are helping only themselves.