There are consciences that torn-apart babies cannot awaken

We say that the Al-Aqsa Flood that has set out from Gaza sweeps away, driving before it, all the veils that dull humanity's conscience and consciousness. In fact, what we have witnessed since October 7 is already more than enough to demolish all the perceptions of reality, philosophical conceptions, even theological considerations the world has become familiar with in modern times.

All the concepts and conceptions operated through the media began to be reversed and operated in the opposite direction after October 7. It is now very clear that Israel has no right whatsoever to label anyone a "terrorist." Israel itself is a terrorist. Israel is not even a state; it is merely an occupying terror structure, and it draws its strength neither from being a state nor from the support of a people behind it. On the contrary, it draws its strength and audacity from the unlimited support of the U.S. and Europe behind it and from the unlimited indifference of the Arab countries.

Israel's "right to defend itself" is a story that is being forced down people's throats in an extremely brazen manner. Far more justified than Israel's right to defend itself is the right of the people to defend themselves against Israeli terror, which is a real threat. In the name of the right to self-defense, no country, no power is given the right to carry out a massacre against people who are physically far weaker than itself. Even comparing the two is contrary to reason, logic, conscience and good sense. In this case no one is granted the right to put forward such an argument. When someone or some country in such a position clings to such an argument, all of humanity's reason and conscience are mobilized and reject it vehemently. But Israel can dare to assert this beyond-absurd right, because there is a world army feeding this audacity.

The fact that the one with destructive power sees himself as having the right to do everything does not produce real power for anyone. Power becomes power when it operates together with justice. People who bow before the power of justice do not feel humiliated anyway. In fact, there is no point in addressing these words to Israel. Israel is a rampant force in the spoiledness of a sense of superiority, even a theo-philosophy, in which it feels no need to explain its aggression and violations. There is no possibility of getting a word across to it anyway.

In this spoiledness it does not even consider as human beings the people whose lands it occupies and whom it kills continuously and systematically every day. Moreover, it does not do this as a reaction at some stage when it has become hostile in the course of resistance from them. Even in the days of World War II when Jews in Europe were subjected to the Holocaust, while settlement activities in Palestine continued, that is, in the days when Hitler was trying to carry out his plans for a "Germany without Jews," the Zionist terrorists in Palestine were after creating an "Israeli homeland without Palestinians." That is, in the days when the Jews were subjected to genocide, the Zionists were planning to commit genocide against the Palestinians.

What psychiatry, what sociology, what theology can explain what this means? The Zionists did not feel so much hatred toward the real perpetrators of the oppression, massacres or genocide they suffered in Europe; why, I wonder? Is it because they have taken them hostage anyway through the guilt feeling into which they have dragged them?

Let us return to our opening sentence. When saying that the Al-Aqsa Flood that has set out from Gaza sweeps away, driving before it, all the veils that dull humanity's conscience and consciousness, I think we were a little hasty in falling into the optimism of supposing that from these expressions the whole world has acquired a fully shared consciousness of what it simultaneously witnesses. It is true that all over the world all the tricks and codes of how Israel dazzles the eyes of the whole world and distorts reality have been decoded. But in whose eyes and in whose presence?

Truly, to expect that the eyes of all people will open spontaneously even when God's clearest signs come is contrary both to the nature of the sign and to the inevitable nature of man. God's signs do not spontaneously open those whose hearts are sealed. People must have a conscience, a heart, an eye and an ear open to those signs. That is why signs are also tests.

Look, even Habermas, the philosopher of ideal communication, that is, the philosopher of seeking the undistorted form of our discourse about reality, from the terrible genocidal, baby-massacring, barbaric scene after October 7 can see only the terrorist aggression of Hamas and Israel's right to defend itself. The possibility of anti-Semitism that might result from speaking of Israel's genocidal activities can concern him more.

On the other hand, Gaza, which is today producing an unparalleled critical enlightenment everywhere in the world, can remain, for some in Türkiye, as uninterested, as irrelevant a subject as can be. This subject, which enlightens the mind of everyone with a modicum of conscience and reason all over the world, can blind the eyes of some people in Türkiye even more. As in many fields, the subject can become a subject of political division.

There are consciences around us that the children torn to pieces, killed in their cradles and hospital rooms, have not been able to awaken, and we live together with them.

The massacres in Gaza are today the priority subject of our world, the monstrosity that intends to kill children in their cradles is the world's most serious danger. This monstrosity does not intend Gaza alone; it poses a threat to all humanity. Those who remain heedless of this danger, feeling that it will not touch them, are part of this threat. Because when the time comes, they are eager to cooperate with that threat.