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The Pharaohs' right to defend themselves, the unstoppable coming of the Moseses

In the inhuman crimes it has been committing for 64 days, Israel raises the bar higher with each passing day. In its departure from humanity it tries levels beyond imagination. It does everything of which one could say "this can no longer be done."
The number of Gazans killed as a result of its attacks directly targeting civilians in Gaza has nearly reached the 20 thousand mark, and the great majority of them are children, women and elderly people. In return, it has not been able to hit any militarily significant target so far. It calculates that it can reach the goal of finishing Hamas, which it has declared since the day it began its attacks, only if it finishes off Gaza entirely together with all the people living in it.
Let people naively go on asking how many child deaths are needed to reach that goal. It is understood that for Israel no moral or conscientious limit or reservation about "killing children" remains. Not only regarding killing children: no limit accepted by the international community regarding the killing of the elderly, women, civilians, journalists, health workers, aid workers binds Israel. After all, it has a U.S. and Europe from which it takes its audacity and which pamper it without limit.
All the rules, all the claims, all the discourses of an order in which moral rules can be trampled with ease when there is no sanction for trampling them are fake. Israel is desperate enough to be willing to squander all the credit, values and symbolic capital of the world order we live in, of Enlightenment modernism, before the Qassam Brigades. And the Western world is wretched enough to be willing to cash in all the secular, Enlightenment, rationalist, democratic values it has accumulated for three hundred years in return for its debt to a bankrupt, religiously bigoted Zionism.
We see that every day Israel commits a slightly more terrible, slightly viler version of every crime against humanity it has committed in Gaza. In response to the reactions to the first bombardments of hospitals, schools, mosques, churches and marketplaces it defended itself somehow, but afterwards it seems to have given up even these defenses. In any case, one nail drives out another; the next, viler crime serves to lighten all previous crimes, to make them forgotten, to render them insignificant to a degree not worth dwelling on.
Since it bombs hospitals, is the random killing of civilians by air bombardment even worth mentioning? Since it raids hospitals and kills the babies in incubators being treated there, is bombing hospitals by air strikes even worth mentioning? Since it bombs ambulance convoys heading south on its own warning and kills hundreds of wounded, is that even worth mentioning? Thus every stage of abomination it passes becomes for Israel a visa, even a gain, for the next stage of its departure from humanity. After all, the U.S. and Europe, who have the power of sanction
and the leaders of the Islamic countries who could object to this, are easy prey.
At the new level of departure from humanity, Israeli terrorists strip all the people they randomly catch in Gaza and take them to the unknown. In another image, people with nothing on but their underwear are seen with their eyes covered at the edge of a trench, ready to be executed. This is truly a terrifying thing. No other document is needed for genocide.
Having been able to do even this much, we can well guess how much Israel has bought the accusations about killing babies. What brings Israel to the point of not caring about being accused and cursed in the face of this sight, which rouses people's conscience, makes the hair stand on end at every scene witnessed, and makes one ashamed of one's humanity?
Of the nearly 20 thousand Gazans who have died, almost more than ten thousand are children, and not one of them is merely a number; every one of them is the soul of a family's soul, with vivid, beautiful,
life-filled stories.
What makes Israel commit so terrible a crime is undoubtedly the paranoid fears peculiar to Pharaohs. What made Pharaoh have the male children of the Children of Israel killed was ultimately a prophecy that someone from among this people would dethrone Pharaoh. Pharaoh, who took this prophecy paranoidly seriously because he was passionately attached to his own rule, killed the male children of the Children of Israel but left the girls alive.
Israel's paranoid fears reach the point of killing all children without distinguishing girl from boy, exceeding even Pharaoh by leagues.
Some Israeli officials openly express their fear anyway. Elon Musk too pointed to the educational environment, the atmosphere, in Gaza. Is it possible for people raised in this environment to be friends of Israel, to grow up without thinking of taking revenge on genocidal, massacring Israel? These words and these observations also show to what extremes "Israel's right to defend itself," which is increasingly accepted without question like a taboo, can be stretched when desired.
Only the aggressor, killer, massacring, genocidal Israel has the right to defend itself. No one else has the right to defend themselves. Anyone who wants to defend themselves, anyone who shows the slightest tendency to violence in the name of this defense, is a terrorist and a threat. How can one object to killing babies in their cradles who, once they reach the age of 15, would undoubtedly be fighters who never bow or compromise against Israel? This is the viewpoint that Israel today is getting the so-called civilized world to accept. This viewpoint, which can never be accepted, has evidently been accepted by Europe and the U.S. as an utterly ordinary step in Israel's self-defense program.
Of course, the belief that this path will block the Palestinian child from growing up and standing before the Pharaohs like a Moses is the greatest mistake of all Pharaohs. Nearly 85 percent of the Qassam Brigades, which today are uprooting the world's army, are the children of mujahideen killed by Israel in previous wars, an army of orphans.
There is a single message on all their faces, in their words, in their eyes: down to our last soldier, to our last breath, we are on the Pharaohs' necks.