From the place where the occupier will learn the best lessons from the occupier

KABUL

The hearings in which the International Court of Justice examined Israel's genocide upon South Africa's application had in themselves an effect beyond expectation, as a new and very important wave of the Al-Aqsa Flood. As we said before, even though these hearings have no binding and definitive results in terms of sanctions, they are a great and unique event in terms of the note they leave in history and the effects they create in world public opinion.

Although the Western mainstream media did not carry the hearing, Al Jazeera's English and Arabic broadcasts and TRT World aired all the hearings live. Beyond these, it took up a heavy place on social media. Israel, which for 75 years, from the day it was founded until today, has tried to justify its existence and all its occupying policies on the victimhood of genocide, is being tried, before the eyes of the whole world, as the perpetrator of a genocide whose smoke is still rising, a fresh crime caught in the act.

Even if the ICJ were to decide on Israel's guilt in this charge, it is certain that at the UN Security Council, to which it would be notified, the US, which instigated, supports and gives every kind of aid and abetment to Israel in this crime, will stand by it and use its veto. But this will not prevent the matter from being taken to the UN General Assembly, where the suspension of Israel's membership can be requested. In the end, whatever the result, the bells are tolling for Israel, and even its being constantly forced to defend itself is a great gain for the Palestinian cause.

That the case was brought by South Africa, only 2 percent of whose population is Muslim, undoubtedly makes the case stronger and more important. A fact everyone can see: in this way Israel has been taken out of the reductionism to the opposition between Islam and the modern Western Christian world, by which it has justified its occupying policies and crimes until now. The matter is a cause of humanity beyond Islam and others. Had a Muslim country done this, the case would have faced the danger of remaining within the limits in which Israel has imprisoned the issue and of being drowned. Yet this way the event takes on a more universal, more global dimension.

But even this does not justify the fact that none of the 22 Arab countries and 57 Islamic countries has been able, or is able, to take such an initiative. While no decent Islamic country stands beside the small Gazan people, small in number and size, in their great and noble resistance alone against oppression, occupation, Zionist ideology and domination, global despotism and the genocidal civilization, South Africa's courageous stand makes it written into history in golden letters. The generation raised by Nelson Mandela, who went down in history for his historic stand against the white-racist Apartheid occupation, is also very well prepared for the case and is making Israel sweat. The testimonies of people who have come out of a similar experience lived there are altogether different.

By coincidence, I too am watching the case from a land where another imperialist occupation was experienced in the recent past, from Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, whose years were wasted first by the Russian occupation and then by the US occupation that lasted 20 years, you can feel at every moment that beneath the determined resistance shown against the occupation, despite all its treacherous and unjust effects, lies a very strong philosophy, belief and culture.

The last occupation of the Afghan people, which lasted 20 years, was carried out by the US, which today supports Zionist Israel in its occupation and genocide. From here you can also easily see whom Israel has taken as a model in the massacres it carries out before our eyes today, in the occupying policies it has pursued for 75 years, in the audacity of genocide.

In 20 years the US killed, by estimates, at least 500 thousand of the Afghan people, and in doing so never distinguished between civilians and fighters. It made cities unlivable. The resistance it faced never gave up until it left here in disgrace two and a half years ago. It, for its part, as is its habit, did not refrain from shamelessly using the card of labeling this resistance as terrorist and showing it to the whole world that way.

Yet no one can label as terror the resistance of a people whose country is occupied. Nor is this the first time the Afghan people are resisting the US occupation. When they showed the same resistance against the Russians earlier, they were described by the US as "mujahid" or "resistance fighters."

Yet since the occupation finally ended with the victory of the resistance after 45 years, Afghanistan is for the first time governed by its own people. The first and most obvious sign of this administration is a stability and security never experienced in 45 years. For the first time the administration in Kabul controls the whole of the country, and a hope for the future has formed in the country.

Pay no attention to those who constantly try to portray Afghanistan differently through a carefully cultivated Taliban cliché. The Taliban's understanding of Islam, and even their cultural understanding, is by no means behind the general cultural understanding or life of Afghan society. It is a not very complicated situation, requiring only a slightly closer sociological look to understand. Of course Afghanistan cannot be understood with perceptions most of which rest on legends the occupiers made up to hide their own imperialist desires.

To understand why the occupiers could not come even an iota closer to understanding the Afghan people in Kabul, it is enough to look at the safe areas they created in the cramped safe zone in which they lived for 20 years, or rather were trapped.

Amid the excessive security walls and measures that make the look of the city as ugly as can be, the occupying forces in fact lived in prisons they locked themselves into whenever they were not bombing from the air. This is much better observed in the offices and residences they were forced to abandon after they left. They lived here fearing their own shadows.

Yet the Afghan people, in their own words, have an extremely generous culture that hosts a guest-arriving person on top of their heads and opens all their hearts and homes. But what they did to those who came to set their eyes on their homeland, to the occupiers, they tried to show and tell to the whole world for 45 years.

Whoever does not want to understand, let him come to Kabul and see the works.