Israel, 28 February, and the threshold tested by the US soldier who set himself on fire

Today we are on the 145th day of Israel's genocide, which is taking place under the support and protection of the United States and under the immoderate silence of the Islamic world as well. The genocide continues, raising its hand higher with each passing day and trying new levels of baseness, owing to the unlimited support of the United States and the unlimited non-reaction of the Arab world.

The unlimited non-reaction of the Arab world, or our limited, fruitless, timid and calculated reactions. Reactions that Israel calculates and immediately buys off, and so goes on with its crimes against humanity without caring at all.

Until now, the people of Gaza have continued their honorable and noble resistance without compromising at all on their faith and their cause, in the face of all this heedlessness of the world. Against this noble people, who could not be brought to their knees by bombs and by the massacre of their children and their mothers and fathers, we are now witnessing attempts to make them submit by subjecting them to a hunger and thirst that breaks dignity. The 2-billion-strong Islamic world, let alone moving to stop the attacks on the people of Gaza, displays its incapacity even to deliver aid to children dying of hunger. At this point, where all the values of the West have gone bankrupt, let no one from the Islamic countries make any claim to heroism, independence, national pride, honor or manliness from now on. The people of Gaza, alone, have left no one any share of these virtues.

Today is also the 27th anniversary of the 28 February coup. 27 years ago, another kind of occupation and genocide project, undertaken by the collaborators in Turkey of the occupying and genocidal United States and Israel, began to be put into practice. That too was a move openly determined to cut off the lineage of the Imam-Hatip students, of headscarved women, of all conservatives. It was based on a foresight that cannot be called unfounded from their own point of view: if no measures were taken, the generations growing up from these imam-hatip schools would, within 10 years at the latest, reach a numerical majority capable of taking over the government of the country.

So they began to take a measure similar to the one their ancestor Pharaoh had taken. They thought they could thereby escape the inevitable end. Their ancestor Pharaoh had thought he could escape this end by killing the male children. These, too, thought that by closing the Imam-Hatip schools, by closing schools to headscarved women, they could escape the end awaiting them. Yet the measures they took became tangled around their feet just like Pharaoh's measures. The great catastrophe they expected within 10 years found them before 5 years had passed. Even at that moment they did not neglect to keep their tails up. With the arrogance and disdain we know well from those who claim divinity, they claimed that the process would last 1000 years. They remained heedless and ignorant of the fact that the one they were fighting was God, and that they had no power beyond the lifespan God had allotted them.

All the cadres of 28 February ran to their Zionist masters, for whom they served as collaborators, and announced the good news that they had made a "balance adjustment" to Turkish democracy. While going through the process we could see Israel's trace everywhere; today we see it more clearly.

The process that they claimed in their Pharaonic defiance would last 1000 years did not last even 5 years, but the Moseses they tried to destroy grew quickly and toppled them. Now those mighty and disdainful coup-makers, after their accounts in the world, are probably giving the real great reckoning.

On the 27th anniversary of 28 February, in Gaza too, those who calculate the Zion state they will establish from the Nile to the Euphrates: are they calculating how long it will last? How long will this last excess of the Pharaonic order go on? With every bomb they drop on Gaza they are razing their own perceptions to the ground in the world, they are reducing their own stories to ruin. Every Gazan child they kill rains down upon them as a curse, or waits to rain. Israel and its supporters think they can end the war within the borders of Gaza. Yet every baby they kill in Gaza gives rise to the birth of a thousand Moseses in every corner of the world. The rule of the self-fulfilling prophecy always works, and now, with Israel's Pharaonic haste, it works faster.

Here it is, it has happened. A soldier from the US Air Force, Aaron Bushnell, saying that he "will no longer be complicit in the genocide in Gaza," set himself on fire in front of Israel's Embassy in Washington. It was also recorded that in the live broadcast he made before the act, Bushnell said, "I am now going to stage a rather severe protest, but in the face of what the Palestinians are living through at the hands of the occupiers, my action is not that big a thing."

Without doubt, this act is a very advanced event compared with the demonstrations displayed all over the world so far in the name of Palestinian solidarity against Israel. It is conscience's rebellion, raising its hand, against all the reactions, protests, criticisms and objections, against the heedlessness Israel has shown in the face of the ruling of the Court of Justice, against the unlimited support the United States continues despite all this, and perhaps against the continuing unlimited non-reaction of the Arab countries.

After all, what exploded the discontent and rage accumulated by regimes that had for a century been trampling human dignity in the Arab world, that had reached the peak of corruption, that were enemies of freedoms, was Bouazizi's setting himself on fire in Tunisia on 17 December 2010.

Today there is a threshold that will explode the rage growing in the world against a despicable order that continues with the same functions all over the world and has Israel at its center once more.

This threshold is now being probed more and more often by people of conscience, to be crossed sooner or later.