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The bandit has become ruler of the world, but Gaza resists

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We have noted that Gaza is the keystone of the whole world and that the stirring now taking place there is throwing the order of the whole world into disarray. People all over the world see, thanks to the truths laid bare in Gaza, that the whole world order is governed with a hypocrisy hard to believe.

They see how the world based on values such as enlightenment, modernisation, humanism, democracy, equality, justice and human rights, which have been told to people for three centuries, discriminates among human beings and how, in essence,

all these values cover a racism.

The world is going through a new enlightenment thanks to Gaza. Of course, one has to say a part of the world. Otherwise another part of the world goes on living in a deeper heedlessness, misguidance and degradation in the face of all that is happening. Indeed, what is happening in Gaza is further increasing the blindness, deafness and insensitivity to truths of a significant part of the world. These are without doubt responsible for what is going on. Gaza thus makes this contradiction on which the world is founded today even more visible, and prepares all the ground for this contradiction to turn into a conflict on a global scale.

In this atmosphere of conflict there is not even a possibility of dialogue between the parties. Racist fascism never establishes dialogue. It does not even open its claim of superiority to discussion. It is that supremacist, that bigoted, that arrogant. American or Israeli Zionist racism lives in a world of delusion that presents what it does in Gaza as perfectly normal. In the lands it occupies, it can shamelessly regard people's right to resist as terrorism and present it as an aggression against its own right to exist.

Right at the point where you ask, "Is there anything defensible about this anymore?", it can describe the resistance actions of the Gazan people, who are being slaughtered, children, women, doctors, students, journalists, humanitarian aid volunteers alike, as terrorism, and objecting to their slaughter as anti-Semitism.

This is an insolent stance that drives the human mind to fury. There is nothing at all to talk about with this stance. It has no intention of talking in any case. The only thing to be done about it is to spit in its face and resist its barbaric attacks.

In the United States, which has given unlimited support to genocidal Israel up to now, universities are the scene of the most widespread and widely attended protests in their history. It has reached greater proportions than what happened in 1968 and over Vietnam, and universities have not seen such a protest since then, have they? In fact even this situation in itself shows how American democracy has become the hostage of Zionist racist despotism. In the United States, which sells democracy to the world, Joe Biden, the president of the Democrats now in government, is at present a direct partner in Israel's crime of genocide. In response to his objection-like words, in essence extremely hypocritical and treating people as fools, that he could not sustain the open support he has given up to now if Israel attacks Rafah, the Republican presidential candidate Trump immediately went to Israel's defence and, saying "Any Jew who votes for Biden because of this should be ashamed of himself, Biden has left Israel completely alone, what he has done is shameful," showed that all options for the United States are imprisoned within the options "Zionism or more Zionism." Unable to restrain himself, Trump also promised that if he wins the presidential election he will deport university students who are against Israel. For those American citizens who do not wish to prefer one of the Zionist politicians there is no other option. No option is offered to this citizen that does not have racism, massacres, murders, genocide, lies and deceit, and Zionism in its genes. This is where the limit of American democracy lies.

Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the strongest Republican names in the American Congress, raised the bar still further in an interview with NBC News on Sunday, 12 May, saying that "Israel should drop an atomic bomb on Hamas just as the United States did to Japan in the Second World War." Once it has been uttered, this can be expected. What they have done is the guarantee of what they will do, these fascists.

Graham did not refrain from grounding his words in both logic and examples: "After Pearl Harbor, when we were fighting the Germans and the Japanese, when we faced destruction as a nation, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. That was the right decision. Israel too should be given the bombs it needs to end the war. Israel cannot afford to lose. Therefore, whatever is necessary for Israel to survive as a Jewish State must be done."

Israel cannot give up its occupation policies there, cannot lose in this policy, but millions of people, children, women, elderly Palestinians, may die. This poses no problem for them.

It seems that the difference and contradiction in perspective has deepened thoroughly. There seems to be no possibility of reconciling these perspectives... Not argument, not evidence, not new information... Even if all the information were in hand, all of it together will only serve to deepen this fascistic outlook. That knowledge is of no use at all is very bitter, but it truly has always constituted the most

tragic side of human history.

This criminal outlook, which is ready if necessary to burn all of humanity for Israel, does not refrain from placing responsibility for Israel's murders on Hamas as well. In the face of this bandit insolence that has come to dominate the world, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's saying that Hamas is not terrorist but only a kuva-yı milliye movement is not a stance to be belittled at all. It is not a support to be belittled at all for Gaza.

No one can say that the hearts of those who, instead of appreciating and further supporting this voice, constantly try to muddy the waters and try to put Turkey, on the basis of what it has not done or cannot do, in nearly the same bracket as those who betray Gaza, tremble by even a millimetre for Gaza. For them even Gaza is a subject of interest only to the extent that it is a gateway to a political livelihood.