The "anti-Semitism sensitivity" that resurfaces while children are slaughtered in Gaza

We have entered the 29th day of Israel's attacks on Gaza. As of the 29th day, Israel, working like a thoroughly maddened war machine, commits mind-numbing atrocities every day and every hour. While bombing civilian targets on the grounds that there are weapons, positions or tunnels beneath them, it increases the losses among civilians, women and children, with each passing day.

While dozens of children die every day in the most horrific way under Israeli bombs, the fact that the world still continues to see this aggression of Israel, which acts like a bull let loose from its chains, within the framework of "the right to self-defense" without doubt constitutes a situation that emboldens Israel and thus makes the world an accomplice to the massacres.

The civilized sensibilities of the world that are sensitive to terror and violence are also very careful to distinguish absolutely who the violence comes from and whom it is directed at. The number of innocent civilians Israel has killed and wounded in a month has probably long since exceeded the number of people ISIS has killed by beheading them in great savagery.

Israel's manner of killing, to say nothing of Nazi methods of killing from 70 years ago, is no less than that of ISIS, which today provides high examples of death pornography, and goes much further. With one difference: there are no beheading images from Israel's side, but the massacres it commits, entering a house and shooting everyone, women and children, though they are unarmed, are plain for all to see.

With every bomb it drops, the bodies of babies in their cradles are torn to pieces, and in the houses collapsed on their heads human bodies and building rubble are mixed together. Even if these images are served up, they do not create as much of an effect as the images of people beheaded by ISIS terrorists.

If you were to attempt even one percent of the wearisome academic, intellectual and other studies that spring immediately into action for ISIS on the link between Islam and terror, concerning the links between Judaism and racism, violence, terror and Orientalism, the bells of anti-Semitism would instantly start ringing.

Strangely, this anti-Semitism sensitivity of the Turkish left is activated precisely when Gaza or Palestine is being bombed. Moreover, the sensitivity that is not activated by these massacres, which are sanctified using entirely Jewish terminology, is activated immediately when three or five people associate their reactions to Israel with Judaism. One would think these discursive reactions are currently the most important problem in the world and in our country.

Of course, what Israel does cannot be extended wholesale to Judaism. But fear God, is there not even one percent between the brutality of Israel in killing Palestinian children and the understanding of religion that sanctions it, of the relationship you establish with such great appetite and ease between Islam and terrorism?

We do not expect anti-Jewish hostility from anyone, and we would not engage in it ourselves, God willing. Distinguishing the one who commits the crime from the one who does not is the matter on which we must be most sensitive, but for God's sake, what is the reason you display toward Judaism, so generously, this sensitivity that you withhold from Islam and from Muslims?

There is no explanation for this discrimination in the treatment of bodies other than racism. Whatever the mind is that is willing to kill the children of all of Gaza for one Israeli captive, no attribute other than racism can be ascribed to the mind that goes to a thousand lengths to justify even this madness.

The attitude of those who stir up the whole world of media to catch and expose the slightest image of violence in Turkey, yet ignore both the perpetrators and the victims of the real violence in Gaza, is a sign of the vise of racism the world is in.

NOT THE WEST BUT THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE IS STOPPING ISRAEL

That is why there is no hope from either the US or the EU countries in stopping Israel's murderous, genocidal savagery. The stance these countries have shown in this affair will without doubt bring with it the rapid invalidation of any questioning, from now on, of their claims to human rights, democracy and civilization.

Just as Israel's earlier attacks on Gaza, in which the same scenes were lived through, and the inaction of the West and the Arab world in response, later led to the Arab Spring process, the reactions displayed or not displayed in response to this latest attack give signs that a new world will be established in the very near future.

Meanwhile, who will stop Israel? Israel's own failure and the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades will stop it.

What Israel, which attacked Gaza on a pretext, was aiming at was to break up Palestinian unity, to destroy Hamas or reduce sympathy toward it, and of course to destroy all the means of defense that Hamas has developed within the framework of its right to defend the Palestinian people.

Israel's attacks united the Palestinians even further both among themselves and around Hamas. Not only was Hamas's defensive power not broken, but Israel met a force of resistance it could not make sense of and paid a heavy price. Its casualties have reached 170, which approaches the largest loss it has suffered in all the wars it has fought so far, and it still has nothing in hand. These losses are the only convincing development for Israel.

This is a repeat of the defeat it suffered in 2006. In these wars the only heroism Israel has displayed has been to kill women and children with the enormous weapons power it holds.