It seems easy \u2013 and bloodless \u2013 to sit in front of a keyboard and philosophise while, 400 kilometres to the south, a St. Bartholomew\u2019s Day massacre takes place daily for 232 terrifying nights. But is it really like this?
\nIs the information war less \u201cinnocent\u201d, more moral, more neutral, less bloody and dirty than the \u201canalogue\u201d war? Is our contribution or complicity in this massacre truly negligible as we fire off words from the safety of our ideological trenches? I\u2019m not so sure.
\nEveryone defends their own position, guarding their personal worldview. But nothing falls on deaf ears. Words become bullets and bombs; every keystroke, like a butterfly effect, eventually turns into a deadly weapon that kills civilians.
\nWe don\u2019t need to refer to the worldview of the ancient Greeks to confirm that hubris and insolence will inevitably be punished. History has taught this lesson countless times, and we, the rotten sapientes sapientes, have received this lesson repeatedly and harshly, even if we are incapable of learning from it. We are filled with tragedies and farces, yet devoid of prudence.
\nI will keep referring to Robert Fisk\u2019s statement, a journalist who has witnessed many conflicts and disputes around the world, especially in the Middle East, that war is not a drama of opposites, and there are no winners or losers, only slaughter. However, the powerful have always sought to divide the world into camps.
\nThus, the \u201cAl-Aqsa Flood\u201d demanded a disproportionately \u201cIron Sword,\u201d and the deadly vicious cycle continues. Only this time, the Israeli leadership, with a messianic neo-Zionist air and the hypocritical backing of a powerful international gang bent on widening a fictitious \u201cclash of civilisations,\u201d appears more than determined to pursue a \u201cfinal solution.\u201d
\nIsrael\u2019s far-right government \u2013 and those who support its practices \u2013 has \u201cearned\u201d through its actions a blasphemous comparison to the industrial-scale atrocities of the Nazis, which the Jews experienced firsthand. However, there is one fundamental difference. The Nazi beasts did not suffer from victimhood; they did not pretend to be the victims in order to impose their iron fist.
\nIsrael\u2019s propaganda mechanisms, though they would make even Goebbels proud, fail to conceal the definitive nature of its official policy. In this endeavour, the complete lack of empathy for the devastation and famine endured by Palestinians encounters a blasphemous moral elitism, desperately seeking to capitalise on the indisputable historical sufferings of the Jewish people.
\nIn a way, the goal is Lebensraum, \u201cliving space,\u201d and in the official ideological direction of the Israeli government, this cannot be achieved without getting rid of the Palestinians. It\u2019s a matter of survival, in their minds. And after Gaza, the West Bank will follow.
\nIt is a coordinated ethnic cleansing, the only difference being that it is not a Holocaust. That is, they do not necessarily want to exterminate the Arabs because they consider them \u201cracially inferior\u201d and \u201cvermin,\u201d but to strategically ensure the historical desire for \u201cmaximum land, minimum Arabs.\u201d
\nThey don\u2019t want to eliminate them; they just want them gone. Hence, not only the return but even a brief visit by displaced Palestinians who took refuge in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc., remains a red line for the Israeli state.
\nApart from the tragic fact that the once-victim has begun to resemble the executioner, what is tragically ironic is that this militaristic machine of ethnic superiority inevitably captivates Islamophobic white nationalists, the so-called \u201canti-Semitic Zionists.\u201d
\nNot to mention the sad chapter of self-proclaimed \u201cdefenders of the Western way of life\u201d with their outrageously \u00e0 la carte sensitivities. All of them are guilty notes in a discordant operetta of Pontius Pilate-like indifference, which would be amusing if it weren\u2019t for the cover-up of a modern-day genocide.
\nThe propaganda machine starts with the isolation of the slogan \u201cfrom the river to the sea,\u201d taken out of context to justify and whitewash, if you please, the very same\u2026 full implementation of this slogan in practice by the other side (!), that of Israel. A distorted slogan as a moral counterweight to a genocidal campaign and the scales are presented as balanced.
\nAt the same time, if you dare to point out that the Palestinian people have lived in a legal vacuum for 75 years, that their very existence is under constant threat, that the right to self-defence cannot be equated with indiscriminate vengeful rage, or that collective responsibility for any people is unacceptable, you are branded as an anti-Semite.
\nThe same goes for even whispering that those who consider themselves \u201ccivilised\u201d and believe they hold the moral high ground should not respond to horror with carnage.
\nDon\u2019t call for peace, don\u2019t call for a ceasefire and an end to the relentless slaughter, or you may be labelled an apologist for terrorists.
\nIf this bloody cocktail of indifference and hypocrisy isn\u2019t hubris, then what is?Conflict. information war, deadly weapon, ethnic cleansing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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