Annihilating resistance in what context?

Al-Qassam Brigades Source: (From the official website of Al-Qassam Brigades)

Why does the civilized West accept the annihilation of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza?

Why does his conscience accept the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians?

Why would he accept the demolition of the entire Strip over the heads and bodies of its residents?

Why does he not intervene to stop the war decisively?

The annihilation of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza 2023 - 2024 AD is an episode in a long history of violence, the export of war, and the annihilation of the different, an early history that began before the annihilation of the Andalusian Islamic civilization in the Iberian Peninsula - Spain and Portugal - was finally completed with the surrender of Granada in 1492 AD.

Until that date, Muslims were the kings of the seas, and the Europeans were hostages trapped inside the continent. The seas were prohibited for them to navigate by Muslim consensus. Then, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, they set foot in Ceuta on the coast of Morocco.

Colonization and enslavement

Then in 1482 AD they reached the mouth of the Congo River, then in 1491 AD a Portuguese ship arrived carrying the first group of settler colonists, priests and missionaries, and they established the first settlement in the name of the King of Portugal, and that was, as Adam Hochschild says - in his book “The Ghost of King Leopold: The Story of Greed and Violence.” And heroism in the colonization of Africa” - “This was the first meeting between Europeans and a black African nation.”

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At the beginning of the fifteenth century - specifically in the year 1500 AD - a Portuguese ship loaded with priests, missionaries, adventurers, slave traders, and seekers of wealth arrived - by mistake - on the shores of Brazil. From this moment, the modern and contemporary history of Europe began, an uninterrupted history, colonialism. America, the enslavement of Africa, the colonization of Brazil’s resources by enslaving the African human being.

Perhaps this explains some of the international reactions you see to the Zionist war of genocide in Gaza, where the West is a full partner in the genocide, and where both Latin America and Africa are at the forefront of angry reactions: Latin American anger, then African anger, unparalleled in the world. Arab and Islamic, and anger was more deserving of them than others.

Between colonialism and slavery, local civilizations and cultures took place, Catholic Christianization took place, then Protestant Christianization, capital was accumulated through commercial capitalism, the industrial revolution took place, scientific breakthroughs were achieved, and Europe’s dominance over the rest of the world’s continents, land, sea, ocean, outside and inside, was confirmed.

In these five centuries, Europe and its successors - Canada, America, and Australia - became an oasis of luxury, wealth, and comfortable living, just as it is the center of sovereignty, superiority, and control. And until Europe maintains the achievements of the five centuries, and until it ensures the security of that oasis of luxury, and ensures the continuation of control, it continues to maintain its mission. Historical: Exporting war and latent and apparent violence to every place in the world, violence of multiple levels and forms, violence that reaches the point of extermination.

Exporting wars and devastation

The latest episode of Western violence revolves around the twentieth century, a little before it, and a little after it.

This period, from the end of the nineteenth century until our present moment in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, is the current features of the Western mind, and it is the distinctive features of the Western face, as you see it at this moment, a mind that does not mind committing genocide, features of a face that does not disturb the peace of massacres that bombard necks. Innocent people.

In the last ten years of the nineteenth century, there was genocide against the peoples of the Congo at the hands of Belgian colonialists, and it is said;

The number of victims reached ten million dead, then it was immediately followed by the first massacres of the twentieth century, where the German colonialists exterminated tens of thousands of the people of Namibia, and at the end of the twentieth century, the extermination of Muslims at the hands of the Serbs in Srebrenica in Kosovo in 1995 AD.

Almost a hundred years separate the genocide of the peoples of the Congo and then Namibia in central West Africa, and the genocide of Muslims in the central Balkans in the heart of Europe, and between this and that, between the beginning of the century and its end, Europe and the West did not stop exporting war and violence to every inch of the world.

World War I claimed ten million lives, World War II claimed sixty million lives, and then the Cold War sparked countless regional proxy wars.

In the twentieth century, Western civilization reached its peak as a capitalist, industrial, technological democracy. It also reached its peak as a source of violence, a cradle of war, and a fighting force that controlled the Atlantic alliance and packed the universe with rules of war sufficient to destroy it thousands of times over.

This Western peak - civilization and violence together - has ruined and is still ruining the Arab and Islamic worlds: the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 AD, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 AD, the tearing apart of the Arab Spring countries in 2011 AD, until this moment. When the Zionist war of annihilation against Gaza occurred in 2023-2024 AD, the Arab and Islamic worlds were in the worst state. Their situation, officially and popularly: The resistance has been considered an extension of the political Islam movements, and these movements are being liquidated by regional and international consensus, after they almost took complete control - through democratic elections - over the entire region, and the logic is that the resistance will be liquidated in the context of liquidating those movements.

This explains the silence of governments in the Arab and Islamic worlds, and it also explains the silence of some anti-Islamist movements in general.

Also, there is regional and international agreement that weapons are the prerogative of states and not movements, including resistance movements.

This is the lesson that these and those learned from the experiences of civil wars in the region in the wake of the Arab Spring revolutions.

Likewise, the concepts of jihad, victory, loyalty, disavowal, and the entire armed reaction machine have exhausted their purposes, and are no longer acceptable to those who first created them.

Attrition and entrainment

The idea of ​​jihad - in the last hundred years - was not of Islamic origin, but was Western in origin. It was invented by the Germans at the beginning of the twentieth century to mobilize the masses of Muslims around the world against the British. It was the Germans who convinced the Ottoman Sultan to declare Islamic jihad against the British in World War I.

The call did not achieve any significant benefits;

Because the position of the Sultan among the Arabs and Muslims had deteriorated at a moment when the ideas of nationalism and independence flourished at the expense of the idea of ​​unity and the Islamic League.

The Sultan's call for jihad also failed.

Because the British propaganda was smarter and more subtle, they made promises to everyone until they were victorious, then they broke their promises with everyone.

The second time that the idea of ​​Islamic jihad appeared on a global scale was the invention of US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski 1928 - 2017 AD, as he repurposed the jihadist idea that the Germans had invented, but in a different context and with good preparation. All currents of political Islam were employed in the Arab and Islamic worlds. ;

To serve America and the West in their cold war and by proxy against the Soviets, in coordination with a number of Arab and Islamic governments, and those were the flourishing years of political Islam groups.

Political Islam was a decisive figure in the broad war against the Soviets, especially against communist rule in Aden, then in Indonesia, and then in Afghanistan.

Political Islam unconsciously played its jihadist role in serving the West until the fall of the Soviet Union.

From that date, the international importance of these movements began to decrease, and then they began to be liquidated - gradually - until you hardly heard of them, and you hardly heard of the idea of ​​jihad.

The broad back of the political Islam movements that stood - strongly - with the Western-backed Afghan resistance against the Soviets and against the communist regime in Afghanistan does not exist now, a back that has been broken, its voice has faded, its command has vanished, then it has been consumed, its energy has been exhausted, it has been exhausted, then it has been lured into power. Then, turning counter-revolutions against him, then liquidating him, except for those who remained in prison, in exile, or under siege, but without presence, effectiveness, or influence.

This is an important development that must be taken into account. In the past, the forces of political Islam were highly organized, had very wealthy financial solvency, had widespread media capabilities, and had a huge public presence that enabled them to be effective equal to or perhaps greater than the effectiveness of governments.

The absence of a full-back

There is no doubt that the Palestinian resistance in Gaza faces annihilation, deprived of the support and support of this absent or missing back until only the unseen knows about it.

All that remains for the resistance is support from Shiite political Islam organizations, whether in southern Lebanon, Yemen, or Iraq. These are exceptional cases, as the fragility of the central state allows a major role for these forces, whether inside or outside the state, locally or regionally.

Since the Zionist project was a fetus in the womb of the unseen, it was integrated to the point of melting into the structure of the contemporary democratic capitalist-colonial Crusader project. This is a project that was formed within the framework of the struggle against Islam over a period of a thousand years. It began with the Crusade against Islam in the East, then in the Maghreb, then colonialism, then Zionism came to be the last building block or stone in this integrated, solid structure.

Five centuries ago, with the emergence of Protestantism, the Catholic-Jewish animosities and rivalries gradually faded away, and a common word was reached, which is very briefly: the return of the Jews to Jerusalem is a necessary condition for the return of Christ, peace be upon him, and the repentance of the Jews at his hands.

Catholicism resisted this interpretation for a long time, but it prevailed in the end, and what we see today is a new Crusade, a Crusade with a Zionist mask, as well as a Zionism with depth, filling, and rooted Crusader content.

This Zionism is nothing more than a development of the Crusader idea, the idea that the birthplace of Christ should not be under the authority of the infidels (Muslims). This new Crusaderism explains to you why, since the inception of Zionism as an idea, then a movement, then a state, it has received the support of all capitals of the West, regardless of their sects and sects.

It is true that the founders of Zionism were secular and perhaps atheists, and it is also true that the rulers of the West were secular and perhaps atheists, but Zionism was to them like Crusaderism to them, the root of the position on the land of Palestine and on the entire Islamic East, the root of difference and then latent or apparent hostility, the root of culture and history that is difficult to uproot.

The last castle

This new Crusade explains to you why the West, all the West, is responsible for ensuring that Israel is armed enough to outperform and conquer all the Arabs and Muslims combined in the event - assuming - a war breaks out between them all and Israel.

In this sense, Israel is the last of the Crusader castles, a castle that the West - collectively - built together despite its differences, a castle that came to remain, not to disappear. If signs of its disappearance appear, in reality or in imagination, the entire West mobilizes, weapons flow, and diplomacy becomes active. The media rises, conscience is excluded, and there is no place for international and humanitarian principles and laws. If the danger of disappearing threatens, then there is nothing less than a mobilization to annihilate the source of the danger and the ghost of the thought.

Therefore, the natural response - from their point of view to the events of October 7, 2023 AD - is to give Israel a free hand in order to annihilate the last bastions of resistance, while the West is behind it, providing it with weapons and advice, turning a blind eye to its crimes, and protecting it from accountability. There is no value for the Palestinian people except as such. The value of the peoples and civilizations that the West had previously exterminated in the Americas and Africa, it exterminated while claiming to guide them to the spirituality of Christianity, save them from disbelief and paganism, and provide them with the lights of Western civilization.

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