Al-Qassam Brigades (Source: From the official website of Al-Qassam)
The army, a military influence, was and still is, in the eyes of many historians, a balance of power in the face of external dangers, and a guarantee of stability of rule and sovereignty, within what is called: legalized violence, which has proven to be false, according to what was stated by a group of nuclear scientists, who saw in The notorious “balance of power” principle is an integrated war system that either repeats its failures, or creates a new war from the remains of another that did not achieve its goals.
It is no longer possible to consider this influence - which crystallizes into a form of organized technological crime - as a mere legitimate practice of violence, and the security pretexts that escape the grip of moral controls are no longer sufficient to be convinced of the reasons for the influence, as long as it is open to the arena of hell and armed with nuclear missiles. In the head of Satan, and bloody battalions for the Day of Resurrection?!
Western historians were not wrong, then - Noam Chomsky, for example - when they expected the collapse of the entire global system at the hands of a machine that surpassed man in arrogance and bullying. Despite that, we are witnessing the rise of a group that corrects the course of history, by restoring man from the mechanisms of his alienation and attempts to strip him of his human essence, to restore him. To the era of chivalry, since the bow was a secret of military honor. You can imagine how the “lighter” in Al-Qassami’s hand caught the attention of the world obsessed with technology, and restored respect to the soldier (archer) in the era of robotic and automatic armies.
Al-Qassam, then, was not an armed force, but rather a force armed with elements of values and a message of faith much braver than that of an Israeli and Western soldier, an atheist.
Patterns of warfare and the ethics of technology
Voltaire spoke about those who refuse to consider mass murder a crime, as long as it is committed during war. For them, war justifies everything, as long as it is force. Therefore, Great Rome imposed compulsory conscription and mobilized the elite of mercenaries to structure its legendary army, while Sparta sent children from the age of seven for compulsory military service that extended until the age of sixty in European societies that devoted their entire history to the fields of blood.
These are nations that glorified wars and created gods to whom human sacrifices were made, in absolute slavery to the blind power of evil!
Contemporary Western reality is no different from its ancient intellectual core. The civilization of power is the only power of civilization, as weapons technology becomes the safe zone for the merchants of politicians and hegemony, not because it provides an ethical environment for international conflicts that limits human losses and violence, and requires an accurate and decisive information system, but rather because it has been achieved. It was published from readings by academics and historians that predict a decline in compulsory conscription in the foreseeable future, in exchange for a pivotal role for technological firepower in managing conflicts and prolonging wars, which is what we see with our own eyes in Ukraine and Gaza, against which Yoav Galant has vowed to wage war everywhere. And indefinitely!
So where are the Arab “scrap” armies in all of this?
We only see it at monument or inauguration ceremonies, so you cannot consider it an armed nation in the manner of Napoleon;
Because its weapons are riddled with weevils and its bullets (fishing), are only sufficient to guard rogue kingdoms, which do not express the concept of the nation-state, and are not even worthy of wax museums or lace wars!
Cyber warfare has raised ethical controversy, because it lacks manifestations of nobility and valor in performance as in the fields of field confrontation, thereby reducing the vital field for the feelings and strong emotions of the masses, with which the rhythm of battle and the heroic representation of the warrior interact.
This ritual almost became extinct, had it not been for the documented footage of the Qassam attacks, which were circulated by global activists on social media, mesmerized by the scenes of bravery, bravery, and targeting from “zero distance.”
Al-Qassam won the moral and media battle with merit, overthrowing Western propaganda, which carried under its banner the racist goals of recycling the Crusades and the myth of the Biblical land. Even global consciousness seemed mature enough to refuse to regurgitate the same narrative again, as if it was waiting for a force with different specifications - spiritual and intellectual - to identify with. With it and inspired by it the reasons for his revolution against distorted concepts and methods of numbing consciousness and distorting facts, and it was: “the flood.”
Al-Qassam, then, was not an armed force, but rather a force armed with elements of values and a message of faith much braver than that of an Israeli and Western soldier, an atheist, who does not believe in the Torah and the Bible, and is not prepared to fight a war outside screens and digital applications.
Because for him the battle is an entertainment round, or a game of buttons, into which he enters with his dark wisdom: the technology of death!
This is precisely what made the moral and heroic difference between the two models, in that the Qassam resistance rehabilitated soldiering as a systematic commitment governed by standards of pride and dignity that extract the elements of strength from the educational preparations of the soul, and reveal new connotations of fighting, steadfastness and sacrifice, beyond human endurance and the comprehension of the Western mind that Of course, he does not expect his soldiers to sacrifice their lives for the sake of technology, for the sake of propaganda, or even for the sake of racism!
A black market for mercenaries and animals
Thomas Friedman relies on evolutionary psychology - to explain the nature of the conflict with animal logic - and recycles the speech of Pope Urban II - 1095, when he called on Europeans to liberate hatred by searching for resources for pasture and habitation, in the lands of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and then removing them from the accursed race, presenting to them Animal wars of survival, and bonds of forgiveness that bring them into Paradise... Is there a paradise for animals other than the forest, O Baba?!
Wars, with this abnormal understanding, will not be (a political process in different ways), as animals do not deal with politics, and did not know the privatization that spread across Europe in its dark ages, where the “virtuous white” empires were building “5-star” military wings for mercenaries that they bought from the slave market. Just as the occupation does with new mercenaries it picks up from the black spider market, to throw them into the pit of hell!
Friedman is no different from his colleague in Orwell's Animal Farm: "Rousseau." He considered this war a form of relations between the countries of the animal world, knowing that the hardened generals did not leave the philosophical cover of Friedman's article, when they saw in war the chameleon of the jungle, so what kept him in a group? This Darwin, the sons of Adam have wisdom and reason, oh Lord?!
They tell you that states make wars just as wars make states, which means that war is a doctrine, a method established by blue-blooded priests of shrines, and imbibed by their followers and disciples. As for money, it is a rite of entry into the paths of belief, and as for the Israeli army, it did not leave its uncle Orwell’s farm, until After upgrading the forest to a kingdom, in Friedman’s article for the New York Times, he forgot that the mercenary army does not have the elements of belonging found in animal societies, whose members bravely defend them to the death. Therefore, Netanyahu will not find a respectable monkey who uses hired mice to protect his banana republic. Honor is not given to foundlings or prey, even in the animal world!
Divine faithfulness in Surat Al-Adiyat
The Geneva Academy website lists more than forty-five armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, with foreign sources of origin and support. The conflict militias are like Japanese dice, “Go,” controlled by two players who expand the playing field as needed.
America manages the stones in a context of strategic partnership, and the privatization of wars through double agents: (temporary militants, or alternative armies) for the benefit of the “Israel” entity that lacks “heroic warriors”... which confirms that war is an existential element for America and Israel, but in a commercial format that has a face. A feudal lord turns the gunman into a commodity, and the soldier into an electronic device with specifications that suit the gods of war and the requirements of the market.
This is precisely why you cannot consider the Qassam to be a table stone in this fray, as long as the Qassam is an idea that has its own psychological logic and existential principle that moves between two ideals: victory or martyrdom?
If you contemplate horses within the Qur’anic vision, in Surat Al-Adiyat specifically, you would find that chivalry is the message and it is honesty. The raid scene and the mental progressions and spiritual mobilization that precede it, accompanied by a controlled performance escalation - not marred by lethargy or hesitation - are nothing but a rhetorical reflection of the psychological components of the Muslim warrior. , who does not treat war as a goal of survival or domination, but rather as an exception, which must be avoided as much as possible. Whoever is forced, whether unjustly or habitually, then jihad is the hump of his certainty.
The intellectual rhythm of the Qasamiya battle goes beyond the field of confrontation, to a more vital and extended field: Paradise, and all the warrior needs to realize it is: a takbir, a throw, and a prostration of eternity, all of which are vivid scenes that established the “Flood” as a central force emanating from a center of psychological power, overcoming its impulses, and freeing itself from its shackles. Which paralyzes the spirit and shackles the resolve, such that this evaluative anatomy of performance becomes the value incubator for the qualities of honor in battle: truth and enthusiasm.
Well, then, heaven is the divine trust in Qassamist thought, while heartless war is, in Darwinian thought, the rusty stone of philosophers, or the cursed weed of the forest: racism!
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