A group photo of the main defendants in the attack claimed by ISIS on the entertainment theater in Moscow (French)

In the eyes of the whole world, Israel is living in a state of complete decadence due to its genocide in Gaza and all its other crimes against humanity. Presenting the attacks launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023 as an excuse for its brutal barbarism convinces no one but itself. Nothing can justify its brutal killing of nearly 50,000 people, including children, the elderly, civilians, women, journalists, medical teams, and clerics. This brutality, which has been continuing for six months, has only led to the complete depletion of the existential pretexts that Israel has built so far on Holocaust literature. Contrary to what you want, the longer these attacks last, the more Hamas’s legitimacy and credibility will be strengthened, and the global sympathy for it and for Islam will increase.

Not only did the ongoing process eliminate the vile link between Islam and terrorism, which represents the most important components of the Israeli, American and European discourse on Islam and the Middle East, but the verse was reversed, so that the stories of brutality and civilizational barbarism of Israel and the West became more striking to the world’s attention since the seventh of last October, to the point that they formed Much more narrative content than what they attach to Islam. Hamas's resistance became justified and sympathetic, and Israel's gang rule and terror became evident. It will become clear to everyone how the United States and Europe turn a blind eye to the thousands of crimes committed by ISIS in photo studios, while the brutal killing machine is launched against millions of Muslims in the name of the United States or Israel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

We are at a point where narratives of “Islamic terrorism,” used as an excuse for Western imperialism, are no longer valid or reliable even for their own audiences. We can say that this narrative linking Islam with terrorism was not the only one that collapsed in the face of the genocide in Gaza, supported without limits by the United States. Rather, we reached a point where all the Orientalist narratives that had provided the basis for imperialist ideology for three hundred years were exhausted.

As in all previous scenes, ISIS entered the stage to play a useful role for the United States and Israel, but their calculations were wrong this time, because even the theatrical displays of brutality practiced by ISIS cannot cover up the true brutality of Israel. On the contrary, ISIS is now seen as a black asset on the record of these two countries

ISIS again

At this particular point, the terrorist attack that occurred in late March at one of Moscow's important entertainment centers seemed remarkably strange. What is strangest is that the United States announced that it had received intelligence information some time ago regarding this attack claimed by ISIS, which puts dots on the answers to the questions of who is doing what and why.

By contemplating the ISIS model alone, we can notice how the scarecrow of “Islamic terrorism” promoted by the West and Israel has become exposed as a lie and a phenomenon of fragility. Is there anyone who does not yet know what ISIS is? Who made it? Who benefits from it and reaps the fruits of its efforts?

We remember how the United States entered Syria under the slogan of eliminating President Bashar al-Assad, who is killing his people, but after they entered the country through a corridor secured by an international military coalition, their goal suddenly changed, so that fighting the Islamic State, known as ISIS, became the most important issue, and the project died. Eliminating Assad, and even stabilizing matters for him... For the Western camp, the equation was clear in reality. Assad’s departure and the Syrian people assuming power constituted a security threat to Israel that could not be tolerated.

The United States of America and ISIS worked hand in hand and in full coordination in the fight against the Syrian people - Assad's victims - instead of fighting Assad himself, and when the presence of ISIS fighters became more than what was needed in the Syrian arena, the United States itself transported members of the ISIS branch in Khorasan with its planes. To Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, America's main enemy, but the latter was not an easy morsel to swallow, and despite that, members of this organization are still lurking there waiting for an opportunity to destroy the stability and security that the country has recently begun to experience.

There is frequent information that leaves no doubt about the relationship between ISIS and the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Despite this, America is still trying to use this card exposed in Moscow to rally people against an imaginary enemy.

The latest incident may reportedly have something to do with Ukraine, but what can the latter gain from it? Or it may have a role in drawing up new American policies towards the Middle East and Islamic countries. As we know, leaders of Islamic countries like to confirm US lies more than verify them. It seems that the smear operations that used the brutality of ISIS to undermine moderate Islamic democratic movements please especially the leaders of the Arab world. It enabled them to maintain and consolidate their authoritarian positions against their opponents. They don't even seem interested in thinking about whether the United States or Israel is really behind ISIS. They consider any story the United States tells to be a pillar of their existence as well.

But this time, in Moscow, Vladimir Putin was the target of the story being told through ISIS. He - unlike the Arab leaders - is the person who cannot be mistaken in identifying the perpetrators and the real target.

Putin, who realized from the beginning how the killing of the Russian ambassador in Ankara years ago attempted to manipulate events, and said at the time that he clearly saw what was intended to be done through that incident, now also sees clearly how events were intended to be manipulated, and to which side he wanted to push.

The attempt to strike Moscow - the enemy of the United States - these days through the scarecrow of Islamic terrorism, aims, among other things, to divert attention from Israel, which richly deserves to be at the top of the list of disgrace and disgrace on charges of terrorism, violence, brutality and barbarism due to the crimes against humanity that it has been committing before the eyes of the world for 6 months.

As in all previous scenes, ISIS entered the stage to play a role that was “useful” or “expected to be beneficial” to both the United States and Israel. These are their calculations that are wrong this time, because even the theatrical displays of brutality practiced by ISIS cannot cover up the real brutality of Israel. On the contrary, its brutality is now seen as a black asset on the record of these two countries.

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