Ayşe Doğu
The chronic ailments of the non-Western world—particularly the Muslim world—and the aggressive policies of what we call the West, namely Europe and America, which began in the Middle Ages, complement one another.
The disarray of the two-billion-strong Muslim community, along with its moral and doctrinal degeneration and the incompatibility and gulf between the center and the periphery, provided Western elites with the opportunity to press the button for mass extermination.
Let us recall that the massacres committed by the West in past centuries in Africa, South and North America, the Far East, and India were legitimized by hiding behind the Christian faith.
The Crusader attacks of the eleventh century and the Crusader spirit have been revived. Overseas pirate activities, which began in the Middle Ages with the intention of discovering new routes, claimed the lives of millions through massacres, plunder, and rape. The West’s greed for gold had blinded them. Expansionism was legitimized and imposed through the churches.
Practices of forced religious conversion were reformulated in the twenty-first century through Zionism, which they had been weaving thread by thread since the late nineteenth century and which they regarded as a more expedient instrument. Jews and the Palestinian people were chosen as guinea pigs for the West’s ambitions to dominate the Middle East.
While their seemingly innocent slogan to their own people was “saving the primitives in the name of Christianity,” the legitimizing instrument of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was carried out under the slogan of “bringing civilization” to every place that was not their own. They reconstructed recent history in accordance with their own ambitions. Great civilizations had been established on these lands, which they attacked and where they committed unimaginable massacres, and there had been peoples living there long before they ever set foot on them. They loaded people onto ships and brought them to Europe from their own lands.
The most distinctive characteristic of the West was its tendency to attack like a wild animal in pursuit of its greed and to recognize no sacred values. They are still the same today.
Over time, clergymen who traveled to those lands defied their countries’ policies in the face of such savagery, and churches and clergymen became the centers of many uprisings. This was because the first colonizers to arrive were prison escapees and vagabonds.
Civilized according to what standards, and according to whom?!
In these lands, which were foreign to them, this band of murderers—who relied solely on their weapons and sought to annihilate the existence of the indigenous peoples—had only one accomplishment: to disregard the local hierarchy, torture even their leaders to death, forge glorious histories in blood, and boast of what they had done.
The West has never apologized for any of its genocides, and even today it does not refrain from resorting to the same methods whenever the opportunity arises. Their civilization is a “civilization of plunder”—if one can even call it a civilization. The most striking evidence of this is the museums in Western countries where stolen artifacts are displayed. For example, the museum in London, and the skull chambers in Paris, which they created to normalize the massacres they committed in their colonial territories and to spread terror…
The most effective way to destabilize the West is to undermine its sources of income. That is when they immediately begin devouring one another. When they unite for material gain, they turn against others. When the flow of resources is cut off, they do not show the slightest mercy even to their own people. Science, art, history, and so on are merely instruments they use to maintain this system. Just as religion served this purpose yesterday, democracy is good only insofar as it serves the same purpose today. They move from democracy to tyranny at jet speed. What they called white yesterday, they call black today, and they do not even blush.
What shameful crimes they have committed in Gaza over the past two years! Yet they still lecture us on humanity.
Under the guise of a ceasefire, at least 1.5 million people are being held hostage in inhumane conditions in Gaza. At present, there is no difference between the people of Gaza, the West Bank, and the Palestinian detainees held in the Sde Teiman and Ofer prisons. They may differ in certain respects, but fundamentally they are all enduring the same deprivation.
The greatest facilitator of all this is the vast criminal organization known as the United Nations.
The primary evidence that this institution is not “neutral” is that it granted statehood to a fictitious entity such as Israel. Through Britain’s intervention and the atmosphere of tyranny created by the Second World War, the rightful owners of Palestinian lands were handed over to colonial agents brought in from outside. The origins of this distorted entity are unclear. The United Nations’ failure to properly fulfill its duties and its turning a blind eye to “illegal settlements” paved the way for subjecting the people of Gaza and the West Bank to ultimate genocide in 2023. And throughout all these years, the humanitarian tragedy that unfolded was deepened step by step, contributing to the disregard of the rule of law and the strengthening of a regime of tyranny.
The continuation of the genocide over the past two years—and indeed the West, which has carried out and supported this genocide with its weapons, budgets, mercenaries, and genocidal media outlets—has cornered a civilian population, half of whom are children. Western countries first attempted to silence those who stood against the genocide through social media restrictions and media censorship. When they failed to manipulate public opinion against this rogue state and its supporters in this manner, they began applying to pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide movements methods of inhumane restriction and destruction similar to those they had imposed on the Palestinian people.
Anti-Semitism is a smokescreen invented to conceal the West’s Islamophobia. At the same time, it is also a complementary instrument of genocide. In a sense, it is a method of denying the crime and protecting the perpetrator through legal means.
In order to pave the way for the accelerating dispossession campaigns of the malignant entity that has intensified its illegal settlement activities on Palestinian lands since 1948, they remained silent, looked the other way, and tolerated the transfer of new settlers and the sale of property.
Meanwhile, the people of Gaza and the West Bank continue every day to be displaced, bombed, deprived of their homes and workplaces, and to see their roads torn apart by bulldozers. They remained silent while thousands of people were killed by snipers during the genocide merely for trying to obtain a sack of flour distributed under the guise of aid.
They destroyed hospitals to prevent thousands of wounded and disabled Palestinians from receiving medical treatment, and they arrested doctors and tortured them to death. They killed children by shooting them in the head and chest. They buried people alive in mass graves, bombed their homes and annihilated them entirely, and now, in order to erase the traces of these horrific massacres, they are razing everything that remains to the ground, even though the rubble still contains the bodies of thousands of Palestinians.
All this brutality was carried out live on air. As though war and death were merely a video game, they are now trying to erase what has happened.
Yes, these events have been etched into humanity’s memory, and no attempt to erase them will ever return humanity’s memory to what it was before 2023. This computer-assisted genocide cannot be ignored. Nor will the plight of 1.5 million people—deprived of food, placed under siege, and denied medical assistance in these winter conditions—be forgotten, nor will the restrictions and intimidation imposed by Western aggression against United Nations staff (including Francesca Albanese and the prosecutors who issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu), UNRWA staff, and other humanitarian organizations.
All of this is being carried out under the supervision of the United Nations.
How will the principle that the rest of the world possesses the same rights as the five permanent members of the United Nations be put into practice?
So many red lines have been crossed throughout this process that speaking, writing, and even living have become meaningless acts.
At the beginning of the Western New Year—which they have transformed into a pagan frenzy of unrestricted sexuality, alcohol, and shopping mania—we continue to write, archive, and record these events for the annals of history to emphasize that we have not forgotten the suffering people of Gaza, the sick, the disgrace of obstructing humanitarian aid that particularly affects Palestinians with bare feet and soaked tents, especially children, the Palestinians held captive in prisons, the Western activists deprived of their freedom for supporting them, the students expelled from their schools, and the adults dismissed from their jobs, and to defy the helplessness imposed upon us.
In order to prevent these crimes against humanity, it is necessary to articulate, on the basis of truth, the narratives that have been turned upside down, and to emphasize the importance of working to establish alternative mechanisms that will replace the states that have become patrons of criminals and thieves, as well as the United Nations, which has become a shield of legitimacy for them—mechanisms that protect human dignity, labor, existence, and children.
We understand, from the judgmental decisions they make without a second thought, just how great a source of pressure we are against all centers of power that have declared war on humanity.
If thousands of tons of bombs have failed to make a people living in a tiny geography with scarce means doubt the righteousness of their stance and discourse, then it has become a duty incumbent upon all of us to protect them and advocate on their behalf. The tears in their eyes are our own. The loss of their children is our loss as well. Their hunger turns our own satiety into torment. As they tremble beneath the floodwaters, our hearts tremble too, and our consciences ache.
As Abu Ubayda so eloquently expressed it: “You are our eternal enemies.”
You are the usurpers of our children, our future, our lands, our peace, our honor, our faith, our innocence, and our very existence, and to show you tolerance is to place the noose of the Knesset around our necks. We cannot afford to be lenient toward you. Only when we expel you from the family of humanity will our children be protected from abuse and abandonment, and only then will they be able to look to the future with hope.
Throughout its history, humanity has endured countless ordeals and, each time, has managed to find ways to rise again. Vulnerability, too, is a human condition, and it helps bring humanity’s latent strengths to the surface.
It is a disgrace to target children. It is a disgrace to steal. It is a disgrace to exploit. It is a disgrace to become a slave to one’s own greed. It is a disgrace to wage war against humanity. It is a disgrace to remain unable to rise above bestiality.
The West and its Zionist lackeys have gone down in history through the barbarism of their shamelessness.