Gaza, the Golgotha and the Stalingrad of Our Century

28/07/2025

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

“The enemy is not Hamas, nor its military wing. The enemy is every child in Gaza… Not a single child will there.”
—Israeli politician Feiglin on Israeli Channel 14, May 22, 2024

“Thank God, we are erasing Gaza, erasing this evil. All of Gaza will become Jewish.”
—Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, Times of Israel, July 24, 2024

The Palestinian people have been at the forefront over the last 20 months, and especially in recent weeks, in one of the greatest and most significant epics in humanity’s ancient struggle for Freedom—in the battle of Civilization against Barbarism and Neo-Fascism.

This epic is entirely comparable, in heroism and significance, to that of the defenders of Stalingrad, who sealed humanity’s struggle against Nazism. Perhaps it is even greater, because the defenders of Gaza have neither a state nor an army behind them to protect them from the genocidal, criminal hordes of Israel. And just like Stalingrad, the outcome of this conflict in Gaza will not only have local and regional consequences—it will have global ones

The only weapon of the Palestinians is dignity. “We will die, but we will not leave our homeland,” they declare in practice every day (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/medoukh/ and https://www.defenddemocracy.press/the-global-significance-of-the-crisis-in-palestine/) by their words and their acts. As a result, the Netanyahu regime and the Israeli army—which has increasingly transformed itself into an army of murderers, torturers, rapists, and sadists—grow ever more frenzied. The “achievements” of this army have already surpassed those of the Nazis, without even having the so-called “justifications” of the later.

Of course, Hitler’s justifications hold no weight whatsoever. However, Germany turned to Nazism only after suffering years of humiliation under the Treaty of Versailles, the consequences of the Great Economic Crisis of 1929, and the paralysis and inability of Social Democracy and Communism to offer an alternative. Hitlerism was the desperate counterattack of a defeated nation—though this, we repeat, does not justify the Nazis in any way.

But who has harmed or troubled the Americans and the Jews since 1945? Are they not, to a large extent, the “ruling class,” the dominant nations of the entire world? Against what or whom are they supposedly “defending themselves,” launching one bloodier intervention after another in the Middle East and across the globe for decades? What justifies the regional and global gangsterism of Israel and the U.S., along with that of their allies?

Here, we witness sheer arrogance and wish of domination without any moral justification, or even a pretext of it —leading to complete moral degradation, as seen in the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza, and to reckless brinkmanship, such as the proxy war with a nuclear superpower like Russia in Ukraine.

We could fill endless pages with these “achievements” of Israelis in Palestine which have been documented by numerous reputable international organizations and humanitarian groups. “What Israel is doing are the worst crimes I have seen in decades,” says the long-time head of UN aid programs. Even former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admits that his country is committing war crimes, causing horrific casualties, and is governed by a “criminal gang” under Netanyahu. In Gaza, Israelis are committing, according to Olmert, an “indiscriminate and unlimited, brutal and criminal murder of civilians. It is the result of a government policy, which is consciously, devilishly, maliciously and irresponsible. A decorated General, former Israeli head of the General Staff and former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon also characterized Israeli actions as ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and as the result of the messianic and fascist ideology of Netanyahu and his government.

Nor is it up to us to determine who the rightful leadership of the Palestinians should be. It is not us—it is the decades-long policy of Israel and the U.S. that has left the Palestinian people no choice but to turn to the most militant factions of their movement, those who refused to compromise with the occupier and won the right to represent their people through armed struggle, such as Hamas, which has largely separated itself from its original leaders, the “Muslim Brotherhood” https://www.defenddemocracy.press/leila-ghanem-victoire-strategique-de-liran-defaite-strategique-disrael-et-des-etats-unis/ and its allies, Islamic Jihad (which is said to be closely linked to Iran) and the militant organization of the Palestinian left, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. We have been inundated in the West with various accusations against Hamas, similar to those that have been levelled from time to time against Nelson Mandela, the Algerians of the National Liberation Front (FLN), the Cypriot EOKA or the Greek EAM. Except that almost no one mentions that this organization won the last legislative elections held in Palestine!