We are historically witnessing the first genocide in plain sight. Beware, this is not just a matter of denunciation or disgust. At the moment when civilians are being slaughtered, starved, bombed; at the moment when war criminals openly declare that they will exterminate all children, because “tomorrow they will fight against Israel”; at the moment when murderers wear shirts depicting a pregnant Palestinian woman in their crosshairs and boast that with one shot, they kill two (the woman and the fetus she carries) … something else is also happening.
The live broadcast, the “bombardment” of images of terror and misery, has other effects as well. It wounds the psyche; it addicts people to horror. This “addiction to terror” aims to create psychological and social desensitization toward images of war, genocides, ethnic cleansings. It aims to create paralyzing inertia, to spread cynicism as an attitude, the loss of the ability to react, the “socialization” of horror.
The addiction to terror is systematically cultivated by political systems and media. On a political level, it is used for manipulation: people who constantly watch (consume) destruction without reacting are more likely to relinquish their role as active citizens.
The addiction to terror is used as a mechanism of inactivation. To lose thought, to ensure the citizen assumes no responsibility. Apathy, the habituation to horror, are deadly tools against social solidarity and citizen mobilization. Experts will also speak of the phenomenon of “compassion fatigue”—not indifference, but the inability to continue caring when everything seems lost.
Politically speaking, however, we are historically witnessing the first genocide in plain sight. Many have occurred over the last 2-3 centuries, but this is the first we see, hear, and feel. It surrounds us directly, without hiding, without pretenses. The horror and the monster are on full display. There is no curtain to cover it, no veil to obscure it. We slaughter, exterminate, display power in its most abhorrent form, and you will accept it whether you want to or not. You’d better get used to it, and know that we stop at nothing. We are an invincible, monstrous extermination machine. We eliminate everything, every person who seems dangerous or turns against us. There is no law we respect. We are exterminators! We are a “chosen people”! We are superior in all things, and the Palestinians are subhuman, cockroaches to be exterminated.
And nearby, Trump declares: “I’ll turn Gaza into Riviera. My Riviera!”
Behind the terror comes the hypocrisy of the “collective West” that supports, fuels, and arms Zionist Israel; the corruption of Arab regimes that do nothing (if not collaborating with the killers); the calculated “coolness” of the Chinese and Russians; the sycophants like the Greek government sweating to be on the “right side of history”; and those who regurgitate: “Israel’s reaction is excessive, but we need them as an ally against Turkey.”
We will say it again: Across the world, the flag of Palestine is waving. It is perhaps one of the 3-4 most recognized flags on the planet. It is the flag of a people fighting for their Homeland, the Land stolen from them, the Freedom denied to them. This flag is not only raised by Palestinians but by citizens who see the horror and react. Even Jewish peace activists raise it. Recently, some timidly wave it like a fig leaf to hide their complicity with Israel and its crimes (see: European globalist and anti-Russian left).
The isolation and outcry against Zionist Israel and its Nazi methods are signs that there are antibodies—strong antibodies—against the new mechanisms of manipulation, propaganda, and brainwashing. Justice, freedom, and righteousness cannot be erased from human souls. Our duty, no matter how difficult it seems, is to immediately stop the genocide in Gaza. To not grow accustomed to terror, to not accept faits accomplis.
We close with the words of the Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim (1939-2014):
We will remain here,
like a thorn in the throat of our enemies;
like a stone in a river that refuses to be swept away;
like an olive tree that roots against the wind.
Perhaps every light will fade from my nights,
perhaps I will be deprived of a mother’s kiss.
Perhaps my children will go without new clothes for the feast,
perhaps in my days you will nail me to the cross.
But I will not bargain, and until the last
beat of my heart, I will resist.
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