The Disturbing Advantage of Israeli Brutality
The resistance find themselves perpetually on the losing end because they retain the vestigial traces of civilized human beings unwilling to treat their fellow man as mere animals to be slaughtered.
The Arab resistance fights on, clinging to the tattered remnants of morality and surgical precision, while the Zionist war machine levels complete residential areas with callous disregard for human life. In this asymmetric struggle, the oppressed find themselves outmatched not only on the battlefield but in the arena of public opinion, where a racist media apparatus demonizes them as ‘savages’ and ‘rapists’, even as the Zionist entity kidnaps thousands of children, operates rape dungeons and perpetrates a full-blown genocide.
Those who dare protest peacefully against the Palestinian genocide, marching and waving flags, are met with the cold reality that the governments they seek to sway remain unmoved by such symbolic gestures. They stand ready to unleash unconstrained violence and a flagrant misuse of state power to suppress any voice raised in dissent against Israel's ongoing atrocities. The deep unfairness of this dynamic could not be more apparent.
The Inescapable Reality of ‘Might Makes Right’
It becomes increasingly clear that what governs human ‘civilization’ is no different from the brutish realm of lesser creatures. For long, we deluded ourselves into believing we had evolved beyond the base impulses of the animal kingdom, but the truth is stark: those willing to employ brutal violence and subjugation hold the upper hand. They do as they please, say what they will, and take what they want, heedless of the cries of the most vulnerable.
Here lies the dilemma: to combat such evil, one could embrace the same psychopathic violence, fighting fire with fire, and in the process, become that which one sought to destroy. In other words, to defeat the oppressor, one must inevitably transform into a monster themselves, perpetuating a cycle of harm that knows no end. It is a Gordian knot that can only be severed by the presence of functioning international institutions, capable of keeping unfettered power in check.
Yet such institutions are sorely lacking, hence the realist theorists seem to have a point: the anarchic system that governs our world pushes states inexorably toward violent warfare, a perpetual struggle to maintain the balance of power, even when they would prefer peace.
Where the realists are wrong, however, is in failing to account for those non-Western groups of people who refuse to employ the psychopathic violence that has become the West's calling card. In a world that has endured 500 years of imperialist, colonialist, Western brutality, groups like the Arabs – and perhaps the Chinese – may find themselves perpetually on the losing end, not because they are less advanced, but because they retain the vestigial traces of civilized human beings unwilling to treat their fellow man as mere animals to be slaughtered — A deep-rooted moral adherence to human decency that manifests even when their fellow man kills their children and treats them as less than vermin, undeserving of the most basic dignity.
How to Heal from Western Psychopathy and Return to Civilization?
In a world governed by such moral principles, one can envision the halcyon days marking the golden age of Arab and Chinese realms, where knowledge and artistry thrived splendidly under the aegis of ethically upright rule. However, with a European culture of rabid violence now dominating the globe, armed with the most sophisticated weapons of mass death, the refusal of descendants from those ancient civilizations to inflict that same violence appears to have rendered them at a permanent disadvantage. This grim paradox elevates the most depraved to a position of perpetual superiority over the ethically restrained.
The question, then, becomes how to extricate ourselves from this morass without surrendering our very humanity in the process. How do we rid ourselves of these psychopaths ruining our world, without ourselves becoming the monsters we seek to defeat? It is a riddle that bedevils all who still hold a flicker of conscience, a paradox that may prove insoluble until we, as a species, evolve beyond our basest impulses. Until then, the path of the moral remains strewn with the ashes of the defeated, and the cries of the oppressed will continue to be drowned out by the lies of the depraved.
- Karim
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