Diaaeldin Mahmoud Abdel Moaty Abdel Raheem
2026 / 3 / 7
In the rush of rapidly unfolding events, and under the relentless weight of a tireless war machine, the leaders in Washington and Tel Aviv are missing something critical. They treat human blood as if it were cheap, and the sovereignty of nations as if they were playing cards to be folded at will. They operate under the illusion that brute military force, nuclear monopolies, and the "legitimacy of power" are enough to write history. But they overlook a fundamental truth: nations built on the skulls of other peoples cannot withstand the winds of ancient civilizations whose roots run deep in history.
The sight of children s body parts in Iraq under American bombs,´-or-buried under rubble in Gaza after an Israeli strike, was just another episode in a long saga of casual bloodshed. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, through the invasion of Iraq under the pretext of weapons of mass destruction that were never found, America has proven it will not hesitate to destroy entire nations to achieve its aims. Israel has been no different-;- its modern history is replete with repeated aggression against its neighbors: from its attacks on Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon in the 1967 war, through its repeated invasions of Lebanon, to its bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor in the 1980s, and its ongoing threats against its neighbors, waging wars on Iran alongside the U.S. It s a clear pattern of aggression, recognizing neither neighbors nor charters.
The fundamental difference here lies in "age" and "essence." In contrast to these two relatively modern nations, we stand with ancient civilizations like Egypt, Iraq (Babylon and Assyria), and Iran (Persia). These nations, which have learned over thousands of years the vicissitudes of time and the craft of building life, not just death, now find themselves in the same trench as the oppressed, defending just causes, foremost among them the Palestinian cause. It is not merely a political alliance, but a deep, historical feeling that injustice will not last, and that human blood carries a weight that neither "Iron Dome" missiles nor American aircraft carriers can deny.
The Bloody Twins: A Genesis Built on the Ruins of the Other
The similarity between the United States and Israel is not a transient political one-;- it is a structural similarity in their "original sin." Just as the United States was built on the ruins of the Native American tragedy—a people exterminated and driven from their ancestral lands in the name of "Manifest Destiny"—Israel was built on the ruins of the Palestinian people, displaced during the 1948 Nakba. Both are nations built at the expense of another, and perhaps this is why they exhibit the same exclusionary and bloodthirsty tendency in dealing with the "other."
One of the most horrific manifestations of this bloodthirstiness wasn t in the Middle East, but decades earlier in Japan. The United States did not hesitate to atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to end a war that was nearly finished, but to send a message of dominance to another adversary. It is the same mindset: achieving the objective at any cost, regardless of the number of innocent civilian casualties.
How Long Will the World Remain a Bystander?
What America and Israel fail to realize is that brute force throughout history has been defeated and has crumbled, and that these policies will only lead to more resistance and the erosion of the international legitimacy they both claim to uphold. The time has come for a unified and decisive global stance to put an end to this tyranny. A stance that goes beyond mere condemnation and moves towards action.
Reforming the United Nations is no longer an intellectual luxury, but an existential necessity to preserve the gains of human civilization. The world must move towards a new international system that abolishes the so-called "veto" power, which paralyzes the will of the international community in favor of a few nations. Voting in international forums should be based on a majority of member states, equally and fairly, like a round table where no voice is elevated above another. It is also necessary to activate a truly deterrent mechanism by forming a military force from countries all over the world, representing the international will, not individual agendas, tasked with maintaining international peace and security, achieving justice, and protecting small nations from the arrogance of the powerful.
The ultimate goal is to safeguard the dignity of nations and the dignity of the individual, and to preserve the sanctity of their blood, land, honor, and property. When the arrogant powers realize that the blood of children in Gaza, Baghdad,´-or-Beirut is too precious to be shed in vain, and when they realize that the sovereignty of nations is a red line that cannot be crossed—only then can true peace prevail. But continuing the policy of seeking "cheap blood" will ultimately have -dir-e consequences for the shedders of that blood, because ancient civilizations know how to wait, and how to forge victory from the depths of pain.
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