Gaza 2023: The War That Exposed the Hypocrisy of Western Civilization and Reshaped the World

The coccyx of our planet! Let's assume a group of extraterrestrial beings wanted to survey the conditions of Earth and learn about the civilization and culture of its inhabitants. Their spaceship landed on the sands of our blue planet in early 2023, and using all their technology for research, monitoring, and investigation, they would form a complete picture of the lives of these humans, their world, their countries, their societies, their environment, their culture, and what they believe in.

Initially, they would be surprised by the extent of pollution, gas emissions, and chemical substances produced by human civilization, which have caused a significant disruption in their ecosystem, an imbalance in its components, and severe climate crises, in addition to the depletion of resources and wealth. They would discover that Earth's inhabitants are spread across six continents and 195 countries, whose borders and power were formed after two world wars in the mid-20th century. Two great empires gave way to two federal states, one of which fell in the ninth decade of the 20th century, leaving one state holding the reins of global politics, increasing its power and wealth through wars it ignites in regions rich in resources, energy sources, and wealth.

The number of these humans is nearly eight billion people, of whom only about 1.5% control approximately 48% of the total global wealth and much of its capabilities. One out of every six people does not believe in the existence of a creator and does not adhere to any religion. Meanwhile, the number of monotheistic believers in God does not exceed a quarter of these inhabitants, most of whom live in a state of weakness, fragmentation, and humiliation, in the most turbulent and conflict-ridden areas, many under oppressive, corrupt, and tyrannical regimes. The dominant civilization in world politics is a materialistic, capitalist, savage Western civilization, expanding across Europe and North America. A civilization that relies on technological advancement, invests in scientific progress, and military power that enables it to weaken other peoples, colonize their countries, exploit their natural resources, and plunder their wealth.

And we have a superpower that controls most international organizations and legal institutions, dominates media outlets, cultural channels, and entertainment tools, and owns major newspapers, news websites, drama production companies, screens, and satellite channels. Its policies are controlled by influential Zionist Jewish groups, who have the ability to place their politicians in all decision-making centers and institutions. A "Zionist lobby" controls the decisions of the world's most powerful countries, directs their affairs, and alone holds the keys to their formidable media system, using all of this to support their colonial entity and their state based on occupation and the theft of others' lands. In contrast, major countries are seen as rising political poles, with different civilizations and large populations. The human world appears scientifically and technologically advanced, but it is in its worst state environmentally, humanely, and socially, and in terms of civilization, ethics, and religion.

However, just a stone's throw away, a few months after this date, our land will witness a major event, an event that will change the balance of power and global politics, and create a new media landscape. It is the Al-Aqsa Flood war, which began with a military attack on October 7, 2023, launched by the resistance in Palestine. They attacked a number of Zionist settlements known as the Gaza envelope settlements, killing, injuring, and capturing a number of Zionist soldiers and settlers, accompanied by missile strikes deep into the occupied territories. The Israeli occupation state responded with a horrific war, described by international organizations as the most violent ethnic cleansing war in modern history, and its ceasefire, despite signed agreements, has not stopped to this day.

A war that researchers and historians will record as one of the pivotal events and major transformations in history. The features of a full-fledged world war, but exceptional in form and composition. An alliance comprising seven of the world's most powerful countries in terms of economy, armament, and influence, pledged full support to Israel with money, weapons, equipment, security and intelligence cooperation, and permission to send soldiers and fighters. On the other side, they are fighting a popular resistance of several thousand soldiers, who have been under a suffocating siege for 16 years, in a limited geographical area, neither a state nor a quasi-state, but a small city with an area of 360 square kilometers. It has no army, no fleet, no naval or air force, no aircraft, no airports, no military colleges, no tanks, but all it has are volunteer soldiers, and researchers who dedicated their knowledge to serving their country, and primitive weapon manufacturing workshops with self-efforts inside dark underground tunnels, producing light to medium weapons. But their greatest possession is a firm belief that life, souls, and blood are cheap in the face of one goal: liberating the land from colonialism.

A war that revealed the true face of Western civilization, and how it blatantly sided with a criminal Zionist entity, whose core consists of scattered Jewish groups gathered from the diaspora, to usurp land, falsify history, and erase the identity of the place, claiming false rights based on alleged religious promises. It shattered all international laws, treaties, and conventions that humanity had reached in the last two centuries. Suddenly, the world woke up to terrifying bloody scenes, disturbing the mind, shaking logic, and undermining the spirit. A Nazi holocaust, and massacres coming from the Middle Ages, whose chapters are unfolding in the age of technology, the internet, social media, and satellite channels, and whose horrifying scenes are broadcast around the clock and live.

A shock that forced all peoples of the Earth to rethink everything that had been absorbed over decades as facts, concepts, and self-evident truths: Western secularism, the age of modernity, international law, international organizations, human rights. A war that divided the world into two large teams: a team that upholds its humanity, rejects injustice, and supports the people of Gaza, mostly from peoples across the Earth, and another team that includes major political systems, client governments, tyrants, and despots, who supported the killers and colluded with Israel. As for the alliance that emerged between Europe and America to support Israel in its religious war - as clearly described by US Congressman Lindsey Graham - it soon collapsed at the doorstep of American greed to seize Greenland, which is under Danish rule. And we saw the highest political official in Canada, the Prime Minister, tell us about the collapse of the current world order, and that we will inevitably witness the birth of a new world order.

The world witnessed popular movements, protests, and demonstrations rejecting the war on Gaza, unprecedented in history. Universities in most countries of the world rose up in support of Gaza and Palestine. For two full years, discussions about the Gaza war dominated the streets and squares in dozens of countries, and it became the most prominent event around which the words of guests revolved in celebrations, tributes, and festivals. And for the first time, we saw international media daring to criticize Zionism and condemn Israel.

As for the great gift that Gaza presented to our miserable world, written with the blood of its innocent children, it is the epic of patience and certainty, which reintroduced the monotheistic religion on a clear path to millions, and we witnessed the largest global wave of embracing Islam. We saw celebrities, influencers, and activists from various countries of the world shock their followers by announcing their conversion to Islam, and they revealed the reason that prompted them to become Muslims, which was their admiration for the legendary patience of the people of Gaza in the face of the horrors and woes they endured. The anger of the Arab Muslim peoples in their afflicted region increased, the savage Syrian regime fell, and the fig leaf fell from many Arab regimes that failed the people of Gaza and colluded with Israel against them. It is as if Gaza revived souls, awakened consciences, paved the way, and rewrote history. It is as if God intended it to be the coccyx that revives our planet, that small greatness in human bodies, located at the base of their spine, which does not decay with death, nor is it consumed by the earth, but awaits God's will to sprout life anew from it. Our noble Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, described it in his hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari, saying: (Between the two blasts there are forty, then Allah sends down water from the sky and they grow as vegetables grow. He said: There is nothing of a human being that does not decay except one bone, which is the coccyx, and from it the creation will be reassembled on the Day of Resurrection). So peace be upon you, people of Gaza, as you revived our land, changed our reality, and made history.