"The world only believes in success," said Adolf Hitler in relation to the world's forgetting the Armenian Holocaust.
Hitler followed the indifference to the systematic extermination of half of the Armenian population in Turkey.
Some were murdered in mass and brutal massacres, others were marched to death or drowned.
Hamas leaders in Qatar celebrate the seventh massacre in October
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The Ottoman Empire broke Hitler's heart especially in the face of the Jihad, which included the cleansing and extermination of many minority peoples, such as the Kurds, the Yazidis, the Christians, the Copts, and more.
In the West, they were content with warnings against committing crimes against humanity, but nothing more.
Two decades later, the Nazis included the Turkish system when they carried out the most extensive attempt in the world to exterminate a people, the Jewish people.
Throughout history there has been mutual spillover between the West and the jihadists.
But if in the past it was fascist circles that admired the violence that characterized the Muslim occupation, today the fascination characterizes liberal circles.
It is no longer a question of simply admiring power;
The admiration is for the power of a minority, of a victim who revolts against oppression, colonialism, capitalist rapacity, institutional violence, police violence, and more.
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Fundamentalist Islam settled in the hearts of the West as a post-modern discourse on the liberation of oppressed minorities and the right to self-determination, especially with regard to Israel-Palestine and Muslims living in Western countries.
Demonstration against Israel in Cyprus, photo: Reuters
However, the Arab and Western world, including the Palestinians, still deny the religious-jihadist motive of the national struggle.
Liberal publics in the US and Europe treat the Palestinians as absolute victims, entitled to the protection of the international community. This protection also includes immunity from responsibility for crimes, however brutal.
ISIS and Hamas were the two most prominent players in the last decade in committing crimes against humanity backed by the values of fundamentalist Islam.
But while ISIS received many condemnations alongside expressions of admiration, Hamas is hardly obscene in liberal circles.
In the Western mind, it was established as an organization of Palestinian freedom fighters fighting against the Zionist occupation, and not as a jihadist organization.
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There is no difference from Hamas, photo: Reuters
In the name of a national struggle (or the struggle against Western oppression) minorities are systematically exterminated even today throughout the Muslim world.
Thus, October 7 is another chapter in the history of fundamentalist Islam.
Just yesterday, a new restaurant named "October 7" was opened in Jordan, a testimony to the entrenchment of the Islamist ideology and the coalescence of the global jihad and the national Palestinian struggle.
The call for a political process with an entity like Hamas or the PA, which supports the massacre, symbolizes the liberal paradox. In the name of liberalism, we must support the Palestinians' right to self-determination, but at the same time also legitimize the establishment of another radical Islamic state in the Middle East, based on Sharia law and the suppression of Any "other".
The scene of the massacre at the night club in Orlando (archive), photo: Reuters
A terrorist incident at a gay club in Orlando in 2016, in which 49 people were massacred, was evidence of the spillover of Muslim fundamentalist attitudes to Western countries.
During the massacre the killer stopped, called the police, declared that he belonged to the Islamic State and then prayed to Allah.
The killer did not stand alone, behind him are dozens of radical Islamist preachers, most of whom live in the West.
Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the world's leading Sunni preachers and chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, argued that it is important to treat homosexuality as a crime. He also noted that there are those who argue that homosexuals should be brought down from a high place, like God did to the people of Sodom.
Hatred of LGBT people is part of an institutionalized religious ideology in many Muslim countries. In 40 of the 57 Muslim-majority countries, there are criminal laws against homosexuality. In 12 countries, LGBT people may be sentenced to death.
In the areas captured by ISIS in Syria and Iraq, dozens of LGBT people were thrown from a tall building in Mosul as punishment for homosexuality. As you may remember, this pattern was repeated in Gaza as well.
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In the territories of the Palestinian Authority, the situation of LGBT people is not much better. On October 6 of last year, Ahmed Abu Marakhia, a 25-year-old LGBT youth who found temporary refuge in Israel because his life was threatened, was kidnapped from Israel in Hebron.
The killer stabbed Abu Marakhia and then beheaded him, took a video and distributed it on social media.
Abu Marakhia was not helped, not by the aid from the United Nations Commission, as a result of which he would be absorbed in a third country, nor by the LGBT aid organizations that took care of his needs until he was absorbed.
Brutally murdered, Abu Marakhia (archive), photo: Reshhot
Human rights organizations in Israel and around the world did not see the murder of Abu Marakhia as any moral imperative.
Not even the Arab MKs or MKs identified with the LGBT issue. Each of his considerations preferred to forget about it completely. What was forgotten along with him was the religious-fundamentalist nature of many hate crimes committed against groups in Palestinian society such as LGBT people, women and others who is suspected of collaborating with Israel.
Those who call for an end to the war before its goals are achieved or for a deal that would end the war completely, what are they saying?
that it is reasonable to have a political process with a radical Islamic entity that wishes to eliminate the Jewish state and establish a state (in the first stage alongside Israel and later in its place), in which Sharia law will rule.
The cessation of the fight against Hamas means in practice that a state will be established on Israel's side that oppresses women, persecutes minorities, murders "collaborators", throws people off rooftops, and decapitates LGBT people. A state that the whole world fears.
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