“There is no worse chip than the same stick” is one of those sayings that, when they are right, hit the nail on the head. Although it applies to all types of domestic violence, it seems to be made on purpose for the viciousness that monotheistic religions exhibit in their cyclical confrontations. From the same patriarch Abraham come Jews, Muslims and Christians, the three monotheistic beliefs that have caused so much heartless persecution and ethnic cleansing throughout history. Now, Muslims and Jews again raging against each other in the name of a God who chose the same father for them.
It is evident that of the current bloodshed, openly called a massacre (as can be seen from the proclamations that both the leaders of Hamas and those of the State of Israel have been releasing), religion is not the first cause that lights the fuse, that The cause is the atrocity committed by Hamas on October 7, in turn fueled by permanent apartheid and the barbaric incursions by the State of Israel into Palestinian territory. If the old wars of religion devastated old Europe, the current war of the State of Israel, led by an ethnocracy with a “democratic” appearance, is not so much against Hamas terrorism as against the entire Palestinian population, an authentic genocide such as typified by many international political analysts of diverse tendencies.
However, they continue to invoke religious reasons: some invoke Allah and others, like the far-right Israeli Finance Minister, the biblical right of the sacred people of Israel. From this perspective, it is logical to think that believers should be the first to raise their billions of voices to demand that the parties of Isaac and Ishmael return submissively to the house of father Abraham, as without a doubt their only and true god, that God they have in common, I wish.
…But since God may not exist (judging by how his descendants completely ignore his authority), perhaps it is something much simpler: a war of the rich against the poor, something that the television footage reveals even without wanting to, because the poor They are the thousands and thousands of dead under the stones and the destruction of Gaza.
