Columbus lost his compass only to discover the vitality of Gaza’s port. The Genoese pirate embodied the idea that looting, plundering, and killing were permissible—an intrinsic part of Western history, indispensable and even legitimized.
He came dressed in modern attire, disguising the empire’s ambitions behind the spread of Christianity and peace, while the true goal was the plundering of wealth, the theft of resources, the destruction of civilizations, and further expansion.
The same slogans are repeated today: We come to promote values, to uplift nations from savagery to civilization. We know best how humans should live and what they need. You need only submit to us, and we will bring you happiness. If you refuse, we will have no choice but to kill you so that you do not stand in the way of civilization. We are the new ships of peace, sailing across the world’s seas and oceans, defining its longitudes and latitudes—ships of peace that sail to kill in the name of peace and to impose new ideals that cannot be opposed. You must simply accept them, for those who defy the will of these ships will face death, displacement, and exile.
Now, the forced displacement project targeting the people of Gaza hides behind Zionist expansionist ambitions. They kill and destroy with impunity, while the blame falls on the people of Gaza because their land is allegedly unlivable—not due to their own actions, but because of Columbus’s ideology carried by these ships of peace. Yes, this is not a historical event from the Middle Ages; this is happening in an era of scientific advancement and supreme legal systems, in an age of globalization, values, and lofty ideals that have granted animals rights and established international bodies for their protection.
This event may have deviated from the script carefully written to keep the audience entertained, allowing for some international overreach. But stepping outside the script does not justify violating an internationally recognized legal principle—where killing a dog on a European street could land you in prison, yet crushing an entire people and threatening them with displacement is treated as routine, perhaps not even making the headlines. Some global news agencies even work to obscure it.
Such is the play: some scenes exist outside the script, but only the lead actor gets to perform them—not the extras, who merely receive a wage in exchange for following orders.
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