Why the 7th of October 2023 is not like any other day, because when I woke up that day it wasn’t like any other normal day the first thing I did was watch the news, I remember reading and watching the world leaders calling for a de-escalation in the Middle East, as always I’m used to it like so many others in the region for this endless cycle of violence between the two sides, then I went to see what’s happening on social media, I noticed Arabs celebrating and dividing sweets and dancing in the streets from joy, that’s when I released that something is not right, what is happening? and the more I dived into the news I noticed like so many other people I started to understand the size of the attack, and that’s when I realized that this time it was not like all the other times, so if you judge the world and everyone around it with your human eyes you will see that what happened that day is not just another cycle of violence, but if you saw what happened with your ideological eyes then you are going to judge it from your emotional ideological eyes.

With all the previous rounds of escalation we all had different point of views, and we all criticized the Israeli government for the unfair treatment of the Palestinians, and before that Saturday even the Israeli people in the inside were against their own government for how they are treating the Palestinian people and interior differences, but on Saturday it was not a conflict, it was not another round of the conflict between Israel and Palestine infinite cycle, it was something else, something that we will take us years to understand what really happened that day, when the last bullets being fired and the sky becomes clear, we’ll begin to see the atrocities that was committed by the terrorist Hamas group , and hear the screaming souls who’d been tortured and wounded that day, from children and women and elderly, civilians sleeping peacefully at their homes and young people celebrating a musical festival, not just soldiers or army bases , not soldiers in an active battlefield and even soldiers , you don’t behead them and torture them alive, what happened in that morning is a warning signs of an uprising movement not only in the middle east , but around the world. The neo-Nazis movement is growing everywhere, I wrote in many previous posts about it and the danger that is ignored in the name of supporting a cause or believing in an ideology. 

What happened that morning, from attacking peaceful people at their homes in the name of “resistance” is not up for discussion, what happened that day at least from my point of view and coming from this region that I know very well. I was born and raised in the middle east in Bahrain and I lived my whole life around the local middle-class community, my family is not rich, I didn’t attend expensive private schools, I didn’t live my whole life in another country, and I’m not detached from reality like so many people who became rich and suddenly became detached from reality, I grew up hearing people at school calling for the death of Jewish people, teachers in classes justifying what the Nazis did, denying the Holocaust, I’ve seen with my own eyes people putting Hitler photos on their cars, using Nazis quotes, yet still today people in the middle east use his quotes as an example for why Jewish people must be expelled from every country. When I hear people justifying their Anti-Semitic actions by saying that they are not Anti-Semitic but Anti-Zionism, there is no difference, because these people are smart when they released that Anti-Semitism is no longer acceptable, they changed the slogan but not the meaning in the heart, it’s like when a racist say to a black person {why do you say “Black Lives Matters, every live matter”} the truth is that because what black people went through in history and still go through every day shows that not everybody’s lives matter, what black people still go through from racists in the streets and police brutality, that’s what Jewish people feel every day, you might be surprised to know that I’m a Muslim defending Jewish people, it’s because I’ve been a Middle Eastern for a long time and throughout my whole life I know my people more than anyone, I’ve seen and witnessed how people here treat others from other religions and nationalities.  

In 1948 there were Jewish people in every country in the middle east and after world war 2 ended they were expelled from every Arabic country some middle eastern countries supported the Nazis in Germany at that time, they brunet their shops, and homes and expelled them like they are not part of the community, there are Iraqi, Lebanese, Bahraini and other Arabic Jewish people have been expelled from their countries as a reaction for what happing in Europe under the Nazis regime. The Neo-Nazi has nothing to do with what the Palestinians are asking for, the Islamic Ideologist minds and other extreme neo-Nazi groups in Europe are using every excuse and cause to promote these anti-Semitic ideas.  

The 7th of October revealed what so many people been saying, the neo-Nazi is on the rise and one more time I will say that the Holocaust and the gas chambers didn’t start in one day, it is established through years and years of slowly poisoning societies minds that Jewish people are the problem in this world and now we see these attacks on Jewish people everywhere, we see again the markings on their homes and threating to kill them everywhere, hearing and seeing- people repeating the Anti-Semitic slogans “From The River To The Sea”  it means the inhalation of Israel and all the Jewish people around the world, what really makes me so emotional these days about what happened in Israel is that for years I’ve been hearing people around me and in the public in the Arab community repeating time after time that killing Jews everywhere is the answer, but that Saturday it went from just being words to an actual actions a massacre, and to hear someone like Yuval Noah Harari who is known for his opposition for what’s happening to the Palestinians and always advocating for peace, someone who is against what the right parties and what they are doing inside Israel, for him to come out and say that what happened on the 7th of October explaining how that day is different in its nature, he said that what happened that day is not about politics but a fight against those who want to kill Jewish people once and for all and destroying the only democracy in the region, and the free world and those who want to live with peace, he also made it clear that Hamas is not the Palestinian people they don’t represent those in Palestine. I also heard from a lot of Jewish people I know around the world who are afraid of walking down the streets fearing for their lives, this thing is not normal.

While I was writing this post I came across an old interview for the late Elie Wiesel a holocaust survivor and a winner of the Noble Prize, in this interview, he speaks about humanity, and his survival in the Auschwitz concentration camp, in this interview, he explained how worried he is about the rise of the Neo-Nazis in Europe and the Islamic world, he says that the world these days reminds him of that period when the hate against the Jews was rising in Europe and how it started and how it became a genocide. For those who don’t know who Elie Wiesel is, he is a man who survived the holocaust, lost his family, then later became an advocate for human rights and became a voice for those suffering around the world, I’m not going to just write about this particular interview I will post some parts of the interview and the link for the whole interview and it’s up to you to judge what happened on the 7th of October, if you believe that it’s part of a resistance movement or an Anti-Semitic barbaric attack?. Or it’s part of the Neo-Nazi uprising movement and after that, if you think that what happened is just a group of people wanting to have peace or to force the Israelis to go to the negotiation table then you are part of the problem. But the sad part of this story is Arab leaders fearing the power of those who committed these horrific crimes against humanity, and the middle eastern media not calling it as it is ” terrorist attacks”, and denying these crimes by saying that it’s not confirmed, and publishing what Hamas says as if it’s the ultimate truth.

This is Elie Wiesel’s interview explaining the horrible reality he feared the most, and that’s what exactly happened on the 7th of October his fear came true: 

I am glad you say that. I once had a correspondence with one of the Editors in Chief of one of the daily papers here in Stockholm because some Jews here in the city asked me to go along with them, to him, because this was a time when there was very much anti-Israeli publicity, 20 years ago. There’s always a lot, but this was more than usual, and some of the publicity was different in gliding from anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism. And we went up to see him and we had a long discussion which was very fruitful, but then the English correspondence and I wrote to him that I believe that every child who learned the ascent of the Evangelic at the age of six or seven may have an anti-Semitic bias without knowing it, and he, a very honest man, wrote back to me saying “I don’t believe that what you are saying is true, but I cannot exclude it and that worries me”, which is very good.

Elie Wiesel: It is true actually, it depends who is teaching. Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it’s true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it’s so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

But do you agree that maybe an unholy alliance between the anti-Semitism of the left, the old type Christian anti-Semitism and then the new Muslim or let’s say Jihad type of anti-Semitism?

Elie Wiesel: There is a coalition.

There is a coalition, yes.

Elie Wiesel: There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right, and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I’m worried, I go around, you know, with a very heavy heart.

And do you also go to Muslim countries?

Elie Wiesel: I have been but not … Before 9/11 I had contacts with Palestinians, Arabs, and with Muslims, since then they are afraid. I’m organizing now something, I’m organizing for next year … You think about Islam and so forth, many Islamic leaders and so forth, because I, you know, I’ve organized for the last 18 years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn’t help but at least they explore it. (End)

Finally, my last words is that God is not owned by one group against others like they try to convinces us in the Middle East, God is not for what they call in the Middle Eastern mosques to kill, burn, destroy the Jews or anyone different, God is not setting in heaven serving group of people above others, make up your mind either god loves us all or hates us all, you can’t argue with me that God allowed the killing and beheading 1400 innocent souls and on the other hand merciful with the other side. Stop speaking in the name of God like it’s your job to mediate between God and all humans.

Full interview: 

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/interview/

Interview with Elie Wiesel, December 10, 2004. Interviewer is Professor Georg Klein.

Elie Wiesel talks about his perspectives on the world after World War II, recollections of his time in concentration camp (5:41), the indifference of the world (12:42), anti-Semitism (16:42), the importance of education (22:26) and that the tragedy of the Holocaust could have been avoided (24:31).