Al-Aqsa Flood has changed the entire world in two years

One side of October 7 is the period in which the Zionist Israeli terror state displayed all its barbarity and trammeled every principle, moral rule, and law in the name of humanity.Over two years of uninterrupted aggression, Israel’s brutality — which has killed an identified 66,000 people, many of them children, the elderly, and women — has increasingly shown itself to be a threat to the whole world.

But the other side of October 7 is that Israel’s security myth was completely shattered within five hours.

The perceived security provided by high technology, intelligence, and military superiority was overturned by the determination of brave people armed with simple weapons.

The two years since October 7 have produced an unprecedented balance between one side attacking with monstrous, out-of-control urges and all its power, and the other side fighting back with only courage and intelligence.

No matter how you look at it, it’s an asymmetrical balance, but while the international balance of power, technology, and material weaponry favors Israel, the asymmetry favors Hamas in intelligence, will, courage, diplomacy, and moral superiority.

Moreover, this asymmetric balance deepened as time passed.

The more brutally Israel showed its power — with greater destruction, more death, more horrific massacres, and advancing toward killing by blockade and starvation — the more it lost its mind, and no reasonable person condoned any of its actions.

It lost the ability to market the attack it suffered on October 7, and even the modest claims it had made on behalf of Hamas began to gain wider acceptance.

Because of the limits of humanity it trampled, the sympathy Israel once held worldwide turned to empathy for victims and then to outright hatred of both the state and its citizens.

Today, on a global level, Israel is seen as humanity’s scourge.

All the propaganda investments it has made for years in politics, culture, literature, even philosophy and science, have quickly backfired.

The true meaning of Zionism — long presented as a right or as a Holocaust penance — has become plain.

A strong global awareness of every dimension of the Palestinian question has emerged, and a near-global consensus has formed that the problem is not Palestine but Israel.

Even in the U.S., Israel’s unshakeable position has been shaken; today Americans are asking why their taxes are being funneled to this spoiled, irresponsible genocidal Israel.

On the other hand, since October 7 Hamas has stood out more on the world stage for its principled stance in the struggle, for fighting with few resources, for its rhetoric, and for its genuine heroism, gaining greater moral superiority.

What had almost been forgotten or neglected even by allies — the Palestinian cause — has become, on a global level, the key word of every liberation discourse.

This is the summary of the balance sheet that has emerged at this stage of the asymmetric conflict two years later.

Of course, that balance sheet also includes Gaza’s total destruction and nearly a hundred thousand martyrs.

When we praise Hamas for the brilliant response to Trump’s Gaza plan, some immediately ask, pointing to all that destruction and death and the massacres, “Was it worth it?”

Those asking that question clearly do not know what Gaza and the Palestinian people have been through.

As well as that, it is obvious they have a very different mind about what the people of Gaza risked when they entered this struggle or what they consider a gain in it.

We have said the same to those who advanced similar arguments before: “you don’t have the mind for this, this is another calculus.”

This truly is another calculus, but even materially speaking the gains Hamas has achieved two years later are huge for them.

With the famous phrase that rings in ears at the end of every Abu Ubaidah communique, “this is a jihad — either victory or martyrdom.”

Both are included in the reckoning.

In the end, we all die; we will die, sooner or later.

No one comes into this world and does not leave it.

But for Yahya Sinwar the form of death that perhaps we all secretly wished for is far more terrifying.

To grow old and die quietly in bed, or to die from illness or a traffic accident… “The greatest gift my enemies could give me would be to make me a martyr,” he said, and the words did not remain mere talk.

By the way he died, he became the symbol of all future freedom struggles.

A leader who does not separate himself from others and fights on the front lines, facing every danger — this is one of the strongest signs of a movement’s authenticity.

Hamas’s entire leadership layer fell as martyrs on the field along with their rank-and-file, yet the movement did not end and could not be stopped.

An important aspect of October 7 is that it coincided with Yom Kippur fifty years earlier (October 6), when Israel’s myth of power and security had been strongly constructed.

That day, Israel stunned Egypt and Syria with a surprise attack that temporarily paralyzed their defenses; that victory was achieved not primarily by Israel’s own power and soldiers’ courage but to a large degree through the collusion of traitors it had bought inside both armies.

Now, an irregular organization with the simplest weapons but with will and courage overturned that legend: the Al-Aqsa Storm.

At the end of two years, although Hamas has paid a very high price, it has turned its cause into everyone’s cause, formed substantial alliances, and at the same time produced a situation in which the world’s balances are being reshaped and Israel’s place in that balance has become completely unnerving.

This is not only from a military standpoint or because of the new international balances it created.

Exposing the racist and hypocritical nature underlying all Western values — human rights, democracy, secularism, rationality — is itself a major gain.

As a result, even in the West people have become aware of the crushing, exploitative, and humiliating power structures that their world is subject to and of the invisible chains around their necks.

Today, when people march for Palestine, they also march for their own freedoms.

Thus the people of Gaza have sent the most dignified message of Islam regarding human dignity to the whole world.

Whatever anyone says, with such means and such results this is an unprecedented victory, an unprecedented success.