The Primal Error
Likud built a strategy they believe is the only one that works: divide your enemies, buy quiet when you can, strike first and hardest when you must. Expand the buffers, never allow a unified Palestinian state, and make sure the message is unmistakable — we can reach anyone, anywhere, and we will pay any price to survive. The tactics are plain. For years Likud governments approved and facilitated suitcases of Qatari cash flowing into Hamas-controlled Gaza — hundreds of millions of dollars — explicitly to keep Hamas strong enough to rule Gaza and weak enough not to force a unified Palestinian front. Netanyahu himself told a closed Likud meeting in 2019 that anyone who wants to thwart a Palestinian state “has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”
At the same time, unarmed young Israeli women serving as border observers filed report after report of Hamas training for precisely the kind of assault that arrived on October 7. Senior commanders dismissed the warnings. The women themselves later said the dismissal carried the unmistakable flavor of sexism — young female voices simply not weighed the same as male ones. Many of those same observers were killed or taken hostage in the opening minutes of the attack.
A House That's Not A Home
This is the truth Likud has lived with since its founding. The primal need for a home that cannot be taken away has never been fully satisfied. It is not hidden. It is the quiet engine behind every policy, every decision, every escalation. Benjamin Netanyahu and the party he has led for decades may not wake up plotting evil. But they wake up remembering.
They remember the camps. They remember the expulsions. They remember the world that looked away. But what they forgot, or chose not to fully internalize, is that it was ultimately the combined forces of the Allied powers — led by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union — that defeated Nazi Germany and ended the Holocaust. That victory came at enormous cost to the world, yet it also created the very conditions under which the modern state of Israel was born. The lesson was never that Jews must stand completely alone. The lesson was that survival can also depend on building honest alliances and remembering that humanity, at its best, can still reject extermination.
Kill Chains
Once the war began, the same government turned to the most advanced targeting systems the world has ever seen. AI-assisted kill chains generated thousands of targets at machine speed. The hybrid loop of political directive and computational scale produced results no human team could match — and civilian tolls that triggered international warrants. Targeted killings, an official Israeli doctrine for decades, were accelerated and fused with that same technology.
The message was sent: we can reach the leaders of Hamas in Tehran, the commanders of Hezbollah in Beirut, the scientists in Iran. We are invincible.And here is the error that has become self-evident. The strategy that was built to guarantee safe harbor has become the thing that keeps safe harbor forever out of reach.
Every escalation, every buffer zone, every elimination operation, every refusal to allow a political horizon for the Palestinians has produced more enemies, more isolation, more fatigue inside Israel itself. Likud’s own polling numbers are sliding. Young Israelis are exhausted. The economy is strained. The hostages’ families are still waiting. The very culture the state was meant to protect is being eaten alive by perpetual war. Actual Israelis — not the concept, the people — are paying the price while the machine keeps running.
History Remade
This is no longer a war that can be won in the old way. The world once fought Nazi Germany and won. That was a war against an ideology of extermination, and the victory was total. The war Israel is now trapped inside is different. It is a war against a concept: the concept that the only way for Jews to be safe is for everyone else to be afraid. It is an existential war against an idea that has no territory, no capital, no army that can be defeated on a battlefield.
Common Threats, Unexpected Partnerships
Muslim-majority countries, particularly the wealthy Gulf states, are just as terrified of terrorist infiltration, rebel factions, and regime-threatening Islamist movements as Israel or any other nation. Iran-backed proxies, Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups, and the lingering shadow of ISIS represent direct dangers to their monarchies and stability.
In response, these states have formed quiet but deep security, intelligence, and technology partnerships with Israel — partnerships rooted in shared survival interests rather than ideology. This “silent brotherhood” of realpolitik has endured and even expanded during the Gaza war, driven by cold calculations that Israel offers uniquely effective capabilities against the very threats these regimes fear most.
Meanwhile, the devastated populations in Gaza and elsewhere receive limited, conditional aid and public statements of solidarity, but little meaningful rescue. The disparity is stark: elite-level pragmatism and self-preservation have taken clear precedence over pan-Muslim fraternity.
What Wasn’t Written in the Quran
The part where Muslim leaders would quietly partner with Israel for security and economic advantage while leaving their poorer brethren in Gaza to face repeated devastation with minimal intervention. The scriptures emphasize that Muslims are brothers to one another and warn against taking Jews and Christians as intimate allies in ways that compromise faith and community.
Yet reality has produced a different alignment: wealthy Muslim states calculating that their own survival and prosperity matter more than unified solidarity with the Palestinians. The human cost in Gaza continues, the richer states issue condemnations and modest aid, but the strategic partnerships with Israel persist. In the end, no amount of political maneuvering can hide the truth forever.
This convergence of elite interests is creating something larger than any single conflict. It is forging a new kind of global operating system — one in which survival is negotiated among the powerful while the human cost is externalized. And yet the ancient scriptures still speak across time. What wasn’t written in the Quran, or in any sacred text, is permission for the powerful to trade away the lives of the vulnerable in the name of their own security.
The More You Kill, The More You Fear
The harder you strike, the more the concept regenerates — in the minds of the next generation, in the next refugee camp, in the next international report. Nothing can stop this cycle of true terror. Not artificial intelligence. Not kill chains. Not dominance through technology. Only rehumanization — or the recognition of the humanity in others. The slow, painful, honest recognition that the people on the other side are not artificial, unmanned systems, but breathing women & children and families with kindness, compassion & a reason for being created by God himself.
The survival need on both sides is real. That safe harbor cannot be built on the permanent insecurity of others. That the machine Likud has built to protect Israel is now the greatest threat to Israel’s long-term existence as a home that actually feels like home.
Holy Grotto of Qana in southern Lebanon is a site of significant spiritual and historical importance, believed by many to be the location where Jesus performed his first miracle—turning water into wine. This is not the first massacre by the apartheid Israeli regime in Qana.…
— NeoKiri (@SVoid51901) April 12, 2026
The Arrangement
If this pattern of elite-driven, self-interested partnerships continues to accelerate — if the silent brotherhood between tech billionaires, sovereign wealth funds, defense contractors, royal families, and heads of state grows even stronger on both sides — then what we are witnessing is no longer regional realpolitik. It is a new global architecture forming in plain sight: a supranational class that prioritizes mutual security, technological dominance, and capital flows over national loyalties or humanitarian outcomes.
Gaza becomes both precedent and testing ground. AI kill chains become normalized tools. Public outrage is managed while private cooperation deepens. The world is being quietly reorganized around the survival logic of the powerful few, while the many — whether in Gaza, southern Israel, Yemen, or elsewhere — are left as collateral in someone else’s strategic calculation. This is the danger on steroids: not a conspiracy, but a convergence so efficient and self-reinforcing that it begins to operate beyond meaningful democratic or moral constraint. Sound familiar?
Conclusion
The war never truly ends when fear remains ever-present. And now, through its own actions, Likud has helped solidify that fear deep in the consciousness of humanity — not just among Israelis, but across the region and the world. What began as a legitimate existential trauma has hardened into a permanent justification for perpetual conflict.
Until the primal need for a true home is met — not by making everyone else afraid, but by creating the conditions where fear itself can begin to end — the slaughter will continue, and it will not spare humanity. The world once united to defeat an ideology that declared some lives did not matter. Israel cannot win a war premised on the idea that its own survival requires making other lives matter less. Innocent people do not merely have a right to exist; they were created for a purpose only their Creator fully knows, and that dignity must be protected by anyone who still claims to possess a conscience.
Rehumanization is the only path out of this self-reinforcing cycle of fear and distrust. Without it, humanity will increasingly surrender its future to the artificial and the unmanned — cold systems without conscience that will destroy life at an ever-accelerating scale.
In a matter of minutes, Israel killed more than 350 people across Lebanon on Wednesday, April 8. Here are some of their stories. pic.twitter.com/XUlCXxphRp
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 12, 2026