Opinion
The Real Violence Is in Gaza—Not in Words Against the IDF
July 2, 20255 min read
By Mazhar

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ou can shout "Death to Nazis!" on a Hollywood stage and win applause. You can kill them in video games, comic books, movies, and history classes — and nobody blinks. We’re taught that celebrating their deaths isn’t just acceptable; it’s noble. It’s moral. Because they were monsters.
But replace “Nazi” with “IDF” — and suddenly, the room goes silent. Now you're a threat. Now you're an extremist. Now you’re a danger to public discourse. You can watch the Israeli military flatten Gaza, incinerate families, starve children, erase entire neighborhoods — and still, the only “appropriate” reaction allowed is polite concern or detached analysis. If you dare to mirror the rage Palestinians feel — to say “death to the people killing us” — you’re canceled, dehumanized, silenced.
This isn’t about peace. It’s about control. It’s about who’s allowed to grieve loudly, and who must suffer quietly. Over 60,000 Palestinians are dead. The majority are civilians. Tens of thousands of children. Bombed in their beds. Buried alive under rubble. Shot at aid convoys. Burned in refugee camps. And still, Western governments fund it, defend it, excuse it.
Israel claims it’s fighting terrorists. But you don’t fight terrorism by targeting hospitals, or carpet-bombing entire city blocks. You don’t rescue hostages by killing thousands of civilians. You don’t “defend yourself” by laying siege to a trapped, occupied population with no army, no air force, no shelter. This isn’t war. It’s an extermination campaign disguised as security.
And still, the world tells you not to get angry. Not like that. Don’t say “death to the IDF.” Don’t use that tone. Be civil. Be careful. Be balanced. As if balance exists between a fighter jet and a child with no limbs. As if it’s controversial to hate an army that drops bombs on schools and ambulances. As if Gaza must be turned into a graveyard, and we must say thank you for the restraint.
It is not extreme to hate the people who are murdering your family. It is not uncivilized to call for the defeat of those who turned your city into a crater. It is not “terrorism” to demand justice when your country is being wiped off the map. But every time someone speaks with righteous fury against the IDF, Western media gasps. Politicians cry antisemitism. Platforms shut it down. As if words are more violent than white phosphorus.
Meanwhile, soldiers with sniper scopes and billion-dollar weapons march unbothered. They face no sanctions. No tribunals. No condemnation. Only applause from parliaments and weapons deals from Washington. The same governments who built museums for genocide victims are now bankrolling another one — live, in HD, with GPS precision.
What’s happening in Gaza is not a complicated conflict. It’s not a moral puzzle. It is mass killing, done in broad daylight, by a military that knows it is untouchable. The West doesn’t want you to oppose violence. It wants you to obey violence — so long as it’s the right kind of boots on the right kind of necks.
We don’t have to cheer for war. But we also don’t have to pretend that all killing is the same. We don’t have to respect the butchers. We don’t owe silence to a uniform. If Nazis deserved to die for committing genocide, why doesn’t the same rage apply to those doing it now?
What offends the world is not the mass death of Palestinians — it’s the anger in their defense. They want you to mourn quietly. To cry without screaming. To watch thousands die and say nothing harsh about those who killed them.
But silence is not peace. And politeness is not justice. If the world can celebrate the death of yesterday’s monsters, it can damn well stomach the fury toward today’s.
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