There is a famous phrase of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) in the work The Gay Science (1882), who said: “God is dead. God is still dead. And we killed him…”. “The end of history” is a famous phrase of the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his book The end of history and the last man (1992), who claims that after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cold the war ended, because of ideologies Liberalism, democracy and capitalism defeated totalitarianism and communism.

If we divide the history of the Western world into ancient, medieval and modern, God is present in all three periods represented by the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, born in the same geographical area of ​​the Middle East-Jerusalem and perhaps created by people with family ties. War was a constant and they won randomly, according to the war and economic potential of their historical moment.

A war is developing between Israel (Judaism) and Hamas (Islamism) – a group of Palestinians considered terrorists – who want to expel or eliminate each other. Nietzsche’s phrase: “God is dead” seems applicable in this area; or perhaps it should be said: – God orders death – let the strongest survive.

This war confirms Fukuyama’s controversial thesis about the end of history because of ideologies. But it reveals that other causes are at work, according to the following priority: religion, survival, nationalism, territory or natural resources; In short, to achieve hegemonic political power to control the area. The loser must submit or move wherever he can.

This war confirms Fukuyama’s controversial thesis about the end of history because of ideologies.

What is most worrying is that the military forces are lining up to support the fighters, in accordance with their own interests. The USA and other countries are pro-Israel; Iran and groups considered terrorists such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, in aid of Hamas.

Every war leaves lessons and military strategies. In the Gaza Strip, Hamas has built a network of tunnels, metro-type, hundreds of kilometers long and 30 to 70 meters deep, where the action of any conventional bomb does not reach, through which its militias circulate, their logistics and maintain Israeli hostages – the Vietnamese used Cu Chi tunnels in their strategy and defeated the Americans. Israel conducts aerial bombardment and ground clearance operations, destroying access to the network of tunnels it manages to locate, its mission is to extract the hostages and eliminate Hamas.

In the Middle East, God died and will die as long as the representatives of Western and Eastern civilization mark their borders and the land they live in with blood, not only as soldiers, but as children, mothers, fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers. , with the aim of defeating, dominating and even disappearing the enemy. The story of the human warrior is not dead and any motive is acceptable. Israelis and Palestinian Islamic terrorist groups have a legacy of hatred built up over centuries and growing. Peace was and will be fleeting. (OR)