TODAY 7 OCTOBER GAZA

Today marks the anniversary of the massacre of Israeli citizens by the armed group Hamas.
Since that episode, a feeling of revenge on the part of the Israeli government has prevailed, which has led - and still leads - to an indiscriminate slaughter of the Palestinian population, amounting to de facto genocide.
The horror of this massacre is there for all to see, and pro-Gaza and anti-Israel movements have sprung up in various countries of the Western world, while governments continue to be reticent in formalising a decisive stop to Israel, possibly even armed.
This massacre certainly has its roots in the concept of Zionism at the end of the last century and the subsequent installation of Jewish people in the land of Israel, populated mainly by Palestinians. It should not be forgotten that Jews are of the Jewish religion, while Palestinians are of the Muslim religion, and that since the Koran - and thus Islam - has existed, there has been a very bad relationship between the two creeds.
Incidentally, in the Bible, the people of Israel fought gruelling battles against the Philistines, who were the Palestinians of the time. After Hitler's Shoah, the world felt it was time for the Jews to find their 'Promised Land', so in 1948 the State of Israel was declared, forcing part of the Palestinian population to move elsewhere. Even before the Second World War, and even more so after 1948, the enmities between the two peoples intensified, making the concept of 'two peoples, two states' prevail.
Israel also had to confront the Muslim countries in the region and build a strong defence system, which over time also turned into a system of aggression, resulting in a succession of fights and oppression.
The present genocide appears to be a repetition of the Jericho genocide, carried out by the Jewish people with divine consent to occupy their 'Promised Land'. Apart from the prostitute Raquele and her family, everyone was slaughtered in Jericho: men, women, the elderly, children and even animals, with God Yahweh consenting through the Ark of the Covenant.
My opinion is that the first to be set aside is this famous one god, who goes by the name of Yahweh, God and Allah - I call him the god of Abraham. This God, in spite of the message of love proclaimed by Jesus, comes across as a god of war, a bit like the ancient Mars, because wars between the believers of the three religions have been going on for centuries. Let it not be said to me that free will alone is the main cause.
So don't point your finger at people - in this case the Israelis - but point it at this god who, by the way, does not exist. And I apologise for this to the believers... but I hope one day you can accept it.
Divinity is something else entirely: the only acceptable common ground is divine creation, but certainly not human behaviour associated with this god, with his power of judgement, commandments, filiation, mercy, benevolence, forgiveness and more.
The expression of divinity lies in the deep mystery of reality that humanity has been trying to understand and solve since the beginning of time. Among other things, these modern-day religions of Abraham's god, while able to describe divine qualities and behaviour very close to human ones, fail to unveil its deep nature, which remains a mystery.
Could we ever, one day, accept the fusion of object (Creation) and subject (Creator)? Accept that there is no single truth, but that there could be several truths? Accept that universal perfection is the result of chance, and that it only reaches the limit of perfection?
Could we ever, one day, accept that our consciousness is a drop of water in the ocean of immateriality, and that we must resign ourselves to the existence of the universal mystery?