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The attack on Iran rejected every principle of strategic rationality and moral logic. For weeks, many experienced analysts and regional observers rejected Tel Aviv’s violent publication as a frustrating leader’s disappointment – a Demogg calculation of internal political turmoil, which is trying to inspire nationalists’ sentiments and try to overcome the domestic crisis. The consensus in these voices was that Israel’s rhetoric was much more than a psychological war, which was designed for domestic use and diplomatic benefit.
All such comments – however, they were seen at that time – they are merely shown as speculation of speculation, unable to understand the depths of political religions and to promote the desire for arrogance. Is visible. The attack on Iran was cautiously executed. It succeeded in cutting off a key section of Iran’s military leadership – the move as symbolic as it was as a result of the strategy.
After Iran responded in a surprisingly strong way, Donald Trump is now threatening to invade Iran, which is likely to change the government’s change. If such a move arises, Israel will likely become the only dominant military force in the region, which will effectively form the future of the Middle East. This growing situation is also pushing Iran to accelerate its efforts to produce a nuclear bomb, fearing that it may soon be too late to protect its sovereignty. Meanwhile, the son of the former Shah of Iran has been allegedly indicated that he is in position to lead the country after the overthrow of the current government.
Israeli aggression mocked the beliefs of those who maintained the Ideal and diplomatic patience of peace with Trump’s approval. In this single process, the principles, negotiations and international legal status were publicly mocked by an actor who no longer feel bound to. For many – including the author of these lines – a paradoxic breakdown has been marked in the incident. It was not just a war, but also a philosophical trauma.
He worked as a shock to those who probably very good .They believed that after the Holocaust, in the colonial and subsequent warfare order, the procedures of international relations would bend to peace, meditation and mutual respect. Instead, the attack reinforces a brutal truth: in the ranking of global affairs, the raw power has become the most convincing form of the final currency and its practice.
This moment was not just a geographical political increase – it was a metaphorical turning point. It exposed the deception that eliminates liberal internationals and reminds the world that peace and freedom are often powerless when they face calculated violence and immunity. As Walter Benjamin once wrote, “There is no civilization document that is not a barbaric document simultaneously.” The Israeli strike was such a document. Or many of us, a moment of tragic awareness.
Despite the claims of peace and freedom, the political history of the world reveals a dark consistency: the dishonesty of peace and freedom against the raw, restless power. Repeated violations of Israel’s regional peace, which often hidden in the rhetoric of its defense, reflect the style of disturbing peace voluntarily. The American Hunger for Global Power – a nation near Russia’s borders, is an example of an example of an expansion of NATO in Ukraine. Likewise, India’s aggressive unilaterality in South Asia, which ends armed conflicts with Pakistan and its Muslim minority backwardness, reflects a power -powered power that is beyond democratic mistakes.
In fact, what we are witnessing is the permanent supremacy of the ancient rights of wholesaleides: “They can firmly do what they can, and the weak should tolerate what is necessary.” Power, in this order, does not tolerate disagreement. Nor does it allow others to flourish. Political ideologists have long been considered this deadly dialectical. Michelle Focalt warned, “Power is everywhere … because it comes from everywhere.” This laughter of power, spread through institutions and ideas, makes it difficult to root out any true concept of peace or freedom, let it be promoted. The thing that begins as governance is often transformed into domination, and deployment of oppression.
Sometimes, this deadly dialectical inside is upside down. The state is against its own people, in pursuit of strengthening power. Under Modi’s government in India, we see that the organized goals and right of the Muslim minority. In Trump’s United States, immigrants were made evil and unhealthy. And Netanyahu’s Israel not only destroys Palestinians, but also extends its violence to Lebanon and Syria. This pattern – the oppression of internal or nearby “others” as a demonstration of power is not a deviation but a repetition.
The trend of this disturbing behavior echoes the observation of Hannah Arandat: “After the revolution, the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative.” That is, even those who come to power with the promise of justice or reform, soon fall victim to the same oppressive mechanics that they once opposed. What does it matter, in the end, not peace or salvation, but the stability and projection of the authority.
The result is a model of a natural behavior: at the expense of peace and human freedom, the slaves of the same power of societies and leaders. As Zigmont Boman noted, “The symbol of modernity is not a Utopian understanding, but a manner for fear.” Leaders today increase the fear of immigrants, minorities, neighboring countries to strengthen their base and justify dictatorships.
This creates a deep philosophical and existential question: Can human beings imagine themselves without social and politically, without others? The second is necessary, inhuman and eventually sacrificed to maintain a critical illusion of national harmony. Whether it is a Muslim in India, immigrants in the United States or Palestinian in Israel, the second becomes a negative mirror through which force confirms itself. Jean Paul Sartre’s coolness rings: “Hell are other people.” But maybe more appropriately, when we look at them with the lens of fear, superiority and strategic need, we make other people. This continuity has been in constant rotation throughout the known history. It increased after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Leaders like Trump, Modi and Netanyahu not only embrace this dialogue but also bring it to a dangerous extent. They can become a template of future authoritarians who are drunk with a megalomanic sense of mission, inventing existential threats to justify pre -domestic or internationally violent violence. Adolf Hitler finally mobilized World War II against Poland and finally left a horrific legacy for children to learn lessons and to avoid excessive exposure to power. They did not regret.
Immediately the World War II. Later, the arms race began and a peaceful solution to the conflict was the dream of a few people of ideology. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther looks foreigners in this world of King’s choice. Democracy will soon be found only in history books because their ideas are no longer existed. Equality has been influenced by prejudice, the brotherly brotherhood is standing due to the suspicion of various backgrounds and freedoms, the chord of national security has eliminated it.
Finally, what we should be afraid of is not just an individual leader, but a structural attraction of self -power – a attraction that eliminates peace, makes fun of freedom and offers oppression as security. If this is a predetermined rhythm of history, then human rights and freedom were never the rights of birth – they were just short breaks in the power drama that has no end to the eye.
The author is a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the Beacon House National University in Lahore.