September 1, 2025

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Monday:
My views on the ongoing war in Palestine – September 1, 2025

On October 7, 2023 the armed band of rebels and ragtags known as the Hamas attacked several posts along the Israeli-Gaza border, including kidnapping multiple civilians of which some have yet to be released as I am writing this post. What released this latest episode in this rather unstable and turbulent region is still unclear, other than the supposed wish by the "Palestinian" people to form their own nation, their own nation-state, something that has been pushed for by many outside forces, such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States, with many more. The point of contention is therefore about two nationalisms: Israeli statehood and Palestinian statehood and at the present time it seems rather unlikely that there will ever be such a thing as a fully formed Palestinian nation-state. But, indeed what seems clear to me is that this concept of a Palestinian nation-state is very much a new one, and it seems that many outside people, primarily western people, have been lobbying for people within Palestinian ranks to assume a separate identity from being Arab as some kind of opposing force to the growing and radical Israeli nationalism since the inception of the Israeli nation-state in 1947, also a project advocated by and enforced by the United Nations lead by western powers, primarily the former British Empire. Indeed, it also seems clear to me that what was originally really a conflict of one nationalism has been made into a conflict of two nationalisms. Indeed, the concept of a nation is very much a modern one, and for most of the history of Palestine there were simply Jews and Arabs in that region, but that distinction was made not for other purposes than religious purposes, for the Jews and the Arabs are indeed one people, and Semitic people with the same origin in the Bible, but these later confusions and tensions have indeed been imposed on the people in Palestine, both Jew and Gentile. Why is this? Well, to answer that we need to take a deep dive into history. The modern concept of nation-state, a topic that I have covered extensively in the past, is as I just stated a rather recent concept, derived from two distinct features of the modern world: the concepts of egalitarianism and the superiority of shared numbers. With the creation of the nation, every man becomes one equal part in the greater, which goes to egalitarianism, and with the more numbers the more power the revolutionary elite has been able to amass and the grander their armies have grown and the extent of their realms. Notice that it is never a grassroots project, nationalism, it is always imposed on the population, on the hordes, by the elite, or really by the serpent, for the purposes of concentrating power into the hands of fewer and fewer people: this is the essence of modern rule, to manipulate the beastly horde into submission by fantastical ideas of brotherhood and equality. Nationhood is merely another materialist enterprise by and for more materialism. So we arrive here, modern warfare and suffering. Indeed, the gentiles caught up in this conflict are suffering, and they are being used by both sides, the Israeli and the imperial core, to protect the current material order, and as long as the rulers of the world sense that their order is threatened, man will continue to suffer. War has been made an evermore gruesome affair and always a necessity for the men in power. But I am not trying to say that there is a easy solution to this conflict, because modern man has already made his deal with the serpent and now he has to suffer the consequence: there is no side in this conflict that will give up their aspirations of an ever more unified and grander nation, two things that fundamentally stand in opposition to one another and as such they are also the primary cause of this conflict. Modern man is not content, for he is able to construed ideas and conceptions in his mind that promotes himself as God and the final arbiter of the moral law above the Earth. What should a man of ascendant rank do in this situation? Such a man would embrace Radical Peace: he would fight every bullet and every rocket with silence; indeed he would wage peace across the land, for he would allow for the targets of the creator's divine vengeance to be struck down. Instead, modern man runs right towards the temptation, for he is not a man, he is an obedient soldier, a follower of the serpent and as such instead of allowing the forces of destruction, rightful destruction, to be released upon those destined for the wrath, he steps in between the beast and the creator; indeed he is the beast in his most advanced form, a creature more contemptible than the most lowly and primitive creatures, for he has fully embraced the transition.

    What about the humanitarian situation in Palestine, specifically Gaza? Well, this entire conflict goes to show what a lie the humanist axiom is: when the world has fallen apart, there are no longer any notions of egalitarianism, the loving brotherhood of man, respect, peaceful solutions, tolerance and acceptance, and multiculturalism. When the world falls apart, only those men that have earned their rank are left to rebuild the world from the ashes left from the material order, but we are still well within the era of the Kali Yuga and the world has only begun to fall apart. I do however want to provide some material insight into this conflict. While it surely is the case that many people are suffering from the ravages of war, this should only be expected: for what is the essence of war, complete war, if not the destruction of the material order? It is not man's wish when he stands atop the mountain, when he has crowned himself the emperor of not only his own domain but the entirety of the universe to destroy the order that came before him? War is nothing but organized murder, organized mass destruction on a grand scale, with the man atop that material order in charge of his own destruction: modern war is the release of modern man's hatred for himself and his own kind, it is the catharsis of the material order, and this is on display in modern warfare of the past and today. So has the humanist axiom, the liberal paradigm, made any strides since the last great conflagration of 5 scores around the Sun ago? While the liberal order has seemingly held the world together without major conflagration, do note that the ultimate weapon in the form of nuclear warfare has so far prevented another great conflagration, and the ensuing result has instead been a world of much smaller conflicts such as the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Palestine. Indeed, even when man has attempted to protect his material order from himself with the ultimate weapon, he has utterly failed: the world continues to devolve and man continues to decay, for we are in the times of the Kali Yuga.

Lord Krishna (कृष्ण)
Under a Canopy (उल्लोच) c. 1680

    In the end, from a merely realist point of view, the war in Palestine will cease once the band of terrorist infiltrators have given up and released all the hostages, but until then I do not expect any kind of peace in Palestine, and even after I don't believe that there will be peace in Palestine. As long as man continues to stubbornly worship himself there is no prospect for real peace, whatever peace means in our times. What is a man to do when he is attacked: is he supposed to disarm himself? Yes, if he is walking the path of peace; if he is adhering to Radical Peace and if he has taken the pacific route, but indeed this is not required and as long as there will be more reason for man to embrace his lust there will be more suffering and more death. Disease, decay, and death reigns supreme in Palestine. In the end there was never any hope for humanity, but do not fear. Do not fear: embrace the righteous path and embrace celibacy, for that will do you good. Also, when you consider modern conflicts, remember why you must retire from the world. If you remain in the world, then you will never be able to become released from the cycle of suffering. I also want to add that as long as Israel has the better strength, then this issue is up to Israel and as long as they do not want a Palestinian state there is not going to be such a state.

Reginald Drax – September 1, 2025.