Afrasianet - Rachid Ben Bayyah - The media daily transmit to the viewers of the world horrific images and many scenes of the crimes of genocide committed by the Zionist entity in the Gaza Strip, including the killing of innocent civilians, the elderly, children and women, the destruction of mosques, schools and universities, the bombing of hospitals to put them out of service, the sabotage of infrastructure (paved roads, water network, electricity and sewage channels), the starvation of the population, the assassination of doctors, nurses, journalists, political leaders and foreign solidarity with the Palestinians, and the prevention of relief workers from providing assistance to the victims. and the closure of international aid crossings. Etcetera.

Contrary to what we believe, and contrary to what the West promotes about its defense of democracy and human rights, these crimes in the Western modernist cognitive structure are considered a practical exercise of the right of the white man to

end the existence of the non-Western other at will, a practice that began in 1492, the date of the expulsion of Muslims from Andalusia, and was established in the Western colonization of the rest of the world, and became more firmly established in the post-colonial stage, after the international coalition launched the war on Iraq, which explains - in our view - The Western world's indifference to the crimes of genocide committed by the Zionist entity against the people of Gaza and seeks to make them normal.

The Zionist entity continues to employ these "exterminating" techniques to sustain its existence, because it believes – from its racist point of view – that it has the original right to exist.

These horrific scenes, which the hypocritical and entity-biased Western world pretends to classify as a violation of the laws of war, are "legitimate" techniques of warfare in its view to achieve victory against the non-Western "other": Muslim, Indian and African; the other to which the West does not recognize the right to original existence. These crimes also reflect the totalitarian ideology of the Zionist entity towards the Palestinians.

According to Hannah Arendt, this doctrine manifests itself in "everything can be destroyed"... and that "every trace of what people have come to call human dignity necessarily eliminated", and that "we act on the basis of a system of values, radically different from all other patterns". It can even be said that these crimes, which are frequent in all the West's wars against the other, are considered a white human right, and this can only be known by looking at the practices of the West against colonized peoples.

Western countries that support Israel have previously used these techniques of warfare against the peoples of the countries they occupied (America, Algeria, and South Africa) or colonized (in

Asia and Africa), as well as in their wars of aggression against Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Afghanistan. The Zionist entity continues to employ these "exterminating" techniques to sustain its existence, because it believes – from its racist point of view – that it has the right to exist originally.

Similarly, Arab authoritarianism has used these techniques against its people, and the West has allowed it, because it considers the authority that represents it – not the people and the opposition – to have the original right to exist, which explains why the Western world – and with it the Arab regime – does not lift a finger in the face of the violation of the dignity of the Palestinian person; colonialism and internal tyranny seem to be waiting for the defeat of the Islamic resistance in Palestine, because it represents a challenge to global hegemony and internal tyranny in the Arab-Islamic region.

Modernity led to the emergence of the nation-state model, and the politics of identity (national and religious) attached to the project of political modernity, as shown by the case of the Zionist entity defending Jewish nationalism, because political modernity requires the annihilation of other identities.

As the war on Gaza entered its eleventh month, it became clear to the free people of the world that the Israeli entity and the Western world succeeded in making extermination normal, and this would not have been possible without this tripartite participation in the "culture of extermination" between the West, the Zionist entity, and Arab authoritarianism, on the one hand, and the provision of modernity - on the other hand - the epistemological and cognitive foundations of extermination, as something normal if it is against the other, because this other - in the language of Frantz Fanon - does not have the right to exist originally, or occupies in this

world the place of non-existence. in which humanity is permissible.

Modernity has succeeded in "naturalizing and familiar" genocide when committed against the other, who can be an African Muslim, an Indian or a political opponent, because:

· First: Modernity denied the character of human dignity from the non-Western other because it is "savage" and "primitive", and the Prime Minister of the Zionist entity and its leaders have repeatedly described the Palestinians as human animals, and barbaric, which shows that Western behavior is generally based on those racist representations rooted in the structure of modern thought.

This other thought is closer to the animal world than to the world of humanity, and limits the dignity of the "civilized" white man, who thinks to prove his right to exist, unlike the other who does not think, and "therefore does not have the right to exist originally", so do not think – according to Descartes – means that you do not exist in real existence, and this entails that you have no right to exist, which gives annihilation the cognitive dimension as something ordinary - even necessary - when committed against the other, which is nothing more than an obstacle One of the obstacles to the expansion of the Western project.

· Second: Modernity led to the emergence of the nation-state model, and the identity politics (national and religious) attached to the project of political modernity, as shown by the case of the Zionist entity defending Jewish nationalism, because political modernity requires the annihilation of other identities, and the Palestinian is this different other, which threatens the Zionist national project.

· Third: Because modernity separated values from realities, and decided to deal with reality without moral restrictions, in war or peace, and called it rational, and this explains that all modern wars against the other are genocidal wars, not restricted by any customs or morals, unlike traditional wars framed by customs and customs.

The division between the "dignified" and the "dignified" Western person explains the international silence – specifically the West – against human rights violations, as well as the reluctance of Western countries to declare what Israel is doing as a full-fledged human genocide.

According to the modernist epistemological model, which is behind the concepts of democracy, human rights and equality, the humiliation of the dignity of the other – Muslim, Indian and African – cannot be considered a violation of human dignity, as long as this non-white other, which falls into the category of "primitive", "savage" and "human animal", lacks human character and human dignity. Modernity has entrenched this racist cognitive structure that governs the West's treatment of other non-Western peoples, which explains the colonial countries' failure to recognize their crimes during colonialism despite their horror, as well as the indifference of the West. -Today- by violating the human rights committed by the Zionist entity against the Palestinians.

What shows the influence of the modernist cognitive structure on the West's relationship with the Muslim other is the similarity in the ways of dealing with the other and nature. Western thought other than European thought is part of the savage and lifeless nature that needs to be constantly controlled and shaped by the

same means by which we form matter, without concern for the implications of this;

The Zionist entity has applied the same techniques directed at controlling nature in order to subjugate the Palestinians, and this shows the type of vocabulary employed in its media war, such as the elimination of Hamas, the uprooting and displacement of Palestinians, the division of the Gaza Strip with the Netzarim axis to control the population, and the occupation of the Philadelphia axis to complete the encirclement of the Strip.

It is this division between the "dignified" Western and the "dignified" that explains the international silence – specifically the West – against human rights violations, as well as the reluctance of Western countries to declare what Israel is doing as a full-fledged human genocide. The prevalence of the genocidal modernist cognitive structure explains the indifference of part of the intellectual and political elites in the East and West to the rights of the Palestinian people, and their defense of the narratives of the occupying Zionist entity.

The genocidal war on Gaza demonstrated this invisible division of the world into Western peoples who have the right to own rights, and other peoples, who do not, and exposed the bias of the Western model of protecting human dignity against the other.

The international silence on the violation of dignity reveals the inadequacy of the Western perception of protecting human dignity in theory and practice:

In theory, the West has adopted special standards to deal with the violation of human dignity, standards that are only raised when the Western person is subjected to extermination, while its

employment ceases in the case of the other (Palestinian). The world's recognition of the state of extermination when the other is subjected to it is subject to unclear criteria, despite the enemy's experience of all forms of genocide: killing, destruction, starvation, cutting off the supply of fuel, water, electricity, medical supplies, etc.

In practice, the genocidal war in Gaza is evidence of the failure of the Western human rights system and Western international humanitarian law to protect human dignity, and it also turns out that this system is determined by a hidden modernist cognitive structure, which believes that only the white Western person has the right to exist, while the rest of the peoples occupy the area of "non-existence", meaning that their existence is temporary, and does not raise the issue of duties and rights, as pointed out by Faraz Fanon.

This makes us understand the secret of Western countries' affirmation of the right of the Zionist entity to exist, without reference to a similar right of the Palestinians, as well as their affirmation of the right of this entity to supply weapons from the countries of the world, and to remove this right from the Palestinians who resist settlements, as shown by the tight monitoring of the Philadelphia axis, and the desire of the Zionist entity to maintain its occupation.

The genocidal war on Gaza showed this invisible division of the world into Western peoples who have the right to own rights, and other peoples, who do not, and exposed the bias of the Western model of protecting human dignity against the other, because the West enshrines for itself - in practice - the right to exterminate without restrictions.

In the face of the bias of the modernist cognitive structure in favor of white dignity, and the consecration of the right of the white Western to himself to exterminate the other, only resistance can oppressed peoples regain their human dignity and dismantle the racist modernist cognitive structure.