Afrasianet - If an African leader were to speak like Morales, he would say: The West has plundered our wealth, and killed our young people (Getty Images)

The massacres of the Zionist occupation in Palestine are similar to the massacres of Western colonialism wherever it goes. Jabalia is not alone in history. There is the massacre of Kufra in Libya in 1931, the massacre of Tazarga in Tunisia in 1952, and the massacre of the eighth of May 1945 in Algeria, and the list goes on.

Cold-blooded massacres carried out by the white man throughout the Arab world. In Palestine, Zionism was only the objective extension of the Wild West. She was killed, destroyed and displaced. In both cases, the killing of the

civilized West, from the Greek legacy to Habermas, had a founding doctrine or mind ready to be justified.

Numerous historical evidence confirms that Western civilization is essentially confrontational. And that reason was justified by force, violence and the claim of superiority. At the human level, that claim has had a heavy cost.

Morales and a voice from the oppressed world

Suffice it to hear Evo Morales, the elected president of Bolivian descent from American Indians, who represented a true test of Western Anglo-Saxon immigrant morality, declaring: "The Americans plundered our wealth, killed whomever they wanted, made great fortunes, left the living poor to feed the garbage... But now Bolivia's wealth belongs to its people."

If an African leader were to speak as Morales did, he would say: The West has plundered our wealth, killed our youth, starved our children, and sent us slaves to build with our own hands a civilization that will not be written in our name, or in the name of our fathers or sons, in the cotton plantations of North America, the cocoa fields in Brazil, or the sugar industry in Cuba.

There, in the Asian part of the world, where Dutch India is, the colonial administration offered the most horrific forms of slavery and exploitation, especially in Indonesia, just as the English did in famine India.

Thus, modern civilization was founded on the right of the Indians, the hunting of black slaves, and an exceptional voraciousness in absorbing the capabilities of the earth and humanity, the main engine of civilization. It is a record of condemnation for dark decades, in which the West was less tolerant, and the United States of America, reproduced from its crucifixion, was built on skulls.

Pascal Bruckner and the doctrine of superiority

Some Western intellectuals have not hidden these facts. Under the subheading "The Yankee Germ," Pascal Bruckner writes: "But America is loaded with all the signs by which the Western's guilt is known: it collects inequality to the rich, it is dominant, arrogant and polluted, founded on the double crime of extermination of American Indians and black enslavement, flourishes only with the threat of guns, and does not care about international institutions. It is also destined entirely to worship the Green Leaf, the only religion in this materialistic country."

That record finds evidence of historical proof in those embryonic conceptions that early Americans—those "traveling ancestors"—formed about themselves and the world.

They were trustees or heirs of their British-Anglo-Saxon ancestry. One of these inheritances was promulgated by the British Society in 1703 in the form of a law providing for

the payment of a bonus of 40 pounds for each skin of a red Indian, or for each Indian captive.

The same association decided to increase the remuneration in 1774 to 100 pounds for each man, and 55 pounds for each Amerindian woman or child. It is as if killing the human being had become a source of mercenarism and a gateway to absorb the unemployed.

There, on the new earth, when they were encountering its indigenous inhabitants, Spanish theologians were dehumanizing them as steeped in sin, and thus had no power over things, no right to property, no being free. That evangelical vision required their dispossession, just as it required the confiscation of their freedoms and enslavement.

Man is above nature, adults are above children, Christians are above non-Christians, whites are above people of color, Western culture is above non-Western cultures, and America is above other nations. Who then dares to oppose the New Age Logos?

Revealing one of the chapters of that tragedy, Professor Ronald Davis says: "It is no exaggeration to say that the profits from the slave trade from 1600 to 1860 contributed greatly to the emergence of the West in Western Europe and the United States as the world's dominant powers."

The myth of the West was built on skulls. Western civilization was built on violence, utility and pleasure.

Murder became an enlightening message, and murderers were messengers of freedom and civility.

It is exactly what the American journalist and writer Kiman Allot put it when he said: "The job of the Anglo-Saxon race is to give civilization to the uncivilized peoples of the world, we deny any barbarian people to remain in possession of any part of the earth."

Roger Garaudy writes, quoting Jules ferry : "To establish a colony is to create a market." Frey told the French parliament: "It must be frankly said that the higher races have a practical right, over the lower races..." Roger Garaudy then comments: "This unconscious and deadly Western fundamentalism, which has been used for five centuries as an ideological justification for all the excesses of colonialism, is once again playing its damned role in the last colonial adventures in history ."

It is as if violence and domination are nothing but a scientific approach, or a philosophical appropriation of Western rationality, as if reason is the founder of colonialism and exploitation. He is the one who makes the murderer and he is the one who makes the murderer. Especially since he has formulated in major political and academic circles that sacred belief of excellence, superiority and purity.

These values correspond to the values of backwardness, fanaticism and decadence on the other side. In this case,

difference will not be a prelude to diversity and recognition, or to cultural acculturation and international peace, but rather a justification for colonial or subordinate relations. They are the laws of the majority when they are carried out against the defeated.

Here Morales' position finds its justification. He also finds other justifications in these hollow declarations of a particular kind of superiority claimed by the West in general and Americans in particular for themselves. That superiority justifies their right to govern and own property.

From Herman Melville to Madeleine Albright, the preamble itself, albeit differently in rhetoric, are the strongest, purest and most deserving of life. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the American novelist Herman Melville said: "We are the pioneers and pioneers of the world, chosen by God... Humanity looks to our lineage and expects a lot from us... Most nations have to occupy the rear, we are the vanguard, going out into the wilderness to do what the first could not." For politicians, the issue is clearer and more detailed.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1911) used to say, "The Americanization of the world is the destiny and destiny of our nation." After World War II, Truman boasted, "The world is now in our hands." As Jacques Brasol says, "If the size of the cake is still the same in people's minds, the only way to double your share is to take from the neighbors."

After this modest exploration of the manifestations of Western civilization in view and practice, that civilization seems to us through countless historical evidence, a deconstructive civilization par excellence. It seems even more dangerous to adopt this course of action applied to living things, such as man, family or nation, in which case it will inevitably lead to the use of slavery and domination.

Whatever the trajectories accumulated by Western philosophy, it found its final manifestations, as Ahmet Davutoglu sees it, in a sweeping civilizational crisis, manifested through "conceptual and institutional imbalances in the relationship between man and man, and the relationship of man with nature", to be reflected in its political dimension in the narrow-mindedness of the nation-state, and reflected in its strategic dimension in the blockage of the horizon of the world order.

If the narrow-mindedness of the Western concept of the nation-state has internalized the mentality of war as an existential necessity for the formation of the state, and the wars of Napoleonic France, Imperial Germany or National Socialist Germany, and Zionism, the narrow-mindedness of the Western concept of world order has deteriorated in the exercise of hegemony and seizure of the destinies of peoples, and colonialism on a large scale, especially in its Anglo-American form.

Perhaps because of this, the general trend of human existence at the end of the last century and the beginning

of the new century has tended to adopt a more radical concept to respond to the structural deficit of Western modernity in thought and practice. At a time when critical currents from within the Western modernist system itself have not been able to transcend the reformist dimension in their criticism. There is no doubt that this philosophy has an impact on the balances of the world.

Researcher specialized in Tunisian affairs