My Provisional Assessment of a War
Western societies are experiencing an ideological crisis where historical enemies of liberal democracy are rebranded as liberators while democratic nations' defensive actions are cast as oppression.
The French publication reports that neither Hamas nor the Iranian regime believes it has lost the war against Israel. Instead, both are preparing for the next phase of conflict. Meanwhile, the West appears to be surrendering, even willingly participating in its own destruction, burdened by guilt over accusations of crimes it barely remembers committing.
The Transformation of Antisemitism
Adolf Hitler’s ideology has not died, Causeur argues, but has merely changed uniforms. In Constantinople, Mein Kampf sells like candy. In Cairo, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion circulates between Quranic verses. The old conspiracy theories about Jewish world domination have been remixed with postcolonial rhetoric, the publication notes.
The modern incarnation no longer wears a Nazi uniform but instead appears in the guise of the outraged activist, wearing sneakers and wielding the slingshot of resistance. According to this analysis, Hitler’s spirit now lives within progressive slogans where white people are always guilty and oppressors are defined by birth rather than action.
The New Revolutionary Narrative
What has emerged is not the supremacy of an Aryan race but rather an anti-race, Causeur observes. This consists of the supposedly righteous persecuted who dream of their own Reich, an empire purged of Jews, settlers, and Westerners through fire.
The publication traces how this ideology spread. When George Floyd died in Minneapolis with a knee on his throat, and when Palestinians threw stones at Israeli drones in Ramallah, European crowds found the imagery compelling. Floyd became a modern Spartacus, while Ahed Tamimi was transformed into the child soldier of a holy war. Nuance, the article suggests, died in the corridors of Instagram.
The Pattern of Genocidal Rhetoric
Causeur draws historical parallels, noting that yesterday’s perpetrators of genocide always knew how to tell compelling stories. The Jacobins had their suspects, the Nazis their Jewish conspiracy, the Hutus their Tutsi enemies. The formula remains simple: designate the enemy, give it a name, a face, a fantasy. Then the people do the rest with their fury and their knives.
Today’s designated enemy is Israel, the West, and the white male who supposedly wields power he no longer even assumes. Above all, it is authority that doubts itself, apologizes, and seeks approval. The weak father. The naked king.
The Collapse of Western Authority
In European schools, the publication reports, the rod has been replaced with gentle words. Children have grown up without fear but not without rage. Soft authority is not respected but crucified. America after Vietnam, Israel since 1967, and Europe of the bien-pensants have all become substitution crosses for a generation that hates its fathers as one hates an absent god.
This demonization permeates university lecture halls, newsrooms, and dinner parties. Israel is portrayed as a monster. America as a killing machine. France as a colonial relic. If a Jew is powerful, he is suspect. If he is a victim, he is sanctified, but only in the past.
The Question of Compassion
Why does this generation show compassion for dead Jews while expressing hatred toward living ones? According to Causeur, it is because this generation refuses to be complicit, refuses to inherit, refuses to transmit. It wants to burn down the house and dance in the ashes while shouting never again, without truly understanding what that really means.
Contrasting Approaches to Historical Grievance
The Arab world, by contrast, shows no repentance or self-examination, the publication observes. The past is a wound displayed for cameras. The present is mystical waiting. A rusted key preserved in a drawer since 1948 serves as a talisman of a world that never came to be.
The rest of the world has moved on, Causeur notes. Greeks left Anatolia. Germans fled Prussia. Indians and Pakistanis exchanged their gods through violence. But Palestinians maintain their ruins as a promise of vengeance.
The Reality Beneath the Narrative
Palestinian cities shine brighter than the countryside of the Nile, the publication points out. Checkpoints are wounds, yes, but also gateways to a world that is quietly envied. People hate what they desire. They insult what they cannot equal.
Today Gaza bleeds. It is no longer merely a besieged city but a mass of opened walls, eviscerated houses, and streets returned to dust, a territory where the living walk among what was once their lives. Yet in Western hearts, Causeur suggests, Gaza has been transformed into a new Golgotha, where each collapsed building becomes a psalm screamed in the face of a world grown too complacent.
With information from Causeur
