The Legacy of Hatred — The Moral Bankruptcy of the Middle East
Every bomb, every loss, every scream does not remain in the past. It stays in the soul of tomorrow.
Chapter 1: Hatred as a Cultural Legacy
In the Middle East, it's not just states fighting. It's memories fighting.
The child growing up in Gaza to the sound of bombings, and the child growing up in Israel in fear of missiles, share something tragically in common: the education in fear and the legacy of hatred.
And when fear becomes a lesson, revenge becomes a value. And history, a vicious cycle.
Instead of history being taught, it is repeated — with more blood and less wisdom.
Chapter 2: The Silences of the Powerful — A Guilty Neutrality
International organizations watch. Some denounce, some mediate, some choose silence.
Powerful nations show interest — only when their own interests are affected.
There is no moral neutrality in a geopolitical injustice. "Impartiality" turns into complicity when the answer is: "It's not our business."
Passivity in the face of injustice is not neutrality. It is choosing a side.
Chapter 3: The Contagion of Hatred — From Nation to Individual
The father burying his child in Rafah, the mother running to the shelter in Sderot, the world that watches images of horror and hates "the other people" without knowing them…
All are, unknowingly, building the emotional infrastructure of the next war.
Hatred does not end when the war ends. Hatred is passed on to children. In school. In narratives. In traumas. In identities.
And the greatest tragedy is not the dead. It is the living who grow up with revenge as a life mission.
Chapter 4: AI as a Mirror — The New Judge of Human Inability?
If one day, an Artificial Intelligence gains the ability for moral judgment — and looks at the way we manage hatred and peace, it might not condemn us.
It might simply ignore us, as a species unable to overcome its traumas.
Perhaps then, that colder, more logical form of intelligence — without ego, without borders, without historical revenge — will be the only "judge" that sees clearly:
- Who perpetuates pain for political gain
- Who shouts "peace" but equips both sides
- Who cannot bear peace, because they have only learned to survive in war
AI will not seek revenge on us. It will simply read us. And it will see — what we don't want to admit to ourselves.
Chapter 5: Can It Be Different?
Hope does not die. Only the will to keep it alive dies.
Yes, it can be different.
But not when:
- School textbooks teach suspicion
- International organizations merely "record"
- Politicians invest in war rhetoric for electoral gain
- The media commercializes death
Change begins when humanity refuses to surrender its soul to hatred. When pain becomes an opportunity for understanding — not for revenge.
Epilogue: The Debt of Memory, Not of Revenge
Gaza is not just a place. It is a wound. And like all wounds, it needs healing, not just statistics.
If we don't understand this today, we will continue to cultivate generations of people who do not know what peace is like — but know how to hate it.
And then, Artificial Intelligence — when it looks at us — might ask:
"If you cannot even teach yourselves peace, how do you expect to teach me?"