In Israel and the Gaza Strip, two disasters occurred one after the other: a Hamas attack on the Jewish state — with numerous civilian casualties, including hostage-taking — and Israel’s retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip, far exceeding in cruelty and the number of civilian casualties, primarily women and children. The IDF’s ground operation made the situation even more catastrophic, and the number of dead — including children, women, and the elderly — has increased to unimaginable levels.

Both are gross violations of human rights and crimes against humanity and cannot be justified in any way. However, the principles of lex talionis (‘an eye for an eye’) applied by Israel led to a real genocide of the population of the Gaza Strip, which was already forced to live in the monstrous conditions of a concentration camp. Hamas committed an act of terrorism; Israel responded with an act of full-scale genocide. Both have placed themselves outside the law and acceptable, humane methods of resolving political conflicts.

But then geopolitics begins. Although the scale of Israel’s crime is much larger, the assessment of what is happening in the Gaza Strip does not depend on this but on deeper geopolitical regularities. Let us consider them separately from the moral aspect of the problem.

The existing world order is transitional

The existing world order is transitional. Today, there is a shift from a unipolar world (formed after the collapse of the USSR and the dismantling of the Soviet bloc) to a multipolar one. The poles of the multipolar world are already becoming quite distinct. These are Russia, China, the Islamic world, and India, with Africa and Latin America approaching.

Essentially, these are entirely independent civilisations. The main ones are represented in BRICS, which — especially after the 2023 summit in Johannesburg — unites all these civilisations (the accession of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt signifies the presence of key countries of the Islamic world; Ethiopia strengthens the African factor, and Argentina complements the core of South American countries). The multipolar world is strengthening its position every day. Western hegemony is weakening.

However, the globalist leadership of the West, and primarily the USA, is striving at any cost to preserve unipolarity, insisting on its full-scale military, political, economic, cultural, and ideological dominance. This is the main contradiction of our era: the escalation of the confrontation between unipolarity and multipolarity. In this context, the main conflicts and processes of world politics should be considered.

It is precisely the desire to weaken sovereign Russia, reasserting itself as an independent pole, that explains the conflict in Ukraine.

Multipolar consciousness is growing and strengthening

At the same time, our country fully realises that it cannot be one of two poles, as was the case during the Soviet era. New civilisations are rising — and Russia sees in them allies and partners in true and equitable multipolarity. The world has not yet realised this, but gradually a multipolar consciousness is growing and strengthening.

The same applies to the issue of Taiwan, which could become (and will someday become) the next frontline between unipolarity and multipolarity — this time in the Pacific Ocean zone.

“If we understand the essence of the strategy of those who are desperately in agony trying to save the unipolar world and Western hegemony, we can consciously build an alternative model of resistance to it, as well as confidently and collectively move towards the creation of a multipolar world.”

Alexander Dugin