TEHRAN - At the beginning of his speech to the joint session of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on July 25, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We meet today at a crossroads of history. Our world is in upheaval. In the Middle East, Iran’s axis of terror confronts America, Israel and our Arab friends. This is not a clash of civilizations. It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization. It’s a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.

For the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together. Because when we stand together, something very simple happens. We win. They lose.”
Comically, these words are uttered by a person - rightly called the crime minister - who has been committing indescribable crimes against 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. His regime’s acts against the Gazans have shocked the entire world.
In the view of Netanyahu preventing the flow of water, food and medicine to civilian people is considered a civilized behavior. Netanyahu sees collective punishment, indiscriminate killings, and the targeting of civilians who seek shelter in schools, mosques, churches, and hospitals as civilized acts.
So far, this madman has destroyed about 60 percent of buildings in Gaza and killed about 40,000 people – most of them women and children. Yet, he demonizes his victims, who have been subjected to the worst kinds of cruelty.  Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Based on a study published in the Lancet journal, the accumulative effects of the war could mean the true death toll in Gaza is more than 186,000 people. 

Netanyahu’s words will go down in history as extremely shameful and disgraceful. A person is talking about civilization whose army killed about 300 people in order to just free three hostages. 

Not just children, women and the elderly have been brutalized by an army whose commander-in-chief talks about “civilization” but medical workers have also been arrested, tortured, and abused.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has thrown a spotlight on the severe impacts of attacks on health facilities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7. “More than 1000 attacks on doctors, patients, clinics, and health infrastructure have fueled a public health catastrophe in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory]. This grim milestone has few if any precedents for the scale and magnitude of attacks on health in the OPT,” said Houssam al-Nahhas, PHR’s Middle East and North Africa researcher.
The leader of a regime is calling the war on Gaza a “clash between barbarism and civilization” that nine members of his army gang-raped a Palestinian detainee and members of the Knesset broke into two military bases to prevent the military police from detaining the rapists!
In fact, it was Hamas fighters who attacked southern Israel on October 7 which led to the death of about 1,140 people (many of them by the Israeli troops). But what is the sin of the Palestinian civilians who had no role in the attack and no connection to Hamas? 
Ironically, a person is talking about civilization who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. 
The world can easily judge who is acting in a barbaric way and who is the chief victim. For 10 months the world has been seeing that civilians in Gaza are being starved, forced to escape from one place to another, chased and killed in hiding places, buried in mass graves, and many other horrific acts. 
The barbaric acts that the Netanyahu regime is committing and the purely appalling remarks that he is making will not go unnoticed by historians. Surely, he will be remembered as one of the most brutal rulers the world has seen in modern history.