Posted on 16/9/2025
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Last update: 9/17/2025 11:23 (Mecca time)
“Shut the damn thing up.” These are not words scattered on a popular Arab street between two young men with a ball or money, but a phrase Italian soccer coach Gennaro Gattuso angrily hurled at Israel’s players during a 2026 World Cup qualifier last week.
It is noteworthy that despite the “gravity” of the statement of the coach, who expressed in the press conference his “unhappiness” to be in the same group with Israel, an intensity that is considered cold and peaceful compared to the lava poured by the Israelis on the people in the Gaza Strip, it resonated with the thousands of Italian fans who thronged the stadium. Playing the Israeli national anthem and holding up signs that read “Stop” in front of the Israeli team.
But does this position merely reflect a group of angry athletes at a football match?
The answer comes elsewhere, from the owner of a Spanish restaurant in the city of Vigo, who kicked out 8 of his customers who shared a large table that he assumed would generate hard currency for his coffers. He told them with his mouth full, which was recorded by a camera monitoring the development of general European sentiment towards Israel: “You kill Palestine, go eat in Gaza.”
The scene of the exiled eight was epic in every sense of the word and represents the defeat of the 77-year-old Israeli narrative. They left Spain’s table amid shouts of anger from street cleaners to the top of the executive pyramid, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who expressed his outrage at Israel’s “bloodshed” in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Palestinian Strip, which is undergoing a war of elimination, in the sunlight and in front of the cameras.
new soul
So it is not limited to a few thousand in Italy, or to a large segment of Spaniards. Moreover, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium – the largest countries in Europe – indicate by their streets and demonstrations, by the dramas and scientific seminars they produce, by popular festivals and sports, that a new spirit has entered the popular European position on Palestine in general and Gaza in particular, and from the point of view of Israel.
An observer can see European athletes, many of their politicians, their institutions and their streets full of angry demonstrations – two years ago – not only of Netanyahu, who is persecuted by the International Criminal Court and the hatred of peoples, but also from Israel itself, whose side conversations in some circles on the West Street indicate that the idea of its existence is no longer compared to the people of the West. Defeating traditional Western media institutions and their one-sided narrative of the Palestinian event. In particular, and the Arab world in general, in the fight for truth in front of the river of new media, including social media, news and facts.
What Israel has built over decades of political and public relations campaigns and spent tons of money to tell the Western world that it is a rare “fruit” of civilization and urbanization, in the Arab desert of backwardness, murder and terrorism, is today crumbling at the feet of a Gazan child, lost to hunger and the loss of his mother. Children and remained alone, killed by loneliness in the crowded world around him.
The sum of the demonstrations in the streets of Western cities, the statements of their politicians and the positions of academics, artists, sportsmen and scientific elites regarding the Israeli killing machine in Palestine, tells the observer about the creation of a new narrative, which is more deeply rooted and rooted in the Western collective conscience, the land in the fire of Israel called Gaza, which has proven, albeit a large At a cost, the preference of bravery over abundance and the dominance of simple truth over manufactured illusion.
black hole
True, Gaza has lost its structure and damaged 10% of its most cherished asset, its people, according to statistics acknowledged by Israel’s military leaders. It is true that he was besieged and left alone in a geographically close environment and optically distant from him in aspects of preparation and work. However, it was the direct and most powerful reason for the formation of a new global consciousness, specifically the Western consciousness, which realized that the features, appearance, language, culture and nature of the occupiers of Palestine do not belong to the place and do not resemble it.
This consciousness itself is the practical result of the “black hole” that has swallowed Israel’s strategic assets in the West, and with it the false consciousness created in the European mind by the soft power tools, the media, academia and science, owned, controlled and directed by the pro-Israeli Jewish arms.
The most important, and perhaps the most dangerous for Israel, is that this new European collective consciousness is not limited to middle-aged and older groups who see, analyze and draw facts, but extends to the new generation, which, for example, but not exclusively, was expressed by Doria Borsas, the new French athlete a few days ago, although she refused to shake hands. Israel’s hand outstretched towards him, hanging in space for a moment, in a scene often repeated on the Old Continent, representing a period of decline in Israel’s image that many weak and desperate people thought would never be shaken.
The developments in Palestine have given Europeans a new political awareness and a moral dimension, allowing them to break free from the traditional political and media elite narrative. At least, that’s what the numbers documented by the European Palestine Information Center (Epal) confirm, as last month it counted around 42,000 demonstrations and activities in support of the Palestinian cause in more than 700 cities in 20 European countries.
What we follow from the Western political and social response to the Palestinian event reveals a precise equation: for every square meter Israel gains in Gaza or the occupied West Bank, it loses thousands of meters of traditional European support, and for every Palestinian it kills, hundreds of angry Europeans rise up against it.
