The Monstrosity of Our Century: The War on Palestine and the Last Western Man by Amir Nour provides a comprehensive tour from Israel's massive offensive against Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, to a projection of the grand transformation of the world that this is bringing into being after more than three centuries of complete Western domination.
Addressing the crimes of starvation and genocide that UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese termed "the monstrosity of our century," Nour documents the historical events that set the stage for this tragedy, implicating the West for its decisive contribution to conditions of apartheid and the open-air prison that all but made the October 7th, 2023, attack on Israel inevitable and Israel's genocidal reaction predictable.
The October 7th attack on Israel was a feat of no small moment, described by military analyst Scott Ritter as "not a terrorist attack'., in fact the "most successful military raid of this century'. The claims by Israel and Western media of beheaded or burned babies and mass rapes are debunked.
Disputing the Israeli state's claims to act on behalf of world Jewry, Nour asks:
Who are "the Jews"? He addresses the many hotly conflicting and contradictory secular and Judaic components. both within Israel and in the diaspora.
Who were the historical instigators of the Zionist project, long before the Jews? Nour enumerates the historical markers of Christian Zionist engagement.
What prevents antisemitism and anti-Zionism from even being discussed and what can happen when its narrative is challenged?
Nour foresees that a process of de-Westernization is dawning. While the West's triumphal unipolar moment at the fall of the Soviet Union led to Francis Fukuyama's claims of The End of History and the Last Man and the global establishment of liberal democracy, in actuality the wrenching transition from a hegemonic world order now underway is progressively leading not just to the abandonment of democratic values by those countries who pursued its ascendancy, but a global repugnance at their flagrant complicity in genocide.
The war on Palestine is providing a more convincing depiction of the trajectory of human civilization, more precisely of the destiny of the "Last Man," in actuality the last Western man, whose spiritual nihilism, lack of empathy, and unbridled will to power may lead the world to destruction.
