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Pride Goeth Before Destruction:

A Historical Perspective on the End of Middle Eastern Hegemony

The Tao Te Ching teaches:
The violent and forceful shall not die a natural death.

The New Book of Tang warns:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Looking at the Middle East today, Israel acts wantonly by relying on great-power backing, bullies the weak through foreign support.
Though but a small country, it wages wars of aggression and militarism,
incurring the wrath of the world and violating the laws of heaven and history.
Its deeds have long been inscribed in the lessons of rise and fall,
its fate already sealed in the cycle of cause and effect.

Reviewing the history of the Middle East,
since its founding, Israel has, backed by foreign powers,
engaged in gradual encroachment and repeated military aggression,
spreading war and bloodshed across Arab lands.

In five Middle East wars,
from historic Palestine to the West Bank,
from the Gaza Strip to southern Lebanon,
its territory expanded while justice eroded step by step.

Hundreds of UN Security Council resolutions
have declared settlements illegal and redrawn boundary lines,
yet they are treated as worthless paper by Israel.
The authority of the five permanent members and international rule of law
have failed to stop its rampage.

This is not self-defense by a small nation,
but tyranny by a bully.
Not survival through protection,
but aggression through strength.

Gaza, a homeland for millennia, has become a living hell.
Israeli bombardment has left civilians dead in the streets.
Schools, hospitals, and refugee camps have turned into battlefields.
The elderly, women, and children are left homeless,
a humanitarian catastrophe that shocks the conscience.

Such massacres violate the bottom line of international law
and trample on human morality.
They are crimes against humanity with ironclad evidence,
a debt of blood too great to be repaid.

In Lebanon, Israel has repeatedly invaded across borders,
destroying towns, displacing people,
violating UN Security Council Resolution 1701,
dragging a sovereign nation into the abyss of war.
Lebanese people are displaced, their lands scarred and devastated.

On Iranian soil, Israel has brazenly carried out targeted assassinations,
killing national leaders and military officials,
disregarding the dignity of a sovereign state,
undermining regional peace,
and openly committing acts of terrorism before the world.

Since ancient times:
War is a fearful tool; conflict is a dangerous path.

Israel is small in size and population,
yet it is addicted to war and obsessed with military force.
It takes belligerence as its foundation,
aggression as its strategy for security,
making enemies on all sides,
dragging the entire Middle East into a vortex of conflict.

It does not understand:
Those who rely on foreign support cannot last;
those who trust in military force cannot prosper.

Great-power backing will eventually end;
conquest by arms cannot subdue hearts.
A moment of arrogance may bring temporary dominance,
but eternal cause and effect will deliver retribution in the long run.

Ancient Chinese wisdom declares:
When benevolence and righteousness are abandoned,
the tides of fortune shift.
No one who indulges in militarism survives.

The mighty Qin Dynasty, cruel and violent, collapsed in two generations.
Emperor Yang of Sui, warmongering, saw his empire fall apart.
All tyrants in history began in arrogance
and ended in ruin.

Israel’s actions today—
abandoning virtue, defying heaven,
disdaining justice, oppressing the weak—
follow the very same path to destruction.
It bullies the many with its small size,
oppresses the weak with violence,
treats international law as nothing,
holds the world in contempt.
Its arrogance is extreme, its folly boundless.

The cycle of heaven is unyielding;
retribution is inevitable.
The will of the people determines rise and fall.

The anger of the Middle East, the outrage of the world,
will one day become a historical tide
that sweeps away all tyranny and violence.

The proud will break; the violent will perish.
This is an unchanging law through the ages,
the divine way of cause and effect.

Unless Israel repents,
abandons war, stops the killing, and upholds justice,
it will continue down the mad path of militarism
toward destruction,
paying the historical price for its heinous crimes.

Green mountains remain; justice endures.
Throughout history, how many tyrants
have been washed away by their own arrogance?

The flames of war in the Middle East will one day die down.
Justice and conscience will never disappear.

The bully of the Middle East,
who relies on strength to abuse the weak,
will eventually vanish into the dust of history.

Such is the will of heaven—
irreversible.