Pharaoh’s Logic — Why Are the U.S. and Israel Obsessed With Killing Children?
From Gaza to Iran, growing calls for targeting children reveal an ideology rooted in fear of future generations and the normalization of mass violence
West Asia, PUREWILAYAH.COM — A deleted Hebrew-language post attributed to an Israeli security analyst calling for the targeting of Iranian children during war has triggered renewed scrutiny over what critics describe as the normalization of child-killing within Israeli military and ideological discourse.
According to an analysis published by Mehr News Agency, the deleted post was attributed to Orit Perlov, a member of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. In the message circulated online, Perlov allegedly argued that the war against Iran should follow a religious and extremist approach modeled on the biblical account of the “slaughter of the firstborn.”
The report stated that the post suggested that if senior Iranian officials could not be reached, children themselves should become targets.
Although the post was reportedly deleted shortly afterward, Mehr argued that such rhetoric reflects more than an isolated emotional reaction, describing it instead as evidence of a deeper ideological collapse in which violence against children is increasingly justified and normalized.
From Gaza to Iran — A Repeated Pattern
According to Mehr, similar tactics have already been witnessed in Gaza, where thousands of children have been killed during Israeli military operations.
The report argued that the same logic is now being openly discussed in relation to Iran and Lebanon, warning that attacks on children are no longer being treated merely as collateral damage but increasingly framed as strategic necessity.
Mehr further pointed to the beginning of the recent U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which it said started with the killing of 168 elementary school girls, while neither Washington nor Tel Aviv expressed remorse over the incident.
The analysis also drew parallels with previous U.S.-led wars in the region, arguing that patterns of violence against children and civilians have repeatedly appeared throughout modern Western military interventions.
The Logic of Pharaoh
Mehr compared the mentality behind such rhetoric to the logic of Pharaoh described in religious scripture — a ruler who feared children because of the threat they might pose in the future once they reached adulthood.
According to the report, the underlying idea is that potential resistance must be destroyed before it can emerge.
“The future must be eliminated today,” the analysis argued, describing this mentality as identical to the logic historically associated with tyrannical rule.
The report stated that the large number of children killed in Gaza, the systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure, and similar patterns seen in Iran and Lebanon suggest that such violence is not accidental, but part of a broader ideological approach aimed at legitimizing collective punishment and extreme force.
Schools, hospitals, and homes have increasingly become targets, while the transformation of child deaths into statistics reflects what the report described as the normalization of evil in modern warfare.
Violence Without Accountability
The article warns that once violence against children becomes normalized, it eventually transforms into automatic behavior carried out without moral reflection or accountability.
According to Mehr, Islamic ethical principles prohibit unrestricted violence even during war and explicitly forbid the targeting of civilians and children.
The report argued that the normalization of child killings in Gaza and Iran reflects not only moral decay in warfare, but also a deeper societal transformation in which extreme violence becomes routine, justified, and detached from human conscience. (PW)