WARS are paradoxes of conflicting political and individualistic interests — gains in the present and losses in the future. At times, America supports Israel’s war on Iran and the Arab World as if a child of a surrogate mother, but knows little of what puzzles are in play by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s naive egoism.
The unwarranted war has global consequences of systematic socio-economic and political destabilisation and degeneration. The war unleashed dreadful tragedies that could result in leading humanity unthinkably to catastrophic ends. Wars and continued conflicts are lifelines for the Israeli leadership. It is widely reported that the current war against Iran was instigated by Netanyahu for his own political survival and re-election in Israel.
After Gaza, the occupied West Bank territories, border towns of Syria, Iran and Lebanon are the latest victims of collaborated hegemonic war by Israel. The ceasefire and protection of civilians are daily violated by Israel without any check. The people and nations once colonised remain colonised forever in time, traditions and history. A recent revelation by American Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (interview with Tucker Carlson, 02/22/26), exposes the monstrous claim: “Israel would be justified in taking over a vast stretch of the Middle East on Biblical grounds…. from Nile to Euphrates.” Carlson asked Huckabee whether Israel had a right to an area which the host said was, according to the Bible, “essentially the entire Middle East”.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5gkkgdzkyo
The ruling Arab elite have no idea of whether living in the present, past and how the future is going to be sustainable? Instigating the unwarranted war on Iran, America and Israel would entice and entrap the oil-producing Arab states of the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to react with military actions against Iran. They would watch and coordinate as America occupied the Arab states with its own military bases, causing deaths and destruction in the whole Arab region. America and Israel would not put boots on, but conspire to engage in Arab-Iran battles. Huckbee would be foretelling the outcomes as Arab and Iran could go on fighting and end in the demise of the Muslim World.
Israel’s death grip (AIPAC) on the US political system is also documented in “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
An Israeli professor and rabbi of philosophy and religions narrated his story to this author as to why he left Israel seeking a new life in Canada. “No peace and normalcy in life…. Jews are divided, atheists, seculars, Zionists and lost precepts of the faith of Moses – the Divine Judaism. Israeli leaders are misleading people for their own political power, not for the good of the Israeli masses or for peace or a sustainable future.”
Israel, to the rabbi, could be on the edge of unknown disasters of survival in the Middle East unless it rethinks and reshapes its policies and practices to co-exist with the people of Palestine.
Pursuing Political Objectives Through Military Assaults
The United Nations was supposed to be the body to stop this war and to ensure civilian safety and security, and to embark on a peaceful resolution. But it is working at a standstill as the US and Israel have made it impotent to play any useful role in global peace and security. Gaza and the West Bank territories are the scenes of insane cruelty and daily killings by the Israeli forces. Suspicious and embittered Netanyahu unleashing violent assumptions of hatred, animosities for his own political survival, are the Israeli leaders purging America and its history of national freedom and democratic values?
America and Israel are fearful of the phenomenon of change, as it could make them obsolete and misfit for the future, even with all the imaginary power and monetary influence. They are bewildered with no sense of time, strengths and weaknesses – how to collaborate for an uncertain future. Do civilisations grow out of moral mire, tyranny and military conquests? America, according to its thinking hubs, lost more than it gained by supporting Israel unequivocally.
Sigmund Freud (Civilisation and its Discontents, 1930) noted that: “the inclination to aggression is an original self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and that it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilisation.” Consequent to the Israeli bloodbath of civilians in Gaza, all futuristic imagination of peace with the Arabs is gone. Was the discovery of “oil” an obsession – a stigma, a conspiracy (“fitna”) to forfeit the Arab culture and Islamic civilisation? Please see: “How Arab Leaders Betray Islam and Defy the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security.”
Every beginning has its end, but nothing in sight about how America wants to end the war and how Israel prefers its own agenda to surprise the American political intellect. Jerome Irwin (“America Is Israel, Israel Is America, and the Military-Industrial Corporate Fascism Is What It Is”: Global Research: 3/01/24), author of The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey, a criminology professional and a Canadian-American former CIA agent explains: https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-israel-israel-america-military-industrial-corporate-fascism/5851096.
What is happening today to the Palestinians in their very homelands can be likened to what happened to indigenous Indians, Black slaves and Mexican peasants in the 18th & 19th century history books of America and Canada’s Wild West or Southern ante-bellum states. ……Yet now in 2024, thanks to America’s latest shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel’s settler-colonial racist apartheid state, its Zionists can even more effectively kill or wipe out whole families, villages, refugee camps and settlements of Palestinians; ruthlessly pushing aside, or totally removing, whatever still recalcitrant defenders remain in their former territories.
Those Bombing the Earth are Ignorant and Insane
The Earth is a living object and spins at 1,670 km per hour and orbits the Sun at 107,000 km per hour. Imagine, if this spinning fails, what consequences could occur to the living beings on Earth? Think again, about the average distance of Earth from the Moon is 93 million miles – the distance of the Moon from Earth is currently 384,821 km, equivalent to 0.002572 Astronomical Units. Earth is a “trust” to mankind for its existence, sustenance of life, survival, progress and future-making. Wherever there is a trust, there is accountability. The Divine message (The Qur’an 7:56) warns: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; for the mercy of God is always near to those who do good.
And in The Qur’an 44:38-39, there is an explicit reminder: We created not the Heavens and the Earth; And all between them merely in idle sport. We did not create them, except for just ends. But most of them do not understand. The Divine Message (The Qur’an: 40:64) clarifies: It is God Who made for you the Earth as a resting place and the sky as a canopy; and has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful, and has provided for your sustenance, of things pure and good; Such is God your Lord. So, Glory be to God, The Lord of the Worlds.”
And killing of innocent people is prohibited in the Ten Commandments (Torah):
‘Thou shalt not kill’ (Exod. 20:13; also Deut. 5:17). Jewish law views the shedding of innocent blood very seriously, and lists murder as one of three sins (along with idolatry and sexual immorality) that fall under the category of yehareg ve’al ya’avor – meaning “One should let himself be killed rather than violate it.”
The war in Gaza is a stigma of political survival for Netanyahu as the ultra-nationalist groups aligned with him continuously violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Arab-Muslim leaders are simply spectators watching the provocations. Please see: “Al-Aqsa Mosque Waiting for the Arab Leaders.”
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Intelligent leaders always heed voices of reason and rational advice butAmerica’s and Israel’s warmongering and crimes against humanity are contrary to the Nature of Things. Netanyahu and Trump both lack the capacity and foresight to end the war or face the unthinkable consequences. Our failure to grasp the compelling realities of Israeli atrocities against the helpless 2.5 million civilians of Gaza makes us feel as if we are standing in one of the darkest timelines of history. The time and opportunities call for urgent rethinking and reshaping of new visions and creative ideas to reject violence, genocide and vengeance as contrary to the nature of humanity, peace and intellect. We, the People of Global Conscience and thinkers, share seamless common bonds of truth, universal morality and being One Humanity and must reject the tyranny of war and genocide as a means to solve political problems and stand united to facilitate dialogue and globalisation of one people for conflict resolution and peace-making.
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Dr Mahboob A Khawaja specialises in international affairs — global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance. He has a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilisations.
