HISTORY repeats itself and a favourite perversion is at work. Opportunist European imperialists fighting their nationalistic two World Wars used colonised Arabs to divide and fight their wars, with two million or more lives lost. The oil discovery propelled fake economic prosperity and often people and nations go astray, galvanised by economic prosperity. Tyranny produces tyrants, but Islam made Arabs one of the leading forces of moral character and nobility; they influenced European thinking hubs and intellectual cultures.
Western leaders, negating the contributions of Islamic culture and civilisation to the 15th-16th centuries European Renaissance, scientific and technological developments, transformed Arab leaders to take refuge in American strategic protection – a dream of folly and an exploitative network robbing several trillions of dollars from Arab oil wealth. Once the Arabs were pioneers in knowledge, progress, and civilisation, today they appear as besieged slaves of consumerism. Had they continued, says the Qur’an (12:117): “Your Lord would never destroy a people/towns for doing wrong while their people were trying to reform.”
Most Western mythologists call the Arab leaders “camel jockeys”, overwhelmed with immeasurable primitive tribalism. The global community is witnessing the ongoing American-supported Israeli war on Palestine as ethnic cleansing and genocide happening without any international protection to the people of Gaza. US President Donald Trump wrapped up the three-day trip to the Middle East, enlisting trillions of dollars of business deals, including protection of the rulers and weapon sales, which set the scheme of things to ensure imperial domination of the region.
Dr Feroz M. Kamal, an international scholar (“The Arab Tyrants’ Partnership in Crime with the USA”: 5/15/2025), spells out the reality: The tyrant rulers of the Gulf states also need their security. President Trump knows the weaknesses of these states. He once said that the Arab monarchs can’t stay in power for more than a few days without the help of the US. Hence, these monarchs are buying security from the US. The UAE alone is handing over 1.4 trillion dollars to the US over a few years. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also pledged the same, although the payouts may differ.
But the lust of the US is much deeper, it demands 10 trillion dollars. Chris Hedges (“The New Dark Age” https://chrishedges.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email tells the truth: A few miles away in Gaza, dozens of men, women and children, living in crude tents or damaged buildings amid the rubble, are being butchered daily by bullets, bombs, missile strikes, tank shells, infectious diseases and that most ancient weapon of siege warfare — starvation…..Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has launched a new offensive that is killing upwards of 100 people a day, has declared that nothing will impede this final assault, named Operation Gideon’s Chariots. There will be “no way,” Israel will stop the war, he announced, even if the remaining Israeli hostages are returned. Israel is “destroying more and more houses” in Gaza. The Palestinians “have nowhere to return.”
For Netanyahu, Greater Israel is the topmost agenda and the American strategy encourages Israel with will and weapons to unleash the conquest of the Arab World. The Arab leaders never could think outside the decadent box and question the master about the stigma of war and its ultimate purposes to dominate the Arab World. The US and Israel are moving around all quagmires and forging it to ensure continued killing of the people of Gaza under false pretext of terrorism and allowing new settlements to strengthen Israeli command over the West Bank and to put a full stop to the Palestinian freedom movement.
Professor Michel Chossudosky https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-does-donald-trump-want-to-transform-gaza-into-a-u-s-territory/ warns of the catastrophic plans: Under Trump’s advisory, Palestinians would be relocated and excluded from their homeland. As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 11 years ago in a December 2013 article: “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, ‘If All Goes to Plan’”. Arbuthnot referred to the ownership of Gaza’s maritime natural gas reserves belonging to the State of Palestine. At the time of writing, the Netanyahu government is planning to appropriate these maritime gas reserves. What this signifies is that Israel is intent upon annexing Gaza as well as destroying an entire country.
Gaza and the West Bank are obliterated by Israeli war over 18 months of continued conflict and bombardments of civilian infrastructure. If the leading Arab leaders had capacity and moral-intellectual foresight, they should have challenged the insanity of war and protected the innocent masses of Gaza. But they look for escape from reality under the US military shield. The Divine message clarifies (13:27): “Say, God lets anyone He wishes go astray; and guides to Himself anyone who feels concerned.” The Arab leaders appear morally, intellectually and politically bankrupt as a scum floating on a torrent of naive puppets and discredited leaders.
The American-Israeli collaborative war on Gaza and its immediate consequences made the Western world and all of its institutions shamefully redundant and void in the 21st century global norms of civility, human rights, freedom, justice and safety of civilians, whereas crimes against humanity are captured in obscure impulses and indecision and deliberate inaction by the UN Security Council. If Israel is not stopped, soon the leading oil-exporting Arab states could fly Israeli-American flags for a change.
God created us as human beings – the most intelligent creation on this planet with moral and intellectual capacity, obligations and accountability. If one defies the Laws of God, one will be held accountable like other aggressors in the past. One cannot pretend to think and behave like animals. Animals live and do not reflect on the imperatives of life, whereas we, the human beings, cannot act like animals as we are supposed to be an intelligent and responsible species on this Earth. At the edge of reason, the notion of evil leads to a realisation that evil and the tyranny of war must be stopped by all means and those responsible for the genocide and crimes against humanity must be held accountable to restore the manifestation of peace, justice, and security for all. Intelligent people, leaders and nations always readily accept advice: The followers of Moses – the generations of Israelite are reminded by God (The Quran 2: 84-85 ): And remember, We took a Covenant from the Children of Israel (progeny of Jacob), Worship none but God; ….shed no blood amongst you, Nor displace people from homes: and ye solemnly ratified, And to this ye can bear witness…. It was not lawful for you to banish another party; then it is only a part of the Book that ye believe in…. And on the Day of Judgment, they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty, for God is not unmindful of what ye do.
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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 and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilisations.
