TO celebrate the International Peace Day (September 21), one would use rational substance not rhetoric to face global humanity. See the innocent people crying for help across Gaza, char-coaled bodies of fallen soldiers in Ukraine, bombed hi-rise buildings in Gaza and a greater part of mankind breathing oxygen with tormenting pains and horrors caused by Israel, the US and Russia. Can one dispel the settlers’ movement forcibly displacing native Palestinians in West Bank, extended graveyards and sophisticated killing machines all over Palestine?
Doesn’t one think, if there was law and order, functional systems of political governance and responsible leadership, we could have adored rather mourn the occasion. Most revolting crimes unfold a new normal of anarchy, violence and disorder all over the globe. Phony and egoistic leaders across liberal democracies utter dubious statements on mythology of human rights, crimes against humanity, freedom and justice lacking rational application. Global leaders were supposed to be knowledgeable and intelligent people but act like smart monkeys discarding their own history.
The Arab-Muslim summit at Doha spelled out miscalculation of the real threat of Israeli aggression and seeking security with America, disingenuous and lack of rational understanding of global affairs. They appeared disconnected to the bloodbath of besieged masses of Gaza and Palestine. Prodigious lies propel the image that America is a friend of Arab-Muslim people. Once again, the US used its veto against a 14-member sponsored UN Security Council Resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Even at the Doha summit, Arab-Muslim leaders failed miserably to show any moral and political strength against a combined American-Israeli aggression in Palestine and Qatar. The oil exporting Arab World is occupied by American troops and military dictators. The US and Israel are intertwined by will and political whim. Post WW2, the Arab-Muslim freedom from slavery saw no socio-moral, intellectual or political change for human development and systems of political governance. Phenomenon of change leads modern life to betterment and progress but not in the Arab oil-exporting countries. West European and American leaders sucked out the cheap oil supply, sometimes free of payment and installed ignorant and submissive tribal agents as kings, princess and authoritarian puppets to ensure continued imperialism.
The contemporary Arab-Muslim societies failed to produce educated, intelligent and proactive leaders of integrity. The oil-run fake prosperity transformed them into robotic dummies just to watch sports, camel races and obscene dances. The US- Israel alliance is bent on carrying out crimes against humanity and genocide across Gaza and other parts of Palestine. Their plans expose putting an end to the existence of people of Gaza and freedom of Palestine. When cold blooded massacres are a daily event, foods and medicines are blocked and starvation becomes a weapon to dehumanise mankind, no conscientious leaders dare to stop the insanity as if Palestinians are not normal human beings. Please see:https://www.transcend.org/tms/2025/06/imagine-foes-as-friends-and-the-lost-arab-world/
The Arab-Muslim societies and learned people knew this reality but they neglected it. Are they waiting for the ultimate punishment to descend upon them for their willful neglect to protect the masses in Gaza? Imagine! If Gaza was populated by Jews and Arabs or Muslims were a powerful force to bomb the Jews. Israel would have persuaded Trump to nuke the whole of the Arab World. Alternatively, to implement the sketchy “Greater Israel” plan without any challenge. Caitlin Johnstone (5/19/25), tells it all in the real world: “Imagine if Gaza Were Jewish and the People Bombing It Were Muslims”
Are We the People, Intelligent
or Ignorant Beings?
We are human beings born of physical and spiritual components and LIFE continues on this planet (Earth) floating by the Will of God – certainly not by any man-made legislative procedures. The planet Earth embodies all the necessities to maintain and support life (all kinds of life-known and unknown), and human beings are the chief creation of God enriched with wisdom and ordained with a choice to be or not to be, a moral being different from other beings-animals, given the NATURAL TRUST to live in harmony within the compound of natural settings. A staunch Divine reminder (The Qur’an: 40:21), to those claiming to be the most powerful nations or leaders on Earth:
Have they not travelled around the earth and seen what the outcome was for those who preceded them? They were even stronger than they are and left more remains on earth. God seized them because of their sins and there was no one to shield them from God.
For the 2.5 million people of Gaza there is nowhere to go, nowhere to find a place of safety and life protection. Every day is a killing day – bombardments of innocent civilians, places of worship, hospitals, UNRWA’s school shelters; Israel freely uses weapons of mass destruction supplied by the US. The West is waiting and watching the cruelty and insanity against fellow human beings as a circus of absurdities or entertainment on screen – so insane, so deficient and defiant to the nature of moral human beings.
Doomsday Scenario
The global institutions and systems of political governance and all of its formal moral, intellectual and political proclamations appear defunct when it comes to dealing with Israel and the US war against humanity. The UN’s Independent Commission Report (9/16/25), holds Israel solely responsible for “Genocide” in Gaza. All of the UN’s Charter, Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declarations of Human Rights appear in books just in dry ink and meaningless words. America, Israel and West Europeans have no consideration for the 21st century global norms of civility, human rights, freedom, justice and safety of civilians.
Moral and intellectual vices stem from ignorance, corruption and wrong thinking and actions. Living in the fantasy of time and power, Arab-Muslim states do lip service to the on-going civilian bloodbath in Gaza and West Bank, Palestine. America and Israel continued to implement the “Greater Israel” plan to conquer more Arab lands – Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and others to resettle the Palestinians and put a finished answer on Palestine as a future state. Would the Arab-Muslim leaders rethink outside the imperial box to plan for a navigational change in relationships with the US and its military hegemony? The time, history and future generations of conscientious Arab people would dispel a “Peace Day” except to curse the so-called phony authoritarian kings, princes and queens – the former tribal agents responsible for deafening silence and defeat. Please see: “How Did Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security.”
https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2023/10/07/how-did-arab-leaders-betrayed-islam-and defied-the-logic-of-political-change-peace-and-security.php
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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. Views expressed here are the author’s peronal and Clarion India coes not necessarily subscribe to them.
