UNTHINKABLE is fast becoming thinkable. Ignorance and arrogance tend to lead to power politics and daily bombardments, killings of fellow human beings by starvation, crimes against humanity, and perpetuated genocide as if a feeble age of time, place, and horrors are a new normal. Democracy, international laws to safeguard mankind, the Geneva Conventions, and the Convention on Genocide sound mysterious mythologies of human rights, freedom, and social justice ordained in their dubious and deceitful concepts and explanations, lacking rational implementation.
Global leaders were supposed to be knowledgeable and wise to know the facts of life and change their direction, but act like smart monkeys, discarding their own history. At the pinnacle of power, they exhibit a hybrid culture, part human and part wild, discarding the civilised laws and all other norms of civility. Shame on the so-called elected leaders of Israel and the authoritarian oil-pumping Arab leaders, unaware of the consequences of their wrong thinking and action and not being able to stop the bloodbath across Palestine. When cold-blooded massacres are a daily event, food and medicines are blocked and starvation becomes a weapon to dehumanise mankind, no conscientious leaders dare to stop the war against Gaza as if Palestinians are not normal human beings. We, the People, recall the Divine reminder:
If only there had been among the ‘destroyed’ peoples before you, ˹O believers,’ virtuous individuals who forbade corruption in the land—other than the few We had saved ˹from the torment˺. But the wrongdoers only pursued their ˹worldly˺ pleasures, becoming wicked.
And your Lord, O Prophet would never destroy a society unjustly while its people were acting rightly. (The Quran: 11: 116-117).
Tyranny is powerless and transitory. Implied absurd propositions using war as a means of greed, political manipulation and occupation of Gaza and the rest of Palestine generate catastrophic consequences for humanity. Israel and the United States appear to be on the same page in terms of strategic thoughts and actions. Their plans and collaboration are nothing new, but riddled with intrigues and necessities of conflicts and weapon sales to control the mindless Arab leaders.
Despite the Israeli bombardments of Gaza and the forcible displacement of civilians across the West Bank of Palestine, life continues on this planet (Earth), floating by the Will of God. The Earth, bombarded by ignorant leaders, floats in space without any pillars, just by the command of God – The Creator of all the Worlds. It is meant for you – the human beings. Don’t you know that day changes into night (otherwise, life will cease to exist), sun and moon in your service, oxygen and climate changes, water to drink, seas to travel, mountains, oil, gases, it has all the minerals needed in all the times, in case you forgot, it has uranium to make weapons (bombs dropped on fellow human beings, recall Hiroshima and Nagasaki too), and now Gaza and Ukraine in daily reports. Those dropping bombs on earth are not normal beings, not leaders of any civilised society but sadistic minds focused on individualistic aims and priorities. They have no microscope to read their minds – human beings acting like wild animals as if others are not equal human kind.
Are Human Civilizations and Global
Order Coming to an Abrupt End?
The global institutions and systems of political governance and all of their formal moral, intellectual and political proclamations appear defunct when it comes to dealing with Israel and the US war against humanity. There is a complete disconnect between moral and humanitarian values and the present and future survival and progress of civilised mankind. What a shame, what a disgrace that Arab-Muslim leaders would not act to defend the human dignity, security and freedom of the people of Gaza.
The UN General Assembly wanted to explore the viability of the “Two States” solution. The global community knows the reality and its foresight favours an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the end of war and peace in the Middle East. Not so, Israel and the US are not attending the assembly. The Arab-Muslim leaders have no insight or foresight and capacity to stop the aggression against the people of Palestine or imagine a peace conference for change. They have been deaf and dead for a long time since the discovery of oil as the sole means of economic prosperity.
The Divine injunction is clear: “Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” (The Quran: 13:8). While the political cynicism and wickedness across the Western hemisphere are endemic, the need to end the war calls for an urgent, reasoned dialogue for peace.
B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, calls it genocide in Gaza. Yulia Novak (the Executive Director), blames Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for its sole responsibility. Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Knesset, asks for sanctions against Israel for its war on Gaza, continued occupation and crimes against Palestinian people (Al Jazeera interview 07/30/25). All Jewish people believe in One God and God reminded the followers of Moses – the generations of Israelites. 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. (The Quran 2: 84-85)
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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.
