Dr Mahboob A. Khawaja
Warmongers Defy Truth, Peace and Human Values
AT the November 20 meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) the US once again used its veto power to reject the majority-supported resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. Ironically, since May US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has propagated a “ceasefire” plan orchestrated by Israel. But it was simply to buy time and space to continuously bomb the already obliterated strip of Gaza and to put a finishing answer to the freedom of Palestine. The US-Israel war has broader strategic objectives to conquer the Arab World and make Israel a mini superpower of the Middle East. The oil-exporting Arab leaders and people live in a fantasy of their own imagination – a fallacy of truth-telling. The US is a collaborator in the alleged crimes against humanity and genocide across Gaza.
The US and Israel are moving around all quagmires and forging them to ensure the continued killing of the people of Gaza under the false pretext of terrorism and allowing new settlements by settlers to strengthen Israeli command over the West Bank and to destroy Gaza forever. All monsters of history claimed good intentions and righteous ambitions but inflicted horrors, deaths and destruction on fellow human beings to achieve individualistic ambitions of power and glory.
Gaza and the West Bank have been obliterated by Israeli insanity over more than a year of continued war and bombardments of civilian infrastructures. The Arab-Muslim leaders had no mind, wisdom and courage to challenge Israel for its planned onslaught of Palestinian masses.
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. The war theater has moved to Lebanon, and Syria and could soon cover other Arab states. The coming of President-elect Donald Trump would unfold many more catastrophic and insidious crimes across the Middle East. Is the global community heading towards unthinkable man-made disasters as no international law, no humanitarian value, or Geneva Conventions apply to Israel and the US for accountability?
Those Bombing the Earth are
Enemies of Mankind and Peace
Israel has, so far, dropped more than 90,000 tons of bombs on Gaza – three times more insane than what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Perhaps, the Israeli and American leaders do not believe in life and death and accountability to God for all of their actions. The Earth is not a property of the US or Israel but a Divine hub of human life, survival and trust; those bombing and destroying it are mentally sick and defy the Divine Truth of Torah, Bible and Quran. Ironically, the US and Israeli leaders do not appear to believe in life and death and the fullest accountability by God. The earth is living 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. Think again, the average distance of the Earth from the Moon is 93 million miles – the distance of the Moon from the 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. The Earth exists and floats without any pillars in a capsule by the Will of God. Is human intelligence still intact to understand this reality? Wherever there is trust, there is accountability. All human beings are accountable for their behaviour and actions. It is God Who gave you life; will cause you to die; and will again give you life; truly man (human being) is a most ungrateful creature! (The Quran 22:66)
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 Western news media ignored humanitarian coverage of Israeli ‘genocidal’ acts against the masses in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Every day, several thousand Israeli citizens protest in Tel Aviv and demand an end to the war on Gaza and the safe return of hostages.
The Israeli-American denial of crimes against humanity, “genocide” in Gaza, and forcible expulsion of 2.4 million represent the ferocious conception of right and wrong and how irrational the leadership tends to be in real-world affairs. Political cynicism is endemic and Western leaders appear mentally and morally lost without any sense of accountability to the informed global community seeking an end to the war and peace in the Middle East.
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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.
