Israel now finds friends only among the people who feed on their old legacy of racism, imperialism, colonialism, colonial occupation and Islamophobia. The peace-loving civilised people are not with them. So the war in Gaza will change not only the map of Palestine, but also will change the geopolitics of the Middle East
Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal | Clarion India
Tuesday’s Israeli bombing of Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed more than 500 Palestinians, women and children forming a majority of the casualties. Israel is relentlessly bombing the people of Gaza for about two weeks now; the destruction of the hospital and deaths of over 500 is indeed the peak of the Israeli war crimes. Israel has also destroyed a few other hospitals and more than 70 percent of the residential facilities in Gaza.
The world leaders have allowed Israel to carry out its mission of destroying, killing and maiming Palestinians with impunity. The United States, the European Union, and the Great Britain have turned a blind eye to the Israeli atrocities and so does the United Nations.
Israel is planning complete ethnic cleansing in Gaza as the Zionist country did in most of the Israelised parts of Palestine in 1948. It is called Nakba (great catastrophe) in Arab history.
Israel is asking the people of Gaza to leave their homes and to terrorise them and drive them out, it is constantly bombing the defenceless people. Such terrorism is the Israeli tool for ethnic cleansing since its inception in 1948.
The Zionists have created an apartheid state: a state only for the Jews. The US and its Western allies have recognised that criminal state on day one itself. But those who refuse to recognise such an illegal creation of a state on usurped land are called anti-semitic and supporters of terrorism.
The US Leads the Axis of Evil
The US has always exposed its biased position. This past week, President Joe Biden and other senior officials made a beeline to Tel Aviv to extend their support for the deadly Israeli campaign in Gaza. It seems, Israel is separated from the US only geographically and not politically and ideologically.
At a press conference in Tel Aviv, President Biden told a blatant lie. He claimed that he has seen that the bombing on the Gaza hospital was done by another party and not by Israel. He didn’t mention who the other party was. The US leader looked meek in telling the lie manufactured by the Israeli authorities. His implied indication was: the bombing on the Gaza hospital was done by the Palestinians themselves. It looks ridiculous. He told a lie only to hide the crime of Israel.
President Biden didn’t utter a single word of condolence for the Palestinian deaths; as if they were not humans.
Before telling such a big lie, President Biden should have checked the US radars which are active in the area. He could have easily discovered that the huge missile hitting the hospital was fired from an Israeli bomber supplied by the US itself. But liars do not bother to check the facts. They deliberately manufacture lies to serve their political agenda and other vested interests.
The IDF (Israeli Defence Force) maintains that the Gaza hospital was hit by a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad. Such a claim strengthens the belief that Israeli leaders are perpetual liars.
An IDF sniper killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh more than a year ago while she was doing her professional work. Initially the IDF denied killing her. Later on, it accepted that some of the snippers might have killed her. But the IDF refused to conduct an investigation. Israel signed the Oslo accord that promised an independent Palestinian state. But that proved to be a clear lie, too. Israel signed the treaty only to bluff the Palestinians and the international community. Now the Oslo accord is clinically dead.
Even a man of average IQ can discern IDF’s propaganda as a big lie. To destroy a big hospital like Al Ahli Arab and its 500 people, it needs a missile of huge size. Till now, Hamas and Islami Jihad have fired thousands of missiles into Israel, but none of them was large enough to destroy a hospital. Those missiles couldn’t destroy even a house totally, let alone a big hospital. And, none of those missiles backfired to kill even a single man or woman in Gaza before. So, destruction of a hospital by backfired missiles of Islamic Jihad is unthinkable. But liars can manufacture plenty of unthinkables. Moreover, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fight to protect the people of Gaza and never to kill their own people. And, it is prohibited in Islam. Hence, only an incurable liar can believe that the destruction of Gaza hospital and the massacre of 500 people are the work of the Islami Jihad organisation. It is a deliberate attempt to shift the burden of war crimes of Israel onto the resistance fighters of Gaza.
Zionists: The War Criminals
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has constantly been equating Hamas with ISIS. But President Joe Biden went a step further and during the Tel Aviv press conference he said that ISIS looks more rational than Hamas. President Biden looks more Zionist than an Israeli Zionist. Moreover, in an earlier announcement, the US President exposed his own identity. He said in a video: “If there wasn’t any Israel, we would have to invent an Israel to protect the US interest in the region.” In the same speech, he also said if there wasn’t any Israel then the US had to deploy so many troops to fight so many wars in the Middle East. So, Israel looks like a US garrison state to fight for its interests.
The US destroyed ISIS, now supports Israel to destroy Hamas. So destroying Hamas is their joint agenda. This has an implied political message for those fighting the enemy occupation in their own land. Any organisation that stands against an enemy occupation in any Muslim land, is labelled by these war criminals as ISIS cum terrorists. So, Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are labelled as ISIS. Those who fight against the French presence in Africa are also labelled as ISIS. Even those who fight against the home-grown enemies of Islam in Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh are labelled as ISIS.
At the Tel Aviv joint press conference with Biden, Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed that Israel is the force of civilisation and it is fighting against the forces of evil. As if, occupying foreign land, ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people, bombing hospitals and homes, killing civilians are all civilisational acts. And fighting foreign occupation is an act of barbarity and evil.
The US Nod to War Crimes
The barbaric acts Israel is committing in occupied Palestine have to be construed as pure war crimes. Now the destroyed Gaza with its recked homes, bombed hospitals, dead and maimed population is a showcase of Israeli war crimes. Those who are morally depleted can only support such worst evil. By supporting Israel, the US and its allies indeed are exposing their own moral crisis. Indeed, being at the forefront of the supporters of Israel, the US leads the axis of evil in international politics.
Israel has dropped more than 6,000 bombs on Gaza Strip, a small land of 141 square miles (365 square kms); 25 miles long and 7.5 mile wide in its widest part. Even in no World War, such a small piece of land was bombed so massively. This is not a lesser evil. But yet, Israel hasn’t stopped its crime. The US gives green signal to go further. So, at the press conference, President Biden didn’t talk about a ceasefire. Because, any ceasefire will prevent Israel from further bombing.
Now, there is no doubt that if Israel drops a nuclear bomb on Gaza Strip or any other Muslim land, the US will be very quick to support that. The US leaders have proven to be morally depraved. They were morally depraved as they dropped nuclear bombs on Japanese cities. Now they are proving them to be morally sick, too, by supporting the Israeli war crimes. The US leaders are blinded by their deep love for Israel and its atrocities. Such morally blind people can’t differentiate between the right and the wrong. So they can’t see the Israeli crimes. In fact, President Biden and his team members exposed their moral death by failing to condemn even the most heinous crimes like bombing a hospital that killed 500 people. However, US history is full of such criminal acts; killing innocent people is part of the its military culture. Its army has been a long practitioner of such war crimes in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and many other parts of the world. The US Air Force bombed even the funeral and wedding gatherings in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now Israel is perfectly emulating the US and hence it enjoys full support and appreciation from the US.
Palestine Issue is Now Globalised
By committing grave war crimes, Israel has now globalised the issue of Palestine. What Palestines couldn’t do in decades, Israel has done in a week. The world is now ideologically and morally polarised. On the one side, stands the axis of evil led by the US. It has aligned with the Israeli war criminals. They call freedom fighters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terrorists. On the other side, there are people who hate bombing civilians, destruction of homes, ethnic cleansing of natives and starving people to death by cutting supplies of food, water and electricity. They love Hamas for their heroic fighting spirit against the foreign occupation. In the city of Amman, a huge rally of protesters was seen to raise slogans like “we are all Hamas” and “we are all Qasemians”. The word Qasemian relates to Al-Qassam Brigade — the military wing of Hamas.
The duplicity of the US-led Western powers is fully exposed. Now they stand morally naked in front of the international community. Supporting a crime itself is an ugly crime. So they proved to be criminals when they stood with the Israeli war criminals. They beat their chests for the victims of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. But they stay numb and dumb on the Israeli atrocities. They sent aid to Ukraine but stopped aid to Gaza. An injured boy of Ukraine becomes a poster boy in the Western media; but they black out the horrendous killing of thousands of Palestinians by the IDF. Fighting for freedom is eulogised for the Ukrainians, but such fighting is condemned as terrorism for the Palestinians.
Hamas’ Great Success
Now ideological polarisation and alignment with the cause of Hamas is running high throughout the Muslim World. These are revealed through huge protest rallies in the streets of Amman, Lebanon, Baghdad, Sana’a, Istanbul, Karachi, Dhaka, Kolkata, New York, Washington, Chicago, London, Paris and many other cities in the world. So, Israel may still continue to forcefully occupy the land of Palestine, but the Muslims’ minds all over the world are getting more rapidly liberated from the West-led flood of falsehood. Even many Jews are coming on the streets and using social media to condemn Israeli war crimes.
So, Israel now finds friends only among the people who feed on their old legacy of racism, imperialism, colonialism, colonial occupation and Islamophobia. The peace-loving civilised people are not with them. So the war in Gaza will change not only the map of Palestine, but also will change the geopolitics of the Middle East. An ideological war thus works not only in the battle fields but also in the mind of the people. For that, Hamas can claim great success.
