Dr Mahboob A. Khawaja
POLITICAL wickedness is not the cherished value of normal human character but embodies the traits of abnormal minds boasting clichés of power and affluence over others. Leaders and nations lacking rational thinking imply it to disguise cynicism and treachery for socio-economic and political domination. For the past 11 months, the US-Israel war on Gaza and Palestine has gone unabated without an end in sight against the global humanity of consciousness of rights and wrongs in global affairs.
The May 2024 ceasefire proposal advanced by President Joe Biden claimed to be the “Israeli proposal” exposed a treacherous cons work to undo the much-expected halt to the insanity of war, destruction of habitats, issues of humanitarian aid and return to normalcy across Gaza and West Bank. If it was an Israeli proposal, Secretary Antony Blinken and President Biden both were wrong and misleading the global conscience of peace and conflict management. Rational choices speak the language of truth for an urgent ceasefire to restore trust in the global undertaking but not the leaders of Israel and the US making any sense out of this quagmire of lies and deception to allow Israel a free hand to continue bombing a helpless 2.9 million entrenched population of Gaza.
To date, 40,939 people have been massacred, more than 90,339 injured and still 16,000 or more children and women are buried under the rubble. What a tragic landscape deformed by men of evil and political deception!
Thousands of concerned Israeli citizens march daily and hold continuous night vigils in Tel Aviv to demand peace, the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an immediate ceasefire for the safe return of 100 or so hostages. People-oriented and effective leaders are always open to listening and learning but not Netanyahu. His extremist cabinet plans to put a finished answer on the freedom of Palestine as a state and occupy Gaza for new Israeli settlements.
Biden and Netanyahu are affluent and powerful enough to dehumanise the culture of rational thinking and responsible democratic governance in world affairs. Imagine! What intrinsic human values do these political monsters gear to control and manage conflict resolution, peace and global humanitarian consciousness? Do they think the rest of the mankind is just numbers, digits to be played with or just sheep and goats to be butchered without any accountability? They are the wrong people, imbued with wrong thinking and doing the wrong things as did Pharoah, Hitler, Mussolini, George W. Bush and Tony Blair and so many others aligned with these mentally sick egoistic characters. Have they not seen the mummy of Pharoah in a Cairo museum? All monsters of history claimed good intentions and righteous ambitions but inflicted horrors, death and destruction on fellow human beings to achieve individualistic ambitions of power, triumph and glory.
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.
