Dr Mahboob A. Khawaja
Wicked Leaders Pretend to be Peacemakers
EVIL is a force and righteousness is the characteristic of living humanity. They claim democracy but act like monsters of history never open to reason and intellect. The United States and Israel stockpiled plans to subdue the holistic doctrine of peace, human rights, freedom and justice and to entrench mankind into unthinkable catastrophic wars of political and economic domination. Historically, people and nations with lust for power and economic prosperity, have been emboldened to unleash crimes against small and weak nations with no accountability. The demonstrations for peace and justice and cries of help remain hollow voices buried without a trace. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrates indifference to the US impulses for a ceasefire in Gaza and restraint to invade Lebanon but a reality check speaks otherwise of convergence of their understanding of broader strategic goals in the Middle East.
There is no rational argument to converge peace in the Middle East. Western leaders utter dubious statements on principles of human equality, and moral and institutional integrity when Russia is accused of bombing the children’s hospitals in Kiyv and civilian hubs, it is a ‘crime against humanity’ and ‘genocide.’ But when Israel bombs hospitals, places of worship and innocent civilians in Gaza, the US and the European Union do not view it as a ‘crime against humanity’ and alleged ‘genocide.’ The United Nations, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) blame Israel and the US for direct complicity in these crimes against humanity. The US supplies all weapons to Israel to kill innocent people and destroy Palestine and move onward to attack Lebanon and beyond – – the Arab World.
After almost one year of the genocidal war, millions have been displaced forcibly, schools, hospitals and places of worship continued to be bombed, more than 41,000 innocent civilian women, children and elderly people of Gaza were killed by design, over 91,000 injured and some 16,000 or more children and women still buried under the rubble call urgent attention of global humanity to ‘save the succeeding generations from the scourge of war’, if there is any global conscience and morality is still alive and intact.
Favourite perversion sets the disguised morality: “Netanyahu is not welcome to the White House”, said President Joe Biden in July 2023, but in July 2024, Netanyahu was sitting with Biden at the White House. They play with time and history. American strategic interest is complicit in Israeli war machines to kill the top leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon and mow the lawn across Gaza enabling new settlers to occupy the strip. Time is critical for Arab-Muslim leaders to learn – what went wrong in Gaza and Lebanon.
A French news agency reports a mole in Iran providing secret information to Israel about the location of Hasan Nasrallah and his colleagues in Beirut. The Israeli intelligence worked hard to target the killing of Hezbollah leadership. Arab leaders should think of navigational change rather than rituals of dead-ended thinking and practices.
Exhibiting the new maps of Israeli plans at the UN General Assembly, Netanyahu envisioned the ‘Greater Israel’ inclusive of the occupied West Bank – as the unchallenging force of future-making. Pernicious consequences could help to boost his numbers of popularity to stay in power but in the future could destroy the nation and its freedom.
Violation of the Sanctity of Earth, Peace and its Consequences
All of humanity comes from dust and goes back to it. Life is a trial of deeds having a beginning and an end to all human lives. Those bombing the Earth and killing fellow human beings are abnormal criminals. To avert the consequences of their wrong thinking and actions, the US and Israel would go beyond all the red lines and call “death to Arabs”, to annihilate the people of Palestine, Lebanon and other Arab countries. The Earth is a divine hub of human life, survival and a trust; those bombing and destroying it are mentally retarded and defy the sanctity of Divine Truth. It looks as if the US and Israeli leaders do not believe in God, life and death and final accountability. Earth is a “trust” to mankind for its existence, sustenance of life, survival, progress and future-making. Wherever there is trust, there is accountability.
The Divine warning (The Quran 7:6) says: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good. The Divine Message (The Quran 40:64) further clarifies: It is God Who made for you the Earth as a resting place and the sky as a canopy; And has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful, and has provided for your sustenance, of things pure and good; Such is God your Lord. So Glory to God, the Lord of the Worlds.
And the 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.
Search for Peace and the Warmongers
It seems the Western world has failed to see a dreadful tragic history in the making of the end of time and the loss of ingenuity to understand the consequences of the naive egoism of Israeli leadership making war an instrument of territorial expansion and conquest across Palestine, Lebanon and the larger Arab Middle East. The American-Israeli collaborative genocidal war on Gaza and its immediate consequences have 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.
Are the Israeli leaders driven by the lust for American weapons and economic power to conquer Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and other Arab nations? Those doing so are not conscious of their own end game. Netanyahu and his extremist regime would try to put an end to the freedom of Palestine. Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria and a lot more are the experimental labs for that end game. Perpetuated wickedness denies blind terror, religious awe and killings of people across Gaza. Are We, the People not witnessing a cataclysmic bloodbath being unleashed by continuous aerial bombardments and destruction of lives and habitats across Gaza and Lebanon?
The US and West European leaders would confer with Israeli planned displacement of Palestinians to other parts of the world. We, the People reject the violent assumptions of militarisation and egoistic triumphs by acts of war and genocidal plans in Gaza and invasion and occupation of Lebanon. Peter Koenig (“Israel’s Killing Fields. Albert Einstein‘s Foresight?” Global Research: 11/12/2023), elaborates on how Albert Einstein viewed the emerging conflict in his foresight: Did Einstein foresee, or sense, Palestine becoming Israel’s killing fields, from 1948 forward, to explode in a worldwide tolerated, even supported, and encouraged democide/genocide, just three-quarters of a century after the birth of Israel? Does Netanyahu, his entourage – and the West – realise that the 75 years of apartheid, of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and of wiping the Gaza Strip and eventually all the Palestinian land off the map is comparable to, or worse than the “Holocaust”?
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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.