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By Asim Qadeer Rana
Palestine as a symbol and heart of Islam and so a major concern of all Muslims has continuously been let down by Muslim leaders. Now that the Palestinian issue has reached a certain stage, therefore the role of Muslim leaders and their governments will be critical. Without their support, no favorable result is possible. The disease of Israel is constantly hurting the Palestinians and the Muslim World; hence, dealing with it in an appropriate manner is essential.
Muslims’ incompetence led to incompetent responses to the implementation of the Zionist schemes. The formation of the unlawful state of Israel took place in a weird way. Nobody took Palestine away from the Muslims; they lost it. As per a more sarcastic assessment, they gave it away. Nonetheless, there is yet a chance for amends; the present crisis in Gaza is the opportune moment to take action. Muslim governments are encouraged to act boldly and decisively. It is time to regain some honor.
Eventually, after 52 years of meticulous planning, conniving and investing, by both Zionists and their Western allies led by Britain, the state of Israel was founded in 1948. If the occurrence marked the climax of the Western-Zionist cooperation, it at the same time marked the lowest point of the Muslim discord and overall incapacity.
It was an unmistakable token of an institutional-cum-governmental malfunction. This is important to emphasize because the creation of Israel was the result of systematic institutionalized and governmental efforts. It required responses in kind.
Palestine is again witnessing a sudden increase in violence, leading to the loss of innocent lives and thousands injured. The ongoing situation remains highly volatile and uncertain, sadly indicating a likelihood of further casualties.
The wholesale death and destruction in Gaza continue shamelessly. The Israeli siege of Gaza more resembles the Wehrmacht’s assault on Stalingrad, where over 90 percent of the city’s buildings stood destroyed.
The Gaza Strip had all its communications severed. No Internet. No phone service. No electricity. Israel’s goal is not the murder of tens, but hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and their ethnic cleansing. It is an attempt by Israel to erase not only the people but also the idea of Palestine.
Israel is committing a slaughter, who thinks that unselective and extensive violence could end the aspirations of people whose land they stole. Moreover, like other committers of genocide, Israel intends to keep it hidden.
Israel’s bombing drive, one of the heaviest of the 21st century, has killed thousands of Palestinians, nearly half of them children, along with dozens of journalists, medical workers, teachers, and United Nations staff. Some countless Palestinians in Gaza faced displacement and lakhs of them were made homeless.
Mosques, 120 health facilities, ambulances, schools, apartment blocks, supermarkets, water and sewage treatment plants, and power plants stand blasted into rubble. Hospitals and clinics, lacking fuel, medicine, and electricity, have been bombed or are shutting down. Clean water is running out.
Gaza, by the end of Israel’s scorched earth campaign, will be uninhabitable, a tactic the Nazis regularly employed when facing armed resistance, including in the Warsaw Ghetto and later Warsaw itself. By the time, Israel stops bombing, Gaza, or at least Gaza as we knew it, will not exist.
Not only are the strategies the same, but so is the speechmaking. Palestinians are termed as animals, beasts, and Nazis. They have no right to exist. Their children have no right to exist; therefore, their extermination from the earth is essential.
Israel ascribes to itself virtues and civilizing qualities that are flimsy defenses for stripping an occupied and besieged people of their rights, seizing their land, and using prolonged imprisonment, torture, humiliation, enforced poverty, and murder to keep them subjugated.
Naftali Bennett, Israel’s former prime minister, in an interview on Sky News on October 12 said, ‘We’re fighting Nazis,’ in other words, absolute evil. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Hamas in a press conference with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, as ‘the new Nazis’.
Think about that. A people, imprisoned in the world’s largest concentration camp for sixteen years, denied food, water, fuel, and medicine, lacking an army, air force, navy, mechanized units, artillery, command and control, and missile batteries, butchered and starved by one of the most advanced militaries on the planet, and they are the Nazis?
Genocide lies at the core of Western imperialism. It is not unique to Israel. It is not unique to the Nazis. It is the building block of Western domination. Most of the world sees Israel clearly; and understands its genocidal tendencies, rank hypocrisy, and self-righteousness.
The Palestinians, largely friendless, without power, forced to live in squalid refugee camps or the diaspora denied their homeland and eternally persecuted, suffer the kind of fate once reserved for Jews. This perhaps is the final tragic irony. Those who were once in need of protection from genocide now commit it.
Palestinians are enduring the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of food, water, fuel, and medicine that Israel has imposed on Gaza. They are enduring hundreds of dead and wounded a day, the complicity of the international community in the campaign of genocide, and Washington intervening to block ceasefire resolutions.
They are also enduring massive arms shipments from the US and support other Western countries to sustain the siege, press reports from Western media were routinely discredited and dismissed by the international community, and Western governments justifying the siege as the right of the Israelis to defend themselves.
