Gaza is staring at an imminent genocide by Israel. The imperialist West has ganged up against the impoverished Palestinians. The United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), led by the war-mongering Islamophobes Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak, are arming Israel to the teeth and sending their armored aircraft carriers and naval ships to deter any other nation from coming to the rescue of the beleaguered Palestinian people. The dance of death by the occupying tyrant Israel continues unabated since 1948. The UK and the US have been responsible, along with the European Union (EU), for the untold misery heaped on the Palestinians since the Nakba Genocide. Every few years, there is an attempt to wipe out the native Palestinians.
Israel’s call to the Gazans to vacate Gaza is no joke. The United Nations (UN) has rightly condemned the irrational order from the schizophrenic Islamophobe Netanyahu to displace the Gazans from their homeland in the name of fighting the Hamas militants. Gaza has already been turned into a heap of garbage by the occupier Israel, which has even bombed hospitals, schools, and the protected UN shelters. The modern Pharaoh Netanyahu has stopped water and electricity to snuff out the lives of the Gazans. Ambulances ferrying children and women to hospitals are bombed mercilessly by Israel. The international community, by and large, has been a mute witness and sometimes complicit in crime by beefing up Israeli offense forces. What was done to Bosnia, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan is being planned and enacted in Gaza by the imperialists. Israel is not satisfied with taking away Palestine’s land in bits and pieces anymore. It wants to usurp the entire land by annihilating the innocent and unarmed Palestinian masses.
Hamas is a militant group trying to purge the occupying fascist Israel from the holy land of Palestine, but Israel is supposed to be a state, and as such, it should behave like one. Just like the lives of innocent Jewish civilians are sacrosanct, the lives of the occupied and tyrannized civilians in Palestine are sacrosanct too. There is no justification for the annihilation of innocent Palestinians. Mahatma Gandhi supported Palestine when he said, Palestine belongs to the Arabs.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s standing with Israel goes against the time-tested diplomatic policy of India standing with Palestine since 1948. The defence cooperation between Israel and India should not become the noose for the Palestinians. Modi’s hate, incitement, and contempt against Muslims are not restricted to India; they have gone international with support for Israel and Islamophobe Netanyahu. Modi’s views suggesting in an interview that Muslims are ‘‘puppies’’ and the incitement in an election rally in Jharkhand that Muslims (without naming them) can be ‘‘recognized by their clothes’’ (implying they are terrorists) are very notorious.
On October 22, 2023, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) revoked the suspension of the disgraced Hindu extremist Raja Singh, who had abused Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) using derogatory language. The Muslim countries should ask Narendra Modi as to why the suspension of the abuser of the Prophet, extremist Raja Singh, was revoked. Modi also rewarded Raja Singh with a BJP ticket to fight the Telangana Legislative Assembly elections in the Telangana State to pit and polarize the majoritarian Hindu community against the minority Muslim community. This is also in preparation for the Indian Parliament elections scheduled for 2024. Narendra Modi’s intentions were clear when India abstained from the ceasefire resolution at the United Nations. Perhaps he wants a redux of the 2002 Gujarat Muslim Genocide, but this time in Palestine. The Modi government should stop buying petrol from the Arabs and recall the alleged extremist Hindu diaspora from the Arab countries before standing with Israel. It is suicidal to sail in two boats at the same time! Gandhi’s peaceful India should not be made to stand with war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
South Africa surely understands that Israel’s actions, like the illegal occupation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Christian sites, are responsible for violence. The Gandhi of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, famously said: South Africa will never be free until Palestine is free. Mandela had also observed: We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasized his country’s historic support for the “just struggle” of Palestinians and offered to help mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gaza and Palestine can be saved from whatever remains if the Arab countries and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) impose economic sanctions on the West and those regimes that stand fully with Israel. An extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League held in Riyadh was a terrible failure after the Muslim rulers shamelessly bowed to the diktats of the United States (US) not to take any harsh decisions against Israel. Biden’s threats worked on the timid and spineless Muslim rulers. Some of the countries, like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and others, are not even willing to sever ties with Israel. They even blocked a proposal to snap all ties with Israel. They have fallen into an abyss. Perhaps they are waiting for the Arab Spring moment. They are going against public sentiment to perform ‘action’ to save Gaza. The least they can do is impose an economic blockade on the West and Israel. The petroleum and gas-producing countries of the Arab League and OIC must stop selling gasoline to the war mongers and bring them to their political knees. Not only can the Gaza genocide be stopped, but a permanent solution can also be found in the form of the establishment of the State of Palestine.
There is a growing demand from Arab citizens that the anti-Muslim diasporas from Asia and the West working in the Gulf and Arab and Muslim countries be sent back to their countries forever. Those spreading hate against Islam, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Al-Aqsa, and Palestine on social media while working in Muslim countries must be put on trial and executed expeditiously.
It is beyond the timid, intoxicated people in the Middle East to redeem Palestine. Therefore, Palestine must not give up the just search for a Salauddin Ayoubi 2.0 to march triumphantly into the Palestinian undivided capital, Jerusalem! Children, women, and the elderly in Palestine and Israel should not be cannon fodder in this war.
The creation of the absolute and independent state of Palestine is long overdue. Let peace prevail! An immediate and functional ceasefire is the first step towards lasting peace.
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