As I'm writing this we are into the second day of what has been termed a shaky cease-fire between Palestine and Israel. Nearly 2000 Palestinians killed, many more injured, around $2 billion dollars in damage to Ghazzah's infrastructure, countless homes demolished, burned out or outright bombed. The 3 weeks of Ghazzah being turned into a sporting spectacle and a slaughterhouse didn't have to occur, this is my humble belief. It all could have been stopped in its first few days if not prevented before the Israelis decided to once again attack the Palestinian people. Had people, groups, nations spoken out, not even taken physical action but just spoken out strongly and firmly with resolve this situation could have been corrected from the get go and the lives that were snatched and martyred would probably have been less than what it is now. This might have been the case had people spoken out but people did not speak out on the whole. So many were quiet, only a select few were confident enough in what's right and what's wrong to speak out against the wrong in favour of the right. Countries like Venezuela and Bolivia had the guts to kick the Israeli ambassadors out of their nation while Lebanon and Iran vigorously spoke out against the zionist entity and pressed the Muslims worldwide to support their suffering sisters and brothers. Qatar was yet another nation with some kind of conscience trying to press the Arab nations to get into action immediately and not to delay for one second with each moment potentially meaning the life of yet another Palestinian.
Unfortunately these nations appeared to be only a drop in the bucket. Expectedly the majority of western nations were in favour of "Israel defending her freedom and doing whatever is necessary to live in security" while the Arab lackey nations were nearly silent and in some cases complicit with the attacks against the Palestinians. Most notable of these is Egypt's Hosni Mubarak who openly sealed the Palestinian border on the Egyptian side. Knowing the amount of people being killed, the medical and food shortage and the general suffering being faced Mubarak kept the border nearly completely shut off. Not only were Palestinians denied entry into Egypt (with Egyptian troops stationed there and allegedly American troops keeping watch), doctors and aid workers who were willing to volunteer their services were prevented from crossing the border into Palestine. Mubarak had the ability to open a door for the Palestinians yet he chose to seal their fate into the hands of the zionist nation-state.
The Saudi government also presented the same kind of attitude. In fact, their reaction was no different in this Palestinian situation than it was in the 2006 Lebanon war. The Saudis, having plenty of influence in the Muslim world could easily have led sentiments of Muslims into being more proactive in this situation yet they chose to stand on the sidelines as they always seem to do and have been doing increasingly in the last few years. These who are said to maintain and secure the Haramain failed to maintain and secure their brothers and sisters in Palestine. Their failure wasn't due to an inability but it was due to a lack of want, they didn't have a desire to help. In fact, Egypt and the Saudi government held up some of the Arab summit meetings losing precious time and in a way procrastinating while blood was being shed daily.
While before excuses could be made in favour of Arab governments and it wasn't apparent to many in the Muslim community what they were about, today everything is out in the clear. Most admitted to there being corruption, to certain officials in certain governments being tempted by money and even by women but many still felt that the governments weren't all too bad. They were happy about the haramain getting air conditioning or having shade or being kept up to date, they were happy about their respective nations keeping its history intact. Others were simply to scared to speak out against or about their rulers. Now, the story has been turned over because things are in an utmost state of clarity...when people die, it sometimes becomes that way. Everyone has seen the behaviour and action (or inaction) of these regimes towards the Palestinians who've been suffering for the past 60 years and now they are wondering. "What happened to the great Arab nation we were taught about in school as kids"? Some have said "The great Arab nation we learned about is a fantasy, it only exists in books and in the dictionary, it's not in real life". Where were the governments and what were they doing? Why didn't they force the Egyptian government to open its border for the Palestinians? Where was the unity for these Palestinians? People are wondering these things and as they think on these things they come to realize one thing after another and slowly but surely clarity hits them like a flash of light in the dark.
Something else which has become extremely clear is the realization of who is genuinely for the Palestinian cause and who is only for their own private, personal cause. In Mahmoud Abbas, time and time again, we've seen a behaviour in which this "leader" has been willing to sell out his own people. Even in this situation this lackey and his own lackeys have tried to stir division between the Palestinians in on the smaller level and Muslims on the larger level. He's almost blamed the elected Palestinian government of Ghazzah for the situation they were in when Israel aggressed against the peopled of Ghazzah. Additionally, his party in the West Bank has attacked and arrested fellow Palestinian protesters when they rallied in support of their brothers and sisters. Where is the heart of Mahmoud Abbas? What is his interest? Does his interest reside with his people and their welfare and safety or is he simply another in a long line of Arab puppet "leaders" who are propped up by western governments and do the bidding of such governments? These are questions and thoughts which are coming out in this era of clarity and especially pushed by this latest trend of zionist aggression. This is of course only on the Muslim side of things. There is clarity coming on the horizon for the non-Muslims the world over.
Where before when Israel was talked about and thought of, there was always a shadow of the holocaust and the Nazi (NOT GERMAN, but Nazi) campaign in the background today that image is being erased rapidly so. Finding recourse in labeling a person or group anti-Semitic due to their questioning and condemning the atrocious acts of the zionist Israeli state is becoming old and is wearing out completely. The labeling has been over done and is about to be done. And here, a question has to be asked: who is anti-Semitic? The one who questions the program of the zionist nation? Or is it the zionist nation and its western backers? The literal term "anti-semite" means to be against one who is semitic. A semite is a person who is Arab, Ethiopian, Somalian, from other parts of East and North Africa which are semitic. However, a European person, unless they have blood from these backgrounds is not a semitic individual. Simply adopting a religion and part of the language does not make one of that background. When an African-American becomes Muslim and learns Arabic, does that make the person an Arab? Do they all of a sudden have an Arab background? No, they don't and this holds true to those of European background too. Of course it's said that there was a great migration from the middle east to Europe however we need to have evidence of this and it has to be strong evidence. Going back to the topic at hand, the aggressive tendency of the Israelis has now become apparent to all except those who are in support (whether overtly or covertly) of the zionist nation and those who are extremely shielded and living in a box set up for them by the western media outlets. Those however, who take the opportunity to read and who watch a variety of news programs and who are able to differentiate between propaganda and true news reporting have begun to see the not the over reaction by the zionist entity but, the pushing of the Palestinians to defend themselves with whatever means they have then accusing the Palestinians for being the aggressors and using this accusation as a justification for brutally attacking those who live in places like Ghazzah. They see the nearly 2000 who've been killed, they see the zionist usage of white phosphorous on civilian populations, the usage of new weapons against the civilians () the blaming of attacks on schools and hospitals and every other structure that serves as a shelter on "militants firing from 'x' building". All of these and more have been seen by the world at large and where it wasn't exposed before and allowed the zionists to continue their facade of innocence and their ability to escape condemnation by crying whenever someone vigorously questioned them, today the truth has been clearly seen by the world and that image of the zionist entity has yellowed away into the past.
There is sadness, disappointment and for some there is seething anger growing in the hearts of people in the world. They are disgusted, from the local socialist, to doctors who have begun to come across stories of what's been happening in Ghazzah. It is clear that lies have been told and have been sold for decades and now, as the truth comes out and is clear and upfront the people see that there is an inhuman, brutal, savage in this world; a satanic one at that. It kills everyone including children, then it presents itself as being innocent. It creates new weapons to shoot from corners, to remove limbs, to penetrate into the organs of individuals and kill them within hours with no way of surgically saving the individual and presents itself as being innocent.
As the fog dissipates and this story becomes more clear questions again will be asked. Just as Muslims are asking and thinking about their nations and the lack of response from them, the non-Muslims will ask and think about the zionist entity and its western backers. Attention will focus on it as well. All this talk about genocide in the world over, it's focus will turn on the 6 decade genocide. Talk about ethnic cleaning? The focus will fall on the 6 decade ethnic cleansing). Talk about crimes against humanity and war crimes? The focus will be on the 6 decade crime against humanity and war crimes. Whatever the Nazis of Germany did will only be a footnote because there are real life zionist Nazis in our contemporary era. This is a time of clarity and the only ones who will not see are those who don't want to see but, things are too clear for people to be unwillingly blind. Those who try to hide the facts will trip up on their lies and stumble down every road because their lies can not be kept up .
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