It is like an orchestration, as if on cue, after Mumbai and the further intimidation of Muslim nations comes the vicious atrocities by Israel in Gaza. What is Gaza but one of the most densely populated enclaves in the world and one of its poorest regions. Gaza has transformed from a strip of land to cater for Palestinian refugee camps to being one of its largest prisons.
Ironically, it is not surrounded in total by Israel but its western borders are closed and guarded stringently by Egypt in supine loyalty as the most subservient Arab collaborator to the Israeli cause.
The throwing of the pair of shoes at Bush is a sign of anger, frustration and desperation as well as symbolizing the impotence of the Arab world. Arab leaders are time and again proving to be cowards. They adopt treacherous positions only by playing up to their suppressed population. They use their equally pesky armies to crush their own political opposition, and dissidents. They are good at oppressing their own. Arabs in general hold themselves in utter contempt while others simply look down upon them in sheer dismissal.
Israel has attacked Gaza, blitzkrieg style, simply to wipe out any idea or inkling of a Palestinian independent state. Israel plotted at first by co-opting Fatah through its Oslo accords. It was caught off guard by Hamas’s democratic election victory. Israel again plotted to crush the Hamas in Gaza using its collaborator Dahlan with the complicity of Mahmud Abbas but it failed. It then launched a malicious siege and subjecting Gaza to a horrifying total blockade of all forms of food, medicine, fuel and aid. But Gaza and the Hamas did not collapse and the Palestinians remain defiant. Israel instigated the powerful clans but Hamas defeated them to run scurrying into Israel. The Palestinians in Gaza remained faithful to Hamas.
So they deceitfully attacked to destroy all of Hamas’s security forces and governing structure at the same time causing whatever civilian casualties without any regard for humanity. Israel simply wants to leave behind an ungovernable piece of territory through military means because even under severe economic and food shortage, Gaza enjoyed peace and security under Hamas. Israel is desperate and vehemently evil. It just cannot allow peace even under harsh living conditions.What then is the solution, how can anyone help?
Egypt must open its borders and allow all aid, free flow of goods and supplies into Gaza through its Rafah crossing. Egypt must allow refugees to leave for safety and allow refugee camps in its side of the border thereby ensuring hinterland support for the survival of Gaza.
Richard Falk, the UN rapporteur who was evicted from Israel and all relevant UN personnel must be allowed back into Gaza through Rafah. They shall certainly be followed by the various news agencies and their train of journalists. This shall certainly stop the Israeli attacks.
International and Muslim humanitarian volunteers and aid such as the Red Cross and the Red Crescent must be allowed to reach Gaza again through Egypt.
Muslim UN, WHO, IMF and World Bank bureaucrats should go to Gaza and do assessments or hold those photo-op meetings or sessions.
Last but not least, in fact, they should be the first to go to Gaza now, are the obsequious Arab and Muslim world leaders must be there whether as working visits or to convene those Arab League, OIC or whatever necessary summits. This shall certainly put a stop to the whole massacre. From the whole picture of the Palestinian struggle, the only way to victory is a total willingness to sacrifice and that is what is lacking in the Arab and Muslim world.
Some say that when Yasser Arafat was holding up in his severely damaged HQ in Muqatta’ in Ramallah under Israeli siege, basically imprisoned for months before his death, Arafat should have came out fighting and observed the self sacrifice instead of groveling and humiliatingly appealing for help from pathetic world leaders. It certainly would have made a difference to the Palestinian cause and history but fate did not honour him in death.
The Arab leaders do know that Israel does not dare to invade after the Lebanon fiasco. But the Arab leaders are themselves perplexed as to whose side they are really on!
If all else fails, the Arab people have to rise up and remove their leaders, then lead the fight as Hezbollah has shown before.
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