Israel: the devil’s workshop?

While Israel destroys Gaza, all you hear about are “humanitarian windows” (temporary cease-fires brokered by the UN and so-called “pacifist” states). All these “windows” closed earlier than promised – duration of the last “window” being 2 hours though it was to last 72 hours, and in the next 24 hours, Israel’s bombardment killed 100 Gazans, and wounded over 260.

Beginning July 7, Israel’s army, navy and air force began targeting the defenceless Gazans. The world didn’t recognise Palestine as an independent state with the right to have adequately equipped armed forces for defending its sovereignty and territory. But Israel was given this status because the Jews had suffered the “holocaust”, courtesy the Europeans.

By the time this script went to the press, Israeli bombardment had killed over 1,847 Gazans and wounded over 7,700. Because of continued Israeli bombing, the dead and the injured can’t be rescued quickly from the debris of the collapsing buildings. Casualties could therefore exceed 2,000 and the injured 8,000 (many lethally), in just one month of Israel’s bombardment.

The July 29, Israeli bombardment of a UNRWA operated school-turned refugee camp in Jabaliya, was the worst mass-casualty incident, and the sixth UN school in Gaza to be hit by Israel. UNRWA’s commissioner-general termed it a serious violation of international, law calling it “an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.”

Israel has been bombing Gaza for nearly a month; on August 2, it refused to negotiate an Egyptian-sponsored cease-fire that Hamas was willing to implement, reflecting what the Israeli Premier has clearly stated – complete destruction of Gaza. Yet no UN member state has felt the need to demand the dispatch of an adequate UN peacekeeping force to Gaza to prevent its total destruction.

This is despite the fact that UNRWA and UNHRC keep confirming the human and material losses being suffered by the Gazans. The destruction of Gaza’s power generation plant alone implied colossal structural damage. The stock of drinking water is almost finished, let alone stocks of food and essential medicines to save even those who survive Israel’s ruthless bombing.

Although UN peacekeepers don’t have a glittering record, as recently exposed by a Dutch court that convicted the Netherlands for the killing of 300 Bosnian Muslim men and boys (not all the 8,000 who were massacred in a UN/Dutch-secured refugee camp) in Srebrenica, it is time the world demanded dispatch of an adequate UN peacekeeping force to stop the carnage in Gaza.

While the Arab states still appear unconcerned, on July 29, at a meeting of Latin America’s Mercosur Trade Block, the presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela said they “energetically condemn the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, which in majority of cases affects civilians, including children and women.”

These four countries also called (as does Hamas) for Israel to immediately permit free flow of people, food, and humanitarian aid to Gaza. The same day, three other Latin American countries – El Salvador, Chile and Peru – recalled their ambassadors from Israel. Brazil had done so last week, though the Israeli response thereto was to label Brazil “a diplomatic dwarf.”

As expected, Israel’s Foreign Ministry interpreted the Mercosur initiative as “encouragement for Hamas”, though the momentum for recognising Palestine picked up in 2010-11 when Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and several leftist states recognised it as a state; now even centrist states with ties to the US have voiced their anger over Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

That said the Arab states’ role has been baffling. Egypt shares its border with Gaza but has opted to keep it shut, denying Gazans the supply of even essentials like drinking water, food and medicines – denial that will escalate deaths by starvation besides those caused by Israel’s bombardment. Reason: the support Hamas extended to Egypt’s ousted president, Muhammad Morsi.

Of the other Arab states that could intervene, Syria is fighting for survival against the West-backed “Islamic” rebels, Jordan has taken the back seat in Middle Eastern politics, Iraq is falling apart courtesy its invasion by the US and now its dismemberment by the “Islamic” rebels, and Libya hasn’t had a government ever since Gaddafi was ousted by West-backed rebels.

Of the Muslim states that could make a difference, while Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey prioritise domestic politicking, Malaysia is struggling to explain to its people the causes that led to the MH370 and MH17 tragedies, and Iran’s priority is a nuclear deal with the West. But ordinary people everywhere, including the EU states, are protesting against Israeli barbarism in Gaza.

The role of other Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf, states is amazing ie their virtual silence on the carnage that is going on in Gaza. The explanation there for is that because Hamas supported the “Islamic” rebels in Syria – an armed outfit these states themselves helped assemble – they want to distance themselves from this outfit that could destabilise their kingdoms.

Lebanon’s Hizbollah, which was earlier the key backer of Hamas, is apparently unhappy with Hamas for its support of the “Sunni” rebellion against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. This division shows how the Arabs now stand divided along sectarian lines – divide that will help Israel achieve its aim of controlling the Middle East (like the US) through its proxies.

The “Arab Spring” was a well conceived Zionist plan to divide Muslims along sectarian lines so that they began destroying each other. This strategy had worked fairly well in dividing the Christians into Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, Evangelists and other denominations. Over the centuries these divides, and the futile confrontations they led to, made too many Christians abhor religion.

By distancing themselves from their faith, people begin cherishing flawed values – unbounded freedom that triggers devilish trends to justify atrocities such as slavery, intoxication, homosexuality, reckless profiteering, self-enrichment at the cost of others, ruthless aggression, in short, injustice in all its horrible shades that will hasten the dawning of the doomsday.

Muslims too now stand divided courtesy leaders of the Jafri, Hanafi, Wahhabi, Maliki, Shafae, Humbbali, Ismailia, Salafi, Ahmedi, and other schools of thought. This is a trend, which has already triggered deadly conflicts will, over time, prove their futility, and cause disenchantment with religion because it will be seen as the root cause of pervasive inhumanity.

According to “Protocols of the learned elders of the Zion” this setting is imperative for Zionism’s (ie the devil’s) success, and Benjamin Netanyahu has turned Israel into the devil’s workshop. Sadly, the world leadership (especially America’s that shamelessly backs Israel) can’t see the tragedy we are headed for – a totally valueless world reflecting sheer animalism.