In this blog, I have writen about the Palestine issue. The region has been under constant occupation for the past few decades. Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I am in favour of a Jewish state to safeguard the rights of the Jewish people, but it shouldn't be a territory that is already inhabited by another race.
First, I would talk about the situation and the suffering Palestinians have gone through before the attack of Hamas in Israel, and then I would talk a bit about the current situation. For the past seven decades or so, the people of Palestine have been under constant occupation by the Zionist state, and I don't like to call Israel a Jewish state because I believe this is not what Judaism teaches. These are not the teachings of Abraham (AS). Israel, for the last few decades, has murdered countless children, men, women, elderly. They have massacred the Palestinians. They have deprived them of their basic human rights like food, shelter, medication, education, healthcare, etc. Gaza is the biggest prison in the world in which about 20 million people have been imprisoned for quite some time. They have been disconnected from the rest of the world. The drinking water of Palestine is 95% contaminated. 60% of children are suffering from malnutrition. As of 2022, 84% of the children in Palestine are fearful, as compared to 50% in 2018. 80% are nervous as compared to 55%. 77% are depressed. Source: (Save the Children). Unemployment and poverty are significant. More than 80% of the Palestinians rely on humanitarian aid. These are only some of the inhumane atrocities conducted by Israel for the past few decades. In response to all these atrocities that Palestinians have faced for the last Seven decades, which includes the illegal colonization of Palestinian lands by Israel, Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Did they have any other choice besides this?
After the Hamas attack on Israel, the situation has become even worse. Israel has laid a 'complete siege' on Gaza. Israel has now completely shut down electricity and water supplies. As of now, about 1500 people have been killed because of the Israeli raids in Gaza. According to Red Cross, due to the complete blockade imposed by Israel,, the hospitals in Gaza are on the verge of turning into Graveyards. Israel has continuously raided the civilian unarmed areas of Gaza. According to Gaza's Deputy Health Minister Yusuf Abu al Reesh, 60% of those injured by the Israeli airstrikes are women and children.
I am writing this blog not to advocate Hamas but I am writing this blog in support of the people of Palestine. Hamas launched this attack in response to the raids conducted by the Israeli army in the West Bank for the past couple of days. Now I want to ask the West and Western media why are you silent in this? Why aren't you condemning Israel? You condemned China for its treatment of Uighurs, and you also condemned Russia when it attacked Ukraine, and I also condemn both of them for the atrocities conducted by them. Western media says that due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many people have been killed and injured, including women and children, but aren't the Palestinians killed by Israel for the past few decades also human? Are those children and women murdered by Israel, not human beings just like the Ukrainians and just like you? Why shouldn't Israel be held accountable for the genocide of the Palestinians conducted by them for the past few decades which has even become worse for the last seven days. When Ukraine was invaded by Russia, you condemned Russia, which you were right. You supplied Ukraine with arms to support them in their resistance against Russia. Now, when Palestinians rise against the tyranny of Israel, you are condemning the oppressed people of Palestine. Ukraine has only endured this for the past year or so, what Palestinians have been going through daily for the past decades. Israel has to be condemned and held accountable just like China and Russia. You are condemning Palestinians and supplying weapons to Israel against unarmed Palestinians while sympathizing with Israel. How could you equate the genocide conducted by Israel for the last couple of decades to the resistance given by Hamas for the past couple of days? It's not Hamas who is the invader, but it is Israel who has colonized Palestine for the last seven decades or so, and in response to that, when Palestinians resist Israel just in the same way as Ukrainians did against Russia, you are calling terrorists. Isn't it your hypocrisy that when Palestinians are killed or massacred, then you are silent, and when Ukrainians are killed, you take the whole world by storm? Aren't Palestinian lives as important as Ukrainian lives? Yes, they are Ukrainian lives, European lives, American lives, Jewish lives are just as precious as Palestinian lives, Muslim lives, and Black lives because we are all human beings. You say that condemning or criticizing Israel is anti-semitic but isn't killing Muslims Islamophobic or anti-human. You all call yourself democracies while you have barred people from condemning Israel and holding rallies in support of Palestine. Isn't this undemocratic? Just consider yourself in place of those Palestinians for a moment. If the same is done to your children, to your loved ones, not for two or three days but for the past few decades, what would you do? Wouldn't you retaliate? Wouldn't you cry for help when you have your little child in your arms who was killed by the raids of the occupant army? How would it feel when one of your children is badly injured? His wounds are so serious, and you can't go to the hospital because it is full or it doesn't have the medication to cure him, and when you rise against all this oppression and the whole world, instead of aiding, you call you a terrorist? That Is What Palestinians are going through at the moment. Some people support the two-state solution in Palestine, which is unacceptable because this land belongs to Palestinians,s, and nothing could change this or legalize the illegal state of Israel. What if Russia takes control of the whole of Ukraine and then they propose a two-state solution in which they say that half of it belongs to them and the rest belongs to Ukrainians? Then would it legalize their illegal occupation of Ukraine? No, it won't. In the same way, the illegal occupation of all of Palestine can't be legalized by the two-state solution. All of Palestine belongs to Palestinians. It belongs to Muslims and nothing can change this.
In the end, I would just say that you don't need to be a Palestinian or a Muslim to realize what I have written above. You just need to be a human or have some humanity within yourself, but unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case, which is quite shameful for humanity.
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