While I feel miserably sad for the Palestinians who lost their lives at a Gaza hospital, and have their loved ones in my thoughts, I have no special insight on who stands behind the explosion. What I can explain, however, is the politics behind the big fuss it is making.
1- Islamist #Iran regime and #Qatar think #Israel is bent on destroying #Hamas, and that the only way to stop Israel is through instigating world opinion against the death toll in Gaza, hoping that enough global pressure will make the West pressure Israel to stop.
2- Arab governments, including the Palestinian Authority (PA), hate Islamism and Hamas like the plague, think that Israel will decimate Hamas, and are happy to see that happen, but think since it is happening anyway, why go against public Arab mood?
3- Israel has no alternative to finishing off Hamas. October 7 proved that a fence will never be enough to hold crazy Hamas back from repeating their massacre of 1300 Israelis. Hamas has thus become an existential threat to Israel, and Israel must fight this battle for its life, win or lose, with or without global support (like it did in 1982 Lebanon). The West understands the existential threat Hamas poses to Israel, and has thus green lighted its war to decimate the terror group.
So while sorrow over casualties haunted me for a few hours before I could bring myself to write these lines, I have to be realistic and argue that nothing will derail Israel from decimating Hamas. The faster the world (especially Iran and Qatar) realizes this, the faster Hamas will be gone, the shorter the war nightmare will be for Gazans and everybody else.
In fact, had we been able to muster enough political power to finish off Hamas peacefully, had Arab governments and protesters shown similar outrage against Hamas and demanded its end after October 7, I don't think Israel would have gone to war in the first place.
As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel.
For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids.
The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas.
Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better.
As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves.
Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.
WATCH: 5,000 Catholics just offered mass for Israel then lead a massive Eucharistic procession that spanned for BLOCKS through the heart of New York City
Leaving bystanders in TEARS in the middle of Times Square.
God is on the move.
Watch in awe.
🚨 #BREAKING: Victoria Police have reportedly arrested a carload of young Muslim men driving around “looking for Jews to kill” in the Melbourne Jewish neighbourhood.
More to follow
Israeli women attacked, tortured, raped and murdered by the Barbarian Hamas. Screaming Allah Akbar while blood drips from her pants?
What God? They don’t know God! & any Muslim who support Hamas is Godless & deluded.
God is with Israel! that’s why they continue to win & exist
I tried to use my hands to count the number of human rights organizations who have called for the immediate release of all civilian women, children, and toddlers that were taken hostage by Hamas
Used up zero fingers so far
Lots of geopolitics experts minted today
Question for them: what would UK do if Russian militants showed up in London tonight, killed 300 women and children, and kidnapped hundreds back to Moscow?
Send them flowers?
Post a TikTok dance?
LMK your expert opinion please
Member of the Israeli Knesset Ayman Odeh is in Knesset defending Palestinian terrorism. He also receives salary from the state of Israel. This is a shame!
Ayman Odeh supports Hezbollah in Lebanon. No need to travel to Jenin when you have terrorist supporters in Knesset itself!
Supporting suicide bombings in hotels, shopping malls, running over Jewish toddlers or beheading Jewish children in private homes is not resistance, but TERRORISM.
#Israel #MiddleEast #Israelis #Jerusalem #Knesset #AymanOdeh
@LiberalMujahid Do you see me calling for ripping of her hijab? Of course she has the right to. But she call herself conservative religious, not progressive secular
Wonderful to see the Iranian Jews singing the slichot prayers in the synagouge in Tehran. Although the life is not easy with the terror regime. 💔
#iranianjews#RoshHashanah#Israel#Persia