Israel Looks Unstoppable & the Muslim World Looks Like a Lame Duck

The whole of Gaza has turned to a hectic war zone. There exists no safe zone, no safe house or no safe civic installation there. Hospitals, mosques, churches, schools and residential blocks are the regular targets of Israeli missiles and drones. Israel is killing innocent men, women and children every day. People in Gaza are forced to move from one area and to another only to multiply their suffering and hardships.

Gaza is a perfect slaughterhouse. Today on Sunday 20 July, Israel has killed 116 people in Gaza -many of them are starving children. Every day is like the same slaughtering of the Palestinians. Yesterday, Israel bombed a Christian church to kill a lot of civilians taking shelter there. Nothing is safe in Gaza.

Starvation is being used as a punishing weapon. Hundreds of children are dying of malnutrition. Food and drinks are not allowed into Gaza for the last 22 months. In international law, the occupying army has no right to stop supply of foods, drinks and fuel to the people of occupied land. It is a war crime to bomb hospitals, churches and schools But Israel does not hesitate to commit such crimes; it has no red line. Israel does not give any space to International Law or the International Criminal Court (ICC) or any human right norms in its midst of military control.

Israel is relentlessly committing all sorts of war crimes not only in occupied Gaza but also in the occupied West Bank. Not only the Israeli Army is committing the crimes, even the illegal settlers in the West Bank have become active partners in the crimes. They have already killed more than one thousand people in the West Bank. They are destroying their homes, trees and water supplies.

The Muslim World looks like a lame duck

Now Israel is expanding its occupation in the southern part of Syria. Israel is manufacturing a new reality for its foothold there. In the name of protecting the Druze minority, Israel is legitimising its presence in Syria. Now it is dictating the Syrian President to withdraw the Syrian Army from its southern province of Suwayda. Israel recently bombed the Syrian Defence Ministry Headquarter in Damascus on the pretext of protecting the Druze minority. Syria is already too decimated to stand against Israeli dictate.

Syria has now become a soft target for Israel. In fact, not only Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the whole Muslim World has become a sitting lame duck. Therefore, Israel can bomb any Muslim city any time without facing any effective military challenge. The whole Muslim World looks hostage to the hawkish Israel.

The US & its allies are the partners in Israeli crimes

Israel is not alone in its crimes; the Western countries like the US and its allies are also the partners in the war crimes. The USA, Germany, the UK and many others have a coordinated strategy to support the Israeli in its crimes. They give money, weapons and intelligence to commit these crimes. This is why they never condemned Israel for its crimes; rather openly call such war crimes as Israel’s legitimate rights to defend its security. Recently the US representative in the UN didn’t hesitate to call it Israel’s duty to exercise the right. Thus they legitimise the Israeli war crimes. But the same Western leaders label the resistance efforts of the Palestinians as terrorism. And a genocidal war criminal like the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayanhu labeled the war between Israel and Palestinians as a war between civilisation and barbarism. As if, fighting against foreign colonial occupation is barbarism.

The Muslim World’s inaction

When the Ummah gets attacked, the Muslim countries show no strategy for defence. They show inaction and silence. The oil rich Arab countries show their policy only to support the US by bribing it with hundreds of billions of dollars. It is indeed the rental money to renew their stay on the throne. It is a historical fact the tyrant rulers of the Arab states didn’t inherit these states from their ancestors. Rather these 22 artificial Arab states were created by the Western colonial powers like the UK after dismembering the Ottoman Khilafah after World War I. These newly created states were rented to these servile agents for their strong allegiance and submission to these evil Western powers.

The Western powers who created these states happened to be the protectors of these newly created Arab states. After World War II, the US replaced the UK. This is why the US, instead of the UK, now continues to keep so many military bases in the Middle East to protect its client states.

Israel enjoys impunity

Israel has no fear of anyone on the earth. Because, the US -the most powerful bully in the world works as its main sponsor and protector. Whatever crimes Israel commits, the US instantly supports that. The US also labels the Israeli war crimes as its genuine duty to execute the legitimate rights for its defence. The same pro-Israeli policy is also displayed by the other Western countries especially like the UK and Germany. This is why Israel enjoys such a robust sense of impunity.

The autocratic Arab tyrants have no other concern apart from their own security. So, they behave as if they haven’t seen anything and haven’t heard anything in the occupied land of Palestine. So, the issue of Gaza doesn’t get any place in their heart. These tyrants do not even allow any protest rally in their city let alone taking any action against Israel and its supporters.

The other national, subnational and tribal states like Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia in the Muslim World do not possess any strong sense of pan-Islamic brotherhood. They are busy with their own nation, race and tribe based agenda. Hence, they do not feel any moral, emotional and political obligation to do anything for the people of Palestine. So helping the people of Gaza gets any place in their national policy. Only Iran was the exception, but it has its own limitations.

What is the way forward?

Now, what to do? Just to watch, lament and make some dowa? In fact, most people in the Muslim World couldn’t do anything beyond that. Surprisingly, some non-Muslims could do much more than the Muslims. The case against the Israeli war criminal in the ICC was lodged by a non-Muslim state like South Africa and not by Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey or Pakistan. The largest protest rallies against Israel are seen in London, Paris, Rome, Washington and not in Riyadh, Cairo, Istanbul or Karachi.

No amount of condemnation is going to help the victims of Israeli barbarity. Some practical action is needed. Every Muslim must find out the way to play his or her role to help the Palestinians.

Every one of the Ummah has a duty. We are under the Watch of All Seeing Allah SWT. He is constantly watching how we play our role in this critical juncture of the Ummah. We need to find out some effective means to challenge these war criminals. The helpless people of Gaza can’t bear the burden of encountering the combined attack of the military, political and economic conglomerate of the powerful devils.

Every Muslim has enormous power to play his or her role. At first, one must have the strong intention (niyah) to stand with the victims of Israeli war crimes. Allah SWT firstly sees the intention of a believer. Every Muslim must explore some intellectual, political, diplomatic, economic and academic means to help their cause. His pen, tongue, intellect and money may be powerful weapons. Everyone must stand as a fighter.

The war of the enemies is going in every field; a Muslim must get entrenched in any of the fields and actively play his or her role. Inaction is no option. There is no room for an inactive Muslim in Islam. In fact, every Muslim is an active Muslim; otherwise one becomes a hypocrite (munifiq). And it is indeed the prime time to show our iman and action. When Ummah is being slaughtered, inaction only pleases Satan. 20/07/2025.