Hidden Facts Revealed By The War ON Gaza

In its long history, humanity has not known anything more cruel than wars. In them, all the evils, pains, and damages that people cause to each other are gathered, and their impact and effects exceed those resulting from natural disasters and pandemics. It is certain that this war waged by the occupying state against our Palestinian people in Gaza is one of the most horrific wars in modern history, because it specifically and intentionally targets civilians, despite the false slogans and goals promoted by the Israel. It is a war that includes the crime of genocide, because it targets civilians without distinguishing between them and combatants. It is a war of displacement that includes the crime of ethnic cleansing, whether in the context of the military operations carried out or the declared goals of displacing Palestinians outside their homeland. It is a war in which Israel imposes the crime of collective punishment, denying water, food, medicine, and fuel to two million Palestinians under the eyes of the world. This hypocritical and complicit world, does not move a finger while it sees hospitals being targeted and stormed, and continues to count the dead, including children, women, medical teams, and United Nations employees.

Despite what this war shows of the ugliness of those who claim to be human beings, and the horror of the crimes they commit, it has revealed a number of facts that are hidden behind cosmetics and methods of deception and misleading. This blatant revelation does not concern us alone as Palestinians, even though we are its main victims. Rather, it concerns all humanity and may establish a new more honest and humane world order.

The most prominent thing that the war revealed was the truth about Israel, the truth about unbridled brutality that is devoid of all controls and laws. But the world, including many of our Arab brothers, is still deceived by this country, which has largely succeeded in deceiving and misleading the world and presenting itself as a normal country, aspiring to peace and establishing normal relations with the countries of the world. Israel, which caused the great catastrophe of the Palestinian people through uprooting, displacement and massacres, is the same one that continues these operations under the pretext of the right to self-defense.

Much ambiguity surround the details of the Nakba (1948) and some of its facts, the disclosure of which required academic research, testimonies, and the passage of a long period of time to release some documents. As for the atrocities this time, they are broadcast live and directly to the whole world. Whoever doubts the brutal criminal nature of this state and its practices in relation to one fact, can be certain of the truth in many other facts that present themselves every hour.

There is one person in this world who does not want to believe what is happening, and that is President Joe Biden, who still believes the fabrications of beheadings, the slaughter of children, and the responsibility of the Palestinians for the bombing of Baptist Hospital. This president, who seems to be "in control of his mental faculties", discovered, or was told and believed, that under Al-Shifa Hospital there are headquarters for the resistance leadership and weapons. He immediately commented: It is a war crime!

Israel's brutality is not limited to the government and its official departments, but rather extends to the various spectrums of the political map, whose representatives have begun to speak with one voice and repeat the lies of the official establishment. Israeli society reveals an environment saturated with racism that does not see the life of the non-Jew as equivalent to the life of the Jew. For the sake of the latter’s comfort, well-being and happiness, the occupation of the Palestinian can continue and deprive him of his most basic human and national rights. Rather, deprive him of his life if necessary. The soft, civilized and democratic image that Israel promotes of itself has deceived some Palestinians and many Arabs to the point of being fascinated by this Middle Eastern miracle, in which Israelis appear to be gentle and concerned about the environment, culture, arts, freedoms and civil rights. But the war revealed the falsity of these allegations and that Israeli society is a military society that sanctifies war and does not give any weight to international laws or human values.

This war revealed, through the clearest images, the extent of the injustice and ugliness of the international system based on double standards, which is controlled by the United States and the centers of the West, whose leaders and officials still nostalgic for their colonial and racist past, where laws and provisions are adapted based on the nationality of the victims, their color, religion, and race. Human rights, and even the right of peoples to resist their occupiers, are sacred principles for Ukraine, but they mean nothing for the Palestinians.

It is true that there are many free, principled and influential voices that have emerged in the West through massive and unprecedented demonstrations and protests, but the decision-making circles are still subject to those racists who are ready in advance to believe all Israeli lies. These circles also control the media, such that major newspapers, television stations, and international platforms have adopted Israeli narratives without verification, in blatant and disgraceful violation of the most basic professional principles that first-year journalism students learn. The foundations of this unjust international system began to shake years ago with the rise of China and the war launched by NATO against Russia, but it has now revealed its ugliest manifestations with this unjust war launched by NATO against Gaza.

The war also revealed the weakness and disintegration of the Arab system. This nation, which numbers about 400 million people and has a growing economy and enormous resources, seemed unable to bring aid and medical supplies to Gaza, and was more than 35 days late in holding its summit to come out with a statement that does not satisfy or relieve hunger, and to confirm the absence of its weight and influence in international policies, even those which concern and affect the future of its people.

Finally, the war revealed the fragility and weakness of our internal Palestinian situation, and our inability to adopt unified policies in the face of the dangers that threaten our rights and threaten our entire destiny. 

Unfortunately, Israel, which has been riven by sharp and deep differences for years, united during the war, while we, who face existential risks much greater than those faced by the occupying and apartheid state, did not unite.