A letter to Khaled Mishal

Written by Jassim Marzouq Boodai

Greetings to Palestine, the central cause of the Arabs, the cause of the free human world, and the cause of truth for those who want to follow it.

We are crossing the ninth month of the Holocaust committed by the Israelis in front of the world, and Palestine is the air that we breathe and occupies our daily lives. We sleep with the image of a child martyred from hunger and wake up with the image of an old man under the rubble of his house. Our days pass with the displaced people crossing from north to south, and our evenings tell stories of our helplessness while we tell our children and grandchildren stories of steadfastness and heroism against the dirtiest occupier in history.

My brother Khaled Mishal... Abu Al-Walid

I am speaking to you from Kuwait, where I grew up, grew up, and studied. The time was different in its spirit and purity. At that time, we only knew that you were the son of Kuwait, just as we in class considered ourselves sons of Palestine.

I read your last statement in which it said that “Gaza was completely destroyed, and this is the price of resistance, and the costs of resistance are very great,” and that everyone must “engage in the fighting, not just Gaza,” and that “rearranging the Palestinian house is an inevitable entitlement that cannot be escaped, and we must not wait for the end of the battle to put the house in order.” Palestinian.

My brother Abu Al-Walid, you are a classmate of mine in Kuwait and I know firsthand your great commitment to the Palestine issue. Allow me, in the midst of these ashes scattered on the geographical and psychological maps, to address you as follows:

Gaza was completely destroyed, but destroying stone does not mean destroying people. We lost many lives, but every life lost equals every structure that was destroyed. Blood is not equal to cement, and let us agree that as long as there is a beating heart in Gaza, Gaza will remain, and as long as there is a will to liberate, Palestine will remain.

Reconstruction is the easiest thing in the matter because it is subject to the numbers of money, political calculations, and interests between the region and the world. As for the numbers of martyrs, the injured, those affected, the disappeared, and the detainees, they are what dig into the rock of silence and force tears out of it. The displaced people of desert exiles and tents will return to their homes after they are reconstructed... It is enough that their status is firmly established in every heart that beats in the name of Palestine.

My brother Khaled

We come to the second point in your statement, which relates to prices. It is true that the one whose hand is in the fire is not the same as the one whose hand is in the water, and the people of Palestine know best about its reefs. You made many statements at the beginning of the battle in which you said that everything was calculated and studied. Was the size of the price what you expected or was it greater? Were the battle calculations based on wrong estimates? Was there an illusion among some about the extent of Israeli brutality, which exceeded Nazism, and the international support for this usurping entity? In historical context, leadership is discretion and leadership is a decision... and the most important thing in discretion and decision is the interest of the cause and its people.

Regarding the third point, which is calling on everyone to engage in the war, not just Gaza, which is natural and logical, but out of love we ask: Have you first coordinated with your partner in the homeland about a major action like October 7 that will result in a war of genocide as we see it, or are you asking him to participate in Ward off consequences? Has coordination been made with the Arab incubator, which has never abandoned Palestine despite all the talk whose sources are known, to create a rift between the Arabs and the main stakeholders of the issue? What is your opinion of the statements made by regional officials to the effect that what happened was necessary to stop certain paths in the region and abort new Arab-international understandings? You know these things, and we know that they undermine the rules of consensus, disperse projects, and push factors of fear and caution to advance for fear of other agendas on the issue.

The fourth point here is closely linked to the third point in your speech, which is the necessity of putting the Palestinian house in order even before the end of the Gaza battle, and here, my brother Abu Al-Walid, let your heart expand a little for some of the words.

As long as Israeli society, in times of danger, unites around one goal, no matter how many opinions there are, Israel gains an additional factor of strength, and as long as the owners of the cause and the land are dispersed in many directions, Palestine loses every day, even without war, and if this continues, Palestine will not return.

We do not want to recall the past between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, nor to remember the violation of taboos with the bloody clashes that occurred, nor to return to the image of swearing an oath at the Holy Kaaba, which evaporated after 24 hours.

We want to say that the Authority and Hamas are two main parties that differ intellectually and ideologically, perhaps by 99 percent, but there remains at least one point on which there is agreement. Let work begin from this point and let there be a real will, far from emotions and slogans, to build on the agreements, clause by clause.

Let us be more frank: Palestine is difficult to return to when the state of internal and Arab division is fragmenting horizontally and vertically. Instead of focusing on the state project, we are divided into a team that supports the authority and holds you responsible for mistakes and questions your implementation of regional agendas, and a team that supports you and directs all criticism to the Palestinian Authority and even betrays it and considers it to be helping the occupier. Therefore, the issue of putting the Palestinian house in order, which was mentioned in your statement, was the most important in this context, not only for reconciliation with the country’s partner, but also for agreeing on the project of the Palestinian state... Without this agreement, there is no project and no state.

May God grant you success and grant victory to Palestine, its people and its land, and write a prayer for us and with you in the first Qibla and the third of the Two Holy Mosques in the near future.