The Hamas attack on Israel
The world is looking with horror at the Hamas terrorism against the Jewish state of Israel emanating from the Muslim Palestine Gaza. The terror attacks unleashed on 7th October 2023, on the Jewish Sabbath day, by Palestine Hamas by sending thousands of armed terrorists, who infiltrated into thousands of Jewish homes, murdered about 1500 persons on the spot, raped and abducted hundreds including children, and women.
The unspeakable crimes they committed by desecrating and parading even dead women, and pulling out and killing fetuses out of pregnant women’s wombs have no parallel even when compared to ISIS beheadings. Hamas put figures that thousands are dead in Gaza due to the Israeli `disproportionate’ war, and Western and some Indian media without any verification publicize those figures.
Though Hamas means `Islamic resistance’, it is fighting an `Islamic jihad’ against Israel. The present crisis is perhaps the second biggest anti-Semitic terrorist attack against Jews after the holocaust in Hitler’s Germany during World War II. It is estimated that 6 million Jews, comprising about 40% of the Jews living in then Germany were massacred in gas chambers and concentration camps, in one of the worst genocides conducted on racial lines. Jews faced the worst holocaust of persecution and massacre at the hands of Nazis and Hitler (helped by the then Pope, Pope Pius XII, and the then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini).
Since the fresh breakout of terror on October 7, the Israel-Hamas conflict has been escalating by the day; Israel is already fighting on several war fronts. The Shia Iran is funding and supporting Hezbollah, China is clandestinely supporting Iran, Lebanon has also entered the war arena; Turkey and Qatar are known jihadi funders. Russia is hedging its bets. Saudi Arabia and UAE are staying neutral at the moment, but there is no guarantee which direction they will take if the war escalates. The West is busily trying to pacify Israel so that the entire Middle East is not engulfed in the war. There is also apprehension whether the world is sliding into a world war. Israel which just appears as a dot on the map, surrounded by hostile Muslim countries is fighting for its survival against a bloody ruthless Islamic jihad.
As the world knows now, Hamas built 1300 underground tunnels in that narrow strip of land inhabited by 2.4 million people, the same people who rejoiced at the beheading of Jews and rapes of Jewish women. While Hamas leadership stays in great luxury in Qatar, Kuwait, and elsewhere, the ordinary people who have been fed on radical Islam are fighting to annihilate and exterminate Jews and Israel as per their stated charter. 47-48% or nearly half of the population in Gaza is under 18, this abnormal skew is because the Fertility rate in Gaza is about 3.97 or 4 (4.3 as per another study), that is an average of 4 children per family; a decade earlier it was 5, and decades earlier it was as high as 8 or 9. It is anyone’s guess why Jihadi countries produce such huge populations, Pakistan is another example.
The 1987 Hamas Charter explicitly declares jihad against Jews and other non-Muslims till their annihilation, it declares the world as Waqf property, and that if a land is once ruled by Muslims, jihad has to be waged to reclaim those lands. Son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan, Mosab Hassan Yousef, in an interview, condemned Hamas violence and said the world has to stand by Israel; he said that Hamas is more brutal than ISIS and that Islamism must be rooted out from the world; he also asked Shiva and Krishna devotees in Bharat to understand the nature of Islamist terrorism and guard themselves.
False narratives
Strangely, the “politically correct” Western governments have allowed the Islamic governments to not only have a free run to dictate the world to stamp their radical ideologies, but they also label people who question the jihadist ideologies as Islamophobia. The nearly 60 Islamic countries have their structures like OIC and other regional forums like GCC etc; even though they are super-rich with petrodollar economies, they still receive aid and funding in the name of Palestine, Syria, and a host of other countries where there is always a perpetual civil war. They also don’t provide shelter to any Muslim refugees from conflict zones, instead, they facilitate their escape to the Western world. They also regularly create atrocity literature, they have expertise in playing victim-card and they are perpetually ready to wage jihads, whether in Europe, Israel, India or any other non-Muslim country.
Busting myths
- Israel is an aggressor against Palestine – The truth is Hamas/ Palestine is the aggressor, in fact, it is an invader that directly sent armed Jihadis into Israel.
- Israel is an occupier of Palestine – This is completely false propaganda; PLA is the ruling party in the West Bank, and Hamas has been the ruling party in Gaza since 2007. Hamas in fact threw awayMahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, who is also the chairman of Fatah, from Gaza.
- Israel is fighting a one-sided war with Palestine- Palestine is very much fighting the war blasting hundreds of rocket launchers every day.
- Israel opposes the two-state negotiated settlement– It is Hamas who opposes the two-state settlement and is waging a jihad to destroy Israel.
- Israel is blocking food to Gaza- Hamas which is the ruling party of Gaza used its millions of aid money to build underground bunkers and in buying ammunition, rather than developing civic facilities and supplies of food and water. The industrial setup built by Israel lies defunct as the only industry in Palestine is Jihad.
The biggest fallacy of all!
- Hamas is different from Palestine – Hamas is the elected party of Gaza, and it enjoys 95% people’s support, the Gaza people rejoice in the terrorist attacks against Israel, still Indian commentators try to make an artificial distinction between Hamas and Palestine which doesn’t exist.
History of the conflict
Judaism is the first of the Abrahamic religions. Israel is the `promised homeland’ and Jerusalem the `promised city’ of Jews for over 3000 years. Christianity and Islam came out of the same common fold after one and two millennia respectively after Judaism. Because Jews believe they are the `chosen people’, they do not conquer or convert people of other faiths. First Christianity through the Crusades and later Islam through jihad harassed and persecuted Jews and drove them out of their homeland repeatedly, and Jews returned again and again through the millennia. However, Christian Zionists support Israel because of the ancestral right of the Jews to the Holy Land, they cite the letter of Apostle Paul to the Romans, chapter 11 in the Bible. They believe that the return of Jews to Israel is a prerequisite for the second coming of Christ. In a most inspiring way, the Jewish diaspora spread across the world kept the promise alive of returning to Israel – `next year in Israel’ was their promise to each other to keep the institutional and inter-generational memory and self-pride alive for 2000 years and more.
Jews continued to have a presence in Israel through the centuries, despite the violence and persecution.
Towards the latter half of the 19th century, significant numbers of Jews started buying lands and returned to Israel. The fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I hastened the process of Jews returning to their promised homeland. The Ottoman Empire has broken into several countries in West Asia under the overall authority of Britain and France; there is a strong opinion among experts that today’s Jordan is in fact the Palestine of centuries ago.
Palestine–Israel conflict arose from the claims by both the Jews and Arabs to the land that formed the British Palestine Mandate, which the Jewish people regard as their ancestral homeland. The sectarian conflict within the British Mandate territory between Jews and Arabs escalated into a full-scale civil war in 1947. As soon as Israel came into existence in May 1948, the Arab world came together and attacked Israel, commencing the first Arab-Israeli war. Curiously, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank had been occupied by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, since the 1948 Arab war against Israel, until the Six-Day War of 1967. During those twenty years, Arabs never liberated Palestine. 1972 Munich Olympics saw the `Black September’ killings of Israeli athletes. In all the wars that took place, it was always the Arabs who attacked Israel.
The Yom Kippur War or Ramadan War of October 1973, Arab–Israeli War was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, led by Egypt and Syria. Israel won the war and occupied the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. Egypt’s objective in the war was to seize a foothold on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal and leverage these gains to negotiate the return of the Sinai Peninsula. The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978, following 12-day secret negotiations at Camp David, Maryland, mediated by US President Jimmy Carter. These frameworks led directly to the 1979 Egypt- Israel Peace Treaty. Sadat and Begin jointly received the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, this in fact led to Sadat’s assassination in October 1981 by the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group, displaying the Arab hatred towards Jews. A series of conflicts followed, and there never has been any long-term peace between Arab Muslims and Jews.
With the decline of the 1987–1993 Palestinian intifada, the Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, and Israel and Jordan too reached a peace accord. In 2002, the Arab League offered recognition of Israel by Arab countries as part of the resolution of the Palestine–Israel conflict. Despite the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the interim peace accords with the Palestinian Authority, and the general cease-fire, until the mid-2010s the Arab League and Israel had remained at odds with each other over many issues. As a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords, the Palestinian National Authority/ Fatah-controlled government exercises control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hamas took over Gaza in 2006 and drove out Fatah from Gaza. By 2017, Israel and several Arab Sunni states led by Saudi Arabia formed a coalition to confront Iran, the situation was moving towards normalization and the lessening of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Lessons for India
The fight of Israel for its very survival should teach Indians many lessons. It must be noted that the Jewish community continues to be the world’s richest, it is reputed to control the global deep state, brilliant Jewish scientists and technologists win many Nobel prizes, and many great artists and movie makers are Jews, yet all these achievements and wealth do not guarantee even the survival of the community against brutal jihadi forces.
India which had already experienced the tragic partition of the nation in 1947 on religious lines, which has witnessed the largest and most horrendous holocaust in the form of Islamic jihad of Jinnah’s Direct Action in 1946 – 1947, the Hindu massacres in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh total at least 5 million. A parallel can be drawn with Israel here, about 1 million Jews residing in the rest of the Arabian peninsula went to Israel, but no Arab Muslim left Israel, they are about 20% of Israel’s population today. Similarly, the Muslim population in India has grown to about 20% today, while the Hindus have all but disappeared from Pakistan and Bangladesh. India since the bloody partition went through many riots and tragedies at the hands of jihadi forces, it must shed its pseudo-secularism and vote-bank appeasement politics, to save and protect Hindu Dharma in the ancient land of Bharat. Both the Abrahamic religions are conducting jihads and mass-scale conversions to change the demographics and indulge in riots like Nuh, as well as demonstrate their street power in the form of Shaheen Bagh and Manipur, actively aided and abetted by India’s political forces and the judiciary. The Indian state also prevents the flourishing of Hindu culture in the homeland of Hindus, by variously suppressing Hindu culture, controlling temples, distorting histories, creating rifts between communities, and enabling vote banks and `minorityism’ through various statutes and legal systems. Though Hindu intellectuals and activists have been valiantly struggling to restore the universal Hindu ethos, the outdated colonial systems and the open-ended democratic structures are exploited strategically and brilliantly by the Abrahamic forces, both from within and without.
Dialogue from the movie `Munich’ by Steven Spielberg
“- Avner: You people have nothing to bargain with. You’ll never get the land back. You’ll die old men in refugee camps waiting for Palestine.
– Ali: We have a lot of children. They’ll have children. So we can wait forever. And if we need to, we can make the whole planet unsafe for Jews.”
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