The two state illusion

One wonders what has happened that the promoters and enablers of genocide in Gaza suddenly tapped into their conscience (do they have one?) and described the suffering of Palestinians there as “appalling” (Starmer/Lammy et al). And to top it all, they appear to call for the recognition of a Palestinian state, one that guarantees the security of Israel but not that of its own territory, of course.

Evidently, after more than two years of actively supporting the slaughter of civilians in Gaza, the witnessing of wanton death and destruction can hardly be the motivation for this apparent change of heart. Hence, it appears, things aren’t going too well for them. Is it the fear of legal challenges for complicity, is it the fear of public opinion turning more and more against them or is it a cleverly calculated scheme of appeasement to achieve by political means what they finally realised they could not achieve militarily?

Note that included in the call for the establishment of a Palestinian state is the condition for Hamas to disarm and to renounce any participation in its future government. Instead, the Palestinian authority, maybe with a younger traitor at its helm, shall be revived. Disarmament is also what the Jewish US envoy to Lebanon called for in relation to Hezbollah whom Israel could not defeat militarily. And disarmament is the declared aim of negotiations with Iran – not just nuclear but also, and especially, their missile programme.

Once emasculated, a Palestinian state is said to be able to live side by side with the state of Israel which is allegedly expected to respect its sovereignty. Ask the Lebanese, Syrian or Iranian people about the likelihood of such a claim. A recent aerial view of the Gaza strip serves as a striking illustration of what it looks like having Israel as a neighbour. Nobody with an ounce of sanity would want to be in that situation.

Disarmament is what keeps Zionist colonialism in power. Men used to wear arms as customarily as women wore jewellery. After colonial subjugation by the empire, the right to bear arms became monopolised, requiring a licence which would only be granted for specific purposes. There may be a remnant of the so-called social contract where the state buys the consent of its subjects in exchange for their protection or comfort, but since it becomes increasingly clear that it offers neither, it is now easier to see that the modern social contract is built not on consent but cruelty.

It has to be thus for a minority to benefit from the labour of the majority. And since the numbers are unequal, an intermediary class, selected subjects who manage the masses on behalf of their rulers are also indispensable. These are the uncle toms of modern slavery. Most (if not all) nation states of today are presided over by such uncle toms.

Uncle toms are people who are happy to whip their own kith, kin and kind for gaining the favour of their masters. They identify with their masters, dream of living like them and despise their own people. Quarun, financier to Pharaoh, is the representative of this type of traitors mentioned in the Qur’an. He enabled the enslavement of the Israelites at the time. Likewise, the Zionist programme for global domination by the self-styled chosen people is pharaonic, it is built on subjugation, essentially slavery, a key element of which, in addition to compliant uncle toms, is playing groups within society against each other and .

Another important ingredient in this order is acquiescence, the willingness of the subjected to be disarmed. Thus, complicity is not only something the leaders (or rather managers) of modern nation states are guilty of, it is their people also.

In the Qur’an, Surah an-Nisa’ (4), ayah 75, Allah addresses the believers:

“And what is the matter with you that you do not fight in the way of Allah and for the weak amongst the men and women and children who say: our Lord, take us out from this town of wrongdoing people and assign us a protector from You and assign us a helper from You?”

Abu Sa`eed al-Khudree (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing be upon him) say, “Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.” [Sahih Muslim]

Resistance fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (not a Muslim but a Maronite Christian), finally released from French prison, had this advice to Muslims:

“The resistance is not weak, it is very strong thanks to its martyrs. Its leaders are martyrs so the Resistance is strong. A weak resistance is when its leaders are traitors. Our resistance is not traitorous, its leadership are martyrs! This is thanks to the sacrifices and blood spilled through resistance. My message today is to support the resistance more than ever, more than ever. We bow our heads in honour of the Resistance’s martyrs, the very foundation of all liberation struggles…

The resistance in Palestine must continue and intensify. It must be up to the level of the current situation where we see children as moving skeletons. You look at them and you see skeletons moving. Still, there are millions of Arabs simply watching. In Egypt, a few meters away from Egypt’s Al-Azhar; and a few meters away from the Kaaba of Mohammed bin Abdullah, the children of Palestine are dying of hunger, meters away from 80 million followers of Mohammed bin Abdullah in Egypt. Such a shame for all the Arab peoples, which will go down in history, even more than the regimes, whose nature is known. How many people were killed in attempts to enter Gaza? None, no one was killed. If 2 million Egyptians take to the streets, the mass killing would stop. The genocide would come to an end. It depends on the Egyptian people more than anyone else.”

Sure, MBS could cripple the Zionist economy by withholding oil, Sisi could order the Rafah crossing to be opened, Erdogan could mobilise his army and navy, multi-national corporations could exercise their economic leverage – hence the ability of this group of people to act and speak up is amplified, and their guilt proportionally greater, however, any Muslim still supporting the Democrats or Republicans in the US, Labour or the Tories in the UK or other Zionist controlled parties in any country, Muslim or non-Muslim, or doing business with the promoters of the war or advocating for the “two state solution” or refuting the right to armed resistance (by converting Jihad into a purely spiritual quest or by labelling the Israeli take-over of Syria a “blessed revolution”) is equally complicit.

Therefore, the pitiful state the Muslim ummah is in, and for which Palestinians pay such a heavy price when holding on to their covenant with Allah, is not predominantly the fault of the (Zionist-controlled) “international community” but of Muslims and their uncle tom mentality.