My Thoughts On Gaza..

Note: This is a written transcript of an Audio clip I recorded.

It took the Arab world more than 20 days to suddenly wake up and hold a meeting about the situation in Gaza. Back when the Gaza crisis started, a GCC meeting was held with no regard to the situation’s seriousness. They finished their commercial merge ups, shared the wealth, and then headed back to their getaways.

20 days later, they realized that the situation is too serious to ignore any much longer, and yet they conflict at when and where should the summit be held.

Is it really that hard to decide an URGENT meeting?

Some say that they’re hand tied in not doing anything about it. Then, it would be natural to pursue achieving anything in a Financial summit, favoring its attendance to discuss Gaza, claiming that it has been thought about and planned for for a year now.

Is it really Priorities or Politics?

Come to think of it.. Was Gaza really a SUDDEN turn of events?
How many Arab Summits were held discussing the Palestinian Issue?
How many conclusions and decision were made?

.. How many actually saw this coming and “zipped” it?

Looking at the recent Arab Summit, it’s now visibly seen on Television what drives us weaker and weaker. We can’t even agree on our stand towards what Hamas’s actions represent, achieve or pays on the expense of the people they seek to protect.. We can’t even get the to next point without telling everyone, This is MY view, screw YOUR view.

However, what personally ticked me off, is this call for sympathy with Hamas, in the Summit and in society.

On what basis should i sympathize with Hamas? On their lack of any strategic thinking? On their lack of military power? On their “tactical” choice of threatening with Suicide bombers? On their methods of Hiding from the enemy, deeper into heavily populated areas?

Moreover, If you take a look at the social stand point of the people, it’s either you SUPPORT Hamas and pray for their success, or don’t do anything about it.. I saw allot of the latter, but i also faced a fair share from those who supported Hamas.. What about supporting the victims? choosing their side isn’t an option anymore?

1000+ people died until now.. What are Hamas goal’s exactly? Signing a truce, cutting back your losses, especially when you’re weak, is a strategic move. Logic, Rationality and even Islam agrees with that.. This, easily, makes anyone doubt their understanding of Islam, which is supposedly the doctrine they work by. I doubt it, since their actions are in complete conflict with what Islam tells us in such times of war.

Surrendering is a strategic advantage, and can reduce the blood shed until people are intellectually, emotionally, spiritually and physically strong. Strong enough to be able to reply, and wise enough to know how to deal with such a country that is a gathering of blood thirsty warmongers.

We’re mentally, spiritually and intellectually weak. Scattered on every view. If we still conflict in our understanding of Islam, and we fail to stand together as a Muslim community, do you really think we’d do any better in uniting under the Arab flag?

Moreover, Raw power, which is Hamas in this case, is futile. Unguided and unplanned, it can cause more damage than the good.

Speculating on a fact here.. I wonder, would things have taken a different path if Sheikh Ahmed Yaseen was still alive?

I mean, he didn’t stray deep into turning a Resistance group into a political authority. Which doesn’t seem the case with what seems to be the hidden agenda of Hamas’s current leadership.

On the other hand, Israel showed before, and it’s showing again, that rules don’t apply if you’re “their” alley.. Doesn’t matter to which side, because the world has turned into two major groups, An Alley and an Enemy.. As a Result, Israel shows another new bloody display of its allegiance as the Terror State of the free world.

Now comes the confusing part where society parts..

What are WE doing to help? We can’t even protest, which is much more logical than boycotting a locally used, operated and supplied Chillies. Thinking that those Fajitas are bullet money to kill us..

The new ideology that seems to be a trend: donate your money, donate your blood, sing a song, make a video clip, and write a poem, and your obligations end there. Any or All of the above, according to how much spare time you have. As a result, you think you’re relieved and you paid your obligations, and now You can freely celebrate the winning of your national team over a football championship.

This “Microwave” instant solution hype isn’t our key of salvation from the guilt that rides over us every time we watch Television, nor is it a cure to the disease that eats us from within.. an Issue like Gaza needs years of building and preparation and in-depth efforts to help, not just give our Money surplus and then go back to our daily lives, turning a blind eye to the mess we’re in.. Much studies and much approaches and much growth in all fields should be accomplished, if we are to achieve anything civilized towards how we see and want to solve this issue.. Not to blind our selves from other disasters that still happen across the world, and the Muslim world in specific.. We fix ourselves to face those problems, not face those problems while we’re weak against our ill understanding of things, or our wants and needs.

I don’t mean to interrupt those many young men that I saw in the streets, wearing Santa clause hats in Tahlia Street in Jeddah, saying their greetings joking about Christmas.. Those guys seem to be in an identity spiral that needs therapy.. But I mean to wake you up to the fact that Gaza’s blood is dripping from everyone’s hands.

I won’t say that I blame Israel.. I won’t say that I blame Hamas.. I won’t say that i blame the world, the Arab leaders in specific.. They’re all to blame.. We’re also included, with how we react to such an issue, what we do and what we spread around.

And Guess what, the mainstreamed hype of Boycotting Israeli, or Pro-Israel American, products proves that we know nothing about commerce, about the world, and about how this war is actually funded.. It proves no points what so ever, especially that most of these boycotts are initiated under false pretenses, masked by Islam.. Falling under the idea that if you boycott the products listed in a forwarded email, given verbal, non-factual, guarantees that these products are Zionist, would reduce the amount of funding the “war on terror” receives. But that’s a different topic that may take us off course now.

Israel claims to be in “defense”, While Hamas claims to score high casualties on the Israeli side.. Sadly, the number of innocent Palestinian Women and Children nearly flood the screens..

..When’s the wake-up call, again?

Yours,
Lou

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