Can Palestinians’ toy rockets end Israel’s genocide spree?

Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

The besieged Palestinians are being butchered for decades by murderous bloodthirsty Israeli military, but Zionist butchery has generated enough enthusiasm in the anti-Muslim world, especially in the USA and Europe. Mere condemnation of Zionist crimes in Gaza does not make any changes in Israeli war crime policy. the American leaders are not disturbed by genocide of Muslims in Mideast and Afghanistan.

The Muslim countries preaching the so-called solidarity of ‘Islamic Ummah’ are hardly perturbed. There was no serious and effective protest by the leading Muslim countries; so Israel continues its genocide spree in Palestine.
As the helpless UN has declared health hazards in Gaza having reached danger level due to heavy Israeli shelling and bombardment, a seven-hour “humanitarian ceasefire” announced by Israel has come into effect in parts of Gaza. Israeli military bosses said the “ceasefire” would not apply to the town of Rafah.
Earlier, United Nations U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly Israeli attack on a Gaza school and described the strike as “a moral outrage and a criminal act” and demanded those responsible for the “gross violation of international humanitarian law” be held accountable. It was the third deadly attack on a U.N. school sheltering Palestinians during the 27-day conflict between Israel and Hamas militants. “The Israel Defense Forces have been repeatedly informed of the location of these sites,” Ban’s spokesman said in a statement. Israel began its offensive against Gaza on July 8 after a surge of cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other guerrillas.
The fighting pushed the Gaza death toll given by Palestinian officials to 1,800, most of them civilians. Israel has confirmed that 64 soldiers have died in combat, while Palestinian rockets have also killed three civilians in Israel. Ban again demanded an end to the fighting and for the parties to begin negotiations in Cairo to address the underlying issues of the conflict.

Mideast’s super power
Israel has become the super power of the Middle East, obviously supported by the USA and its imperialist allies. In the outrage that followed attack on the UN school, Israel announced it would allow displaced Palestinians to return to their homes.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF), engaged in attempting to divert the attention from Israeli massacres, confirmed that they had begun withdrawing some troops from Gaza, saying it was “extremely close” to completing its mission to destroy a network of tunnels. Ban said that Israel had regularly been informed of the precise location of the school.  More than a quarter of the 1.8 million residents in the Palestinian territory have been displaced. Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Palestinian militant rocket fire launched at Israel continued ahead of the planned ceasefire.
Many of those who have fled their homes have taken refuge in UN shelters across Gaza, including the UN-run school in Rafah which was hit on Sunday.  As UN has fell as a victim to US-Israeli secret plans against humanity, the US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US was appalled by the Israel’s disgraceful shelling. However, meanwhile, with a view to encouraging Israeli military to go ahead with kill and expansionism in Palestine, the Obama regime has announced a big military aid package to Israel.

“Very courageous” British minister resigns
A British minister, Sayeeda Warsi, resigned on 5 Aug  2014 over the government’s policy on Gaza. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a minister at the Foreign Office and minister for faith and communities, wrote on Twitter: “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister and tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on Gaza.” (See palestinechronicle.com/ british-minister- quits-over-gaza- policy)
Warsi’s resignation drew immediate praise on Twitter from some Labour MPs. “Very courageous of my brave friend Sayeeda Warsi to resign over this Government’s inexplicable silence and total weakness on the #Gaza crisis,” wrote Sadiq Khan, Labour’s lead spokesman on justice. Labour leader Ed Miliband accused Cameron of “inexplicable” silence over the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. “The government needs to send a much clearer message to Israel that its actions in Gaza are unacceptable and unjustifiable,” Miliband said. “What I want to hear from David Cameron is that he believes that Israel’s actions in Gaza are wrong and unjustified, and we haven’t heard that from him.”
Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government has drawn criticism, including from the main opposition Labor party, for not taking a tougher line against Israel over its operations in Gaza. Warsi’s parents were Pakistani immigrants and she was made a member of parliament’s upper House of Lords in 2007.

Hypocritical Arab rulers
The hypocritical Arab rulers and their media just keep condemning the Israeli genocides and destructions inside Palestine merely as a routine duty, that is all; while in Gaza, the Israeli military has been targeting innocent civilians, children, women, schools, mosques and even UN buildings.
Israel has a plan to weaken Palestine with its regular air strikes over Gaza. Israel attacks the Hamas leaders and other Muslim leaders during their prayers so that they don’t have any chance to run for cover and could be killed easily. The Islamic Jihad group commander in northern Gaza, Daniel Mansour, died when Israeli forces struck his home just before dawn while he was in prayers.

Saudi king condemns Gaza war but not Israel
“It is regrettable that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah condemned the war in Gaza on Aug. 1 as a “collective massacre” and a crime against humanity, but stopped short of directly condemning Israel for its ground campaign against Hamas, wrote Abdullah al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy in the Miami Herald.
Unlike past Gaza wars, including the devastating 2008 offensive, the Saudi monarch did not condemn Israel outright for the conflict, which officials say has killed at least 1,800 Palestinians, mainly civilians, since it began on July 8. Israel says 63 of its soldiers and three civilians in Israel have been also killed.
Instead King Abdullah appeared to suggest that both Israel and Hamas were responsible, saying that the violence in Gaza has led to “various forms” of terrorism whether from groups, organizations or states. “All of this is happening while the international community is watching silently with all its institutions and organizations, including human rights organizations,” he said in prepared remarks read out by a presenter on state television. “This silence has no justification.” But the king did not call for any specific action to be taken against Israel in his remarks.
The 90-year-old monarch’s apparent balancing act was indicative of the recent shift in regional politics, where Egypt’s leadership and other states opposed to Islamist parties have cracked down on groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which spawned Hamas. They have also warned their citizens against joining radical Jihadi groups running rampant in places like Iraq and Syria.
In his remarks, the king pressed Muslim leaders to unite against extremism, saying terrorists are wrongfully carrying out deadly acts in the name of Islam and tarnishing the religion’s “purity and humanity.” His remarks appeared to be directed at groups like the Islamic State and its allies, which have taken over territory in Iraq and Syria and whose fighters view the Western-allied Saudi ruling family as enemies, the paper reported.

Toy rockets fired from Gaza
The IDF says 2,560 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza have landed in Israel since 8 July, with its Iron Dome defence system having intercepted another 556 rockets. However, these toy rockets are either destroyed by Iron Dome   or falling nowhere to cause deaths. They cannot reach Aviv to make Israelis, forcing the Zionist criminal regime to come forward for peace with Palestine people. Now the Israeli military, as per the joint Pentagon-Mossad plan being executed by Zionist army, is targeting Gaza to cripple Palestine economy and paralyze their life.
Ostensibly, Israel invaded Palestine Gaza and committed anti-intentional law crimes because of the toy rockets Palestinians fired into Israel. It is quite likely that Israeli agents in Gaza and West Bank are doing the mischief and Palestinians are getting massacred by Israeli military which wants to kill all Palestinians and grab their resources and land. Many Muslim media persons fail to understand that Israel, like USA, wants war to grab and occupy Arab lands.
Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967. Up to that point, Gaza had been (more or less) controlled by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan. But in 1967 there was another war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, during which Israel occupied the two Palestinian territories. (Israel also took control of Syria’s Golan Heights, which it annexed in 1981, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, which it returned to Egypt in 1982.)
Israeli forces have occupied and controlled the West Bank ever since. It withdrew its occupying troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, but maintains a full blockade of the territory, which has turned Gaza into what human rights organizations sometimes call an “open-air prison” and has pushed the unemployment rate up to 40 per cent.

Toy rockets against sophisticated US-made arms?
With ordinary toy rockets can Palestinians think of fighting Israel which possesses highly sophisticated precision armaments supplied by the USA and other western countries? No. Palestinians should stop experiments with toy rockets and their own existence as well as future of people of Palestine.
Palestine should have a Defence Ministry to defend its territories from the enemy attacks. For this to happen, all Muslims nations should contribute liberally to Palestine government. Needles to mention, the Arab world should give funds for the defence of Palestine which has the right to defend its territory.
[The author writes from New Delhi. He can be reached at abdulruff@gmail.com.]

Source: Weekly Holiday