Zuhdi Shubeitah
العربية

The resilient Palestinian Gaza Strip cannot be a cake for the wicked

The article examines the large-scale destruction in the Gaza Strip, allegations of Israeli and Western participation, criticism of the United Nations’ muted response, and the failure of many Arab states to demand a ceasefire and accountability.

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Zuhdi ShubeitahBanking executive (former)
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●      The complete failure of the human spirit....where ethics have been cast aside......the valiant Palestinian Gaza Strip, despite the pains, the massacres, and the crematoria, for children and women, and the elderly, reached tens of thousands of martyrs and multiplied times over the wounded....and the obliteration of lineages, including future generations, and the cutting off of water, and electricity, and food, and medicine, and bakeries, and the destruction of grain stores, and hospitals, and shelters, and schools, and mosques, and churches...and infrastructure, and communications, and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of housing units...with all this destruction and ruin carried out by the occupying Israeli armies, and foreign [forces], using consultants and experts in the destruction of life. And the extinguishing and digitalization of lives....before the silence of the official international community, and its international organizations.....The valiant Gaza Strip cannot be a cake on the table of the wicked....!

●      Your peoples will not forgive you…!. The Gaza Strip does not accept division — it is an essential part of Palestine, and the Palestinian people are one across all the earth; they do not accept being divided into sects and parties at the expense of their homeland...!

●      I will not speak about the incitement to kill and the extermination of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,....and the attacks of the settlers in the West Bank, and the assaults involving killing, burning, looting and smashing.....after they were trained with official Israeli weapons, where leaders and officials of the United States, and Britain, and France, and Germany, and Italy stated that Israel has the right to defend itself.!. Rather, it is its duty to do so.!(according to American officials). Through a brutal Western umbrella of support for Israel, providing it with all forms of backing until it reached actual participation, led by the United States, and its participation in this extermination, through the massing of fleets, and warships..and participation in combat, and surveillance, and intelligence, and the joining of elite units of the American army with Israeli units, and participation in the Israeli war council meetings, repeatedly....in a precedent that is the first of its kind. In embracing and meticulously tending to Israel..and financing it in all sizes, and passing laws to legalize it....and allocating two American satellites...in space to spy for Israel, and to monitor the precise movement of every walking, flying or living thing...across the entire land of the Gaza Strip every minute.. !

●      And I will not speak on the thirty-fourth day of this destructive war against every living thing on this land of Palestine ..the Gaza Strip..! When Israel began bombing buildings, and land, and trees, and stone..with civilians at the top of the list..unconcerned with the standards of humanitarian law in war..everything is permissible for them. They are above accountability and the law..!. Even the Secretary-General of the United Nations, when he tried to put some points on the letters during a Security Council session on 24-10-2023 to discuss the war on Gaza and its repercussions, weeks earlier, said: "That the attacks of "Hamas" لمتأتمنفراغ in the context of the Palestinian people’s suffering under the suffocating Israeli occupation for more than 5 decades" !  He was trying to make those assembled see that there is injustice, and roots to the origin of the conflict, and occupied land, and siege, and despair and starvation..what happened happened....an attempt to draw the world’s attention that the injustice had reached its zenith.! .And as soon as the Security Council session ended, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan...attacked the Secretary-General of the United Nations on his Twitter X page..saying that he (the Secretary-General) with these words provides a justification for Hamas to kill Israelis..and that it is a disgrace; he should not remain Secretary-General of the United Nations..and he should resign from his post or be removed.!. This shocked the Secretary-General, who tried to justify what he said by claiming he did not mean what the Israeli representative understood......and afterwards the Secretary-General of the United Nations no longer clearly points to the facts of the massacres, or openly to the truths, but rather with gestures !, about what is happening on the ground in Gaza, the destruction of a people with legitimate rights.. So when one of Reuters’ reporters asked the Secretary-General of the United Nations...about his opinion on the massacres, and the cutting off of food, medicine and water, he could not demand an immediate stop to the shooting, but rather tried to shift responsibility onto the influential states...and he no longer says the word condemnation..in his speeches and commentary and media appearances.....the Secretary-General of the United Nations is afraid!!.Even though he said it, and it is incumbent upon him!..

●      By contrast, most of the official Arab regimes, especially the influential states in the region, have not demanded an explicit ceasefire...but have resorted to language that avoids calling for a halt to escalation..! And the necessity of delivering aid!..via the Egyptian Rafah crossing....in light of the cutoff of water and electricity and food and medicine and bread and communications..and the destruction of dozens of hospitals and the commission of massacres in most cases when hospitals were bombed..under false and fabricated pretexts...the Arab states were not able to move a bottle of water for thirsty children.. As for energy, the darkness was total, enveloping the entire Strip at night....no one can see the corpses except on the next morning..and a short while ago, the area surrounding the Indonesian Hospital was bombed with twenty air raids and artillery shelling, the fiercest, where victims and wounded fell, in addition to the hospital’s patients..and it also shelters in its courtyards displaced civilians..from families who were displaced after their homes were destroyed..

●      The sad thing is that the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, in the opening of the session of the Peace Summit conference in Cairo, for some countries, on 21-10-2023, under the auspices of the Arab Republic of Egypt, stated that terrorist organizations are a burden on peoples..and therefore described what Hamas did on the seventh of October... as an act of terrorism.!. Bravo to you, oh director of all Arabs!....And what about the killing of civilians...whose numbers reached tens of thousands and the wounded likewise..why did you not tweet, O Secretary-General..what are you waiting for? Are you waiting for NATO..! ..to denounce the killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip..!

●      The peoples of the world, starting with the Arab and Islamic peoples and the peoples of the world at large..have said what our rulers could not utter even a few words about..May God suffice the people of Gaza, and the free peoples..!

●      And I say to the official Arab regime, as an ordinary Arab citizen: Of whom do you, Arab rulers, fear?..You are peaceful and wealthy..by God...and you have the economic capacity to move the stillness and silence that has shocked us..you are not afraid of poverty.!..May God preserve you....but you are indifferent to what is happening to your peoples..of destruction..and extermination and strangulation..Is that not shameful? Do you not envy foreign countries for their care of their peoples. So how is it that an Arab who holds a foreign nationality — for example American — the country of that foreign nationality is the one that moves to free him from detention or deportation and to help him live in another safe place. By God, there is no evil in that..!.. I have not heard of any Arab embassy caring for its citizens to that extent..!

●      Did you not ask artificial intelligence..through your devices and computers or the devices of your entourage..and tell that artificial intelligence your story and the ordeal of your people..I wonder what you expect this artificial intelligence to answer you..It will write for you the phrase ..Shame on you..! Shame on you, close the dialogue! ....But if it happens, and you are subjected to lie-detection devices...if God wills..even between you and yourselves. In secret..consider it a blood test..!. You will feel that these devices will detect that you show what you do not hide...and tell you frankly....saying in private is not like saying in public.....!

●      If you tried to hold a fasting vigil for yourselves and your peoples… or led demonstrations of the peoples of your countries… on condition that your security services do not conspire to brutalize the demonstrators… crush them, run them over and arrest them, and gag the mouths of preachers and imams in the mosques… to prevent prayers for mercy and the performance of the salat al-ghaib for the souls of the martyrs in Gaza… Did you not hear about that politician in Europe who went out into the street when hordes of Nazism invaded his country, who stood in the public square in front of the tanks to make his voice heard as the official responsible for his country, and that he was faithful to the safety of his country and the safety of his citizens، and when he could not!… he stood in front of their tanks… to say that he defends his people, even with half a date!.. and he was crushed to death under the tracks… but history in that country… recorded it!

●      Pray the istikhara prayer! Before you convene an Arab summit conference, to which you were invited more than ten days ago, and which is expected to be held tomorrow, 11-11-2023… Why this delay… this hesitancy and sluggishness… when the death, extermination, and hell that Gaza is living through do not stop for a minute!.. Are these your responsibilities… you postpone the convening… while death is reaping lives in Gaza… no water… no food… no medicine… no bread…the convening of the summit… will be too late..!

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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “The resilient Palestinian Gaza Strip cannot be a cake for the wicked” (English translation of «لا يمكن ان يكون قطاع غزة الفلسطيني الصامد الصابر....كعكة على مائدة اللئام....!», originally published 10 November 2023), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/the-resilient-palestinian-gaza-strip-cannot-be

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