Dr. Firoz Mahboob Kamal
Israel’s full license for war crimes
Israel is enjoying free license to kill anyone it likes. So the Israeli Army is killing the babies, the children, the women, the men, the journalists, the doctors, the paramedics and whoever they like. More than 60 thousands people have already been killed and the killing continues. The Israeli Army has no red line. The criminal state of Israel enjoys full impunity. No one can touch its killers. Even the International Criminal Court (ICC) looks powerless and can’t capture even one of the most notorious killers in human history like the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN also stands helpless; it can’t even condemn the worst genocidal act in modern history like the Israeli genocidal war crimes in Gaza.
The US, the EU, and the UK hardly have any time or intention to think about stopping the Israeli war on Gaza; the most important priority of these countries is to stop the war between two Christian countries like Ukraine and Russia. In fact, these sponsor countries are no less criminal than Israel. Every Israeli act of occupation, massacre, destruction and forced evacuation of Palestinians gets prior approval by these sponsors as the security needs of Israel. Hence, Israel could carry out such a policy from day one of its illegal creation in 1948. The US and its Western allies are supplying necessary weapons, money and intelligence to continue its execution.
Israel has a propaganda aim to cover up its war crimes. It doesn’t want to see the propagation of any other narratives apart from its own. So it is an Israeli plan to kill the messengers who tell the truth to the world -especially about the real picture of Israeli war crimes in Gaza and other parts of Palestine. So killing reporters is a deliberate policy of the Israeli Army. On 10 August 2025, Israel killed 4 members of Al Jazeera TV network by bombing a tent designated for the press. Israel justifies such killing by labelling the reporters as Hamas operatives; but never bothered to provide any proof for that.
The US and its allies also have clear policies vis-à-vis the Middle East. They allow peace, freedom and security only for the Israelis. For the people of Palestine they allow nothing more than forced displacement, massacre, destruction, and starvation. All forms of Israeli war crimes are called Israel’s legitimate right to exist. Whereas any effort of the Palestinians to end Israeli occupation is labelled as terrorism. They are not ready to give the Palestinians their survival rights.
In fact, the US has no other policy other than the Israeli policy. Israel has dropped bombs on Gaza equal to three more than nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima. Such a cataclysmic Israeli crime never got condemned by the US and its allies; rather it always got approved as the security need for Israel. The US, the UK and Germany continued to replenish its war machinery.
The US and its allies always want kings in the Middle East and no democratic government. Democracy is considered a great threat to Israel’s security. Because, democratic system empowers people and encourages freedom movements of occupied people. Hence, democratic Arab World could have strengthened the liberation movement of Palestine. Therefore, the US and its allies support brutal autocrats to keep the Arab people in cages. So, they conspired and dismantled the election victory of the Islamic Salvation Party in Algeria in 1989, of Hamas in Palestine in 2006, of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 2012 and Al Nahda Part in Tunisia in 2011. Thus the Arab world has become a paradise for the tyrants and an open air prison for the freedom loving people.
The crime of the Muslim rulers
Apart from constant silence, inaction and endorsement of the Israeli and US policy, the Muslim rulers have no policy vis-à-vis Israel’s genocidal war. Such silence and inaction are indeed the complicity in crimes. In this regard, except a few, most of the Muslim rulers are criminals. The Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia show their visible silence and inaction. It is shocking that the Muslim countries like UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain don’t feel any shame to keep their diplomatic relations with Israel. Egypt has a border with Gaza; but the Egyptian government doesn’t allow any food, water, medicine and fuel to enter Gaza. Those who raise against the Israeli crimes are labelled as terrorists -not only by Israel but also by these Arab rulers.
The Israeli policy is indeed the policy of the Arab autocrats. This is why when the US President Donald Trump visited UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the heads of these states didn’t even bother to ask him to stop the Israeli war. These rulers are only concerned about their own security. They have their own war against their own people who want democratic rights. And to fight that domestic war, these autocrats need Israeli and the US help. Hence the issue of Gaza is not a matter of concern for them.
It is very clear that the US government is intensely complicit in every form in every Israeli crime. Hence, the condemnation of Israel is the condemnation of the US. This is why the US has stopped every UN effort for condemnation of Israel, and also blocked every UN initiative for stopping the war by exercising its veto. It is also a shame that the Pakistani Army Chief General Asif Munir, the de facto ruler of Pakistan, has recommended Donald Trump -the partner in Israeli war crimes for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Saudi ruler has promised one trillion dollar investment in the US; but he didn’t send any food or drink to the people of Gaza. The autocrat of Qatar also promised hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in the US but didn’t send any food, drink and medicines for the people of Gaza. The same is true for the UAE. Allah SWT has given huge wealth to these Muslim countries, but such wealth is not being used for the benefit of the Muslim Ummah, rather get spent for the people known for their enmity against democracy and people’s rights.
The crimes of the Ummah
The crimes of inaction of the general Muslims are no less either. More than 1.5 billion live in the world. These Muslims have the ability to speak, to write, to rally and to raise voice against the war criminals and their supporters. They could make protest marches in millions. But that didn’t happen in Muslim cities like Karachi, Cairo, Istanbul, Jakarta, Dhaka. Such silence exposes their heartlessness. History will also document that these Muslim people had hundreds of rallies for their political and economic interests, but they seldom did any rally for the people of Gaza. This is utter inhumanity and incompetence of the common Muslims. Whereas one can see huge anti-Israeli protest rallies almost every Saturday or Sunday in London, Washington, New York, Paris, Rome, Sydney and other non-Muslim cities. Most of the participants are non-Muslim.
History will never hide the truth about the ruling autocrats of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Morocco that stay silent on Israeli crimes. History will never hide the truth that the rulers of the oil rich countries enjoyed huge luxuries while the people of Gaza died of starvation. History will also record that while these rulers spent hundreds of billions of dollars to buy weapons, the people of Gaza died without food, drink, shelter and hospital care. History will also tell that these Arab rulers begged President Donald Trump for their own security but they didn’t ask him to stop the genocidal Israeli war. Such acts of betrayal can only earn Divine curse and punishment for them. History will also record that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) didn’t hold a single meeting for stopping the war. History will also note that while the Muslim world is flooded with oil, gas and other assets, millions face abject poverty in Gaza, Yemen and Sudan. After hundreds of years, while the progeny of Muslims will read such history of betrayal with the people of Palestine, they will be astonished with the level of the betrayal.
Why can’t Israel stop its war?
These criminal colonial settlers and their sponsors always keep on changing their political goal post. They started with the settler colonies in Palestine after the British occupation of Palestine in 1917. That goal post was quickly changed in 1948 to create a Jewish state of Israel in the occupied land. The next goal post was to deceive the Palestinians by a promise of two states: one for the Jews and another for the Palestinians . It was a ploy to get recognition of Israel from the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation). The PLO fell into the trap.
Now the US -like Israel doesn’t talk about a two state solution of Palestine. Their final goal post is to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians from the whole occupied land. Therefore, the only option kept open for the people of Gaza is to leave this strait of land with their entirety to make room for a greater and secure Israel. The Palestinians currently living in the West Bank will be forced to leave the land in the same way. The US leaders think such a ethnic cleansing a strategic necessity for a safer Israel.
So, it is now clear that the destruction of the whole Gaza and killing its all people are now the planned Israeli policy. The people of Gaza have been given an option to voluntarily leave Gaza. If that option is denied, they will be forced to leave either by enforced starvation or by destroying every inch of Gaza.
This is why Israel can’t stop the war. Stopping war means stopping the ethnic cleansing. This is why ending war is not the Israeli as well as the US policy. Israel is now creating a new reality in Palestine. It will be a land without any Palestinian. This is why the US Vice President JD Vance could say sarcastically in public that recognising the Palestine State, as announced by France and the UK, is unrealistic. He argued that there exists no ground reality for such a state there.
There is little hope that the Muslims of the world will behave differently. They will only follow the US line. They will continue to have the same policy of silence and inaction. It is not a new cowardice inaction of the Muslims. They showed the same cowardice while Jerusalem was taken by the European Crusaders in 1099 and Spain was cleansed of the Muslims by the Christian Army in 1492. Hence what happened to the Muslims in Spain in 1492, it is not unlikely that the same fate may repeat in Palestine too.
Every Muslim has a duty
A Muslim can never claim to be Muslim if he or she fails to perform his or her assigned duty. And the assigned duty is no less than his or her role as the khalifa (viceroy) of the Almighty Allah on the earth. In fact, such a role has been the only reason for a human’s existence on this planet. And it falls in the premise of his or her duty to eradicate the wrongs and enforce the right. Since a catastrophic degree of wrongs are being done against the Palestinians, the viceroys of the Almighty can’t stay silent and inactive. Standing for the liberation of the unfortunate fellow Muslims is a non-negotiable part of Muslims’ duty. Such a role is in fact designed to test every Muslim’s readiness and competence in performing the assigned role; only those who pass the test will be rewarded with a place in paradise. A person of inaction against a tyrant can never be a true Muslim.
Since the majority of the Arab Muslims stand under the occupation of the autocrats, these Arab countries are de facto prisons. Muslims of these countries are unable to come to the help of occupied people of Palestine. So the liberation must start from home; only the liberated Muslims will be able to help the people of Gaza.
Those who believe that the US and its allies will bring peace to the Middle East are living in fools’ paradise. Wolves can be friendly only with other wolves. This is why the county that could drop nuclear bombs in Japan and commit genocide in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria could be the perfect partner of Israel in its genocidal war crimes in Gaza. So, they could kill any hope of peace in the Middle East. A country of morally sound people can never be complicit in such barbaric crimes.
Now it is the time for the common Muslims to show their own faith, ability and determination. Allah SWT has given them huge power, wealth and intellect to invest for the sake of the oppressed people -especially the people of Palestine. They must start from their own home. They must struggle to remove their own corrupt, compromised and complicit governments. Their own governments are indeed the stooges of the Western powers. They have already proved their inefficiency to do any good for the helpless people of Gaza. Now it is the time for the people to firstly free their own lands from occupation by the brutal autocrats. Gazi Salah Uddin could free Palestine only after freeing Egypt and Syria from the occupation of the wrong people. Only then, the consolidated state power can work as an effective weapon against an occupying power like Israel.
