Post by maruf on Oct 6, 2004 0:47:19 GMT -5
The US offensive in Iraq continues to draw the world’s attention– But Israel equally brutally is actively pursuing its ‘disengagement’ plan
Samarra is the latest wicked episode of blood-spilling by the Americans in Iraq, and their standard routine for quashing resistance has now become sickeningly familiar; bombing indiscriminately from a distance, firing their way destructively through the heart of civilian areas and then trying to cleanse themselves from blame for the bloodshed by declaring that the people they gunned down were all “bad guys and terrorists”. And as usual this is a lie, because not only do the Americans not know how many civilians they kill, but they are simply not interested in taking provision to avoid it. Abdul-Nasser Hamed Yassin, a hospital administrator in Samarra, confirmed this when he announced that out of the dead there were 51 women and children.
But the Americans are not the only ones hacking and butchering their way through Muslim towns and cities. As the eyes of the world have been distracted by the anarchy and developing crisis in Iraq, Israel has taken the opportunity to mischievously get its dirty work done when no one is watching.
This week their latest expedition has left sixty Palestinians dead, tens of thousands of civilians trapped without electricity or water and the demolition of homes, roads and power lines that typically accompany Israeli assaults. These tactics are aimed at inflicting the maximum hardship and misery on the common people and to ensure that the noose of occupation is tightened firmly round their necks, hoping that eventually their victims will beg them to stop. So it is evident from their merciless occupation of Muslim lands that the Israelis and Americans have more in common than simply friendship.
The most astonishing thing, however, about the excesses of the Israeli incursions is that the rest of the world has been watching almost in silence and complicity as Israeli soldiers massacre Muslim neighbourhoods. The shameless reality of these incursions is that they are done to protect the few thousand Jewish settlers who have grabbed a quarter of Gaza's land to live in luxury, while imprisoning more than a million Palestinians in ghettos behind barbed wire and encircled by machine gun posts and subject to regular military attack.
In fact this policy has been endorsed by the Americans when Sharon visited Bush in April 2004. At a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister, President Bush blessed Sharon’s disengagement plan and tore up all other agreements by saying it was “unrealistic” for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and for the Palestinian refugees to return to Israel. He continued, “In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centres, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion.”
Sharon’s disengagement plan aims to create numerous enclaves where Palestinians will become prisoners in their own lands. This will be accompanied by Israeli aggression against the Palestinians resulting in extra-judicial killings, assassinations and the slaughter of innocent civilians.
Saeb Erakat from the Palestinian authority correctly described this when he said, “Sharon has decided to enter the endgame against the Palestinians and is using what has happened in New York and Washington as a pretext. He is taking advantage of the fact that no one is watching.”<br>
It is open season for the Western powers to afflict terror and bloodshed on the Muslims, and the weak cries of disapproval from the Muslim rulers are nothing but empty words imprisoning the Muslims to more punishment by endlessly calling the international community and United Nations to intervene.
They continue to bellow these hapless words because they know that no one will intervene as long as the Muslims remain without the Khilafah. It is only the Khilafah state which will pro-actively work to reverse the injustice and hardships that Muslims in Iraq and Palestine currently have to endure, and it is only this state can bring back security and honour to a people who have suffered and are suffering a great torment.
Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they (lived), to one of security and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked. [TMQ:24:55]
Asif Dawood
Samarra is the latest wicked episode of blood-spilling by the Americans in Iraq, and their standard routine for quashing resistance has now become sickeningly familiar; bombing indiscriminately from a distance, firing their way destructively through the heart of civilian areas and then trying to cleanse themselves from blame for the bloodshed by declaring that the people they gunned down were all “bad guys and terrorists”. And as usual this is a lie, because not only do the Americans not know how many civilians they kill, but they are simply not interested in taking provision to avoid it. Abdul-Nasser Hamed Yassin, a hospital administrator in Samarra, confirmed this when he announced that out of the dead there were 51 women and children.
But the Americans are not the only ones hacking and butchering their way through Muslim towns and cities. As the eyes of the world have been distracted by the anarchy and developing crisis in Iraq, Israel has taken the opportunity to mischievously get its dirty work done when no one is watching.
This week their latest expedition has left sixty Palestinians dead, tens of thousands of civilians trapped without electricity or water and the demolition of homes, roads and power lines that typically accompany Israeli assaults. These tactics are aimed at inflicting the maximum hardship and misery on the common people and to ensure that the noose of occupation is tightened firmly round their necks, hoping that eventually their victims will beg them to stop. So it is evident from their merciless occupation of Muslim lands that the Israelis and Americans have more in common than simply friendship.
The most astonishing thing, however, about the excesses of the Israeli incursions is that the rest of the world has been watching almost in silence and complicity as Israeli soldiers massacre Muslim neighbourhoods. The shameless reality of these incursions is that they are done to protect the few thousand Jewish settlers who have grabbed a quarter of Gaza's land to live in luxury, while imprisoning more than a million Palestinians in ghettos behind barbed wire and encircled by machine gun posts and subject to regular military attack.
In fact this policy has been endorsed by the Americans when Sharon visited Bush in April 2004. At a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister, President Bush blessed Sharon’s disengagement plan and tore up all other agreements by saying it was “unrealistic” for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and for the Palestinian refugees to return to Israel. He continued, “In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centres, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion.”
Sharon’s disengagement plan aims to create numerous enclaves where Palestinians will become prisoners in their own lands. This will be accompanied by Israeli aggression against the Palestinians resulting in extra-judicial killings, assassinations and the slaughter of innocent civilians.
Saeb Erakat from the Palestinian authority correctly described this when he said, “Sharon has decided to enter the endgame against the Palestinians and is using what has happened in New York and Washington as a pretext. He is taking advantage of the fact that no one is watching.”<br>
It is open season for the Western powers to afflict terror and bloodshed on the Muslims, and the weak cries of disapproval from the Muslim rulers are nothing but empty words imprisoning the Muslims to more punishment by endlessly calling the international community and United Nations to intervene.
They continue to bellow these hapless words because they know that no one will intervene as long as the Muslims remain without the Khilafah. It is only the Khilafah state which will pro-actively work to reverse the injustice and hardships that Muslims in Iraq and Palestine currently have to endure, and it is only this state can bring back security and honour to a people who have suffered and are suffering a great torment.
Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they (lived), to one of security and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked. [TMQ:24:55]
Asif Dawood
