Murderous Melodrama: A Sign of Israel’s Frustration Rather Than Serious Military Planning

Let’s look back for a while to recall how the Israeli armed forces astounded the world back in 2010 on 31st May with their brazen brutality like they did several times in recent and past history. The Israeli marines performed better than other instances in this occurrence in 2010 to display how apt they are at spilling blood out of nonviolent events. A flotilla carrying humanitarian relief goods back then meant to help the blockaded, impoverished people across the Gaza Strip was not spared by the war hawks in Jerusalem. Hundreds of trained Israeli naval commandos with sophisticated guns landed on the cargoes, too big a turnout for facing the unarmed aid workers on board who had virtually nothing to resist the heavily equipped assailants. However, the marines opened fire with a deliberate aim to stain the decks with the civilians’ blood for no offense except trying to help the marooned Palestinians in Gaza. The humanitarian voyage turned into a horror trip as Israeli bullets, as insensitive as the Israeli leaders, claimed the lives of 9 relief activists in October 2010 from other countries, specially from Turkey which was at that time known as an ally to the Israeli government. 27 British citizens were also reportedly aboard. Leaders from different states expressed shock and regret over the painful occurrence in its wake, but the Zionist authorities in Jerusalem have been as cool customers as ever. Germany, right after the flotilla carnage, termed it as ‘disproportionate use of force’ but this is what the Israeli forces have been accustomed to since their invasion of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and other occupied regions. Unfortunately, still the term “terrorists” is applied by the west to the Palestinians who have been languishing for decades under the suppressive Israeli usurpation.

Back in 2006 Israeli authorities stained their hands with the blood of innocent Lebanese children, an assault on civilians described by British author Robert Fisk as “a sign of Israel's frustration rather than any serious military planning.” The Lebanese city of Qana came under gruesome Israeli bombings—homes, markets, hospitals nothing was excused in the name of eliminating Hezbollah. It broke the hearts of millions when hundreds of Lebanese kids paid the price with their tender lives taken away by Israeli missiles. Similarly, the Gaza Strip was hammered by the Israeli air force in 2009 mostly killing women and children.  A number of global leaders addressed the necessity of deploying international military forces in Palestine in the UN General Assembly a few days ago to save ordinary civilians from getting killed by the Israeli genocide specialists. Iran is the only country that wants Israel to be prosecuted for inhumanity against the civilians of Palestine. The inactivity and spineless demeanour of most of the Arab countries is more than painful and humiliating. How longer do the global leaders want to remain blindfolded to the murderous melodrama of Israeli army? Since October 2023 over 65 thousand unarmed Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the most cowardly way. A large portion of the genocide victims in Israel includes women and minor children. When the front-ranking countries keep mum over Israeli occupation, at times it sparks off fury among the Palestinians and when a restaurant or night club blows up in Tel Aviv or somewhere else, who should bear the liability in true sense? When the World Trade Center in New York collapsed killing thousands of people, bomb attacks slew civilians on London tube rail—all eyes turned to the territorial disputes fostered and sustained by Israel.

By shooting the aid workers on the ships carrying humanitarian goods back in 2010 for the stranded Palestinians, Israel swivelled their guns towards the international communities, to humanism as a whole, to the peace-lovers of all nations, not just the Muslims. Among the boarders of the cargos was Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, the celebrated Northern Irish peace activist but her presence also failed to prevent the gunfires from Israeli marines. Israel’s war on the Palestinian Muslims has now put on the grim visage of a war on the entire world’s peace-loving masses. The United Nations received so much applause for isolating East Timor from Indonesia when ethnic violence broke out there, the same thing was implemented by the UN in case of Sudan too, but why the same initiatives cannot be undertaken to liberate Palestinians—may we have an answer to that? Or do we have to speak like former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who commented about Israel, “All these acts indicate the end of the heinous and fake regime and will bring it closer to the end of its existence” The global guardians have been mute over Israeli atrocities committing a much bigger offence which cannot go unpunished. Everyone should remember there is an inescapable retribution called “Divine Justice” which spares no offenders.  

An undeniable reality of today’s world is that the global leaders cannot succeed with the peace process in any country unless they first curb the indiscreet incursions by Israel on Palestinians. Most of the areas of the world where peace is imperiled have the roots of their hazards lying underneath the Palestine issue.

 
Mahfuz Ul Hasib Chowdhury
is a contributor to different
English newspapers 
and magazines.