By Zabih Ullah Khattak (Pakistan)
Attack of Oct 7 revealed certain hidden facts about the US_Europe. The Balfour declaration was a first thaw in the Israel Palestine conflict. The British declared a minority of Jewish population to settle in Palestine. The illicit and hegemonic act was getting flames with time and bulks of Jews were migrated to Palestine. The trench was digging even a deeper level.
Early 1950, the Jews were inherently powerful and embarked on a very retrogressive approach via dealing with the indigenous of Palestine. In 1948, first Israel genocide was enacted forcing millions of Palestinian to flee their homes. The tenuous act of Israel was a litmus test for the Muslim world especially for the Arab nations but a lackluster response being paid by the Muslim world adhered Israel to kick off such attacks fearlessly. Their confidence was garnered and paved the way to deal Palestinian barbarism and atrocity. Owing to the past event, Israel’s unequivocal attack being launched in 1967 causing unfathomable destruction of Palestine vis-à-vis this time Arab nations too were the victims of that war. The feeble and cowardice response from the Muslim world enhanced the mightiness of Israel. Alongside some big wars, every passing day skirmishes were/are reporting from the watershed land of Palestine.
A recent Hamas attack on Israeli civil-military settlements is the acute response to the humanized acts being upended on the Palestinians for 70 years. Although civilians of all faiths must not be affected by the militia, the brunt of war would be felt by those who are backing a barbaric government.
Since the war was waged, thousands of Palestinians have succumbed to death and hundreds of thousands are under the rubble of razed buildings. Humanitarian aid is being barred; perpetual heinous air raids are launched. The voiceless Palestinian is paying an enormous amount of lives to the war being slewed across the Palestinian. They are hard pressed to accept themselves a minority and align to their own land being inherited to them for millennia.
Odd to the above inhuman acts being resumed for decades, US-Europe, a staunch believer of human rights and echoing sounds for anything contrary to their self made human rights mantra is unanimously denigrated and denounced. In extent, they are not shy away from being directly indulged in a war dissimilar to their values. A recent Russian invasion on Ukraine uncovered their vicious and biased approach to two similar wars being continued in Russia and Israel respectively.
Moreover, Us-Europe closely observes the human rights situation in remote areas like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, China and other countries which are not following their tenets.
Their ambiguousness can be mitigated from the fact that they are reluctant to prop-up women rights and denouncing feeble cases of human rights violation but alongside that thousands of lives are burning in the atrocious flames being fanned by their close ally is not only ignored but also backing the abject of Israel with amusement being taking from the ground.
The dual standard of the human rights champion is no more believing in congressional speech and the civil rights supporters are cautious now to reconcile the biases of them. Voices are emanating from diverse groups against the unlawful acts being engendered by the Israeli government and largely impacting the political landscapes of US-Europe. As several electioneering bodies are about to embark on at different avenues like US, UK and other European countries, the public are quickly shipping aside from their fore political allegiance. A recent pre poll survey in the US shows a drastic depletion of pro Biden stances that is a worrisome harbinger for the Democrats.
Hence forth, the Arabs selfish and cowardice response deduced that they are relentlessly impacted by the dependency being placated with the Us-West. Moreover, they are wrapping up their own sides to weather the storm which is an unrelieved approach during war and they would be overlapped by the war if it is being waged around them.
A holistic and universally humanized approach should relegate to the Israel-Palestine conflict and arbitrarily roles should play before the fire slews to the next door neighbors.
Zabih Ullah is from KPK Pakistan. He is a visiting lecturer of Political Science at Post graduate College Karak and writes about current affairs.
