Israel Vs Hamas or Jews Vs Muslims: Lalit k kaul

 Israel Vs. Hamas or Muslims Vs. Jews                                                 

      Lalit K Kaul

No Muslim country has condemned the barbarism of Hamas inflicted upon unsuspecting Jews who were busy celebrating their auspicious day and partying with friends and relatives. No Muslim leader- religious and political- in India has condemned Hamas for its barbaric acts. But that's not a surprise as they never condemn loot, arson and rape carried out by Muslim mobs against non-Muslims and on the other hand blame RSS and other Hindu outfits for Muslim mobs' uncivilized acts; till date none of them have condemned what Muslims did to Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir.

On the contrary the entire Muslim world is busy doing chest/breast beating against the response of Israeli forces to the barbaric acts of Hamas! And all want Israel to stop doing what they have termed as inhuman acts of the State of Israel! No surprise this because non-Muslim lives don't matter for them and that's an inseparable part of their ideology- political, social and religious.

Allah O Akbar:

It's outrageous to hear Hamas screaming Allah O Akbar while carrying out uncivilized acts against Israelis. But, what does it mean? It means that Allah has sanctioned them their barbaric acts and that they are doing such acts in His name- the One who is all beneficent and all knower! This is the ideology that no individual Muslim, a group and/or a Muslim Nation dare criticize because any act done in the name of Allah is beyond reproach. It also means that kidnapping non-Muslim men, women and children is allowed; disfiguring their women and girls is allowed and that shooting down them all is allowed. And, that's what Hamas did on that fateful day. And, that's what Muslims’ leadership in Kashmir planned to do what they did to Kashmiri Pandit community while screaming Allah O Akbar!

The BBC:

The BBC has defined Hamas as “militants" and has categorically stated that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. The British PM is outraged. But BBC is very correct. The organizations like Al- Qaida, ISIS, LET, HM, JUD including Hamas and Hezbollah and others are not terrorist groups as they all are motivated/governed by the ideology that sanctions them their acts. That's why they call themselves as “Mujahidin"- fighting for the “cause of Allah” and remain in the “path of Allah". To label them as terrorists is the biggest travesty of Truth. Therefore, what was done to Israelis by Hamas and to Pandit community by Muslims was done by “Mujahidin” who are ever dedicated to Allah and His Command.

And if a Nation State has to meet with their challenge and defeat them in their design then they need be considered as Mujahidin (motivated by dictates of Allah) and not as terrorists; accepting them as Mujahidin and then planning a strategy to neutralize them may lead to striking at their very ideology whereas declaring them as terrorists detaches them from their ideology and are liquidated as one would any dacoit or anti-social elements like underworld Dons and their gangs.

The Treachery:

In fact, one can find similarities between modus-operandi of Hamas and Kashmiri Muslims’ leadership (with covert support from other Muslim leadership outside Kashmir in India and Gulf countries). While, as per the treaty, Israel was busy helping Palestinians in building up their economy and other infrastructure and had signed peace treaties with three Gulf countries, the Palestinians (who had elected Hamas to run the government in Gaza Strip) were all along busy planning the attack on unsuspecting Israel and, rest assured, in this scheming the other Muslim countries must have been a party to. It needs to be remembered that Gaza Strip is dependent on Israel for electricity, water and food items.

In Kashmir too, while Jihad was being planned against the Kashmiri Pandit community for nearly two decades, the un-suspecting community was not given any inkling about their designs and it was only in 1986 that a sample of what was going to come was served on a plate to the Pandit community.  

Protests all over Europe and UK including the US and Pakistan:

Muslims are protesting against the response of Israel to the barbarism of Hamas. Most of them are refugees who fled their own Muslim country because of their persecution in there and/ or political turmoil and who were allowed to enter Europe. When they arrived, they were emaciated and half naked. Europe and UK gave them shelter and employment. Now, they have been demanding rule by Sharia and have become huge threat to demography in the countries which accommodated them. They are destroying local infrastructure and shooting at natives. Why? Because when it comes to be in the “path of Allah” they all unite. No word against Hamas; only chest/breast beating and portraying themselves as victims of Zionism!

Pakistan which is in a state of chaos- politically, socially and economically- has witnessed huge rallies conducted by Fazal Ur Rahman! He has given a call to Muslims all over the world to unite against Zionists! He, like our own politicians, may be doing it for the sake of garnering votes of Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan and TTP and all others who continue to be in the “way of Allah".

 In our own country, the AMU showed solidarity for Hamas by shouting Allah O Akbar in the university campus! Now, Jamia Milia Islamia and JNU including Half Muslims (for the sake of votes as elections in many states are approaching) will join them and the likes of Asaddudin Owaisi Mamtas et al will do chest/breast beating for Hamas.

Israel-Palestine Conflict:

To Hezbollah and Palestinians, two State solution is acceptable, but not to Hamas. No issues as Hamas are entitled to its take. Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel, whereas Hezbollah and Palestinians do. So, if the aim of Hamas is to vanquish State of Israel, then it as an organization should have the wherewithal to engage State of Israel in a direct war and not inflict barbarities on Israeli people. Why don't Hamas engage State of Israel in a direct war?

Their ideology binds them to conduct as many raids as possible; capture men, women and children; preferably capture girls and women and slaughter men and boys; loot the area and fetch some valuables; all this must go on until they gather enough resources-men and material- to wage a direct war. Remember what Baghdadi’s ISIS did to Yezidi women and girls and how it amassed wealth to sustain its Jihad against the dispensation that he declared as not following the “Law of Allah". But unfortunately for Hamas they are up against Israel (Jews) and Hamas know that it is no match to the State of Israel.

Enthroning a Khalifa:

The Hamas Chief who has been staying in Qatar and directing his outfit on the ongoing conflict, his son made a public statement, “It's not about rights of Palestinians but about enthroning Khalifa in the region, to start with". Turkey's President becomes Hamas' natural ally as he too has been dreaming of becoming a Khalifa. Pakistan- ally of Turkey- and an Islamic State cannot remain isolated, having failed on all fronts domestically- it may see some hope in the emerging chaos. The Indian Muslim leadership will remain in synch with them because in undivided India they led Khilafat Movement and succeeded in creating pious place for Muslims; those who created Pakistan stayed back to keep the agenda alive. They have been giving enough signals to that effect, since some decades now and of late have become vociferous as was clear in anti-CAA hooliganism and the videos of Moulvis and Maulanas that accompanied it and which openly gave calls for digging graves for Hindu Kafirs accompanied with slogans like Pakistan Zindabad and AMU, Jamia Milia Islamia and JNU led it from the front supporting the calls for blocking Chicken Neck and separating the N-E from India. So, the threat is serious.

What's the basis of this Israel-Hamas relationship?

The fundamental ideology is hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims. And this is beyond debate as History is and has been a witness to it. Br it a Khalifa rule, Muslim King's rule in India and Islamic States post World War II; all have been intolerant towards non-Muslims. Pakistan is a contemporary and living example of this hatred. The non-Muslims in Muslim dominated areas in our own country experience this hatred; above all Kashmir is the witness to it. Till date I have not been able to find any reason other than hatred and intolerance that motivated Muslims in Kashmir to throw out Pandits out of the Valley lock, stock and barrel. Because if their movement was against the accession of J & K to India, how possibly could a less than 3% population have come in their way? The aim was not only to further balkanize India, but also to have Kashmir as an Islamic State and in an Islamic State the non-Muslims have no place. They have only two options: convert or get beheaded. And how meticulously Kashmir has been converted in to an Islamic State wherein bullets await any Pandit who may wish to return to the place where he/she once lived.

This is what has been happening in Pakistan and until few years ago it was the case in any other Islamic country. As far as I understand, Iraq and Oman were the only exceptions to this rule.

So, Jews have no right to live is the thesis. A Jewish State cannot be amidst the countries of Believers. So, dehumanize Jews as much as any organization or Islamic country can do. Seek peace to regroup and strike once again and then again and then again ad-infinitum. As far as my understanding of Kashmiri Muslim politics is concerned, I consider the present phase as that of consolidation and regrouping and accumulation of resources to once again wage war against “Kafir" Indian State and this may happen 15 years hence.

Everybody talks of the Holocaust; writes commentaries on it and debates it to remind Germans of their war crimes. But nobody asks: What happened to the three Jewish tribes in Madina? Only recently, the PM of Israel asked Arabs as to what had happened to the Jews in Arabia? So, that's the history backed by a very effective ideology that sustains hatred and intolerance against non-Muslims. The speeches of Akbaruddin Owaisi, for example, is a good sample to characterize their mind-set.

On a Closing Note:

Let no Muslim forget that the then leader of Arab League (who became first King of Saudi Arabia) and the Chairman of Zionist movement mutually signed the agreement for the creation of Israel. And, the then President of US put a final stamp (signature) on it and wrote “State of Israel" striking off Palestine and the leader of Arab League was a witness to that historical moment.