In today’s wars, every battle has two fronts. The first being the military battle field, where the key elements are soldiers, weaponry and ammunition and the other is the public opinion.
For example, the United States attacked Iraq and Afghanistan to extract free oil and minerals and have a closer look at the soon to be dominant power in the west Asia region Iran under the pretext of fighting terrorism. They managed to get millions killed in the process and achieved nothing except having its fake democracy spreading image ruined leaving behind new war crime/freedom erasing ideas in the contemporary world.
United States Created and armed ISIS, as former president Donald Trump puts it, and got many other regional and non-regional governments to support it logistically and after seeing it fail and defeated in the hands of the Iranian hero Major General Soleimani, took revenge and assassinated him during his official visit to Iraq post-ISIS dismantlement and got to denounce him as a terrorist, and their allies followed.
The country has thus repeatedly lost the public opinion but bounced back every time by taking advantage of Hollywood, mainstream media, fading power of dollar and corruption/fear/weakness/greed of other world leaders and highly correlated economies.
In the case of Israel and Palestine it is different. There is a battle ground where you have Hamas and its military forces on one side, and on the other, where you logically expect to see the Israeli occupiers, you see no one because they are out there flying over Gaza strip bombing the homes and hospitals and basically everywhere they can best wipe most civilians off the ground.
While Hamas forces are mobilising under and over-ground to open a front and fight against the occupying enemies, the occupiers cowardly air strike schools, mosques and most importantly the hospitals.
Meanwhile, you can hear here and there that the genocidal Israelites say Hamas is using the disturbing images which are from other wars (even though being an indirect work of Israel, every war crime and genocide in the world roots back to Israel) as propaganda to victimise itself!
The Zionist regime bomb Hospitals in Gaza – as I’m writing this – with all the injured people in it and call it Hamas self-destructive propaganda! So far, according to cpj.org “committee to Protect Journalists” at least 39 journalists and media workers and reporters have been killed during massive Israel bombings over the Gaza strip.
Some of them have ripped off their Press vests and helmets as it serves nothing to their life protection as Israelites shoot anything that is human. So, if it is “Hamastdios”, why not keeping the remaining press alive and broadcast their live/recorded footages?
Unlike the former, to the second front of this “genocide, not-war”, which is the public opinion, there is a major difference. This time we are witnessing a huge eye-opening change in the public opinion. Although the true narration of what is going on in Gaza is being suppressed and silenced under heavy bombardments, blood and smoke, we are witnessing followed up cease fire demanding rallies in world’s major capitals.
Till before historical October 7 the world had forgotten the misery of Palestinian people as Arab leaders who were their supposed to be supporters, were finding their peace with the Zionists. Not only the right to self-determination for people of Gaza was fading away, others were generously offering the occupiers a privileged two-state solution.
But the amount of children’s blood spilled on the streets and hospitals of Gaza since October 7, shook the world. No one in their human state of mind can witness the gruesome actions of an infamous regime against a small population of defenseless civilians and stay quiet.
The unprecedented genocide that Israel inflicted against the defenseless men, children and women of Palestine made it impossible to legitimise their actions under the alibi of self-defense against alleged “Hamas terrorism”. The outcome of the war in that front is already defined.
Palestine won the public opinion, even though at the cost of near 5000 innocent children – among a total chilling number of 11000 bodies – who were supposed to have a normal life a head of them, but won. The world is restless and hates Israel, no amount of Semitism/anti-Semitism sugar-coating can reverse this hatred and nothing can fix this humiliating loss.
Addressing some of the envoys of that beyond-apartheid illegal regime around the world who claim in self-righteousness that Hamas is an entity you cannot reason with, one must ask what kind of reason? Is it the “I kill your family members and relatives, kick you out of your home, overtake your land, get away with it under support of allied colonial world leaders and you should take it, move on or I kill your people even more” kind of reason? How dare any one victimises Israel and blames Hamas? What are we blaming them for? Blame them for retaliating slaughter of their loved ones in previous Zionist raids? for standing their ground to the last drop of their blood? What happened to us to think that way? What treaty did they violate? When did they consent to occupation? Keep talking about a two-state solution, why would Palestinian people give away their home land to the occupiers? They say Hamas attacked civilians. First of all, we don’t recognise any civilians in the occupied territories.
They are armed ex/current military personnel who are settled nearby. The whole Zionist regime is a military complex with some “not belonging there” working class who were brought from across the world to fill the societal gaps and to make the brutally occupied and delusive “promised land” look like a humanly established colony.
Then I don’t call it hostages. I simply call it arrest and capturing illegal immigrants and trespassers. Did they acquire permission from the Palestinians before entering Palestine? Secondly, there is a huge and serious argument that the footage of allegedly Hamas attacks against civilians is staged by the Netanyahu’s loyal henchmen whose administration is destined to fall apart due to uncoverable corruption, to use it as a decoy, a uniting cement to a dismantling regime and to justify the genocide against Hamas.
My advice is: never trust ongoing genocide affiliates. Join the free souls of the world in support of Palestine and be a part to ending the genocide. The seven-decade old spider nest is breaking down.
By DR Mohammad Mardani
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The writer is the Political Attache, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Accra
