Through The Glass Darkly

[Ace Hanlon]

Gaza Massacre: Enough is Enough
Posted: 2008/12/28


So long as Arab leaders are fearful for their lives and their royal lifestyles, Israel will continue to murder at will and so long Arabs like myself fail to put their leaders to account no Arab is safe and time will come where all of us in the region are under the full mercy of Israel.




by Ruharo Sadick

If there were any lessons from the 2006 Hezbollah strong showing against the Zionist state, it would have been that the nation state of Israel is not invincible. The bloodbath being perpetrated by Israel as I write this should not be seen as a sign of strength but rather the confirmation that Israel is good at picking easy targets and its miserable failure to dismantle Hezbollah speaks volumes.

Just looking at the map of Israel and you would know that Hamas cannot and would not be able to defend itself against Israel as Gaza is fully surrounded by Israel and where Gaza is bordering Egypt, Egypt is also practicing blockades as Israel wishes. Clearly Israel is fighting against an undersupplied group of fighters and thus manage to appear ever more powerful.

To hear Mahmood Abbas blame Hamas for the Israeli bombardment and its massacre of Palestinian children is shocking. Add to the fact that the Arab league is yet to even meet is a reaffirmation that the shoe shouldn’t have been thrown at Bush and rather at the Arab league headed by Egypt.

So long as Arab leaders are fearful for their lives and their royal lifestyles, Israel will continue to murder at will and so long Arabs like myself fail to put their leaders to account no Arab is safe and time will come where all of us in the region are under the full mercy of Israel.

Deducing from what Hezbollah managed to achieve in 2006, it is easy to see that all that is required is for Arab leaders to declare war on Israel and Israel would be put to check. That being a distant dream, then the only other alternative is for every Arab and indeed Muslim to take their nationalistic and religious duties to bear and fight against their own leaders in order to clear the ranks.

The situation where Israel can, at will, kill and destroy without any consequence is not only dangerous for Hamas but for all of us. Israel understands only power and Hezbollah stinging rockets will stand evidence to that fact for a long time to come. The truth is that Hezbollah did manage to defeat Israel despite the disproportionately in military might and if the 10,000 men group could achieve it the 200 million or so Arabs could do it with much more ease. All that is required is to declare war.

Today’s wars are mainly decided by rockets and one can only imagine where would Israel be when rockets rain in from every angle of the Arab world. If they have powerful jets, rockets are more than capable of providing a painful blow to Israel to counter them. If they have nuclear weapons, biological weapons are more than capable of bringing Tel Aviv to its knees.

To see Israeli officials kill and essentially bragging as they are committing these crimes while Arab leaders are watching in deafening silence leaves only one option. Arabs as a people must take a stance and if it means death and destruction then be it, we are already living under death and destruction. To put it in Israel’s foreign minister’s words, “Enough is Enough”