Have we forgotten Gaza?

Chris Hedges spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel's murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank. Listen to him and read an excerpt from an article posted earlier in this blog.

On one of those night in Gaza when a child who lived his pithy life under the shadow of unknown terror of evil and he is asking his mother about this evil world with less empathy of reality knowing that her mother will save this extended flesh of her womb and take him out of this mental dilemma of his childhood.
Mother on the other hand has nothing to offer but hope while she is worried about her husband, father or brother maybe who is fighting with just bare stones in their hands and courage in their hearts. She has nothing to say except for what her mother told her when she was a child and she was in this exact state of fear of unknown. She will tell him exactly what the mothers of Palestinian families are telling their children for the last three generations and they still believe that this is true because this is the only glimpse of hope they are sharing for last 50 years or so. She will tell him about a land far away from here and their people who share our pain and anger because they know we are in trouble and they know that we are waiting for them. She is blind with her logic because she doesn’t know anything about this land whether the country still exist or not, she is far away from world media, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News that gives her hope or manipulate her passion of that country. She is blind by the light of her faith and she considers this her responsibility to pass this hope to the next generation like mothers of Palestine are doing the same for last 50 years and now is the time when her son, scared and mystified asking her for hope … and she answers. 

“Don’t worry my son; ALLAH (SWT) is on our side not with the enemy. Soon our brothers from Pakistan, a country far away from here will come and they will fight with our enemies and they will end this war for us … so my son don’t worry and pray to ALLAH (SWT) to send our brothers soon because they will come for sure.”

Tears were coming out of her eyes while talking … and the hope continues …
This is not a self-generated fiction; this was actually narrated to a Pakistani by a Turkish female journalist who dedicated 20 years of her life for this cause and according to her, this is the story of almost every other home in Gaza Strip, West Bank and Jerusalem, as they are waiting not for Arabs, Turks, or some British American task force from UN to help them. They are waiting for the brothers of Pakistan.
For a moment, by knowing this frantic wish from our mothers and being a Pakistani makes me angry not on Israel but on me, my nation, whole muslim Ummah on what we are doing. This is not just one case where Pakistan or people of Pakistan are the center of attraction for the Muslim World where they present us as a real threat to Israeli Zionist or I must say the “center of horror”. You will be amazed to know that Syrian children often threatens their Jewish school, college fellows about Pakistan army and air force that they will come for the ultimate battle and crush you and your illegitimate country under their shoe. Every Syrian knows that Pakistani air force pilots have 100% success rate against Israeli jets, for info read Pakistan forces role in “Six Day War – 1967” and “Yom Kippur War – 1973”. They strive for respect and honor because a brethren country has nuclear bomb which they like to call “Islamic Bomb” because it’s for the protection of Ummah. Whenever Muslim leaders talk about reviving Islam and Caliphate, their plans can’t progress without our country. These are facts, these are the bites of reality which we have failed to realize and even if we do, we have failed to realize their significance.

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