By Jafar M Ramini.


Try as I may to find a good reason why the Arabs/Muslims are so
disinterested and disconnected from the Palestinian struggle I cannot find it.
The answer eludes me.
Ever since the Zionists targeted Palestine in the latter part of the 19th century
they tried, and to a certain extent they succeeded, in recruiting willing
collaborators to their cause from the Arab and Muslim world.
They tried to recruit Sultan Abdul Hamid of the Ottoman Empire, but he turned
them down for fear of alienating the Arab and Muslim world. There is a
plethora of documents that have surfaced in the last fifty years to how
most of the Arab leaders, while raising the Palestinian flag when it suited their
purpose, were actually sympathetic to the Zionist cause if not subservient to it.
I donʼt want to turn your stomach by elaborating on their treachery and
conniving, but one infamous sniveling letter must be given prominence. It was
written by King Abdul Aziz bin Al Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia at the turn
on the last century to Sir Percy Cox:
“I am the Sultan Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud al-Faisal and I
conceded and acknowledged a thousand times to Sir Percy Cox, delegate
of Great Britain, that I have no objection to giving Palestine to the poor
Jews or even to non-Jews, and I will never ever violate their [the UK]
orders.” (from a hand-written letter in Arabic).
Wind forward the last fifty years and every Arabic/Muslim leader you can think
of has stood on a podium and declared his utter commitment to the cause of
liberating Palestine.
Yes, they gave it lip service; yes, they worked up the crowds with rousing
speeches; yes, they advocated support for Palestine in a myriad of books and
publications but they have done absolutely nothing.
What they have done is squandered billions of dollars on obsolete arms that
where never deployed against Israel. But definitely against each other. All of
this has helped to garner support for Israel by its western backers and
sympathizers. They perceive these speeches and rhetoric as an existential
threat to Israel from the collective Arab/Muslim hoards. Israel is seen as a
humble lonely little lamb in a sea of Arab/Muslim wolves. If only.
Please allow me to cast your memory back to the summer of 1969 and one
infamous incident that proves once and for all that what I am saying is solid
fact. That incident was the burning down of Al Aqsa Mosque by a hardened,
Australian Zionist. After which, Mrs. Golda Meir, the then Prime Minister of
Israel said, “I couldnʼt sleep at all last night thinking that the Arab and Muslim
hoards would come at us from every direction and that would be the end of
the State of Israel. When I got up in the morning they were nowhere to be
seen. They are a dormant nation.”
How prophetic this was. The self-induced deep coma continues.
If you look closely at how disconnected the Arab/Muslim world is since the socalled
Arab Spring you will see that their apathy is palpable. Not only that, in
every country where an uprising occurred the Palestinians were made to pay
for just being there. The persecution at the hands of other Arabs and Muslims
in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and now Egypt continues apace.
Perhaps it is true what that other Zionist Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-
Gurion said, that the old will die and the young will forget.
Enough about our Arab and Muslim so called brothers. We are not blameless
in this. Since the creation of the PLO in 1964 we have committed huge
mistakes in the way we conducted the resistance and the way we allowed
others to influence our thinking and our course of action. The result? We
fought a damaging war in Jordan that cost us a vital entry point on the front
line and then we made the same mistakes in Lebanon that caused us to be
expelled to Tunisia.
Now that we have a foothold in Palestine how disconnected is the PA (Fatah)
in the West Bank from Gaza (Hamas)? As if the whole of the country is not
important. What is only important, as far as I can see, are the leaders of
Fatah and Hamas. What is the answer? To be honest, not even looking at
my crystal ball will find me one.
The picture is getting more hazy. The water is murkier. But in all of this
uncertainty there is a glimmer of hope that the international community,
without the Arabs and Muslims, is starting to look at our plight in a different
light and from a different angle. Even that ardent, subservient power to the
Zionists, The United States of America has at last had its conscience pricked
and has said in no uncertain terms that the crimes of the Zionist settlers in
Palestine commit against us are tantamount to terrorism. Itʼs a beginning.
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