Grave hour for Muslims & not just Palestinians

Whole world has seen on television screens that Israel has militarily pounded on the smaller and poorer Palestine and during the last 3 days somewhat 30 people are reportedly killed while 200+are injured as Israel jets have bombarded Gaza and other cities. Very unfortunately none but Palestine military commander has been killed along with his men when his car was targeted 3 days back by Israel air force bomber and since then Israel has embarked upon inflicting much more damage to Palestinians who are neither that armed and equipped as Israel nor they are even near to them in numbers for sure and as a consequence of such imbalance between the two belligerent parties eventually the weaker (Palestine) goes to wall.

Israel certainly has much more attacking power than its opponent which itself is sufficient enough to attack Palestine which has little counter attack capabilities but still look at the aggressive or more correctly barbaric mentality and approach of Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel who yesterday had initially thought of calling back as many as 30,000 reserve troops to join and augment the combating force which, as such, had outnumbered Palestine force in any case but now the figure of reserves has jumped to 70,000 instead. In addition to the likely ground attack which is very much imminent in any case, its air bombardment which is being carried out on almost 24 hours basis without any lull in between for the last 3 days has already created havoc on Palestine side and innumerous colossal damage has already been inflicted on the poor Muslims. Thousands of people including old, young and children and women have been rendered homeless and under the given alarming and grimed situation they are obliged to take shelter in safer places. Countless residential buildings in particular and others in general have been lit with fire while many other buildings have been raised to ground as well either totally or partially as the case may be. The household effects of the residents have been completely destroyed whereas in some areas there is no electricity either and this all paints very heart breaking picture indeed. People who have been killed were buried and those who carried the coffins and those who joined the funeral procession were in tears which did not stop despite all the possible efforts to contain them. Newspapers and television screens are telling us what is going on and what will be the case in days to come but perhaps we the Muslims are reduced to be just spectators with no concern whatsoever except giving statements only.

Yesterday Egypt PM was very much there to witness himself as to what is the ground reality but to me just visit was neither needed nor it helped Palestinians in any case so why did he trip is my question? Egypt has called back its ambassador from Tel Avive but this has nothing to with the Israeli pounding which is increasing as the time passes on so diplomatically it can be recognized that Egypt has shown its anger but nothing beyond that. I have also read in the newspapers that Egypt President phoned Pakistan Prime Minister yesterday and discussed the present hostility between Israel and Palestine but the question is how did such conversation change the ground realities? What had happened had Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister not gone to Gaza yesterday? What punitive relief Palestine has received when Egyptian President phoned to my PM? Many western world leaders have already sided through their statements, interviews and commentaries with Israel and saying the same what Israel says that Palestine is ending rockets into Israel so in retaliation only to such attacks Israel has attacked Palestine and not otherwise. Needless to mention it was 2008 when Israel has attacked Palestine and around 1,500 Palestinians were killed while even less than 60 Israelis were killed means that hundreds of Muslims were killed during those days and we Muslims just kept on condemning the naked attack of Israel but nothing beyond that and I have my very serious doubts that nothing will change now as well.

Muslim countries including my beloved Pakistan must wake up from the somber sleep and realize the hard fact that only meetings, conferences and condemnation will never ever solve the problem and we shall have to show our deterrence force to keep Israel at bay if we are serious in our approach and not otherwise. Palestine whether one likes it or not will never ever be even nearing to 50% of Israel in terms of military power and hence for one reason or the other Israel will keep on hitting Palestine as its own sweet will and pleasure so we must come to some final conclusion and that is that either we want to save Palestine or leave it to its own to continue being hammered alike but nothing in between whatsoever.

I do not wish it so but yet have a feeling that either late today or tomorrow Israel will attack very blatantly inflicting untold damage to the already torn apart Palestine because US President Obama has already announced some hours before that Palestine must not shoot artillery attacks on Israel which means that he has put the blame on Palestine and this will give boost to them to become still the more aggressive. USA has always matted Israel against Palestine and it is next to impossible for it to change its stance and this demands that many Muslim countries if not all the Muslim countries must join hands to support Palestine both with cash and military hardware and troops so that it serves as deterrence for Israel to attack its neighbor and unless and until it is done alike I have no hopes that Palestine can be a peaceful country even in next century what to talk of the present century.

Let us rise to the ground realities of the grave hour unless we prefer grave over life.