Ali Hammuda – Palestine Reimagined #06 They Predict Tomorrow
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The interviewer discusses the importance of the Prophet Muhammad sall campaigns in settling for peace with the state and addresses the Israeli entity's fear of survival and political future. They criticize the current Israeli government for its actions and call for a moral justification for settler colonialism. The speaker also touches on the upcoming expiration of Israeli seventyth anniversary, the conflict between religion, religion, and culture, and the need for peace negotiations. Additionally, they mention a former Israeli Prime Minister expressing concern about the state collapse and calls for a moral justification for settler colonialism.
AI: Summary ©
Won't you tell me about the wonders that
you saw in the land of Abu Simiyan?
This was the question which the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam asked a group of companions
who had just returned to Medina from the
land of Abyssinia.
One of them responded with a remarkable story
and he said yes indeed, O Messenger of
Allah.
While we were sitting one day
an old nun belonging to the religious class
passed by carrying a vessel of water over
her head.
A young man crept up from behind he
placed one of his hands between her shoulder
blades, and he shoved her causing her to
fall to her knees, which also caused the
vessel to shatter.
So she stood up,
she turned towards him and uttered these incredible
words
She said to himself
She said, O treacherous one,
you shall come to learn
on that day
when Allah sets the footstool
And He gathers the first and the last
of creation
And their hands and the feet
speak
about what they earned.
For Surfata'alamu
kayfa'amriuwamruqa'indahuw
Ghadan. On that day you will know how
the matter between you and I will be
settled. You Allah.
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was moved when
he heard these words and he said,
She spoke the truth, he said she spoke
the truth.
How can Allah
sanctify a nation that does not take the
side of the weak, against the strong? He
said.
Many words are now associated with the Zionist
project.
Due to crimes that were connected to it
from its very
inception
Till the most recent atrocities in Palestine and
perhaps in the events that I'm sure will
follow in the future
Terms such as genocide or ethnic cleansing,
discrimination,
chemical weapons, depleted uranium,
Blockade,
collective punishment, apartheid, displacement and so on
So naturally this leads us to ask the
very same question which the Prophet
asked in the story that you just heard.
How can Allah sanctify a nation?
That does not take the side of the
weak against the strong.
Now in terms of the context of Palestine,
Muslims don't need to answer that question, that
prophetic question.
Because it seems that Zionists themselves are now
realizing a common answer.
The Israeli entity suffers from the chronic complex
of fear for survival that is reflected in
its public discourse of its intellectuals and journalists
and academics and thinkers.
And in the speeches even of its prime
ministers. It's such a rare situation
as you
hardly find a country in the world
that discusses the idea of its survival or
its continuity
A leader or a party may lose power
The state may change from one regime to
another.
But it does not cross the minds of
its elite or the minds of the citizens
that the people,
the country,
the state are subject to extinction
But with the Israeli entity
matters are very different.
Allow me to demonstrate this
Consider the perspective of Benny Morris, a professor
of history in the Middle East Studies department
of Ben Gurion University
in Israel.
He boldly stated in an interview
that a situation in which we rule an
occupied people that have no rights cannot persist
in the 21st
century,
in the modern world.
And as soon as they do have rights,
meaning the Arabs,
the state
will no longer be Jewish.
They, the Arabs, have no reason to give
in because the Jewish state can't last, he
said. They are bound to win. In another
30 to 50
years they will overcome us,
come what may.
Now just like Morris, you've got Abraham Berg,
a former speaker of Israel's Knesset from 1999
to 2003, and a former chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Israel. And he also deems
the current Israeli state to be facing an
imminent
collapse. Berg had the following to say in
a provocative
opinion
titled the end of Zionism. He said note
this moment very well,
Zionism's
superstructure is already collapsing like a cheap Jerusalem
wedding hall, only madmen continue dancing on the
top floor
while the pillars below are collapsing. Moving on
to an article in the Israeli newspaper, Yedi'ud
Aranot.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
expressed fears that Israel's imminent demise would come
before its 80th anniversary.
He said throughout Jewish history
The Jews have not had a state for
more than 80 years except in 2 periods.
The period of King David and the period
of Hasmone.
Both of which mark the beginning of its
disintegration in the 8th decade.
And then he added that the current experience
of the Jewish Zionist state was the third.
And was now in its 8th decade as
well, And he feared that the curse of
the 8th decade would descend upon it, as
it had descended on the previous one.
Ehud Barak also pointed out that
they are not the only ones who are
afflicted by the curse of the 8th decade.
He said America broke out in civil war
in its 8th decade.
Italy turned into a fascist state in its
8th decade. Germany turned into a Nazi state
in its 8th decade and was the cause
of its defeat and division.
And in the 8th decade
of the communist revolution, the Soviet Union disintegrated
and collapsed.
So there you have it.
And then you have the likes of Ilham
Papeh in a recent interview, who is by
the way an Israeli historian. He said that
I think Israel is not just a state.
Israel is a project.
It's a settler colonial project, and I think
we are witnessing the beginning of the end
of this project.
He said it's the only state in the
world that lobbies for its existence,
not for its policies,
not for its better economic performance
But for its very moral justification
He said: It's losing that battle
Then he said that just as a historian
I can tell you that when projects like
settler colonialism are reaching their last phase Unfortunately
they can be
quite a long period.
And it doesn't happen in just 1 or
2 days. And the problem of course is
that they become more brutal
and ruthless.
This sentiment
and skepticism
about the future of the Zionist project amidst
Zionists
themselves is not at all surprising. I
mean for starters you've got the Israeli
FANEMA Research Center publishing its findings in the
Hayom newspaper that 33%
of Israeli youth
are seriously considering immigration from the occupied territories.
While 44%
of them see no future in Israel.
You see, you also have another issue.
You have a non homogeneous group of ethnicities,
cultures, loyalties and ideologies, which find themselves unable
to unite
Even beneath the banner of Judaism.
You have public opinion
that is rapidly shifting in favor of the
Palestinian cause.
You have arrogant behavior
and an utter disregard for the truth, which
is isolating the Zionist project, which in turn
will widen the internal conflict
as a result of holding each other's party
responsible for the chronic failure that Israel
is suffering from.
You have conflicts that are no longer just
between the right
and the left.
They now include disputes between the right,
the extreme right, between the religious and the
secular communities, between the easterners and the westerners.
Between the Ashkenazi
Jews of Europe,
and the Sephardi,
the Eastern Jews,
and the Falasha, the Jews of Ethiopia,
and other sects, and between the Orthodox
Jews,
Zionisms,
or the Zionist Jews, as well as between
the Arabs and the Israelis and
So
with each war that erupts, the discourse about
the future of the state of Israel is
renewed.
But what we've come to realize is that
the main enemy of designers project is not
a supernatural event
But the recklessness of itself.
And in reality no one can assert a
precise date for the end of the occupying
entity.
But many
seem to believe
in the inevitability of this end.
We go back to the question of the
prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Anahu
Wa
Salaam. How can Allah sanctify a nation
that does not take the side of the
weak against the strong?
And indeed
oppression in Palestine
never lives until old age.