Palestine Reimagined #06 They Predict Tomorrow

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

never lives until old age.

never lives until old age.