Mohammad Qutub – One Year Since the Flood – Oct. 7

Mohammad Qutub
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The Israeli occupation has been a year since the attack on Israeli civilian deaths, killing thousands of people and injuring them. The killing and crimes are a serious and growing crisis, and the Israeli Israeli community is focused on protecting its citizens and protecting its neighbors. The community is focused on protecting its citizens and neighbors, but they are also focused on protecting its citizens and neighbors.

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			It has been a year since Hamas attacked
		
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			Israel on October 7th.
		
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			Ever since then, the Israeli occupation has prosecuted
		
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			horrific genocide against the Palestinian people, killing almost
		
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			42,000 incredible human beings and injuring and
		
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			maiming almost 100,000.
		
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			These being just the official numbers, however, and
		
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			the killing and the crimes continue.
		
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			A year later, there is no sign of
		
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			the killing and the destruction abating.
		
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			In fact, it's only getting worse as Israel
		
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			has now expanded its killing and its crimes
		
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			to Lebanon, killing many innocents.
		
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			But this is what happens when you give
		
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			Israel free reign, when you give these war
		
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			criminals the impunity to continue their crimes as
		
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			the globe watches on.
		
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			There are several points and key takeaways from
		
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			this past year.
		
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			Number one, that the real death toll is
		
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			much higher.
		
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			This is a gross underestimate and anyone with
		
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			experience understands this.
		
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			This is why a few months ago, a
		
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			group of 45 American physicians, surgeons, nurses, health
		
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			practitioners wrote an open letter to the Biden
		
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			administration pleading with them to stop arming Israel
		
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			and to stop the killing because they estimated
		
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			that the death toll was closer to 92
		
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			,000.
		
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			That is double the number that everyone hears
		
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			about today.
		
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			It seems that the same group then, albeit
		
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			almost double the size now, 99 of these
		
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			American physicians, surgeons, and nurses wrote another letter
		
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			just a few days ago to the Biden
		
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			administration, again pleading with them to stop arming
		
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			Israel and to stop this genocide because the
		
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			number was now approaching 119,000 human beings.
		
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			This is the real death toll.
		
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			In fact, an article in the world-renowned
		
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			medical journal, The Lancet, mentioned that if you
		
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			count the indirect deaths, those not just due
		
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			to the but rather to the adverse health
		
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			implications of the genocide that is happening in
		
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			Gaza, that the number may rise to 186
		
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			,000 deaths.
		
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			All of this because some 1140 or 43
		
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			people were killed in Israel on October 7th,
		
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			one-third of which were Israeli military personnel.
		
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			And many of which were actually killed by
		
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			the Israelis themselves.
		
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			This year has also done so much to
		
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			profoundly expose the capacity of the Israeli propaganda
		
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			machine to manufacture lies and fabricated stories, especially
		
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			about what happened on October 7th.
		
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			We all heard about the 40 decapitated babies,
		
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			others burnt alive.
		
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			We heard about the mass * and the
		
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			atrocities, all of which turned out to be
		
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			false, conceded by some Israeli investigative reporters and
		
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			journalists themselves.
		
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			And of course, what it does point to
		
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			is that they are doing a lot of
		
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			projection.
		
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			All of those accusations are actually projections of
		
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			the kind of crimes that they themselves were
		
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			committing, whether it is the *.
		
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			We heard about the * of Palestinian prisoners.
		
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			We also heard about them admitting to using
		
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			Palestinians as human shields, because of course their
		
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			lives are so much more valuable than Palestinian
		
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			lives, which is very clear when you look
		
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			at the ratio of those killed on the
		
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			Palestinian side as opposed to the Israeli side.
		
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			So they use them as human shields, even
		
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			though this is the constant refrain by Israel
		
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			that Hamas is using the innocent civilians as
		
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			human shields.
		
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			And we all heard the horrendous lies about
		
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			the treatment of the Israeli hostages under Hamas.
		
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			And we all saw, whenever there was a
		
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			hostage exchange deal, we all saw the kind
		
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			of treatment that was meted out to those
		
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			hostages, the smiles and the farewells.
		
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			And of course, there were interviews and press
		
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			conferences where the hostages spoke honestly about the
		
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			good treatment that they received, after which the
		
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			propaganda machine had to immediately act, lest more
		
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			and more confessions would expose their lives.
		
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			And as much as this has been a
		
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			year of pain and suffering of so many
		
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			innocents at the hand of Israeli state terrorism,
		
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			it has been a year where so many
		
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			people have come to realize and understand the
		
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			truth, where so many people have come out
		
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			to protest, to show their anger about these
		
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			war crimes, and that Israel must be stopped
		
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			immediately.
		
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			It has been a year where people have
		
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			started searching for the reasons behind the incredible
		
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			patience and resilience of the Palestinian people in
		
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			Gaza and in the West Bank and elsewhere,
		
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			in the face of these crimes, losing their
		
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			loved ones, their fathers and mothers and children,
		
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			some people losing their whole family.
		
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			People started searching what must be the reason,
		
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			what could be behind such resilience?
		
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			So people started looking into their faith, because
		
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			many of them are Muslim.
		
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			So many people went to the Quran and
		
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			started reading the Quran, and people started accepting
		
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			Islam in droves after doing so.
		
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			In this year, we witnessed the historic decision
		
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			by the International Court of Justice to the
		
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			case brought by South Africa, which found that
		
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			Israel is possibly committing a genocide, a decision
		
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			many people didn't expect, yet did little to
		
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			stop the Israeli war crimes.
		
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			And while looking on, we may feel in
		
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			despair, we may feel hopeless, especially when we
		
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			find that so many of the world's influential
		
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			and powerful are complicit in these Israeli crimes.
		
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			But this year has shown us the importance
		
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			of people coming to realize the extent of
		
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			criminality of the Israeli apartheid regime, and the
		
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			barbaric Zionist mentality that dehumanizes others, especially the
		
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			Palestinians, labeling them as animals and other vermin,
		
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			mocking them about their agony and suffering, and
		
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			teaching and passing on this venom to their
		
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			children.
		
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			This year has made it abundantly clear that
		
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			this is a threat not only to Palestinians
		
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			and Arabs, but to all free and peace
		
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			-loving people, and that Israel and its supporters
		
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			are becoming more and more isolated and despised
		
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			on the world stage, and that we must
		
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			do more, not less, to continue to expose
		
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			these crimes.
		
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			And to keep mounting pressure on the decision
		
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			makers and influencers who have lost their moral
		
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			compass, lest we are here a year later
		
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			discussing the same matter.
		
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			The UN experts recently said that the world
		
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			is on a knife's edge, that we either
		
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			all go collectively towards a future of peace
		
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			and lawfulness, or we all hurdle towards anarchy
		
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			and dystopia.
		
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			And the stakes indeed have never been higher.
		
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			End the Israeli occupation now.
		
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			Stop Israeli war crimes now.
		
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			God says in the Quran, with adversity comes
		
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			ease.
		
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			Indeed, with adversity comes ease.