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