For the Muslim Ummah at large as well as liberals around the world, Israel is the aggressor in perpetuity as long as it exists in Palestine by force. Hamas is fighting a war of liberation and for the first time it has virtually tied up Israel in knots. Yesterday Israel was threatening every Muslim country in the Middle East. Today it is virtually on the ropes. Even with the Iron Domes protecting Israel cities from Hamas rockets, Hamas has virtually invaded Israel.
No other Muslim country has the guts to take out or take on this bully head on. It is their shame that is preventing them from lauding and helping Hamas. There is more evident gulf between the people and rulers of the Middle East than it was as ever before. Hamas has brought Israel to its knees and it is now amply proved that Israel can only be managed through use of power. Let nobody for reasons of their own and their vested interest, spoil the real chance to force Israel to free the people of Palestine.
One can witness Israel panellists on Israeli online i24news overwhelmingly conceding defeat and advising their rulers to free Gaza from the siege or Israel itself will remain in siege for ever.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
“Their conspiracy or our stupidity”
This refers to your editorial “Their conspiracy or our stupidity” (Radiance Viewsweekly, 13-19 July 2014). It is a tragedy of Ummah that the present scenario of Muslims and Muslim countries round the world are because of both our stupidity and enemies’ conspiracy. Your appeal to our leaders of Islamic world to put their heads together and resolve the conflicts and think in terms of saving the Umma from total destruction is in the fitness of things. But for the present it is out of their reach as the poet W.B. Yeats wrote: “The centre cannot hold mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”.
How come it is possible when our rulers and so-called Islamic leaders who are shaking hands with enemies, and financing and supporting them will gather on one agenda to resolve their difference to protect the drowning ship of Islam?
The only option left to get support from Europe to prevent them from supporting the enemies of Islam and to direct their support to the cause of Islam is dissemination of Islam among the European masses and let their government think in favour of Islam.
Munaf Pasha
Bhadravathi