Ahmed Moustafa
Director of ACST
The war on the Gaza Strip has shown many things that were absent even on the Arab and Islamic national consciousness after subservience and division even among the Palestinians themselves, and after nearly seven consecutive weeks of systematic killing, spreading destruction and devastation, and trying to force the residents of the Strip to evacuate it – The two sides reached a truce that was supposed to start yesterday but will start this morning – How are the effects of this truce translated:-
First: A great victory for our Arab and Islamic resistance and for the Palestinian people, especially the great people of Gaza, who, despite the systematic ethnic cleansing practiced by the Zionist entity by killing entire families to erase the traces of these families and any rights they have in the future, was firm in its land and did not accept displacement. He even imposed on the whole world great respect for his love, respect for his land, and his attachment to it to the utmost degree as this is because he has a real right. But not a lured Zionist mercenary with flimsy dreams that this land is his own land of dreams, and it is his right for 75 years to promote and believe a lie, even the Jews of Brooklyn in New York, the largest Jewish gathering influential in political decision-making in the world, have denied it.
Second: We apologize to our conscious Arab youth for the second time, who proved after their noble position in the World Cup and their support in the (Qatar 2022 World Cup) for the Palestinian cause with an attempt to expel the Israeli stations that tried surreptitiously to hold dialogues with them to claim normalization with Arab youth. Arab and Muslim youth held that this land was “Palestine.” He was braver and more conscientious than some so-called Arab intellectuals who were deceived by normalization with the entity and did not review their consciences in order to appear in the media and obtain some Western degrees, as well as money and fame. This time through their professional use of parallel media, which has conveyed to the whole world in several languages the tragedy of the Palestinians including the oppression, killing, torture, and genocide to which they are subjected. The youth indeed passed the images to his peers in the West who reacted strongly to the cause of the century, despite the threat of prosecution, unemployment, fines, and imprisonment. Young people in the West treated rivalry to its repressive Western regimes, which have shown the worst of double standards and racism, and that freedoms and human rights cease when they conflict with their regional and international interests.
Third: The resistance imposed its conditions in the truce after it gained the respect of the peoples of the world and that anyone who describes them as terrorists is a liar, especially after exposing many of the lies propagated by the Zionist entity through biased and superficial Western media. Lies were propagated without any conclusive evidence about the beheading of children and the premeditated killing of Israeli civilians. But what is impressive is that the Israeli media itself has shown its inaccuracy in the reporting. Reports from the Haaretz Jerusalem Post showed that civilians may have been hit, especially at the October 7 ceremony, by Israeli helicopters (i.e., friendly fire). According to the testimony of some Israeli pilots who received orders via WhatsApp, they did not have the ability to distinguish between an Israeli and a Palestinian in the park where the ceremony took place. It was then falsely claimed that Hamas and al-Qassam killed them en masse, however, Hamas and al-Qassam men were only targeting IDF soldiers, not civilians, which they acknowledged from the beginning. Their care for these prisoners is evidenced by the testimony of a number of Israeli prisoners who were later released for health reasons, as their testimony was shocking to Israel and the biased Western media.
Fourth: The truce itself was defined with regard to the exchange of prisoners of women and children only (3 Palestinians: 1 Israelis and foreigners), provided that the exchange of prisoners takes place through the International Red Cross. In addition to the entry of about 200 trucks transporting humanitarian aid and fuel from the Rafah crossing to the Gaza Strip, for a renewable period of 4 days, as well as an Israeli air ban on the Gaza Strip for long periods. The truce did not address Gaza’s post-war future, as Hamas had requested. Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian proposed in his meeting on Al-Mayadeen TV the day before yesterday that a general referendum be held between the members of the three religions (Muslims, Christians, and Jews) on the idea of “one state” for all, taking into account the demographic factor. This process must, of course, take place under the auspices of the United Nations. The minister also praised the role of both Egypt and Qatar in mediating a truce, as well as Egyptian President ِal-Sisi, in particular, in his firm position on the Palestinian issue, and his refusal to accept the idea of displacing the people of Gaza to neighboring countries as it is considered a betrayal of the cause. Despite the intense Western and Israeli pressures diplomatically, in the media, and strategically exerted on Egypt, to undermine its role, which some of our brothers in the Arab and Islamic world did not understand. However, the Iranian side was very understanding and knew what had been done.
Fifth: Israel lost one of its strategic and regional allies, and here we mean Turkey’s honorable position, which was no less than the quality of the Egyptian, Iranian, and Qatari positions. Turkish President “Erdogan” eventually hired a large number of Turkish lawyers to file cases with the International Criminal Court in this regard. Not only that, but he has called the prime minister of Israel Netanyahu a “terrorist.” He also described Israel in general as a “terrorist entity” complying with the internal pressures that flared after the bombing of the Baptist Hospital inside Gaza, and the attempt of the Turkish people to burn the Israeli embassy in Turkey and attack the American embassy. We cannot forget the position of Saudi Arabia by calling for an Arab-Islamic summit in the presence of all presidents and kings of the Arab and Islamic worlds for the first time since the sixties of the last century, which was a good opportunity to meet Arab and Muslim brothers. Perhaps some undeclared measures will be taken to stand up to this aggression against our people in Gaza. We must recall this proposition, which we still repeat, and confirmed by the great Egyptian journalist, Mr. Abdullah Al-Sinawy, about the need to reconsider the alliance between (Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia) and what this could constitute in the future, especially since three of these countries have become within the BRICS Plus countries (Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia), so the possibility of cooperation is inevitable, and Turkey may most likely join the group next year.
Sixth: Freedom has a great price, but it tastes much sweeter than accepting humiliation from the occupation forces, even if we lose nearly 15,000 civilians other than our martyr brothers from Hezbollah and from the Arab civilian media, as well as the entry of new parties on the line of resistance, and this is what we mentioned earlier (the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq and Ansar Allah forces in Yemen) that precipitated the proposed truces after they detained a new expensive Israeli cargo vessel several days ago. The Arab citizen’s refusal to accept any Western party to control his destiny from now on and the West’s loss of influence in the region, as witnessed by several senior experts, even in America, due to extremism, racism, and inexperience currently dominate most Western regimes.
Seventh: The destruction was not limited to Gaza and its facilities but also reached the major Israeli commercial and tourist cities. I had hoped that the Israeli stations would show scenes of (Tel Aviv, Eilat, Ashdod, Haifa, and the north of Israel) to know the extent of the destruction that has hit these cities, which will cost them tens of billions to restore them to their previous state. The Israeli media has even been accused of lying and misleading its own people and the West – and this truce will prove beyond any doubt if journalists from all over the world are allowed into Gaza, belying the Israeli and Western narrative and this is what both the West and Israel fear. This is what was proved to us after the BBC reports itself when she visited one of the sites where the Israelis claimed that it belonged to Hamas leaders (AlMidany hospital) and then found that this was just decorations and that the number of weapons present and alleged had doubled itself!!
