December 22, 2023
War on Gaza: What is Next after Genocide?
By Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
President Biden and Secretary Blinken Never Lie but Say Things Differently
American complicity in Israel’s war of vengeance and collective punishment of innocent civilians of Gaza, debacles the American history of giving life to knowledge, wisdom, ideals of freedom and justice. Analyzing the compelling realities on the ground, America would undermine the way forward for its destiny as a powerful nation of reason, reliability and stability. Time for a navigational change is ticking for Israeli continuous bombardments and killing of some 18, 780 civilians, 5, 800 women and more than 7,000 children and 50,000 injured, and some 7,000 children still buried under rubble and complete destruction of the civic destruction, and the WHO calls it a ‘bloodbath’, and what is next after the planned genocide. Terror of war and genocide is not a finished answer to its planners as America and Israel wanted to wipe out the Palestinians with three stated objectives: (1) to destroy Hamas, (2) free Israeli hostages, and (3) revamp Gaza under Israeli security apparatus.
Denying conventional wisdom, President Biden doing a lip service to Israel to stop ‘indiscriminate bombing of the civilians’ and not calling a ceasefire, “The Horror is of blood and shredded children. The Horror is of thousands and thousands – tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands — dead bodies disintegrating in the rubbles of indiscriminately IDF-bombed hospitals, apartment buildings, mosques – you name it….. (Chris Hedges and Peter Koenig,“The Horror, The Horror” in Gaza. Chris Hedges. What Is the UN Good for? Global Research: 11/13/2023) https://www.globalresearch.ca/horror-gaza-what-un-good-where-human-rights-commission-when-needed/5839831
The center of sadistic gravity and vengeance is PM Netanyahu and his war cabinet and dynamic syntax to command the world is the White House. The primacy of evil mongering is well known to the global humanity. If the Arab-Muslim leaders buyer of largest weaponry from the West were alive in conscience, the West would not call them “camel jockeys” but take notice of their will and power. If these leaders had moral and intellectual capacity to hear the resounding cries of bombed children and women for help to defend them against the terror of war- according to Peter Koenig: (“The Worst Days in Gaza”, Global Research: 12/15/2023), “Everyday has been the worst day; Israel outdoes itself in brutality and destruction every day; so, every day is the worst day…..The day that Israel dropped six 1-ton bombs on the Jabalia refugee camp, was the worst day.” There is an endless chain of “Worst Days of Gaza”...illustrated by pictures and video clips – worse than what the world has witnessed in at least the last seven decades, maybe in the last 300 years. https://www.globalresearch.ca/worst-days-gaza/5843312
Is Israel at war with itself? The Israeli masses question the competence and effectiveness of PM Netanyahu and demand an immediate ceasefire and a negotiated freedom of the 128 hostages from Gaza. Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report: 12/17/2023) “The Death of Israel” spells out the reality: Israel was at war with itself before Oct. 7. Israelis were protesting to prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s abolition of judicial independence. Its religious bigots and fanatics, currently in power,…...Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. Backed by the United States, it will achieve its demented goal. Its murderous rampages and genocidal violence will exterminate or ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Its dream of a state exclusively for Jews, with any Palestinians who remain stripped of basic rights, will be realized. It will revel in its blood-soaked victory. It will celebrate its war criminals. Its genocide will be erased from public consciousness and tossed into Israel’s huge black hole of historical amnesia. Those with a conscience in Israel will be silenced and persecutedﾅ..
The continuing Israeli bombing madness is undeterred by US President’s wishful thinking as Earth is bombed day and night even on Hanukkah. The Earth is a living entity for human life and is not meant to be bombed and destroyed. “Fear God” and ‘do not violate the covenants of peace and trust on earth.’ The Divine warning (Chapter 7: 56: The Quran), is self-explanatory: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts ; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good.
They Commit Crimes against Humanity and Claim Innocence and Immunity
If President Biden had the sense of global security and peace, he did not question the opportunity at a critical moment but preferred political expediency and rushed to supply weapons of mass destruction to Israel. The UNO, the Security Council, the Geneva Conventions and Humanitarian International Law – are all dysfunctional while Palestinians are being massacred under a false pretext of terrorism as Pope Francis clarified in his Sunday sermon. Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide.
The imagination of a 21st century civilized world is already in ruins. The Israel War cabinet is seen at the epicenter of global governance bypassing even the US administration. So, conscientious people around the globe would ask - what is next after the book based Genocide? Media reports of some 1.9 million civilians forcibly expelled by Israeli onslaught on Gaza. The WHO -Geneva offers another glimpse of insanity and genocide in the making: Al-Shifa main hospital bombed twice and 290 medical doctors and staff of Al-Shifa hospital detained at gun point by Israeli forces; 20 wounded and helpless patients bulldozed and killed by Israeli army today at the Kamal Adwan hospital's compound; Al-Nasser hospital Maternity Ward-Jabalia Refugee camp was hit by Israel and children killed; last week 40 women and children coldblooded murdered at the UNRWA school shelter. Mr. President and Mr. Blinken: is there any Humanitarian International Law applicable to the atrocities committed by Israel? Or would you say that “Israel has the right to defend itself.” Secretary Blinken promised at the NATO meeting (Japan) that Israel would not be allowed to expel civilians from Gaza and would have no role in its future security. How come 1.9 million civilians already forcibly evicted to Rafah Crossing site? And Netanyahu claims security of Gaza under his rule. Are you both victims of moral and intellectual integrity? Do both of you have a living human conscience to differentiate between right and wrong? Between evil and truth? And between humanity and insanity?
Would Obliterating Gaza Open up New Economic Ventures to Israel and America?
Evil happens when conscientious people do nothing. What is the end game of the Israeli onslaught of Gaza? There is a fearsome and ferocious flow of dubious statements originating from the Western politicians to ‘wipe out the alleged extremists from Gaza’ and finish the debacle of “terrorism” from Gaza. PM Netanyahu committed to flatten the enclave to reimpose Israel occupation. The unchallengeable truth coming out of Gaza speaks of daily planned bloodbath of the civilian population and forced displacement of 1.9 millions to make Gaza another occupied entity of Israel facilitating futuristic exploration of gas and oil in the Mediterranean region favoring Israel and the US interests. Is Israel attacking Gaza for oil and gas? There are reportedly huge gas and oil fields in Gaza and West Bank, reports Muhdan Saglam “How much oil and gas does Palestine have?” Information Clearing House: 11/13/23 https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/11/13/is-israel-attacking-gaza-for-oil-and-gas/ Media reports disclose Israeli strategic plans to change the geography by creating another canal from Gulf Of Aqaba to undo the Suez Canal impacting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan accessibility to the Red Sea.
Israeli war machines had no obligation to spare the 1,700 years old Church and the oldest Omar Mosque of Gaza, and even killed worshipers at Holy Family Catholic Church and PM Netanyahu would claim that ‘Israel has a moral army.’ It is a humanitarian crisis in the making that mankind has never witnessed except the Two WW. At the edge of reason, notion of evil leads to realization of evil and the tyranny of war and genocide must be stopped. Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report: 12/17/2023) “The Death of Israel - Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception” puts the paradigm in one nutshell:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-death-of-israel?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=139865400&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=i6yl0&utm_medium=email
As the retired Israeli Major General Giora Eiland wrote: “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist,” he wrote. Major General Ghassan Aliandeclared that in Gaza, “there will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell; you will get hell.”
The Biden presidency, which ironically may have signed its own political death certificate, is tethered to Israel’s genocide. It will try to distance itself rhetorically, but at the same time it will funnel the billions of dollars of weapons demanded by Israel — including $14.3 billion in supplemental military aid to augment the $3.8 billion in annual aid — to “finish the job.” It is a full partner in Israel’s genocide project.
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, political elite, diverse cultures of thinking and governance and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. Germany, 12/2019.
The Dire Need for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Israeli War on Palestinians
The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) calls on President Biden and the United Nations to forcibly and immediately stop the U.S. supplied and diplomatically shielded Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the massive Israeli military and extremist settler-colonist assault on Palestinians in the West Bank.
The genocidal Israeli war on Gaza – unprecedented in this centuryﾠ– and its concomitant colonial onslaught in the West Bank, as these tandem actions have unfolded these last 75 days, have drawn severe criticism from international observers and multiple human rights organizations.
The U.S.-sponsored Israeli genocide of Palestinians is a staggering global moral catastrophe:
As of Thursday 14, December,ﾠEuro-Med Human Rights Monitor staff in Gaza documented at least 24,711 Palestinians killed, 92% of them civilians, including 9,643 children, 3,109 women, 210 health personnel, and 90 journalists.
More than 52,000 Palestiniansﾠhave been injured in Gaza alone, with hundreds critically wounded. Thousands remain stuck under the rubble of buildings. Hundreds more are still uncounted, likely buried under rubble or injured in the streets.
The unrelenting Israeli Gaza blitzkrieg has displaced more than 1.85 million Palestinians, whom it is systematically depriving of safe shelter while imposing inhumane living conditions on a population 47% of whom are children, another estimated 50,000 are pregnant women, not to mention countless elderly.
Some 62,990 housing units have been destroyed by this ceaseless Israeli attack that in explosive tonnage exceeds the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in volume-per-day far surpasses both World War 1 and 2. Another 172,055 have been partially damaged, along with 286 schools, 1,356 industrial facilities, 124 health facilities (including 22 hospitals), 142 mosques, and 4 churches.
These ghastly casualty and devastation figures do not include this week’s intensified Israeli military mass killings and wholesale destruction.
THE ISRAELI GENOCIDE ON PALESTINIANS IS A GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS CATACLYSM
A cadre of international human rights monitors – including 23 UN nongovernmental agencies – have warned that the continuation of Israel's indiscriminate military attack on Gaza (and the West Bank) is nothing short of barbaricﾠand an embodiment of savagery.
The deliberate targeting of civilian structures and essential infrastructure such as homes, hospitals, schools, and UN refugee shelters, as well as power plants, water filtration systems, sanitation systems, greenhouses, solar energy facilities, and even bakeries —places that should symbolize safety, refuge, health, and life, have instead become scenes of mass killings— raising serious concerns regarding war crimes, a sentiment echoed by United Nations agencies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and numerous observers.
The cynical strategy employed by the Israeli military of forcing civilians to relocate to designated “safe areas,” only to then target these very locations, has been cited as proof of intentional attacks on civilians. “There are no safe zones in Gaza,” noted International Red Cross President Mirjana Spolijaric, to disabuse the world of this Israeli policy of hasbara, deceptive information warfare. Coupled with Biden’s acknowledgment of Israeli “indiscriminate bombing” with advanced weaponry supplied (both legally and without legally required Congressional authorization) by the United States, serious allegations of Israeli war crimes and testimony abound.
The Israeli army’s use of bulldozers to unearth graveyards is sickening enough evidence of internationally prosecutable barbarism, but its recent reported plowing under of displaced Palestinians alive in tents outside of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital would absolutely put the Israeli government and military in a category of Nazi war atrocities.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S ACTIONABLE COMPLICITY
The Biden administration’s approach to this clear Israeli genocide has also come under scrutiny and criticism not only from American Muslims but the entire world. Biden’s inexplicably malign refusal to call for a ceasefire is being perceived as tacit approval for the continuation of military actions led by Prime Minister Netanyahu's government. His willful commitment of America to this genocide has sparked rebellion among White House staff, including its youngest cohort, interns, as well as at least 100 State Department officials and seasoned State Department specialists.
Evidence shows that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have demonstrated behavior incongruent with that of a disciplined army that can be legally funded by American taxpayers, likening it instead to the heinous tactics of early Jewish-Zionist organizations such as Haganah, Irgun Awai Leumi, and Lohamei Herut.
Furthermore, the perpetuation of a narrative that fails to bring peace and security to either Israelis or Palestinians has been attributed to the ideology driving Israeli leadership. There carefully constructed representation of the situational reality of the Holy Land consistently places American administrations in difficult positions internationally and undermines the United States' standing around the world.
Indeed, U.S. polls show overwhelming support for a ceasefire now in Gaza (not to mention near global unanimity for it), with nearly three in four Democrats, the presidentﾒs own party, insisting on it, and they begin to hint at a coming tsunami of change in Americansﾒ attitudes toward the Israeli project in the Holy Land, particularly among the young.
Among voters 18-34, an unprecedented majority – 52% – said they were more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released in mid-November.
In a recent NBC poll, an eye-catching 70% of voters ages 18 to 34 disapprove of Biden’s handling of the war on Gaza. A Pew poll published two weeks ago traced a similar swing, with a dwindling 19% of Americans under 30 approving of the president’s response.
Recent fabrications and falsehoods purportedly propagated by Israeli sources (beheaded babies, rapes, and the use of hospitals as resistance headquarters) have raised questions about the credibility of information used by the Biden administration in its policy decisions. Despite knowing that Israel's stated war objectives – many of which are brazenly genocidal – are likely unattainable, the U.S. continues to support military actions that disproportionately and directly affect civilians in one of the most densely populated places in the world, now doubly and triply so as the Israeli military has force-herded Gaza’s bombed-out, starving, and besieged Palestinians into a fraction of the Strip in the south near Rafah.
Moreover, international media scrutiny and investigative journalism have consistently highlighted significant discrepancies in the narratives presented by the Israeli government and its military regarding the Oct 7 attack, along with the ongoing situation in Gaza. These reports suggest a pattern of misinformation that has not gone unnoticed by global observers.
Contrary to the positions adopted by the Biden administration and certain American media outlets, which appear to align with the official statements of the Netanyahu government, there is growing skepticism and criticism from around the world. This has brought the credibility of said claims into question, often being met with disbelief or even satire.
It is becoming increasingly clear that there is a disconnect between the official accounts and the realities reported by foreign correspondents and investigative entities. We continue to monitor these developments closely.
Experts and observersﾠincreasingly associate the unwavering stance of the Biden administration with what can only be described as willing complicity in the ongoing genocide. They rightfully ask why the administration so adamantly and alone opposes global calls for a ceasefire, especially when, as we have seen, a significant portion of the American public disagrees with current U.S. policies in Gaza.
The international community is left questioning the commitment of the U.S. to a two-state solution, given decades of failure to facilitate serious negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Heavy American investment in military aid to Israel belies the U.S.’s purportedly sincere desire to foster a mutual, just resolution to the problem of ongoing Palestinian dispossession by a historically self-described colonial Jewish state on Palestinian land. Rather, it speaks to a resolutely purposeful hypocrisy in favor of the Israeli Zionist dream of a Jewish supremacist state, either apartheid in civic nature or cleansed of its indigenous Palestinian population.
The Palestinian people's plight is not new. It spans over 75 years, marked by Israeli ethnic cleansing and occupation, violence, land confiscation, and displacement, and 31 years of prior British occupation. Setting aside the Israeli siege of Gaza’s 2.3 million people (which actually began in 2005), each Israeli action in Palestine has been scrutinized for its compliance with international law and UN resolutions – investigations often concluded with findings of violations.
Historically, Israel’s track record of treaties and negotiations with Palestinians – including Camp David and Oslo – has been challenged for honesty and fidelity, as has America, its biased peace broker, with the Israeli security and diplomatic establishments’ remarkable hypocrisy, as Israeli journalist Amira Haas catalogs in writing that Oslo’s Israeli negotiators’ ﾓintention was never peace or Palestinian statehood.ﾔ
For peace and security to be truly attainable for all parties involved, there can be only one path: an immediate ceasefire now in Gaza, followed by an immediate and sincere process, imposed on the Israelis by the U.S. if necessary, toward a just and equitable solution.
This must include a cessation of hostilities, comprehensive humanitarian aid to Gaza, an immediate halt of all settlement activities in occupied Palestine, and, crucially, total withdrawal from all illegal settlements. These steps are viewed as preconditions for meaningful dialogue toward a two-state solution, if that is what Biden and the international community truly desire.
Alternatively, the state in the Holy Land can operate as is minimally expected in every democracy – as a single anti-supremacist polity in which all people without exception have equal rights and an equal vote.
Without meeting these conditions, peace will remain elusive in the foreseeable future and the persecution of the indigenous Palestinians – and their resistance – will continue to escalate.
We ask God for His guidance for all and His mercy, aid, and vindication of the oppressed.
The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) was formed on March 12, 2014. The founding organizations included: The Mosque Cares, Muslim American Society (MAS), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), and Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA).
The USCMO members are:
American Muslims for Palestine, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), The Mosque Care (Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed), Islamic Shura Council of Southern California (ISCSC), Majlis Ash-Shura Islamic Leadership Council of New York, Islamic Council of Oklahoma (ICO), The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), Muslim Forum of the Pacific Northwest (MFPNW), North American Imams Federation (NAIF), United Mission for Relief & Development (UMR), ICNA Relief USA, Bairul Maal, Helping Hand for Relief and Development, Mercy Without Limits, United Hands Relief, The Mosque Foundation, Islamic Center of Wheaton, Downtown Islamic Center Chicago (DIC), Dar Al-Hijrah, The Islamic Community Center of Illinois (ICCI), Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD), Together We Serve, Inc., International Institute of Islamic Thought, The Burmese Rohingya Association of North America, America Muslim Alliance (AMA), Islamic Association of North America (IANA), Islamic Center of Naperville, Young Muslims Inc. (YM), ICNA Council for Social Justice, Arizona Muslim Alliance (AMA), Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC), Islamic Center of San Diego, Islamic Center of Irving, Burlington Masjid, North American Indian Muslim Association (NIAMA), Islamic Center of Boca Raton (CBR), Islamic Center of South Florida, Muslim Americans in Public Service (MAPS).
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