Massacre on the Mediterranean Sea

Analyzing the massacre of the innocents in the Mediterranean Sea three broad
conclusions can be drawn. Two of them are very obvious and the last one is implicit but
most significant of the three.
Firstly, it is obvious the current Zionist government in Israel seems to be becoming more
and more paranoid and arrogant with the passing of each day. It will be interesting for the
readers to note that the Israeli Zionists can be paranoid about the poor and starving
people of Gaza. After all the Israel boasts the eleventh most powerful army in the world
(here) and the deadliest by far as per as West Asia is concerned. The Israeli government
apart from the most advanced conventional arms also boasts with about 300 nuclear
missiles. The Israeli economy is considered to be second only to the US when it comes to
high tech industries. Moreover the Israelis also have the USA as their patron thanks to the
“special relationship” they enjoy with the USA.
Compared to the Israeli Goliath, the Gazan David seems to be no match. Gazans do not
even have a formal army let alone any high tech weapons or nuclear missiles. Gazan
economy largely consists of hand-outs from compassionate donors (which include only
Iran and Syria to be precise) and incomes from smuggling through secret tunnels at the
Egyptian-Gaza border. Thus it is perplexing to think that the Israelis would fear the
Gazans. The reason behind the fear of Israelis about the Gazan people lies elsewhere.
Israel throughout the last 40 years of her occupation of the Palestinian territories has done
only one thing very consistently. That is to make the life difficult for the Palestinians in
every possible way so that they finally submit and surrender to the Zionist dream of total
control over the holy land. Daniel Pipes mentions the Zionist dream very clearly in his
writings. Unfortunately for the Israeli Zionists, the Gazan people have stood up against
them despite great odds thereby crashing the ultimate Zionist dream. Consider the
situation of the Gazans. They choose Hamas, the resistance movement against Israel in
2006 instead of the corrupt and authoritarian Fatah in an election which was considered
as “free and fare” by everyone. The outcome? Israel and rest of her allies (including the
pro-Israel Egyptian government) imposed an all-out economic blockade upon Gaza.
Israel was not even satisfied with it. It launched a military operation against the hapless
Gazans called “Operation cast lead” in 2008-2009 thereby killing about 1500 people
mostly innocent civilians. Israel has maintained a tough all-out sea blockade over Gaza
and controls the Gazan airspace. Basically Gaza has become world’s biggest Open air
prison.
Despite all these overwhelming odds the Gazan people have not surrendered to the
Zionist hegemony. The will to fight against all odds is clearly visible among the Gazan
people whether in digging up the tunnels for bringing goods into starving Gaza or trying
to build new homes from rubbles despite no help from any one. This is remarkable in the
history of freedom struggles. As time passes by even the so-called official “International
community” also has started to make some efforts (albeit non-existent) to make life better
for the Gazans. Now the Israelis fear all these. The Zionists simply do not get why the
Gazan people are not giving up despite all these oppression they have heaped upon them.
The attack upon unarmed peace activists on the freedom flotilla has to be seen in this
light. This is just another way by the Israelis to remind the Gazan Palestinians “Who is
the boss”? The Israelis know it for sure that the world will not bother about some “crazy,
pro-terrorist, unlawful” political activists. They expect the “world community” to
condemn things a little bit and then eventually moving on. They know they have the
world’s only superpower to watch their back. This is like a mafia boss killing innocent
people of the neighborhood indiscriminately to ensure people continue to fear him
knowing fully well that the proverbial “long hand of the law” will never caught up with
him.
The second conclusion which is probably the most obvious here is complete irrelevance
of the world’s only superpower and the assertiveness of a new Turkey when it comes to
Israel. The Turks are back in the game finally after a long period of slumber of nearly a
century thanks to the current government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The
new Turkey unlike it’s Kemalist predecessor wants to make it’s presence fell in the world
and not just be a junior partner to the USA and Israel. Mustapha Kemal might be turning
in his grave in Ankara watching this new Turkey but for the time the Turks are happy to
play this new game.
If Turkey is trying to assert himself, the USA seems to be busy in making himself a mere
sidekick when it comes to Israel. Take the example of President Barrack Obama,
“world’s most powerful man”. He lectured the Israelis (albeit in a very polite way that
suits the special US-Israel relationship) to stop confiscating land from the Palestinians in
the West Bank and urged the Israel to come clean on Israeli nukes. Guess what
happened? The Christian Zionists in the USA (probably world’s biggest volunteer lobby
working for the interests of a foreign country) went against him in full swing, threatening
his second-term election bid. The Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu just
shrugged off and showed Obama his place as a junior partner in the Zionist enterprise.
And guess what? Obama accepted all the humiliation. Even after Israel lambasted his
Vice President Joe Bidden publicly and after this brutal massacre of unarmed , peaceful
political activists on board the freedom flotilla , Obama seems to be doing his best to
ensure that Israel gets a soft landing. And why not he? After all, the Israelis are the
“Chosen people of G-D” and the USA must do her ultimate best to ensure Israeli security.
Moreover Obama needs to make history by becoming the first non-white president in the
US to win two terms. A little humiliation against the all powerful Israeli lobby is not too
hard to swallow for an US president now days.
The third and the most significant conclusion that we can draw is the role the common
people are playing in organizing the freedom flotilla. The freedom flotilla consists of
people from countries such as Turkey, Australia, Pakistan, Sweden, Ireland, Greece, USA
and even Israel. Most of these people come from as diverse backgrounds such as writers,
activists, politicians, intellectuals, media people and they include even a holocaust
survivor. These people have two clear goals. Firstly to provide much-needed aid this
includes food, construction material and books for the children in Gaza. But the most
important goal is to do the job which the world governments have failed to for a long
time that is to tell the Israeli Zionists that “Enough is enough”.
In our time when the World governments seem to be busy in making themselves
irrelevant the freedom flotilla is a hopeful effort by the progressive, freedom-loving
people of the world to do the right thing. If there is anything called a global village,
freedom flotilla is its best example.
My readers will probably be thinking by now that after all what interest should they serve
by speaking out for the Palestinians in Gaza? After all I am talking about a place which is
very far from our country and whose people do not share anything in common like
language, culture or food habits with us. Moreover our leaders like their US counterparts
have forged a “special relationship” with Israel. (See here) The thing for us to remember
is that oppressor and bullies do not have any difference among themselves. They want us
to not bother about their misdeeds so that they feel it confident no one will notice. By
keeping silent in face of oppression and injustice we make ourselves irrelevant and weak.
The fact remains that today if we do not speak up when a superpower attacks and
annihilates an ancient civilization for the pretext of non-existent “WMD’s” or when a
group of “God’s chosen people” kills a group of innocent, unarmed political activists , no
one tomorrow will speak up in our favor when our government will impose unjust taxes
upon us or police will kill someone among friends in a fake encounter or a profit-driven
industrialist will confiscate the land from the poor farmers or a drunken celebrity runs
you over.
The face of the oppressors and the unjust might be different but his intention is same. He
wants us to fear him and accept his oppressive and unjust behavior. In this way he wins.
The question is how to behave against injustice. There are two ways. One is the Spartacus
way and another is the Carthage way. It is up to us to decide our way.