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How the Arab-Muslim Leaders Betrayed the Sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem – Palestine?

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How do you contemplate wisdom, reason, and respect for tolerance and decency given the political chaos, blind terror, religious awe, and moral and intellectual hatred-filled trajectory submerged in inhuman action?

The live video portrayal went across the global networks of Israeli police using stun grenades, smoke blasts, and beating the worshippers at midnight prayers during the month of fasting (Ramadan) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque – the third holiest site in Islam. The Israeli Police Commissioner called it “a terrible impact of police behavior.”

A flip-flop of mediocre expression of the prevalent reality. At a loss is the decadent culture of human thinking, behavior, and integrity and a miserable failure to respect others – the innocent and helpless worshippers. If you want to be respected for your national identity and religious values, then respect that of others.

The souls of Abraham, Ishmael, Ishaq, and Jacob, resting in neighboring Al-Khalil (Hebron), and Moses and Jesus must have been tormented by the extreme wing of the Israeli political government under PM Netanyahu. There is a chronic problem of irresistible political and religious necessity to dehumanize Palestinians in particular and Muslims in general, as the State of Israel occupies their third holiest site in East Jerusalem.

Netanyahu desperately needs diversion and unthinkable conflicts for his own political survival and to avert the massive 14-week-long public protests and a new kind of socio-political chaos to balance his weak and corrupt leadership. What is the core impulse of the problem?

This was not the first incident of politically engineered hatred and primitive tyranny against the Abrahamic faith worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian scholar, explains in his 2014 article: “Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The Lurking Danger Beneath” (Uncommon Thought Journal: 3/14/2014):

“Something sinister is brewing around and below Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the Mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher. It was on February 25, 1994, that US-born Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein stormed into the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Palestinian city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) and opened fire. The aim was to kill as many Arabs as he could.

At that moment, nearly 800 Muslim worshippers were kneeling down during the dawn prayer in the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, Ramadan. He killed up to 30 people and wounded over 120. Exactly 20 years later, the Israeli army stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest Muslim site, and opened fire.

The timing was no accident…… That same dangerous combination – right-wing politicians allied with religious zealots – is at work once more. They are eyeing Al-Aqsa for annexation, the same way the Israeli government is laboring to permanently annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank….”

Global Reaction to the Israeli Police Attack on the Worshippers

At the UN Headquarters, New York, thousands of concerned people held a protest against the Israeli police incursion and attacks on the Muslim worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Palestinians call it ‘Haram Sharif’ – a place of honor and respect.

Like other religious followers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others were active participants calling out to a global audience for respect for the sacred site and reasoned conflict resolution and peace between Palestine and Israel.

At the edge of reason, Israeli political leaders under PM Netanyahu appear to be victims of ignorance, religious immorality, and imbecility to have ordered the police to raid the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Had they known who the Prophet Abraham, Ishaq, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Jesus were and what their teachings, beliefs, and practices were, they would have never dared to tyrannize the innocent worshippers at the mosque.

Muslims in their five-times daily prayers send salutations to Abraham and his progeny, and their belief and respect are integral parts of the Islamic faith. No Palestinian or other Muslim would ever dare to disrupt Jewish worshippers or insult the Prophets of Islam – Abraham, Ishaq, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus. It was only a convenient and self-serving interest to the extreme right wing of Israeli political governance. But the real issue rests not with Judaism; it is the “Zionism” that governs the minds and Israeli political construct.

Alan Hart – an American Jewish scholar, a former BBC Panorama and ITN Middle East correspondent with a vast first-hand knowledge of the subject, narrates in his 2010 book: Zionism, The Real Enemy of the Jews / Volume III Conflict Without End? Alan Hart (“Zionism and Peace Are Incompatible,” Dissident Voice, Oct 21, 2010), explains the core problem embedded in Zionism:

“Zionism is not only Jewish nationalism which created a state in the Arab heartland mainly by terrorism and ethnic cleansing. It is also a pathological mindset. In the deluded Zionist mind, the world was always anti-Jew and always will be. It follows that Holocaust II (shorthand for another great turning against Jews) is inevitable.

It follows that there can be no limits to what Zionism will do in order to preserve nuclear-armed Greater Israel as a refuge of last resort for all Jews everywhere when the world turns against them……. But alas, reality continues to slap everyone in the face: Zionism and peace are incompatible. I will say it again, Zionism and peace are incompatible.”

Are the Arab-Muslim Leaders and the Custodians of the Holy Mosques Alive?

While the world was watching the most pernicious actions and their consequences on the news screen, most Arab leaders, lacking the moral and intellectual profile and reasoning, were obsessed with their own personal agenda items and strategic priorities.

While political tyranny and cynicism rule across the Middle East, the landscape, what this author narrated some 20 years earlier (Arab Ummah vs. Muslim Ummah, Who You Were and Where You Are? Media Monitors Network, May 8, 2002), remains unchanged.

The contemporary leaders pose no moral, intellectual, or political challenge to Israeli leadership and the occupation. If the Arab people were united and had educated and intelligent leadership, they would have changed the shape and forms of contemporary hopeless affairs.

Should authoritarian Arab leaders not be questioned and held accountable for their incompetence, treachery, and failure to protect the interests of the Arab people?

The Arab people, politics (if any), and culture need a navigational change to coexist with the moral and intellectual demands of the 21st century. They are prisoners and divided by sectarianism in their countries.

Note: A chapter from a forthcoming book: Global Humanity and the Wars on Gaza and Ukraine and We, the People Search for Peace, Conflict Resolution, and a Sustainable Future by Mahboob A. Khawaja.

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja (Ph.D. in Social Science, Syracuse University, New York, USA) 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, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance, and a keen interest in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations. He is the author of several publications, including One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution, and a forthcoming book: Global Humanity and the Remaking of Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution Beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness.


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