For those with that sickening déjà vu feeling, has history taught us nothing?
According to Imam Ali popularly known as “The lion of Allah”,
“A Believer does not fall into the same difficulty twice”...
Each time this saying of Imam Ali (alaihi salaam) pops up in print or in the mind of this reader, a second thought takes over and I still cannot quite remember who it was that asked, “Was there ever a first thing without a second thing?”
This of course should set some of us thinking about the first world war which was followed by the second world war and the continued and continuous persecution, expulsions, deportations of Jews “The wandering Jew “phenomenon in action, “to drift or else be kept from drifting”, as if the Galut – the exile - was meant to turn the Jewish nation birthed and given a holy constitution at Mt. Sinai, as a divine punishment for disobedience was meant to be turned into a nation of nomads, perpetually on the run, away from home due to circumstances beyond their control – beyond the control of what the Arabs refer to as their nafs, forever travelling from home, in search of greener pastures, a safe haven where to settle and preferably to settle and prosper near or far from the land flowing with milk and honey that the Almighty promised the descendants of Abraham, the descendants who the Almighty promised Abraham when He said to him,
"Please look heavenward and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So will be your seed." ((Genesis 15: 5)) and “And I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give your seed all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will bless themselves by your seed, Because Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My instructions.”(Genesis 26:4-5) -
So, by the beginning of the 2nd world war the Jews had probably not lived up to the hyperbolic simile of being fruitful and multiplying so as to be as plentiful as the grains of sand on the beach and as plentiful as the stars in the night sky, but not much more, cruelly terminated by Mister Hitler’s genocidal final solution culminating in systematically further decimating six million more of God’s chosen people in one of the most tragic events in world history, still being mourned as the Holocaust…
First World War
Second World War
Fast forward – the continued siege of little Gaza
We have all been here before
Fast Forward, seven years later
Sting : History will teach us nothing
In their time the Prophet of Islam, salallahu alaihi wa salaam and Imam Ali – alaihi salaam had their fair share of problems with the Jews who had drifted from their holy land to settle and occupy parts of Medina the Beautiful which is located in today’s Saudi Arabia.
At the moment the IDF has called in 9,000 army reservists, and this Sabbath evening is regathering at the border of the Gaza strip. Netanyahu the bully is threatening to invade the tiny Gaza Strip which has rightly been described by all sympathizers and other righteous people as “an open air prison”. Netanyahu the bully is threatening to enter the tiny, helpless Gaza strip, guns blazing – just as he did in 2014, with these tragic consequences : Untold hardship on Gaza’s innocent, long suffering men, women and children.
Provocation is next to madness.
Hamas?
Arab pride will fight back even if he is reduced to using bows and arrows. Who was it that said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”?
Netanyahu the bully knows who he can bully. Of course, he would have more than second thoughts about invading the Islamic Republic of Iran or dropping his nuclear bomb on Beirut and with Joe Biden turning a blind eye to what will most likely happen now that Russia is taking complete control of Syria, live to see his own country along with he himself, reduced to rubble, “and into ashes, all my lust”
At the moment, Israel’s relentless psychological pressure on the long-suffering but by no means God-forsaken Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, is immense. I may be wrong, but as far as I know, nowhere in any Jewish holy or not so holy document is it stated that Gaza is part of the holy land that God allegedly promised or gave to the descendants of Jacob…
Today, in counting his blessings Mr. Netanyahu should also be grateful for the Iron Dome defence capability given him by Barack Obama
Final word of advice for the wise: Seek peace and pursue it
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