Human life is very sacred and priceless, but in recent times individuals have used human life with a price. They have put a tag on human bodies and have corrupted their souls. It is however very astonishing that humans are doing this to themselves and their fellows of the same species. They are only looking for their benefits and sole profits. Human lives do not matter to them until and unless it’s their fraternity of interest.
Given the example of the world’s objectionable superpower America, which has always used individuals as tools to gain its objectives. Whether those objectives be using non-state actors for their motives or directly intervening to achieve them. It is such an irony that America continuously chants for peace prevalence and condemns violence or so even goes as far down the way to put sanctions on countries who do not seemingly protect human rights, when America itself didn’t abide by its terminologies in 1945, dropping nuclear bombs on japan s; HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI, said to be industrial cities.
Not only citing economic loss to Japan but also the destruction of the sanctity of human life. Children, the elderly, women, and men collectively died like the last flicker of a candle. Japan’s other targeted city for the bombing was KYOTO, but it was not selected only because America’s state secretary of war HENRY .L.STIMSON had visited Kyoto in 1926 and had vacationed there with his wife, so his personal opinions were over him to drop off Kyoto from the list.
Humans are corrupted by the lust for power, maybe because power is saluted and power is supreme. Humans will do whatever it takes to achieve power even if it means to use blood and metal for their objective. However, some organizations or groups intervene to protect human life, proving that some humans still have self-consciousness left in them. Hamas is playing a vital role in retaliating against Israeli forces military attack. But The United States designated Hamas as a terrorist organization in 1995, as did Canada in November 2002, and the United Kingdom in 2001 regards Hamas’s military wing, and in 2021 included Hamas’ political wing stating “the approach of distinguishing between the various parts of Hamas is artificial”. Hamas is not regarded as a terrorist organization by Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Russia Norway, Turkey, China, Egypt, Syria, and Brazil.”Many other states, including Russia, China, Syria, Turkey, and Iran consider the (armed) struggle waged by Hamas to be legitimate.
It is ironic to laugh, that organizations that are protecting Muslim lives are stated as terrorist organizations by countries like America and its allies, but what’s more ironic is a state like Japan which was bombarded with a nuclear bomb by America now stands by America becoming its puppet at hand. It won’t be wrong to say that despite such technological advancements being done in Japan and their countries’ passports being the strongest passports, it is all given in charity to Japan by America.
Since 1948, when the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s victory, and the territory was divided into 3 parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River), and the Gaza Strip.
Since 1948, many wars have been fought between Israel and Arab countries resulting only in loss for the innocent Palestinians. And slowly the Arab countries and Muslim world countries have delved deeper into their profits of interest or it would be correct to say that they are now more interested in their pockets of interest.
But if organizations like Hammas or Houthi rebels fight against these atrocities these same states think that their position in the Arab world would be weakened and they won’t be recognized as the leaders of the Muslim world then they use diplomacy and talks which results in nothing and Khalil shikakai who is a Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah and he’s a senior fellow at Brandeis University and currently a visiting professor, as well, in Michigan at Ann Arbor says that There is a demand for violence amongst Palestinians and it reflects the view that diplomacy has failed. It reflects the view that there is very little that Palestinians can do to change the attitudes of Israelis other than violence.
There is a growing perception that the Palestinian Authority itself and the Palestinian leadership are failing and that the Arab World is so preoccupied with its problems that the US has withdrawn from the region.
So all these factors are essentially pushing Palestinians to think that they are on their own and they’ve been impressed by Hamas’ performance during the Gaza War and they want to do, they want the West Bank to do what Hamas is doing in Gaza. Hamas has at least taken the initiative against the atrocities being done by Israeli forces for so long and has attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, taking hostages from the Israeli-occupied side and demanding their objectives. The people of Palestine were ready for the attack as they have been killed for so long over the years but this time if they had to die they would die by retaliating against the Israelis.
In October, shortly after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the Houthis began launching missile attacks at cargo ships passing through the Red Sea, headed towards Israeli ports. This led to the US PRESIDENT BIDEN to order strikes against them and he stated: “Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against several targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,”. The Houthis have said their bombardments are showing solidarity with the Palestinian people, after Israel launched an unrelenting military campaign on Gaza following Hamas’ October 7 terror attacks.
The Houthis have said they will only relent when Israel allows the entry of food and medicine into Gaza; its strikes could be intended to inflict economic pain on Israel’s allies in the hope they will pressure it to cease its military offensive. But as it is a fact that all of the investment done in America is by Jews, the media is operated by all Jewish businessmen and tycoons. So how is it possible that America and its allies won’t intervene to save its economic interests? America has boycotted several of its own-born actors and actresses who were standing in support of Palestine, which shows that America will cut off its people and deprive them of everything if they come in between the economic interests of the country. Therefore, it is organizations like Hammas or Houthi rebels who might have not been the innocent of all but they still have the guts to stand up and die for what they think is right.
The author is currently a strategic studies scholar at the National Defence University.