In defense of Israel


By Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza

May 22 (IANS): Israel has "deep pockets" and "they control media", Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah

Mahmood Qureshi said during an interview on CNN. He vomited out these vile

accusations while comfortably forgetting the fact that in his own country a significant

number of senior journalists have been executed, while others including TV anchors and presenters are allegedly on the payroll of the Inter Services Public Relations, media and public relations wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces, and the ISI, the hateful secret service of the Pakistan military.

Why is he blinded to the fact the the Azad Kashmir Press Foundation controls the press in

the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) and media is under constant surveillance in Pakistan

occupied Gilgit-Baltistan?

Qureshi continued with his anti-Semitic remarks accusing Israel of not engaging, not

negotiating, and, of genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Well, let us remind him that

it is his government that refuses to engage with the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), the

Baloch freedom fighters and the Sindhi separatists. Let us also bring to his attention the fact

that Pakistan has been occupying large chunks of Jammu and Kashmir since October 1947 and

that of Gilgit-Baltistan since 1948. And what does he have to say about the ethnic cleansing

of thousands of Hindus and Sikhs not only by massacring them in POJK in 1947 but also by

conducting systematic forced conversation of the religious minorities into Islam to this day.

To launch a verbal attack on the only democracy in the Middle East, without uttering a word

against terrorist Hamas, is in itself anti-Semitism, is it not? It is not only Pakistani

establishment that runs its state on a diet of anti-Semitism and Hindu hate mongering,

Turkey and Malaysia, too, never let go of an occasion to fool their populations by antiSemitic speeches. However, they definitely do not consider it wrong to fill their own pockets

with Jewish money through trade with Israel.

Trade Between Turkey, Malaysia and Iran has always continued with discreet. Dozens of

Israeli companies were allowed to work in Iran and in 2011, "The business relations (were)

conducted through companies active in Turkey, Jordan and Dubai". Iranian officials secretly

travel to Israel to seal deals to sell the Israelis pistachio, cashew nuts and mainly marble". Eran Siv, chairman of the Association of Renovation Contractors in Israel has himself

admitted that marble "is mined on Iran's mountains and brought to Israel through Turkey". Not only that, Iran also did not hesitate to benefit from Israeli technology when in

November 2000, they invited an Israeli company, for renovations of Tehran's sewage pipes!

But Iran tells its population that Israel is their enemy number one, and that the Ayatollahs

are determined to destroy the Jew state.

Malaysia is no different. This ‘Muslim' country exported $289 worth of good to Israel in

2019. in 2013 it was reported that discreet trade between Malaysia and Israel was booming

and the total trade volume has reached a whopping $1.5 billion almost double from 2012.

Turkey has seemingly been very angry at Israel recently and has publically called upon the

Muslim nations to support Hamas. President Tayyab Erdogan's politics revolves around the

idea that he is some kind of an avatar of the by-gone Ottoman empire. His rhetoric against

Israel and anti-Semitic comments are no secret. Yet, total trade volume between Turkey and

Israel stood at $ 1.4 billion when Erdogan came to power back in August 2014. Today, it has

reached $6.5 billion!

Like India, Israel has never attacked any of her neighbouring country. But it has always been

her neighbours who have been hatching conspiracies and plotting against the only

democracy in their region.

The so called Islamic countries have used all sorts of undemocratic tactics and political

manipulations to remain in power in their home countries. These tactics include to use

heredity dynastic rule as a divine justification or as a collective of political clique of powerful usurpers. By striving to destroy Israel these Muslim ruling classes actually aim to destroy a living model of democracy that now exits in the front garden of middle eastern polity and that has taken root and become an organic symbol against dictatorships. And, it is in this

light that Qureshi's anti-Semitic language should be seen.

  

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