The Palestinian-Israeli conflict and contemporary challenges

Ahmed Redha Al-Momen

Everyone nowadays is aware of The wide spread trend that raises serious questions related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the nature of the relationship between Palestine and the rest of the world.
These questions are sometimes asked with innocent and naive motives and other times with deliberate and malicious motives to isolate the Palestinian matter from the Arabic and Islamic world what would make it easier for them to tighten their grip around Palestine then devote their efforts to other issues and countries of the world.
I believe that these questions are very serious and require the faithful and educated elites to address them and push back the suspicions that oppose all those who seek to support the Palestinian land and the Palestinian people and promote the culture of Muqawama and opposition in the face of the ominous trinity (Israel, America and Britain).
These groups rise their objections in the form of questions ,ones like:
Why is the Palestinian- Israeli conflict an important matter to us?
Why do we support the Palestinians and their uprising against Israel while they only support those who kill and cause violence on our lands?
Why do we prefer to care for and take care of other nations and forget our own?
What have we gained from the conflict against Israel during the past decades?
Why don’t we consider peace as an option?
It is with These superficial and naive questions and other fallacies, everyone who supports the Palestinian matter, is facing today.
I was and am still faced with these questions and I answer them by telling the story of Count (Alexandre de Marenches), a director of the SDECE French external intelligence services during the era of French President d’Estaing in the year 1981 to clarify the importance of supporting and adopting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
When the Director met the new US President ,at the time (Ronald Reagan), who said to him: Do you know how much harm a mosquito can cause to a bear? (by “ the bear” he meant the soviet union) If you are not in a position to shoot a bear, you should think of this method!
With this mentality, politics is run in all countries of the world, especially countries that have dangerous enemies.
We, as Muslims, Arabs and free people, believe that the Zionist is a foundling and hostile entity that was planted in the heart of our Arab homelands and Islamic region, as stated in long and broad historical experiences, an ideology hostile to us to the extent that it became a disease that can only be cured by uprooting and eradicating it.
And because this requires enormous capabilities, resources and preparations, most of which are not available, the appropriate step to take is to support those who can stand against this entity with their terrifying and confusing strikes that would destabilize it and not make it able to cause any aggression, sabotage or injustice in our country and our Islamic nation. This is what the Republic of Iran, thankfully, has been doing since the victory of its Islamic revolution in 1979. It supports the honest Muqawama and liberation movements in their uprising against the occupiers, such as the Islamic Muqawama HezboAllah in Lebanon and the (Jihad) and (Hamas) movements and others..
If we look back on the events in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict during the last century we can clearly see that the Israeli enemy has gained strength and growth in the security, economic and political situation in the time when the Arab and Islamic nations were standing against the tyrants and dealing with a collapsed or late infrastructure of the economic, ideological and cultural conditions that delay was up to many reasons there is no room for explaining and clarifying them right now.
Wisdom and political logic say that our lands won’t ever be safe or secure and stable unless our enemies are distracted from harming us and attacking us, which of course could not be achieved except by resisting the enemy or at least supporting those who resist them and distract them from harming our nations and our countries.
And do not forget to cite what Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad Jawad Mughniyeh “May Allah Bless his soul” said: (…To today’s Shiaa Karbala is the occupied Palestine, Sinai, the West Bank of Jordan, and the Syrian highlands. As for the children of Hussein and the captives of Hussein’s family , they are the displaced women and children who were forced to leave their homes, and today’s martyrs of Karbala are the ones who were killed to defend the truth and the homeland in the 5th of June.
With this conscious and enlightened Islamic mentality, the Shiites and their scholars read, think and interact with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without any sectarian, national regional or any other contracts.
We are in dire need today to educate the necessity to adopt the Palestinian matter and deal with it with a foresight and a rational, non-emotional strategic mentality.