Calling on all Arab nations to join the jihad against Israel in support of Palestinians, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, now exiled to Qatar, calls for Arab states to join the jihad to destroy Israel. Meshaal called for a National Day of Rage to protest Israel’s war in Gaza, never admitting the Oct. 7-8 Nazi/ISIS atrocities, slaughtering 1,200 Israelis in Kibbutzes near the GAZA border. Hamas committed the same atrocities as the Nazi Holocaust but by a much smaller scale. How Hamas trained for the complex assault by land, air and sea breached the Gaza border isn’t known. Military intelligence experts see a colossal breach of Israeli security prompting an urgent investigation to avoid future episodes. Meshaal acts like Palestinians are the aggrieved party, blaming so-called Israel occupation for the massacre of Israeli border villages and settlements.
Meshaal’s main talking points, derived from over 75 years of Palestinian propaganda, is the Israel occupies Palestinian lands. For over 500 years the Ottoman Empire had sovereign control of the Holy Land, with Great Britain holding sovereignty for 38 years. At no time did Arab occupants of Ottoman or British territory call it occupation until the British gave Jews sovereignty of the Holy Land in 1948. Since Israel was recognized by the United Nations in 1949, various Arab groups plotted to conquer Israel and takeover Israel. It took Yasser Arafat, the late founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO], nearly twenty years to assemble vast armies of six Arab states to launch a war of annihilation in 1967, known as the “Six Day War.” By the time the war ended June 10, 1967, Israel had defeated the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Kuwait.
Meshaal now calls for Iran, chief backer of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, to wage war against Israel to liberate Palestinians lands. Before Arafat, there was no Arabs known as Palestinians. Arafat adopted the name Palestine from the British Mandate that was given to Jews in the wake of the Holocaust to establish a permanent state of Israel. Arabs living under Ottoman and British sovereignty never said they were under occupation until Jews took over in 1948. Since then, there have been several wars and countless Palestinian uprisings, all due to the false narrative the Jews occupy Palestinian lands. If it weren’t for the Six Day War, Palestinians would not have the Gaza Strip and West Bank, generously given to Arabs after Israel annexed the land from Egypt and Jordan after the 1967 War. Before the Six Say War, Egypt controlled Gaza and Jordan the West Bank.
Meshaal, who heads Hamas Diaspora Office in Qatar, called for a Day of Rage to today to protest Israel’s Hamas war. [We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday,” Meshaal said. Meshaal wants the Islamic world, whether Shiite or Sunni, to join the fight against what he calls the Zionist State. “Tribes of Jordan, sons of Jordan, brother and sisters of Jordan . . . This is the moment of truth and the borders are close to you, you all know your responsibility,” Meshaal called on all Arab states for an all out war with Israel. Meshaal knows what happened the last time Arab states attacked Israel. Israel’s IDF knows how to deal with Arab armies. They have much more difficulty fighting door-to-door, house-to-house to root out Hamas terrorists with all their tunnels underneath Gaza. Pentagon planners worry about other countries joining the fight, including Iran.
President Joe Biden, 80, sent the U.S.S. super-carrier Gerald R. Ford and Eisenhower and their strike forces to the Eastern Mediterranean to deter any military response from Iran, Hezbollah or any other Arab state that wants to join Hamas’ fight. Hamas boasted about getting through Israeli Gaza gate to slaughter innocent civilians living in Kibbutzes. IDF officials documented the atrocities of Hamas mass murder, rape, torture and headings of soldiers and children. Hamas’ slaughter has wrecked the narrative about Israeli blockades and occupation. Hamas lost the Biden administration because of the Holocaust-like slaughter, no longer accepting Hamas rationale for its Oct. 7-8 massacre. Biden committed all U.S. resources to defending Israel but, more importantly, allowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to defend Israel in any way he sees fit.
Concerns about a wider escalation of the war take seriously what Iran has planned. Pentagon officials see Iran’s finger prints all over the Hamas attack. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollaaahian meeting in Beirut with Labann’s foreign minister, showed Iran’s direct involvement. Hossein called on the “axis of resistance” in Hezbollah and Popular Mobilization Froces in Iraq to consider joining the fight to help Hamas. Biden told all countries considering joining in to “don’t” in a speech last Sunday of the Holocaust-like slaughter near the Gaza border. “What is funny is that at a time when America is calling on parties of self restraint, it is allowing the criminals in the fake Zionist entity to kill women, children and civilians in Gaza,” Hossein said. Iran and Lebanon, and other Arab states, have enough domesticproblems to get involved in Hamas’ war wit Israel.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
