Souls Not for Sale!

Every country has an ideological narrative. For instance, “Hindutva” or “Akhand Baharat” is the current mantra of India and China follows its principled ideology, which is predicated on the notion that the Marxism is ultimate path to human welfare and socio-economic progress. The State of Israel, by the same token, is eyeing to “Re-establish the 2,000-year-old Jewish State,” while Pakistan’s chiselled slogan is premised on its ideological narrative, i.e. “Pakistan Ka Matlab Kia…La IIaha Illallah” — The meaning of Pakistan is….there is no God but Allah.

With this slogan, Pakistan came into being in 1947 with its more than 90 per cent Muslim population, but the nation disintegrated into two in just 24 years, owing to mishandling and misapplication of its ideological narrative. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s scholars have other explanations for the 1971. On the contrary, Jews from the suburbs of New York City, Paris, Warsaw, and so on have been migrating to the barren and infertile lands of Palestine (now Israel) since the 1920s. Why are they doing so? Is it driven by pent-up desire to found "Greater Israel" and welcome the Jewish “Messiah," deemed "Anti-Christ" by the Muslims and Christians, to rule the world?

It is perhaps not surprising that in a press conference held in March 2020, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the Ministry of Health Yaakov Litzman (a member of the conservative Gur Hasidic Jews Community) said: “We are praying and hoping that Messiah will arrive and redeem us from all the troubles of the world.”

Their bizarre statements have never been mocked. However, in a clear contrast, when Muslim clerics and scholars talk about the return of 'Jesus' and 'Mehdi,' the so-called liberals in the Muslim countries laugh their head off. Was it a conspiracy theory or an anti-Semitic propaganda, the WW1 and the WW2 both orchestrated for the same reason: to carve out the State of Israel. After the denial from the Ottomans to grant land to Jews in Palestine, the WW1 was staged to disintegrate the Muslim Ottoman Empire into more than 30 states.

On the one side, the WW2 was designed to engage the Muslim world in chaos and hunger, while Jews, on the other, garnered the sympathies of Europeans by disseminating false information about the Holocaust, which was solely to establish the Jewish state in Palestine one day. Now, the Jews and Zionists are pursuing a sinister strategy to forcibly create the 'Greater Israel,' a long-term plan that cannot be completed until different battlefields are staged in many parts of the world.

For instance, the unrest in the Middle East, the escalating stand-off between China and India, the ratcheting up of tensions between the US and Iran, the Turkish-Greece dispute over the Aegean, the US-Israel-India nexus vis-a-vis China and Pakistan, and the rapidly-changing policy of Arab states towards Israel. All such instances herald the signs of imminent wars.

The present scenario is likely to increase hostility between India and Pakistan. “Although nuclear powers have never fought in any war, the rift between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue could give impetus to a first nuclear war between them,” said Richard Nixon, the former US President, in an interview in 1992.

The trend suggests the world must brace for a flurry of wars in the near future. In recent years, granting the official recognition de jure to the State of Israel has been a hot-button issue in Pakistan. Many people question why Pakistan does not recognize Israel, since several Arab countries have restored their diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, while many Muslim countries are making a beeline for Tel Aviv.

If Palestinians are assured of their basic human rights, then Pakistan should recognize Israel. Such questions are being raised without reference to context and thus deserve a straightforward answer. First, Jerusalem houses the third-holiest site in Islam: Al-Aqsa Mosque. Secondly, if it’s a matter of granting basic human rights to Palestinians than Pakistan should also recognize the Indian-held Kashmir if India respects and gives basic human rights to subjugated Kashmiri people.

The arguments put forth by the Jews are based on their religious beliefs, as according to Torah or Talmud. the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, Palestine was the land of the Jews about 2,000 years ago and therefore, it is their fundamental right to bring this land back to the Jews. There are two logical counter-arguments to this belief.

First, according to V:85-86, Ch:10 of the Holy Quran: “The followers of Moses (AS) told him that we are Muslims and believe in the oneness of God.”

This corroborates the fact that some 2000 years ago those were Muslims not Jews, who were living in the land of Palestine. If Quranic evidence is not worthwhile for Muslims, then they should allow Jews to capture Madina as 1400 years ago, this holy city was also part of the Jewish land. Instead, the questions should be raised at the international fora that why the land of Palestine was occupied by Jews and rechristened Israel in 1948? What would Muslims do if the Jews build the Third Temple of Solomon after demolishing the Al Aqsa Mosque?

According to the Holy Quran: “You will certainly find Jews and idolaters as the greatest enemies of the Muslims (Ch:5 V:82).”

At present, Israel is facing no threat from the Arab world, but Israel believes that Pakistan could be a potential threat to Israelis. After winning a war against five Arab states in 1967, the first Israeli prime minister and one of the Israel's founding fathers, David Ben Gurion said, “Pakistan is a threat to our existence and danger to Zionist movement." Despite this bitter reality, there is no doubt that Pakistan happens to be an antidote to this “cancer” Israel. That's why false reports circulate in the media that Pakistani officials want to normalize relations with Israel. Pakistanis cannot turn a blind eye to the words of our founding father, Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who said, “Israel is an unlawful state, created by usurping land of Palestinian Muslims."

In response to the Israeli delegation when they asked Pakistan to recognize Israel, Pakistan's first prime minister Liaqat Ali Khan said: “Our souls are not for sale.” The same wisdom must prevail now.