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On October 7, 2023, a new era for the Palestinian cause began, characterized by resistance, confrontation, and initiative. The old era, marked by inadequate solutions, trading in the struggle, and explicit or concealed betrayals, came to an end.
On October 7, 2023, the world awoke to a new reality, declaring the Palestinian cause loud and clear. It announced a new phase of action and thinking, shedding light on terrorizing the enemy, as it’s not frightening enough to instill fear and disturb comfort seekers and those who shy away from the fight!
1948 Land
For 80 years, Arabs and Muslims have pleaded to the Arab League, the United Nations, and the so-called international community in vain. However, the return of resistance, which is jihad in Islamic terms, the obligation obscured by routed ideologies, has prompted the enemy—perhaps for the first time since the October 1973 Ramadan War—to engage in combat on the “Land of 1948,” considered off-limits. Fighters for faith and freedom face the enemy with their modest capabilities amid a comprehensive and fierce siege since 2006, incurring significant losses for the enemy and dragging its dignity into the dirt.
For the first time, the occupiers are compelled to evacuate from the enclave of Gaza (600,000 displaced Jews). They have waged a prolonged war, supported by warships, aircraft carriers, and air supply lines with ammunition and weapons from Washington, London, and Paris. This war has not ceased until the writing of these lines. In the past, there were fleeting wars outside the “Land of 1948,” with no real confrontations except in the Ramadan War.
On October 7, 2023, the enemy suffered considerable losses: men, weapons, prisoners, and the false propaganda he imposed on the world, in addition to economic losses estimated at more than $250 million daily due to the mobilization of reserves (350,000), the complete or partial shutdown of its institutions and factories, the collapse of tourism, and the closure of many airports around the world in the face of its planes. Then came the painful blow of the boycott of companies that supported it in the West or have agents in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Moreover, the “Al-Aqsa Flood” revealed to Arabs and Muslims the truth about those who claim to be fighters, advocates of normalization, and supporters of so-called peace (submission more accurately), as well as the advocates of the Abrahamic religion.
Savage nature
The operation also revealed the enemy's barbaric and bloody nature that started a century and a half ago, as its elements began working to dismantle the Ottoman Caliphate, tear apart Islamic countries, and impose Western culture in its ugliest forms. They created anti-Islam and anti-Muslim elites, leading the nation towards backwardness and decadence, preoccupying it with conflicts and bloody disputes, and turning it into the scapegoat of nations where every adventurer exploits it. All that remains is to reach out to every oppressor, seeking loans, aid, and gifts, despite possessing wealth and resources that others do not have.
The Forgotten Path
The “Al-Aqsa Flood” has brought back the people to their forgotten path, the path of the Quran, which the malicious elites felt ashamed of and worked to keep away from people's lives, legislation, and behavior. They waged war against it in education, media, and culture. Under the threat of weapons, Muslims in Islamic countries became strangers, rejected, and hated. Films, dramas, articles, and leaders' speeches portray them as terrorists who oppose life, while they admire the murderous Jewish invaders and their Western masters as advocates of divine killing! Today, the Quranic approach is the path to liberating Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem, and Palestine, even if these elites and their makers detest it.
Resistance based on an Islamic vision that believes in victory or martyrdom has made the nations of the Muslim Ummah reclaim their Islamic identity that has been absent and erased by the West and the Jews for a long time. The enemy achieved many gains due to this absence, causing countless losses to the nation under the influence of expatriate, weak, and Jewish-influenced elites. The irony is that some of these elites, who are supposedly preachers, describe the resistance as the Khawarij, or the creators of discord! Instead of strengthening their determination and supporting them, they provide free service to the enemy by demonizing and criminalizing the resistance. As we witness the magnificent heroism of the resistance in the fighting on the land of Gaza and see the destruction of the “Merkava” tank and the defeat of the strongest fighting elements among the enemy ranks.
While we read the words of one of the wretched servants of the remnants and the defeatists about supporting the resistance, he attacks the leaders of the resistance and its approach. He diminishes their efforts and jihad, claiming falsely: “They hide in their tunnels and sell their people for dirt cheap! Unfortunately, these are the ones whom the nation glorifies—a group of cowards, blood merchants, and the root cause of the region's troubles. A true, sincere, and courageous leader stands with his followers, leading them from the front. Their concern is this world, yet you find people whose minds have been misled, fighting for nothing, losing their lives for leaders who have sold them for dirt cheap...!”
If this wretched had bothered to read some history of nations liberating their countries from invaders, he would know that resistance is one of the noble phenomena that sprouted in eras of defeat, humiliation, and subjugation. Does this utilitarian creature have the capacity to look, for example, at Latin America and see what the people there sacrificed to liberate their countries and lands from invaders, tyrants, and traitors?
The Remnants and the Passives
“Those who remained behind rejoiced in their staying [at home] after [the departure of] the Messenger of Allah and disliked to strive with their wealth and their lives in the cause of Allah and said, "Do not go forth in the heat." Say, "The fire of Hell is more intensive in heat"—if they would but understand.” (At-Tawbah: 81) The remnants followed the guidance of the advocates of divine killing, who are called in the West Christian Zionists, and fiercely supported the enemy. They signed agreements that the enemy would have never dreamed of, politically, economically, logistically, and media-wise. Some of them even established temples for Jews in their countries and constructed a replica of the so-called “Wailing Wall” for the invading murderous Jews to visit during their tourism!
The “Al-Aqsa Flood” ruined the normalization schemes, whether they were forced or voluntary, and provided people with evidence that the murderous invading Jews would not lean towards peace or accept coexistence with others. The agreements they sign are merely temporary truces where they rest, strengthen themselves, and prepare to pounce on their distant goal, from the Nile to the Euphrates!
People’s Genocide
The vicious elites that propagated the hypocrisy of Christian Zionism regarding human rights, children's rights, women's liberation, international cooperation, the independence of nations, and their rights to defend themselves have been unmasked. At the same time, they exploit and plunder resources, combat beliefs, confiscate freedoms, directly or indirectly subjugate women and children, support Jewish invaders, endorse their massacres, shed tears for them, and encourage them to kill, destroy, and sabotage. They also prevent fuel, food, medicine, and treatment and bombard hospitals, committing genocide against innocent and oppressed people.
Frantic brutality
Those elites, who have gone rogue after the enemy has been blindsided by the resistance and it has been proven that ideology can only be resisted with ideology, did not anticipate that the resistance would make a considerable number of invaders reassess themselves and leave permanently from occupied Palestine. Some even referred to the butcher Netanyahu as an “engineer of destruction.” They boldly declared that the Zionist entity is a racist, terrorist, and bloodthirsty entity. Even the terrorist and the son of the terrorist, Miko Peled, who was a distinguished fighter in the Zionist military elite, left the Zionist army and became a peace advocate, one of the strongest opponents of the continued existence of the Zionist entity, and one of the harshest critics of its military brutality. According to “Reuters,” he believes that the only solution to the Palestinian cause is a liberated Palestine from the river to the sea.
Martyrs Live!
These elites are quick to condemn the resistance by citing the number of martyrs and wounded, reaching nearly 40,000, but they conveniently forget that the United States killed over half a million in Vietnam and more than two million Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, through the valiant resistance of the people, they managed to break the chains of defeat and disgrace. This is what will happen, in Allah’s will, in Palestine.
As the Quran says: “And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision. Rejoicing in what Allah has bestowed upon them of His bounty, and they receive good tidings about those [to be martyred] after them who have not yet joined them—that there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve. They receive good tidings of favor from Allah and bounty and [of the fact] that Allah does not allow the reward of believers to be lost—those [believers] who responded to Allah and the Messenger after injury had struck them. For those who did good among them and feared Allah is a great reward. Those to whom hypocrites said, 'Indeed, the people have gathered against you, so fear them.' But it [merely] increased them in faith, and they said, 'Sufficient for us is Allah, and [He is] the best Disposer of affairs.' So they returned with favor from Allah and bounty, no harm having touched them. And they pursued the pleasure of Allah, and Allah is the possessor of great bounty. That is only Satan who frightens [you] of his supporters. So fear them not but fear Me, if you are [indeed] believers.” (Quran, Al-Imran 169-175)
The genocide of Gaza has prompted the Islamic nations to revisit history, particularly the history of the Crusades, as history repeats itself, even though the elites in the Islamic countries seem to be blinded in confusion.
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