One of the problems of contemporary history is that it is forced to address major events whose dimensions are not yet clear. Therefore, the final vision of events takes time to reveal their details, motives, and outcomes, and to reveal their documents and secrets. These are documents that the parties that made the event try to control and keep for a while, and some countries withhold what they see of their documents for 10, 20, 30 years, and perhaps more.
A huge event
The "Al-Aqsa Flood" was a huge event that shook many established convictions and imposed a new reality whose dimensions are still being revealed. It leaves its effects on the regional and international environments, which prompted researchers to study it through monitoring and analysis without waiting for its results and goals to be revealed.
The people who are most deserving of looking into it and benefiting from it are Muslims in general, Arabs close to the axis of its occurrence in particular, and Islamists who are primarily concerned with advocacy, education, and movement, as its events and echoes represent an enticement to look and study, and even push towards that as they are a bright light in the darkness of the bleak Arab reality, and an energy of hope and pride after decades of frustration and despair, exacerbated by the deterioration of conditions after the results of the “Arab Spring.”
Common Denominators that Unite People
The perspectives on that great event will certainly differ, as history is multifaceted. Historians have various tendencies and different schools, and it is difficult for the visions of Islamists, secularists, and Arab nationalists, or the starting points of revolutionaries and advocates of change, to agree with advocates of normalization and surrender to the bitter reality in assessing the “Al-Aqsa Flood” about a year after its floods.
Perhaps it is more appropriate for us - when we decide to present the major event in education and upbringing - to search for common denominators that unite us. It is of the utmost importance that we liberate ourselves from political domination over educational institutions in our countries, and the imposition of the governing political vision on them, especially in the general issues that unite the nation, and among its priorities are the Palestinian cause and the liberation of “Al-Aqsa”, and that the will to build the psychological structure of the nation and its future generations in a manner consistent with its identity becomes an undisputed educational requirement, for which the goals of education and its governing values are in agreement.
Constructive Values
From the perspective of constructive values, we find abundant contributions from “Al-Aqsa Flood”. It demonstrated the ability of this nation to rise and awaken, no matter how long its negligence, and to arrange its priorities and impose its correctness despite the pile of foam and dung, for how far the state of the broad masses of the nation before the start of the battle is from its state and concerns after it. The certainty has emerged that liberating the land, restoring Al-Aqsa, defeating the enemy, ending the occupation, and eliminating its state... all of this is not an impossible matter - as depicted in the literature of the era of Arab defeat and humiliation - if the complicit fronts and complicit forces open up around it, and the peoples yearning for the honor of liberation and jihad are liberated.
Ideological Education
The role of ideological education in shaping the Muslim person in Palestine and choosing the path of resistance and jihad has become prominent, which is a path of great cost and dangerous consequences, given the rottenness and stagnation of the Arab reality, the spread of the infection of normalization with the enemy, withdrawal into the narrow national self, and the farewell of the major issues of the nation, and the collapse of ambitions, goals and aims that global colonialism has succeeded in occupying us with and marketing to us.
Dazzling the world with eagerness to be martyred
We have seen the convoys of Mujahideen led by the memorizers of the Holy Quran, and the sons of mosques, remembrance circles, and science lessons, so they dazzled the world with their eagerness to be martyred in the way of Allah, despite the weakness of equipment, the small number, severe hunger, and the scarcity of support, and the leaders advanced the ranks of the martyrs, and they offered precious sacrifices of themselves, their children, and their families, so those searching for a role model no longer prolong the period of history to tell them about the heroes of the Companions and the Followers, and Khalid, Amr, Salah al-Din, and Baybars, while they see before them the role models and examples; God Almighty said (Among the believers are men true to what they promised God. Among them is he who has fulfilled his vow, and among them is he who awaits [his chance], and they have not changed [their commitment] in the least) (Al-Ahzab: 23).
Immortal examples of patience
The harvest of education and knowledge was not limited to the leading elite, or the struggling force, but rather the general people of Gaza set tremendous, immortal examples of patience and support for the resistance, and embracing its sons. The popular incubator in Gaza and the West Bank resisted attempts at subjugation and intimidation and obediently presented tens of thousands of martyrs, satisfied, and the slogan of each one of them was "We are all martyrdom projects."
The models of values that our scientific and educational institutes need have continued, at the forefront of which is the value of self-reliance in building civilization. The Mujahideen have amazed the world with their steadfastness with weapons that they manufactured and developed in their tunnels, in the shadow of a stifling siege for decades. Onlookers have seen the “Qassam” missile, the “Jabari” missile, the “Yassin 101” shell, the “Ghoul” rifle, and others, over which the Mujahid recites the words of God Almighty: (So you did not kill them, but it was God who killed them. And you did not throw when you threw, but it was God who threw, that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, God is Hearing and Knowing) (Al-Anfal: 17), so they penetrate the “Merkavah.” Armored personnel carriers and bulldozers, and the manufacturing and steadfastness continued for nearly a year now, towering over the Arab weapons stores in the cowardly armies that are eaten away by rust!
Surprising the World
That miracle is no less glorious than the success of the resistance in surprising the enemy with all its technology, weapons and fortifications on October 7th in a strategic surprise that has dazzled the world so far, and this and that is no less than a miraculous success in preventing the enemy throughout the year from reaching its prisoners held by the resistance, outperforming the treachery of the enemy's intelligence services and the world that supports it, with its great powers, and its hordes of forces, which do not leave the skies of Gaza searching for a loophole through which they can penetrate and save their face.
Qualitative superiority
The qualitative superiority achieved by the Islamic resistance extends to harnessing the unfavorable geography for the jihad march, by engineering tunnels, and the amazing patience in digging them, distributing them and obscuring their traces, and using them as starting points for invasion, training centers, and points for command, control and combat management.
The lessons that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” provided that our generations need in their institutes and universities were not limited to the military and societal aspects, but rather the political management of the conflict is one of the most important things that needs contemplation and study. Its leaders were keen to continue communicating with their Arab and Islamic surroundings, despite the ingratitude and sorrow, and the betrayal and inaction they encountered.
They impressively managed their difficult political negotiations, and employed military, political and negotiating work in an integrated system that is still steadfast, in the face of an enemy experienced in obstinacy, hostility, argument and setting traps. The battle of “Al-Aqsa Flood” has not yet reached its end, and its repercussions are still occupying the world and interacting with open possibilities. However, successes have been achieved, with great sacrifices and severe hardship. The issue of liberating the usurped land and the captive mosque has returned to impose itself on the agenda of global politics, and the evils of the occupation and the countries supporting it have been exposed. The cloak of democracy and human rights that the Zionist state and the West have mastered covering up with has been torn apart.
The peoples of the earth have witnessed on television screens the massacres against defenseless civilians, the massacres against children and women, and the transformation of Gaza into rubble and debris, with a despicable global moral bankruptcy. People of conscience in the peoples of Europe and America - who demonstrated anger at the brutality of the occupation and its supporters - have been subjected to all kinds of brutality and aggression against their freedoms. The ideological and civilizational dimension of the conflict has become clear to onlookers, which the West and global Zionism have worked hard to hide throughout the past decades.
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