Why all eyes on Rafah?

Why all eyes on Rafah? The level of barbarity the world witnessed in Rafah from the recent airstrikes by Israel has generated a psychological shockwave among humanity. Such horrific incidents have already happened in history during Adolf Hitler’s era, and those incidents, which happened in the absence of modern technology, are still mourned, condemned, and criticized.

On the other side of the mirror, we see no condemnation, criticism, or mourning by Western countries over the butchery and genocide happening in Palestine today. We need to understand the background and dynamics of the genocide happening today in Palestine and who has supported it in the past.

Prior to World War I, a narrative started building up that Jews were a minority in Germany and should have a separate land to protect their identity. This narrative gained success after World War II when Adolf Hitler initiated the genocide of the Jews behind the gates of several concentration camps, which were made to torture and kill Jews. There are several horrific inside stories of concentration camps, specifically Auschwitz, which was the biggest among all camps where humans were burned alive or thrown into boiling furnaces.

On several occasions, Hitler said Jews were not humans and did not deserve to live.
The narrative that had been building since the beginning of World War One finally materialized into the idea that Jews should be given a separate land to preserve their identity and community on humanitarian grounds. This narrative was floated, matured, and implemented by the British government.

However, it is essential to understand why only Jews were considered a minority and a special human race. There were several other communities in Africa that were also tortured, enslaved, and butchered by influential US and British people. The logic behind choosing Jews as a minority and giving them a separate land to flourish their generations was a long-term strategy to dismantle the rising power of the Ottoman Empire and the Muslims, who were spreading across the world and the Middle East.

Several manipulations were carried out by the British, as seen in the subcontinent also. The separation of India and Pakistan was justified by the British as being based on Hindu-Muslim riots, which were not prevalent before their arrival and same people who had been living in peace were divided, with Kashmir becoming a lifelong conflict between the two newly formed nations.

Bangladesh was initially given to Pakistan as an integral part, sandwiching India between East and West Pakistan, in order to keep the area in turmoil and preventing the two nations from becoming good friends and neighbors again. On the other side of map, the sudden rise of conflicts in the Middle East against the Ottoman Empire, the sudden rise of the Saud family in the Middle East, and riots in Egypt against the Ottoman Empire were fueled by a vision presented by the British of making them separate nation with their own land.

Most importantly, after all these manipulation on world map, the British government presented partition plans that dismantled the Ottoman Empire into several separate states and India – Pakistan were also bifurcated, with a longterm conflict over Kashmir, while the British still named themselves Great Britain. Indeed, these were all strategic moves. However, the greatest stroke by the British was yet to be seen by the world, which was ensuring that Muslims could not unite as a global community or will be threatening the monopoly of British power.

The master stroke was to place Jews in the area of Canaan (known as Palestine today), because the British had well researched and learned that historically, Muslims’ relations with Jews had always remained strained. The last war between Jews and Muslims was the Battle of Khaybar, which was won by muslims but their mutual animosity will keep them engaged in conflicts due to their hatred against each other, ensuring that the Middle East would remain an area of turbulence forever. To settle these issues, Muslims would turn to the British, who could easily control them.

The same divide and rule strategy was applied in the subcontinent. The points of contention in the Middle East, in the form of Israel, and in the subcontinent, Kashmir, were strategically placed to provoke Muslim sentiments frequently. In the partition plan, 52% of the land was allocated to Jews and 48% was given to the native Arabs residing in Palestine. Control of Jerusalem was given to the British and later handed over to the USA. Jerusalem was an important city for all three religions: Islam, for Al Aqsa Mosque; Christianity, for the oldest church; and Judaism, for the Western Wall (the Wailing Wall). Such partition was, and still is, considered an ideal example of a divide and rule strategy.

Later, when control was handed over to the USA, the importance of such manipulated geography was well understood by Americans. They exploited these demarcations to their advantage, supporting the Jews after the creation of Israel. Several Arab-Israeli wars and Intifadas were fought over territorial issues, but nothing successful happened for the Arabs, as Israel was supported by the superpower in terms of technology, weaponry, banking systems, and much more.

The displacement or sidelining of native Palestinian people into the Gaza Strip was preplanned, as the area directly connects to international waters and ports. This opportunity to control the area was kept as a reserve strategy to be utilized in times of need. Currently, the USA is manipulating this reserve strategy for several reasons, including controlling China’s influence in the Middle East by creating turbulence in the region, undermining China’s rising economy, testing the strength and unity of Muslim countries, demonstrating power dynamics in the region, and transforming the Gaza Strip into an international port area as a new economic hub to support the struggling US economy via Israel.

For the USA, the native Palestinians are considered as useless human race occupying the most important area in the region, which could be converted into the greatest economic hub. Iran attempted to oppose the massacre/genocide, and the USA allegedly demonstrated its power through the mysterious death of the Iranian President, which has served as a warning to all world leaders.

There is a dire need to understand the motives and logic behind the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The area is strategically being isolated from all corners (Gaza – Rafah), and it will later be isolated from the center as well, and control over Palestine will be announced. Merely supporting Palestine and engaging in social media campaigns like “All Eyes on Rafah” will yield no fruitful results, as the entire technology, media, banking systems, and other major economic activities of the world are controlled by the USA, which is supporting the genocide for its own economic benefit.

There is no solution to this genocide and ethnic cleansing unless Muslim countries join hands for this greater cause. Still, a thought-provoking question arises: Are we drifting towards World War 3? The answer is absolutely not, as each country is focused on growing its own economy amidst an ongoing or generated worldwide recession. All eyes are shut in sweet slumber, and ears are gently closed to the Palestinian genocide, including economic powers like China and Russia.