{"id":294130,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294130"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:14:18","slug":"the-deafening-silence-arab-complicity-and-the-normalization-of-evil-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/04\/the-deafening-silence-arab-complicity-and-the-normalization-of-evil-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deafening Silence: Arab Complicity and the Normalization of Evil in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How hypocritical are the Arab leaders, selling Palestine out to the US.\u00a0 Cartoon [Sabaaneh\/MiddleEastMonitor]<\/p><\/div>\n

16 April 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza\u2014an illegal act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population. As famine tightens its grip and American-made bombs rain from the sky, global leaders stand by\u2014paralyzed, indifferent, or willfully complicit\u2014while Israel renders Gaza uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Israel targeted the only functioning medical facility serving over a million people in northern Gaza. Al Ahli Baptist Hospital was given just 20 minutes\u2014in the dead of night\u2014to\u00a0evacuate<\/a>\u00a0hundreds of patients and wounded civilians. This second attack on the medical facility was enabled by then-U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0exoneration<\/a>\u00a0of Israel for its earlier\u00a0massacre<\/a>\u00a0targeting the same hospital in October 2023\u2014an assault that killed over 500 civilians sheltering outside its grounds.<\/p>\n

But this was not an\u00a0isolated attack<\/a>. Hospitals, medical facilities,\u00a0ambulances, and first responders<\/a>\u00a0have been systematically and relentlessly targeted in Gaza as in\u00a0no<\/em>\u00a0other war in modern memory. Doctors have been\u00a0kidnapped<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0killed<\/a>\u00a0while performing surgeries. Ambulances bombed mid-rescue. Entire\u00a0medical complexes<\/a>\u00a0reduced to rubble while filled with patients, newborns, and the wounded. This is not collateral damage\u2014it is a campaign of annihilation against the very institutions meant to save lives. In Gaza, saving lives has become a\u00a0death sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The United Nations, constrained by the U.S. veto power, has failed to pass a resolution demanding an end to what many increasingly recognize as genocide. Meanwhile, the United States\u2014self-styled as a beacon of human rights\u2014actively abets these atrocities. It supplies Israel with massive bombs, including 2,000-pound munitions, enabling their use in densely populated areas. This is not merely a moral failing; it is a flagrant\u00a0violation<\/a>\u00a0of both U.S. and international laws governing military aid.<\/p>\n

Much of this impunity stems from the legacy of Donald Trump emboldened Israel through a series of reckless, one-sided decisions: recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, slashing humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and endorsing illegal Jewish-only colonies on stolen Palestinian land. Trump gave Israel\u00a0carte blanche<\/a>\u00a0to act without fear of accountability. His abject support signaled that no matter how flagrant the violations, there would be no consequences\u2014only more\u00a0weapons<\/a>, more diplomatic protection, and deeper impunity.<\/p>\n

Today, Israel carries out its campaign of destruction while invoking Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cvision<\/a>\u201d for Gaza\u2014an evil blueprint of ethnic cleansing. This vision has become a license of an Israeli roadmap for dispossession, displacement, and death.<\/p>\n

This has indulged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s relentless appetite for Palestinian land\u2014prolong the suffering of Israeli captives, Palestinian prisoners, and the people of Gaza. His refusal to pursue a meaningful ceasefire or prisoner exchange is a calculated political maneuver. The ongoing war serves his far-right racist coalition, distracts from his legal troubles, and consolidates his grip on power while advancing an expansionist agenda. In the process, Gaza has become what can only be described as a starvation death camp\u2014where civilians are punished collectively, denied food, water, medicine, and even hope.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli military raids and settler mobs have escalated dramatically. Entire communities are being\u00a0uprooted<\/a>\u00a0and terrorized with impunity. Yet, the Palestinian Authority (PA)\u2014the supposed protector of Palestinians\u2014has shown paralyzing impotence. Rather than confronting Israeli aggression or protecting its people, the PA functions as a subcontractor for the occupation, policing its own population while Israeli forces and armed settlers freely brutalize civilians. Its failure to act has not only eroded its legitimacy but made it complicit in the very oppression it claims to oppose.<\/p>\n

And still, the international community looks away.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most disgraceful silence comes not from Washington or Brussels\u2014but from Arab capitals. This is not mere neglect or indifference. It is betrayal\u2014a betrayal rooted in cowardice, authoritarianism, and self-preservation at the expense of justice.<\/p>\n

The regimes in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others have become accessories to genocide and complicit in the siege on Gaza. Their silence, their closed borders, their collaboration and normalization with Israel\u2014all point to a level of complicity that history will neither forget nor forgive. As Gaza\u2019s children starve and entire families are buried beneath rubble, Arab leaders ingurgitate in palaces, and issue timid statements devoid of conviction, or consequence.<\/p>\n

It is a painful irony that while protests erupt in cities like London, Paris, and New York, there is near-total silence in Cairo, Riyadh, Amman, and Abu Dhabi. The moral clarity of Western citizens who take to the streets in solidarity with the Palestinians underscores the betrayal of those who claim religious, linguistic, and cultural kinship with them. But the failure is not only at the top. Public apathy, and resignation in many Arab and Muslim societies have enabled this silence\u2014allowing Israel to persist in its crimes. A people conditioned to accept humiliation cannot demand justice.<\/p>\n

The evil of occupation and military aggression is sustained not only through bombs and blockades but through the slow erosion of courage and moral standards. Atrocities once shocking now pass as routine. The world becomes numb. The killing of children, the destruction of homes, and the denial of basic necessities no longer elicit outrage. The question becomes not how such acts are tolerated, but when genocide becomes mere statistics\u2014counting whether more or fewer people were killed today compared to yesterday.<\/p>\n

This normalization turns ordinary people into complicit actors\u2014bureaucrats who process arms shipments, journalists who frame one-sided narratives, citizens who choose silence over dissent. All become part of a system that sustains injustice.<\/p>\n

A genocide is unfolding in real time, and the silence is not just deafening\u2014it is damning. It is time for the people in Arab and Muslim capitals to at least join the protestors in Western cities and break this silence. To speak with moral clarity. To meet the demands of the moment. And to reject the normalization of evil in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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