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NST Leader: West must end Israeli occupation

IF the Middle East Eye, a regional news portal, is right, Hamas has received 150 calls from international mediators, including the United States, in just 48 hours asking it to avoid a new Gaza war.

Three calls in one hour is a mark of desperation, especially for the US, a country that is primarily responsible for feeding the Zionist regime in Tel Aviv with money and weapons to continue the almost 74-year war on the unarmed Palestinians.

We tell the US, you are calling the wrong party. Who is the occupier? Israel or Hamas? Hamas didn't start the violence. It was Israel, which, for four days in a row, has been brutally shooting at the Palestinians performing their Ramadan prayers in the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site for the two billion Muslims around the world. How could the Israeli soldiers put their boots on such a holy site just to escort illegal Jewish settlers into the mosque?

We ask Washington, why wait until a rocket is fired into Israel for the call to be made? US president after US president has come and gone in the last 73 years, caring little about the crimes visited on the Palestinians.

There is just no reason to believe that Joe Biden will be any different. When Gaza was burning in May last year, he was in no hurry to intervene. After all, more Palestinians were being killed than Israelis.

Had Gaza been Kyiv, the outcome would be different, as we now know very well. Russia is right. Israel's impunity is a direct result of Washington's servile supplication to the Zionists in Tel Aviv.

So long as Israel's wishes are America's command, peace would not return to the Middle East. The Muddle East it will be until then.

Zionist extremists are bent on building a third Jewish temple in the Al-Aqsa mosque, with the connivance of the Tel Aviv regime. This is not going to happen. The Palestinians and the Muslims around the world will, to the extent international law allows them, stop this from happening. Understandably, the Muslim world is enraged.

In Turkey, protesters were flying the Palestinian flag calling on Arab nations to support the Palestinians in defending their land. In Jordan, protesters carried banners that read "No Zionism on Jordanian land" and "Jordanians are opposed to normalisation of relations with Zionists". Ditto Iraq and Algeria.

Calls for a boycott of Israel are also growing. Slowly, but surely, the Zionists are getting the world riled up.

It is time the Arab nations that "normalised" relations with Israel severed their diplomatic ties with the regime until it returned all the territories it occupied in 1967 to the Palestinians. If they don't, Muslims would not forgive them for being friends with the people who desecrate their holy sites.

In Malaysia, a country that is a unwavering supporter of the Palestinian cause for a homeland, the Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organisation is calling for sanctions to be imposed on Israel.

Palestinians have already made it clear: Israel's Al-Aqsa aggression risks another intifada. The international community must do everything within its means to stop this from happening.

Ukraine war notwithstanding, the West shouldn't watch Palestine burn from a distance. It is inhumane, to say the least, for the West to allow a regime it has weaponised to the hilt to repeatedly brutalise unarmed Palestinians.

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