The Palestinian cause is a wound on the chest of the Islamic Ummah from which blood is still dripping; it is an issue that neither fades with the passage of time nor disappears through deals made by global powers. This is not merely a political dispute; rather, it is a test of the faith, belief, history, and conscience of the Islamic Ummah. Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, known as the “Peace Board,” is not what the oppressed Palestinian people need. Instead, it represents a new form of disarming active resistance movements, formalizing and legitimizing aggression, selling the Ummah’s religious cause, and prolonging oppression.
The Pakistani military regime interprets its participation in this board as being in the interest of the Palestinian people; however, this claim aligns neither with religious principles nor with political reality. When genuine religious scholars, religious movements, and the general public within Pakistan oppose this participation, it in itself strips the action of religious and political legitimacy. Within Pakistan, figures such as Allama Nasir Abbas, leader of Majlis Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen, Senator Mushtaq, and many other well-known personalities have strongly condemned this move and described it as an act against the Ummah. This shows that participation in the Peace Board does not reflect the will or consensus of the Pakistani people, but is rather the product of calculations by the ruling elite.
Political reality indicates that the so-called Peace Board is not intended for the benefit of the oppressed people of Gaza, but rather to safeguard Israel’s security. When, under the name of peace, issues such as disarming Palestinian movements, curbing legitimate religious resistance, and allowing the continuation of Israeli aggression are raised, this is in fact not a peace initiative but a conspiracy to prolong Israeli aggression against Palestine.
The historical record of Pakistan’s mercenary army is the strongest evidence of this deception and its direct involvement. The Palestinian nation has still not forgotten the pain of “Black September” in 1970, inflicted by the Pakistani mercenary army. In September of that year, officers of Pakistan’s military regime, alongside Jordan’s King Hussein, carried out joint operations shoulder to shoulder against the Palestinian resistance and the oppressed people. Pakistani military officers played a very active role in these operations, resulting in the martyrdom of twenty-five thousand innocent Palestinians.
Following the Black September operations against the Palestinians, the King of Jordan awarded Pakistan’s General Zia-ul-Haq the highest national honor of his country as a gift, because in these operations Zia-ul-Haq provided effective intelligence and carried out mass killings against the Palestinians for Israel and the Jordanian monarchy. Regarding those dark September operations, Israeli General Moshe Dayan stated: “Hussein eliminated more Palestinians in eleven days than Israel could eliminate in twenty years.” Zia-ul-Haq was practically involved in these killings.
Just as the Pakistani army in 1970 was practically complicit in the massacre of the oppressed Palestinian people and had previously bargained over the Ummah’s religious cause, the same mercenary army, based on its past stance, is today also ready to strike any deal over the Ummah’s cause to fulfill the strategic needs of the United States and Israel. This very mercenary force is fighting proxy wars against Muslims across the region and the world on behalf of the United States and the West.
In conclusion, it can be said that Pakistan’s participation in the Peace Board and Israel’s satisfaction are two sides of the same deal. This deal tramples upon the rights of the Palestinians and the honor of the Islamic Ummah, and represents one of the darkest pages in Islamic history.
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