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The Post-Gaza World

By Hamid Golpira

28 January, 2009
Tehran Times

Be hopeful but be prepared for the worst. Welcome to the post-Gaza world.

Now that the Gaza war is over, for the most part, everyone is wondering what the post-Gaza world will be like.

In light of the fact that the Israelis committed war crimes with impunity, people are wondering if this means this will be the order of the day throughout the world from now on.

However, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that someone must be held accountable for the wanton attacks on civilians.

Although it is true that the military wing of Hamas carried out Qassam rocket attacks on Israel before the conflict, Israel's war machine responded with an attack on the civilian population of Gaza with disproportionate use of force in an act of collective punishment that violated international law and the rules of war.

A number of questions arise about the post-Gaza world.

Will the UN act on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's call for accountability?

Will Israel be brought to the International Court of Justice?

Will an international tribunal be established to prosecute Israeli officials for war crimes?

If an international tribunal is set up, will the people really responsible for ordering the attack on Gaza be held accountable or will a few Israeli officials be made scapegoats to appease the world's conscience?

Will the international community finally tell Israel it can longer commit war crimes and human rights violations with impunity?

Will reparations be paid to the Palestinians of Gaza?

Will the siege of Gaza end soon?

Will anyone be held accountable for turning the Gaza Strip into a giant concentration camp during the siege?

Will a Palestinian state finally be established in the near future?

Will the masses in Arab countries now rise up against their leaders, who actually did very little to support the Palestinians?

Will Muslims finally wake up to the fact that we are one ummah and realize that the struggle of the oppressed Muslims of Palestine, Kashmir, Chechnya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, and the rest of the world is one struggle?

Will the corporations of the military industrial complex that armed Israel be held accountable?

Will nothing be done, meaning the world is about to enter an era of ultraviolence where international law means nothing?

Since it was obvious that there would be some response from the world, and even Israel's allies, to such a brazen assault on civilians, did the Israeli leadership suddenly suffer from a bout of collective madness or was there some hidden agenda behind the Gaza war?

Was the Gaza war used to test new weapons such as dense inert metal explosive (DIME) bombs?

Will there be an investigation into Israel's illegal use of white phosphorus against civilians?

Will there be an investigation to determine if Israel used depleted uranium in Gaza?

And if it is proven that Israel used depleted uranium in Gaza, does this mean that the Israelis are thinking the unthinkable, namely the Samson Option?

The Samson Option is a mutually assured destruction plan devised by the Zionists many years ago to be implemented if Israel ever finds itself on the verge of collapse and total defeat.

In the doomsday scenario of the Samson Option, Israel would use its nuclear weapons against its enemies in Palestine and other countries, turning Palestine and other parts of the region into irradiated wastelands.

Although no one can predict the future, it appears that nothing will be the same in the post-Gaza world.

Be hopeful, be positive, but be prepared for the worst since the world is entering uncharted territory. Welcome to the post-Gaza world.

 

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