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Recent visit
My wife met a Woman called Rabiha who is about 35 years old. Years in an Israeli torture chamber gave the impression that she was twice her age. She walked like an old woman - in pigeon steps, her hair grey and her body frail. Whilst in prison her nails and teeth had been extracted from her body, she was subjected to torture by extremes of temperature, firstly cold water was thrown over her, and then placed in a Sauna like chamber. Months in solitary confinement took its toll, with sleep deprivation, and injection with chemicals which made her forget what had happened the previous day. During this time, her parents did not know whether she was alive or dead.
Abu Haadi lives in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) he described bereavement as the British frequently remark about the rain, it is a fact of life. Not just donations of food and clothing, because although they stem from a sincere desire by the Muslims to help them, they were simply not enough. When the aid manages to get through to the areas which require it, they satisfy the hunger and the cold for a short period of time, but fail to remove the Asbaab (causes) of the hunger, cold and killing. He spoke passionately that this was not liberation. The Muslims carry stones as opposed to the Israelis who have F-16’s and Tanks, they require more than this, they require the Armies in the Muslim world to liberate them, but whilst these armies are led by rulers who report to the West they will remain shackled. He said it is only by removing these rulers and re-establishing the sincere Khaleefah will we be liberated. He was adamant that this issue was an Islamic cause and not a ‘Palestinian struggle’ .
At a checkpoint on the way to Al-Khalil (Hebron), an Israeli soldier stopped us, he asked for our ‘Hawiyya’ (I.D’s), my wife and her two female relatives handed their papers over along with my British Passport. The soldier gazed at me and repeated sternly three times ‘Hawiyya’, I told him I was from Britain and only had my passport, he threw the passport at me and ordered us to go back to Jerusalem. On the way back to the end of the tailback of cars waiting (suffering) to pass through we were asked by a van driver who had spotted our Jerusalem number plates, and was bewildered to find us having been turned back. I had found that possessing Jerusalem number plates enabled access to most areas. We told him that they had rejected our passing because I had a British passport, that bewildered him even more. He turned around and said ‘follow me, I will take you to Al-Khalil’. He took us to a road leading to Al-Khalil that bypassed the checkpoints, these random acts of kindness reinforce the feeling of brotherhood, and are a far cry from the individualism that pervades western society. Would someone go out of their way to help if there didn’t exist any material gain, from my experience the answer is no.
We heard prior to entering Al-Khalil that the Munat Al-Jawwal (Curfew) had been imposed and we knew that this meant legalised enforcement of a pervasive ‘shoot to kill’ policy.
When we entered Al-Khalil after hours of delay at the checkpoint and taking the less than orthodox route, we stayed at the house of my wife’s uncle, Abu Emaad. We saw the pockmarks caused by bullets and shrapnel which left a ‘coral-like’ texture upon the outer walls of his house. Having observed Israeli soldiers perched above a neighbours house, we enquired what they were doing there. We were told they had commandeered the upper part of the house as a makeshift watchtower to police the curfew. After a while they had made the home their own, and the owners of the house were forced to move to a relatives home. ‘The Israelis have the right to confiscate any house, and utilise its fixtures and fittings as if it were their own as part of their War on Terror!’, said Abu Emaad shaking his head.
The next day
At breakfast we empathised with our host for the conditions he was forced to endure, observing that the incessant fire of weapons must be extremely difficult to fulfil even the most basic need of sleep. Abu Emaad gave a bewildered look to his wife and inquired ‘was there any fire last night’, months of weapons fire had made most of Khalil’s inhabitants accustomed to the ‘background noise’. After stepping out of the house we saw that the indentations had increased, but Abu Emaad was more concerned about the other houses surrounding his. We heard the news from Al-Quds that one of my wife’s relatives, who as a taxi driver had taken an Israeli to the destination he had asked to be taken to only to be told he wanted to be taken elsewhere, this continued until Taha requested that his malicious fare get out of his Taxi and pay for his journey. He refused to pay, stepping out of the Taxi, he felt a heavy thud to his skull, falling to the ground as blood gushed from his head, his assailant proceeded to jump on his chest. His injury was so serious his mother failed to identify him in hospital while he was unconscious. This was the physical injury to him, which by the will of Allah, will heal, the psychological effects will take longer to fade. If this were to happen anywhere else in the world, the police would be called and they would work to apprehend the criminal.
Electricity has been cut in his neighbourhood and his water is taken from a well from the bottom of his garden. He is one of the ‘lucky ones’ since his well wasn’t ‘treated’ by the Israeli forces.
This attitude towards the ‘Sulta’ (or the PNA) is widespread in many West Bank towns. With Arafat imprisoned in his ‘own’ Ramallah headquarters people speak out saying ‘he has finally endured a small taste of the pain and suffering which we have faced over 54 years!’ For it was during occupation he was safely tucked away in Tunis and later ‘..he was not camera shy when posing for photo calls and interviews while he signed away Palestine!
Self Defence
Outside of most towns there are settlements that are even according to international law, and the agreements that have been signed, blatantly illegal. Yet these same illegal settlers are afforded rights the Palestinian Muslims or Christians can only dream about. When the water is cut off to the towns and villages so that a family does not have fresh drinking water, the settlements are given a supply to keep their plush gardens continually laden with green grass. Another right is the right of the settlers to bear arms. As we entered and left Ben Gurion airport there was a special queue for the settlers to pick up their fire arms. If you’re a ‘Palestinian’ you can be shot for holding anything which vaguely resembles a weapon.
Leaving
The inevitable questioning at the airport for anyone with a vaguely Islamic name is Israel’s way of making you think twice about ever returning, a quirk of its tourist industry. Where did I go? Who did I meet? Where did I stay? Every possible question is posed and is a mere taste of life under Israeli rule for the indigenous population.
Sometimes we look at our lives and see a mountain of problems, and we get bogged down to the level of believing no one has weightier problems than ourselves. Yet the Muslims I spoke to had so much concern for the problems Muslims faced throughout the rest of the world, as though their problems were insignificant. So often were the questions turned to the rest of the Islamic lands - How is the struggle for Allah’s Deen in Uzbekistan? Is there any news from Pakistan? May Allah (Subhanhu Wa Ta’aala) protect the Muslims of Kashmir from the evil plans of Musharraf and the US!
In this land, the people are also awaiting the news of the re-establishment of the Khilafah, and for the Ameer of the Khilafah’s Army to liberate them from the Zionist onslaught in order that their ranks are united with the rest of the Islamic Ummah.
In Britain or America people say everyone knows someone who has been a victim of some criminal act whether that be burglary, assault, murder rape etc. In Palestine everyone knows of someone who has been killed, whether they be a family member or a neighbour. My wife’s brother Ibrahim was killed by Israeli fire in the October massacre as he was leaving Masjid Al-Aqsa after Jum’uah prayers, he was fifteen years old and his parents received his body, his clothes soaked with blood, the devastation covered them like a cloak, he was their only son yet they were thankful to Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’aala) that they had a Shaheed from their family.
Final Message from the Ahl-ul Ribaat
Al-Tabarani narrated that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said: “The best of your Jihad is Ribaat and your best Ribaat is in Asqalan”, which is a city in Palestine at the Mediterranean. The word Ribaat means: living right at the frontiers with the intention of frightening the enemy and simultaneously expecting to be frightened by him. So the Muslim scholars say: None of the Muslims today can make Ribaat neither in Asqalan nor anywhere else due to the absence of the real Jihad, which is normally declared by the Khaleefah! On the other hand, there are no frontiers to which Muslims can practise Ribaat due to the non-existence of Khilafah State.
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