Wednesday 14 January 2009

Palestin dari kaca mata saya

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I asked my classmates, “Kalaulah korang sekarang ni ada kat Palestin, apa korang nak buat?” One of them jawab, “Kalau saya, saya nak bina kubu bawah tanah, cari perlindungan bawah tanah!” I tempelak diorang, dengan nada sinis I cakap, “Kalau akak, akak akan jadi pengebom berani mati!” And the discussion continued. Budak-budak yang bersembang dengan I kat library tu budak-budak baik, I do not have even one problem with them. Kitorang banyak discuss pasal global issues now as this semester ada paper Global Issues untuk budak-budak law. Cuma terasa jugalah nak kutuk pemuda-pemudi Islam zaman sekarang. Ada ke patut pemuda Islam, umur 20 tahun, takde tanggung jawab apa-apa nak jaga keluarga, takde isteri dan anak untuk difikirkan, and ada tu pulak ex-boys Royal Military College, and yet takde jiwa sebagai pejuang Islam, takde semangat nak mempertahankan Islam di bumi Palestin? Sekadar melahirkan simpati dan geleng-geleng kepala bila baca newspapers, orang kafir pun buat macam tu, even Jews kat US and UK pun condemn Israel. Dan bila I tanya critical questions, cuba letakkan diri korang di bumi Palestin, semua idea yang keluar adalah bagaimana untuk menyelamatkan diri sendiri! When I mentioned about suicide bomber, diorang sibuk tanya pasal pandangan agama. I cakap, Yusof Al-Qardhawi dah lama keluar fatwa, suicide bombers di Palestin mati syahid. Boleh pulak diorang tanya, Yusof Al-Qardhawi tu siapa? Huh…

Memang senang nak cakap, tapi belum tentu lagi teraplikasi bila kita in real situation. But at least I berbangga dengan diri I sebab ada cita-cita nak mati syahid mempertahankan Islam. Bukannya dari awal-awal lagi fikir pasal survival of the fittest, fikir untuk hidup berbanding fikir untuk mati dalam keadaan paling mulia. Alhamdulillah, Allah takdirkan hidup I ni di Malaysia, aman makmur tenteram. Tapi kalaulah I ni rakyat Palestin, I tak nak join geng-geng yang usung selimut tilam cari tempat perlindungan ketika Palestin dihujani bom dan peluru. I rasa, seruan jihad di bumi Palestin dah jatuh hukum wajib dah sekarang untuk semua pemuda dan golongan lelakinya, kerana mereka berada dalam situasi peperangan. Perang bukan sekadar untuk mempertahankan negara dah, tapi mempertahankan maruah Islam! Sangat pengecut kalau lari ke sempadan merayu untuk hidup. Sangat pengecut kalau duduk diam berlindung dalam rumah yang kemudiannya dibom, mati sia-sia tanpa anggota tubuh penat berjuang. At least kalau mati kena tembak masa baling batu pun, mati itu mulia dan syahid!

Propaganda media tak habis-habis menayangkan penderitaan rakyat Palestin. Tunjuk darah sana-sini, mayat kanak-kanak di celah runtuhan, kaki tangan putus, bangunan musnah, rakyat Palestin menangis meraung di sisi jenazah saudara mara. Sedar atau tidak, hari-hari kita dimomokkan tentang betapa lemahnya orang Islam, betapa tak terdayanya bangsa Arab Palestin. I jadi sangat marah one day when I watched Al-Jazeera, dengan angkuhnya seorang wanita Israel cakap, “Our people also suffer because of Hamas, but the world only concerns about Palestinians, because the media did not report about our people. And our women do not cry like Arab women!” Memang kurang ajar, but at the same time I realized one thing, orang Islam di bumi Palestin dipotretkan sebagai bangsa yang sangat lemah dan boleh dikeji. Wanita Palestin yang meraung dipandang hina oleh wanita Israel.

Semua orang rasa hiba, sedih dan marah bila lihat mayat kanak-kanak bergelimpangan dalam keadaan tak cukup anggota, robek sana sini, lebam berdarah. I cakap kat semua orang, I tak sedih tengok mayat kanak-kanak. Diorang dah mati, mati ketika kanak-kanak, confirm masuk syurga, now diorang dah dijaga oleh para malaikat dengan aman bahagia. As a mother, I cuba bayangkan kalau anak-anak I mati. Memang gila punya sedih, tak dapat diungkapkan! Itu baru try to imagine, belum jadi betul-betul. Tapi dalam situasi peperangan seperti di Gaza, bila anak mati, itu sebenarnya rahmat. Allah pilih kanak-kanak itu untuk tidak menderita di dunia, sebaliknya bahagia di alam barzakh. I cuma sangat sedih bila tengok kanak-kanak yang survive with severe wounds, tak mati, tapi cedera parah or cacat, itu yang I sedih. Macam mana dengan masa depan mereka? Dan I lagi sedih bila tengok kanak-kanak yang parents diorang mati dibom dan ditembak, in a few seconds diorang jadi anak yatim piatu. Siapa nak jaga kebajikan kanak-kanak tu lepas ni? Anak-anak kita bila kita ambil lewat sikit pun dah menangis. Bayangkan anak-anak yatim piatu Palestin yang dah takde siapa nak jaga diorang, dalam situasi perang pulak tu. Even anak yatim kat Malaysia yang aman damai ni pun banyak yang tak terbela.

I read one article yang berjaya mengubah my perspective tentang isu Palestin. That article said, daripada kita asyik melaporkan tentang penderitaan rakyat awam Palestin, lebih baiklah kita fokus pada semangat jihad yang ada pada Hamas dan rakyat Palestin yang berjuang, juga pada Muslims all over the world yang bersatu menentang Israel. The point is, instead of you reveal kelemahan Islam, you show to the whole world tentang kekuatan tentera Islam. Tunjukkan bagaimana gigihnya tentera Hamas berperang. Tunjukkan bagaimana pengorbanan anggota paramedik dan doktor di Palestin. Tunjukkan sukarelawan-sukarelawan dari seluruh dunia yang sekarang ni tengah giat berlatih untuk dihantar berperang ke Palestin. Like Muslims in Indonesia and Afghanistan, beratur panjang nak register untuk pergi berperang. Itulah semangat yang perlu ditiup pada orang Islam, tunjukkan umat Islam tak gentar! Ini tidak, media asyik refer Hamas as militants. Lepas tu satu dunia condemn US sebab berdiam diri atas tindakan Israel. Lantaklah US tu, dia negara kafir, for sure dia takkan sokong negara Islam. Jom kita pakat-pakat kutuk negara Arab, saudara seIslam yang duduk dekat pun diorang tak berani nak protect. Iran tolong Palestin, tapi bagi senyap-senyap sebab takut nak reveal pada dunia. Arab Saudi yang diamanahkan Allah menjaga Kaabah, dianugerahkan Allah dengan kekayaan minyak, pun tak buat apa-apa. Kalau tak berani mati syahid sekali pun, cukuplah sekadar bagi duit bilion-bilion untuk kelengkapan senjata Palestin. Dan Malaysia juga bodoh, of course kita takut nak hantar tentera kita bantu secara official kat Palestin. Tapi rakyat Malaysia yang personally volunteer untuk pergi berperang pun akhirnya kena sumbat masuk ISA sebab dituduh militan, macam anak Tok Guru Nik Aziz tu, Ustaz Nik Adli yang pernah berperang di Afghanistan.

I am a woman, apa sangatlah yang I mampu buat. But at least perlu ada semangat untuk mempertahankan Islam. Malulah wahai lelaki-lelaki Islam di luar sana yang ada jiwa pengecut! Of course kita takkan mampu untuk pergi berperang di Palestin, tapi dalam jiwa kita perlu ada rasa ingin mati syahid andai katalah negara dan agama kita ditindas begitu. Seketika I cuba bayangkan kalaulah I ni wanita Palestin. Izinkanlah dan berilah semangat untuk suami, ayah, abang dan saudara lelaki kita pergi berperang. Bersedialah untuk menerima berita syahid pada bila-bila masa dengan redha dan syukur, kerana syahid itu adalah jaminan ke syurga. Sebagai isteri dan ibu, tugas kita untuk menjaga anak-anak kecil ketika tiada anggota keluarga lelaki boleh memimpin keluarga kita dalam situasi perang. Andai suami kita syahid, amanah di bahu kita untuk membesarkan anak-anak kita menjadi Muslim yang soleh dan berguna. Andai suami kita hidup, bersyukurlah dan simpatilah pada balu-balu yang suami mereka syahid. I rasa di Palestin sekarang, dah jadi keperluan untuk lelaki di sana kahwin 4, sebab ramai lelaki gugur di medan perang, ramai wanita menjadi balu dan ramai kanak-kanak terkorban. Lahirkan seramai mungkin zuriat sebagai kesinambungan bumi Palestin seterusnya.

Ketika dunia memandang simpati pada Palestin, bukankah sebenarnya rakyat Palestin bertuah kerana diberi peluang oleh Allah untuk berjihad dan mati syahid?!!!

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Tuesday 13 January 2009

Pictures of Hamas’ most wanted "terrorists"


[ 12/01/2009 - 12:29 AM ]

By Khalid Amayreh
The "Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)" on Sunday released the pictures of some of Hamas’ most wanted “terrorists” it said it has killed since the start of the Israeli onslaught in the Gaza Strip more two weeks ago.
An Israeli spokesman told foreign reporters in Jerusalem that the world community, especially Americans and Europeans, shouldn’t be deceived by the ostensibly young age of the killed terrorists.
“They may look young to you and me. But these people are terrorists at heart. Don’t look at their deceptively innocent faces, try to think of the demons inside each of them.”
The spokesman, Nachman Abramovic, said he was “absolutely certain” that these people would grow to be “evil terrorists if we allowed them to grow.”
“If you were in our shoes, would you allow them to grow to kill your children or finish them off right now”?
Asked if he was worried about possible criticisms from the international community, Abramovic said he was not worried a bit because “We are only defending ourselves.”
“Would you apologize for defending yourself if another person attacked you without any provocation,” the Israeli spokesman asked an American reporter.
Impressed by the answer, the American reporter said “You are right, Sir, absolutely.”
The IDF spokesman added that Israel didn’t really target civilians in Gaza and that the world should fall into trap of Hamas's propaganda.
“I challenge serious news media to prove that we have killed a single innocent civilian in Gaza .
“Don’t tell me Aljazeera said this or CNN said that. You know all these people are anti-Semites and can’t be relied upon to tell the truth.”
He added that in any case, honest and moral people ought to differentiate between “true human beings” and “human animals.”
“We do kill human animals, and we do so unapologetically. Besides who in the West is in a position to lecture us on killing human animals. After all, whose hands are cleaned?”
Another Israeli spokesman, Tzipora Menache, said she was not immensely worried about negative ramifications that Operation Cast Lead might have on the way the Obama administration would view Israel .
“You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House.”
“You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable.”
Asked if she was not worried that her remarks would cause a public relations disaster, Menache said “what can they do to us. We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, we control everything in America.
“In America you can criticize G-d, but you can’t criticize Israel .”Now, after this imaginary but very realistic introduction, we shall view the pictures of these “evil terrorists.”
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Sunday 11 January 2009

The Israeli Occuopation has failed in its war on Gaza



Mishaal: The Israeli occupation has failed in its war on Gaza
[ 11/01/2009 - 12:34 PM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, said that the Israeli occupation has completely failed in its war stressing that with their ugly crimes they have created resistance in every house and every town when their stated aim was to destroy the resistance.
He said in a televised speech on Saturday evening that the Israeli occupation war is not a war against Hamas, it is a war against all Palestinian people, against the Palestinian cause and against the whole Ummah.
He said that the occupation set itself aims, but these aims started to erode with time, the enemy wanted to end the Hamas control of Gaza, end the resistance and put a strop to resistance rockets to impose solutions that will lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
He added that the Israeli occupation has failed in its aim, but admitted that the Israeli occupation succeeded in something else; "It succeeded in its shameful atrocities against our children and women, in numerous massacres, in locking people in their homes then treacherously bombing those homes, kidnapping and executing [Palestinian young men] and committing a real holocaust in Gaza."
His message to the Zionist occupation was that with their ugly war on Gaza, they have killed the last chance of a peaceful resolution because the people stopped believing in such a process after years of futile negotiations.
He added that with these atrocities against the Palestinian children and women in the Gaza Strip, the Zionist entity has succeeded in shortening its own life.
With regard to political moves and initiatives Mishaal said nothing less than a complete halt of the aggression, withdrawal of occupation troops and total lifting of the siege will be accepted to have a truce. He called for opening all crossings topped by Rafah. He championed in this respect a new agreement on administering the Rafah border terminal.
He stressed the Palestinians have the right to resist as long as there is occupation and that his movement will not accept any initiative compromising Palestinian rights.
He also rejected the deployment of international forces in Gaza and said that they would be considered as another occupation army.
The Hamas leader finally called on the Arab countries to convene in an emergency summit to deal with the situation in Gaza.
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