Two years after the “Al-Aqsa Storm”: The Palestinian people are facing not only Israeli tanks but also a total conspiracy of silence and normalization that is cementing their grave.
Muhammad Hamid ad-Din
This is not a “statement.” It is an indictment, written in the blood of over 67,000 martyrs, carved onto the walls of destroyed hospitals and schools, dictated by the cries of children starving to death. It accuses not merely “silence” or “betrayal.” It accuses conscious, calculated, and unprecedented complicity in the destruction of an entire people.
Three forces have united in this crime: Israel – as the executioner with a bloody axe; the U.S. and its Western satellites – as the engineers and sponsors of the slaughter, providing cover; and the puppet regimes of Arab leaders – as the assistants who hold the victim down during the execution. And the so-called “international community” looks on in silence, only occasionally issuing hypocritical calls for “restraint” as the crematoriums in Gaza operate at full capacity.
Arab Betrayal: From Solidarity to Complicity in Murder
Hamas’s words about “unprecedented betrayal” are not hyperbole. They are a statement of fact, jarring in its monstrous obviousness. For generations, the Palestinian hope, their last bastion of dignity, was anchored in faith in the Arab street—in the belief that one day the voice of the people would break through the barriers of palaces and become a real political force. That hope has ended. It was buried under the rubble of “normalization” deals—that cynical euphemism for trading in Palestinian blood.
Washington, and Brussels can continue their feast in the time of plague. But they cannot cancel one thing—the unshakable will of a people who, having lost everything except their dignity, continue to fight
The normalization of relations with Israel by countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan, while Israeli bombs were falling on Gaza’s residential neighborhoods, is noted in the Hamas statement as a form of surrender. While people were dying in Gaza, these states not only maintained diplomatic ties with the occupier but actively expanded them: multi-billion dollar trade deals were signed, joint military exercises were held, and intelligence cooperation was established. Economic ties with Israel have become the axis around which a new Middle East revolves—a region where the Palestinian issue is considered an inconvenient relic of the past. The price of this “stability” is the 67,000 and counting victims in Gaza.
The most despicable aspect of this betrayal has been the war that Arab regimes have declared on their own citizens. Under the pretext of “fighting extremism” and “ensuring stability,” mass protests were banned, and solidarity rallies were dispersed with unprecedented brutality. Activists and ordinary citizens who dared to take to the streets with Palestinian flags faced detention, torture, and prison sentences. In Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, the repressive apparatuses worked at full capacity to stifle the cry of popular anger. While Gaza was dying, Arab leaders were crushing those who tried to speak up for it.
The apex of betrayal was the statement by the Arab League in July 2025, calling for the disarmament of Hamas and its removal from power in Gaza as part of a postwar settlement. This is not just a marginalization of their interests, but a genuine political assassination—an attempt to finish off the Palestinian Resistance using the hands of those who were supposed to protect it. This plan, developed essentially in Washington and Tel Aviv, was voiced by Arab mouths to give it the appearance of “regional consensus,” an act of the highest treachery.
The Architects: Washington and the West
In this tragedy, the U.S. and the West are not observers but architects. If Israel is the bullet, then the U.S. is the finger pulling the trigger, and Europe is the factory producing the ammunition. Their guilt lies in active, deliberate, and uninterrupted complicity.
On the diplomatic front, the U.S. has de facto legalized genocide on the international stage, repeatedly vetoing UN Security Council resolutions for a ceasefire. Each such veto became a death sentence for thousands of Palestinians and a political endorsement of another bombing of a school or hospital. Their rhetoric about “Israel’s right to self-defense” against a population imprisoned in an open-air prison is a model of cynicism.
Military support is expressed in concrete weapons: 2,000-pound aerial bombs that destroy entire city blocks, white phosphorus munitions, and air defense systems protecting the executioner’s sky. In the last year alone, the U.S. Congress authorized over $14 billion in weapons supplies, where every dollar and every rocket is complicity. The European Union, for all its hypocritical rhetoric, continues its multi-billion dollar trade with Israel, financing its war machine.
Completing this picture is the information war, where Western media have become a propaganda mouthpiece for Tel Aviv. Any resistance to the occupation is immediately branded as “terrorism,” Palestinian martyrs become “militants,” and their children “future terrorists.” The systematic demonization of an entire people is a classic tactic to justify their physical destruction. While major TV channels lament the “complex situation,” they are participating in creating the ideological conditions for the slaughter to continue.
The International Community: A Cynical Theater of Indifference and Beacons of Resistance in Absolute Darkness
The modern system of international relations today appears not as a bulwark of justice and law, but as a helpless, impotent house of cards. Institutions like the UN and numerous human rights organizations, whose mission was proclaimed to be preventing wars and protecting humanity, have in practice reduced their role to that of a notary, merely formalizing death sentences.
This crisis is most starkly embodied in the United Nations, which Hamas believes has been transformed by the West from a project designed to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” into a graveyard for resolutions. It is a platform for endless and empty debates, whose humanitarian appeals are systematically ignored and whose reports on war crimes are dismissed. The case of the International Court of Justice in The Hague is telling; having recognized the “plausibility” of acts of genocide, it found itself in a state of legal paralysis and was unable to take effective measures to stop it. However, this paralysis is not accidental but a consequence of a system that, by its very design, is incapable of holding Western powers and their allies to account.
This impotence is closely intertwined with monstrous double standards that have become an unspoken norm. The reaction of the so-called Western “civilized world” to the war in Gaza has exposed this racist approach in all its ugliness. While Russia, countering Western aggression in Ukraine, faced crushing sanctions, total isolation, and immediate accusations of war crimes, Israel, committing crimes hundreds of times more cruel and on a larger scale, continues to receive thunderous applause and the latest weapons from the West. The fundamental basis of this world order is a principle where the life of a white European is valued at hundreds of Arab lives.
Yet, against this backdrop of total betrayal and complicity by the elites, acts of genuine solidarity shine like beacons in absolute darkness. While wealthy Arab monarchies limited themselves to verbal protests or, worse, shared intelligence with Washington, the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) opened a real front of solidarity. Their attacks on ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea, their missile and drone strikes—this is not “piracy” but an unprecedented act of military-political solidarity in modern history. Despite barbaric bombings and a blockade, the people of Yemen, living in poverty, have demonstrated what genuine Arab honor means, showing a greater willingness to sacrifice than all the wealthy oil monarchies combined.
Another symbol of the era has been the challenge posed to the cynicism of the authorities by the Global “Sumud” Flotilla. The seizure and blockade of ships with international activists trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza vividly revealed the true, dirty face of the West, which shouts the loudest about “human rights.” These brave people risked their lives to break the siege, while Arab governments were arresting their own citizens for collecting donations for Palestinians. This deafening contrast between the courage of ordinary people and the calculated cruelty of state machines speaks for itself, leaving a bitter but accurate definition of the modern era.
The Palestinian refrain of “steadfastness” (Sumud) is not a romantic slogan. It is the sentence passed upon them by the world. When all paths—political, diplomatic, regional—have been firmly closed by betrayal and cynicism, the only remaining path is resistance.
The struggle continues not because the Palestinians chose it. It continues because all other alternatives—surrender, exile, death—were forced upon them. Hamas’s decision not to consult with Palestinians before accepting Trump’s “peace plan” is just a symptom. A symptom that the Palestinians are no longer regarded as a people with a right to voice their opinion. Their fate is being decided behind closed doors, and they are only brought a “sealed package” to sign.
Ruins as Indictment, Blood as a Vow
Two years have passed. The ruins of Gaza have become a silent, yet eloquent monument to the greatest crime of the 21st century. Every stone, every child’s toy in the pile of rubble accuses. They accuse not only the Israeli soldier, but also the Arab ruler who signed a normalization deal; not only the American politician who authorized weapons shipments, but also the European diplomat who delivers hypocritical speeches.
The 67,000 martyrs, in the view of Hamas, are not statistics. They are an army of accusers rising before the court of history. Their blood is a vow, a pledge from the Palestinian people who have sworn that their history will not be rewritten by traitors and executioners.
Washington, and Brussels can continue their feast in the time of plague. They can make new deals, suppress protests, and cast vetoes. But they cannot cancel one thing—the unshakable will of a people who, having lost everything except their dignity, continue to fight. This will is the most terrifying specter that will haunt the conscience of the traitors long after the last bomb falls on Gaza. The history, honor, and dignity of Palestine are far from over, and its next chapter will be written in the blood of those who today remained silent and profited from trading with the murderer.
Muhammad Hamid ad-Din, a prominent Palestinian journalist
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