WHY COMMIT WAR CRIME A DAY AFTER UNITED STATES VETOED CEASE FIRE?

On October 16, the UNSC voted on a resolution proposed by Russia to enforce humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. US, UK, France and of course Japan vetoed it. Gaza is under unprecedented blitz. Never before in history has a place populated with civilians as dense been bombed relentlessly for nearly half a month with this much barbarity. There is no military on the other side but a guerilla force, hence there are no known military targets. The bombs are inevitably killing communities and pulverizing towns. The sickening violence was being watched by world leaders for ten straight days without show of diplomatic action to stop it and finally, when an emergency meeting of the Security Council is convened at Russia’s call the US, France and Britain vetoed it, because it was floated by Russia and they didn’t want Moscow to be garlanded as the harbinger of peace. To justify their veto, they cited the fact that Russia did not condemn the violence perpetrated by Hamas in its text.

The next day, Israel committed a war crime in Gaza. the IDF bombarded a hospital run by a Baptist church. The hospital was already overwhelmed and was working beyond its capacity. In addition to treating casualties of war, it was functioning as a shelter for dislocated families. Consequently, five hundred people died on the spot and hundreds are missing as I write this piece. All of the children taking shelter in the hospital were pulverized, according to reports. Their number is in hundreds. Hundreds are still missing.

Why did Israel commit a war crime a day after US vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for ceasefire in this war? And why a day before yet another resolution by Brazil is going to be proposed, on Wednesday, for the same purpose but with the wording slightly changed. Instead of humanitarian ceasefire, Brazil has used the expression “humanitarian pause.”

Israel does not seem to be ready for a ground assault. It is afraid to put boots on ground inside Gaza. The fact that Monday’s resolution was vetoed does not seem to have been in keeping with Israel’s preference in the matter. It therefore used machination and committed a war crime to outrage the world and enable the resolution to be floated by Brazil on Wednesday to be adopted at the UNSC swiftly and smoothly.

Israel also seems to want to end the war without ever having to put boots on grounds. It has, by committing a war crime as heinous as the one it just did, motivated all the Arab heads of state to get active on calling for end to hostilities. UAE is already shown itself to be the state most moved in this direction. Both Russia and UAE have called for an emergency meeting of the UN immediately after the strike on hospital. In the days ahead, we are likely to see the UAE most active in ensuring the war in Gaza is replaced by a peace plan and its execution.

The tragedy in Gaza and the motivation of its executors reveals that there is no liaison between the Pentagon and the IDF this time. By committing a crime as serious as the bombing of an already overwhelmed medical center and a shelter house, one day after the US vetoed the UNSC resolution calling for ceasefire, Tel Aviv has caused Washington DC more than political embarrassment. The US will now have to bear the moral weight of the crime entirely by itself. Had it not taken the lead to veto the resolution on Monday, the hospital massacre would not have happened on Tuesday. Global media is abuzz with the accusation that United States of America is solely responsible for what happened because it vetoed a critical humanitarian resolution for no other reason than the fact that it was floated by Russia, its arch foe.

The US has parked its fleets by Israel as a warning to Lebanon, Syria and Iran to not intervene in the air war with their own war planes, i.e., to let Israel bombard Gaza so it can regain militarily the ground it lost on October 7. But if neighboring countries were to send their soldiers to fight side by side with Hamas during ground battle inside Gaza, Pentagon does not appear to have the appetite to put its own boots on ground in defense of the state of Israel.

This may be the bone of contention between the two. Israel may be wanting the precedence of the past to be repeated when Israel needs it the most and Joe Biden may have failed to mobilize the senior command of the Pentagon to commit to such a plan. The US military is still reeling from Afghanistan and does not want to undertake any boots on ground kinetic action in the Middle East on in aid of Israel. Not when the other side has the covert backing of big powers in the region.

At the end of it all, Israel will have to face the Palestinians in a ground battle by itself. By committing a war crime, IDF has imbued its opponent Hamas fighters with a rage and zeal even more intense than the one with which they carried out the attack on October 7. The ground battle can not be averted now. If Israel eschews it, the Palestinians are likely to put boots on ground inside Israel proper, with or without the support of allies.

Decisive war for Palestine has started.

TO ALL THOSE WHO VIEWED THE 30 SEPTEMBER INTERVIEW ON MJTV AND ROSE IN SUPPORT

After my interview of 30 September 2023 at MJTV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cROFpWwsJxs) I have been getting phone calls, emails, and visits from people motivated to help me in this saga. This message carries direction to all such great people in how they can help. Vlog, write, tweet, and mobilize your community where you live, or where your village in Pakistan may be, to build pressure on our state to institute a child protection system with teeth. No one should have to endure what I was subjected to as a single parent along with my son. The child protection system we have is in name only and a real time joke.

Children MUST BE PROTECTED by the state because they are way too small to protect themselves and mothers of small children are way too vulnerable and cannot undertake the entire task themselves, given all its legal, emotional, financial, physical and material ramifications. Even a Valkyrie cannot fight with a sword while carrying a baby on one arm. The violator is invariably more powerful if the state has no child protection system or has one that is compromised.

Loot and plunder of my assets is engineered by corrupt elements in USA (even there corruption?) & Pakistan and I am fighting in Pakistan to get back possession of every material and monetary asset I legally own that was snatched when I was busy protecting a minor human being amidst circumstances the child had no hand in making. Alhamdulillah, I have been winning so far. I am also fighting the unfortunate system of justice delayed to seniors. I have recently filed my fourth application for early hearing in the Supreme Court of Pakistan after three hearing were adjourned for no reason.

To all members of legal fraternity among my supporters, you can help in early fixture of Criminal Original Petition No.13/22 clubbed with related matter, that rose out of contempt of Supreme Court order dated 07.02.2020 in CPLA 1192/18. Possession of my house has once again been granted back vide Supreme Court order dated 03.08.2022, (executed on 12.08.22) yet the matter of loot on 21.10.21 of all my movable property and monetary amount in Crores of rupees by PTI’s former MPA Abdul Rehman Khan Niazi (from Mianwali) family (relatives of former PM Imran Khan) as compensation for illegal possession of my house, per high court order in Civil Appeal of 2019 titled Zeenia Satti V Abdul Karim Khan Niazi, remains to be executed. The other side is politically resourceful and wields undue influence over lower execution courts and Islamabad police. The latter’s help was critical in the loot of all my movable property on 21.10. 21 when possession of my house was illegally taken by a corrupt district court judge in contempt of IHC and Supreme Court orders.

Post restoration of possession, my house is remotely reminiscent of Gaza. No water, no electricity and damage to structure. Only difference is my son and I are not at risk of further violence. That happened at the hands of Niazi family only when we were forced to live in container outside our very own home from October 2020 to March 2021.

I can fight the legal battle for restoration of possession of loot and plunder of what is legally mine, but I cannot, alone, wake my state from stupor in the critical matter of child protection

Since you are all caring individuals, I call upon this asset and request that you help in influencing Pakistan to institute a modern child protection system with teeth. Please Vlog, write, tweet, post online, write letters to decision makers, (couldn’t get better person than Mushaal Hussein Mullick in the human rights department in federal government of Pakistan because she and her one and only girl child have suffered human rights abuse first hand by Indian government – and for so long – so let us avail the opportunity).

Thank you ever so much for your overwhelming support. Especial thanks to judicial analyst Matiullah Jan for airing the interview on his YouTube channel on September 30, 2023, the whole two hours long piece without editing! He was brave and I wish him much success in life. For years, I tried to get some prominent journalists in Pakistan to cover the noteworthy events in my life but they avoided doing so after knowing the details. One even went on to receiving recordings of my conversations with police but couldn’t muster up courage to cover the story. Now that the same recordings were subjected to loot and plunder on 21.10.21 by Islamabad Capital Territory Police in cahoots with a corrupt district court judge, I am thanking God I gave him copies. If he is reading this, please hold on to those recordings, you are only one of two sources who have those.

Matiullah’s support was a pleasant surprise and his bravery is highly commendable.

To non-Urdu speakers who asked for English translation of 30 September interview, I have asked Matiullah Jan at MJTV for it. I will keep you posted of further update Once again, thank you all for your overwhelming support.

Send me copies of what you write and post. Love you all.

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