How Sad! Palestine Is Now Gone From The World Map
Rajab 03, 1431 A.H, Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The luminance
of the news about the atrocities of the
Israeli soldiers on the humanitarian
volunteers that happened last week made me
interested in spotting the location of the
Gaza Strip, the place where our Muslim
brothers and sisters in Palestine are
imprisoned or blockaded in a massive scale by
Israel.
Equipped with the Google Earth facility, I
tried to browse the locations that I wanted to
find. But unfortunately, informations about
Gaza are so little. What was more surprising
was that when I tried to browse our holy place
(Masjid Al-Aqsa, Palestine), apparently it was
not on the electronic map.
The keywords
for finding the holy place of the Islamic
Ummah has changed to become Masjid Al-Aqsa,
Jerusalem, Israel…how sad!..
Like what
had been reported by Al-Quds-Akhbar Al-Adab,
the Egyptian weekly magazine, that the
University of Cairo would delete the name
'Palestine' from the world map and replace it
with Israel. ISRAEL – the Ministry of Tourism
of Israel was using an ad campaign which
promulgates
“Experience Israel” in an effort to
attract the attention of tourists to visit
that country. But, the ministry has removed
Palestine entirely from the map by eliminating
any referral that directs to Palestine….
Just imagine, we could not find Palestine as a
country, in fact even the name did not appear
and could not be found on the map. A
despicable measure in the elimination of the
sovereignty of a country and the UN is silent
about it. So,
Palestine is no longer acknowledged in this
world and the Islamic ummah also
could not do much about this mater, how sad
Want to find
the location of Masjid Al-Aqsa, Palestine?….Hang
on! We must first enter its keywords i.e. Al-Aqsa
Mosque, Jerusalem and the location is there in
Israel!. Since when is the holy place of the
Islamic ummah located in Israel?… but
that's the reality today.
Supposing the
Islamic ummah are allowed to pay homage
to a holy place (Masjid Al-Aqsa), does it means
that we are visiting Israel?..how sad!
When there are demonstrations held, by shouting
out the name 'Palestine', it is only limited to
the name on the surface of the lips, as the
actual location on the map could not be found.
Meaning, a part
of the world populations are unaware of the
efforts of removing the sovereignty of a
country. Besides harming the people of
Palestine, Israel at the same time also takes
the opportunity to eliminate the name
'Palestine' from the world map, till eventually
Palestine is really destroyed, whether in terms
of its populations or location.
After all what had been done by Israel to
Palestine, there is certainly no more way to
accept any peace effort because the reality is
that Israel does not care about this world. It
feels it could already dominate the world and it
would take its own course and do anything it
likes. We, the
Islamic ummah, should appropriately be
doing the “real actions” for this humiliation
that is already beyond limits.
Strange
indeed, Israel as the Zionists that did not have
a sovereign country, invaded Palestine and
eventually is able to occupy and eliminate the
name of the land which it occupied, from the
world map.
Tragically, the UN is busy seeking for peace,
for what? The world populations are calling out
justice for Palestine, for what? If the name of
the intended country has already vanished from
the world map. It is unlikely that the
UN is unaware of this elimination of the name
'Palestine' carried out by Israel, the question
is, is the UN pretending that they do not know
or they just do not care and cannot do anything?
Salim Syarief MD
[muslimdaily.net]
Translated and submitted by a Mujahid