By Sardar Khan Niazi
The world cannot turn away its eyes from the Kashmir and Palestine disputes. It will have to resolve the lingering disputes in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri and Palestinian people.
If the nonbelligerent nations wish to institute permanent peace in the world, they should resolve the issues of Kashmir and Palestine by implementing the relevant UN resolutions and the wishes of the people of these regions.
The situation in IIOJK is alarming where jail, passports confiscation, and political and religious leaders detention is common. The intensified killing spree in IIOJK is a clear manifestation of India using state terrorism as a policy tool against the Kashmiris.
Indian Occupation Forces have stepped up extra-judicial killings of Kashmiris, particularly targeting Kashmiri youth, following the fake conviction. For example sentencing of Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik in a grossly suspicious and contrived case.
Nearly three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967. About 490,000 Israelis live in the occupied territory in settlements deemed illegal under international law.
Violence in the West Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has risen. Israel has intensified its military raids. According to media reports, Israel has killed at least 158 Palestinians since January.
Israeli forces have demolished homes in Ramallah. Such raids are more frequent in cities like Nablus and Jenin. The international community should express solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinian and Kashmiri Muslims whose lands Zionist and Hindutva aggressors and occupants have usurped.
There is a lot of similarity between Indian and Israeli colonial and oppressive policies and their relationship is precarious for the peace and stability of the world. These two racist states are involved in the systematic ethnic cleansing of Muslims to change the demography of Muslim-dominated regions.
These states use cold-blooded torture, economic exploitation, and destruction of Muslim-owned property as tools to chastise people and threaten them. Both these imperialist powers are hell-bent to displace and crush Muslims, taking hold of their land, depriving them of their culture, individuality, basic rights, and properties, settling nonlocal Hindus and Jews, and converting Muslims into minorities.
Hindutva and Zionist states have declared wars against Muslims, they use military power, dreaded investigation agencies, and all institutions and resources to displace, drive out and insult the Muslims. This grave state of affairs demands unity among the Muslims as they face a threat to their existence.
The Indian and Israeli romance is going on. India has bought arms from Israel since the 1960s. The two nations are fanatical about their unhuman occupations of Kashmir and Palestine.
India is one of Israel’s biggest arms export clients, spending about $10bn over the past decade. Indian police forces have been receiving training in Israel for anti-terror operations, which Israeli conducts against Palestinians.
Palestinians have been dispossessed of territory and many forced into exile. Kashmir was handed over from an out-of-favor ruler without the legitimacy of a popular vote to the Indian state on October 26, 1947.
It is not easy to forget that Modi was denied a visa to the US in 2005 for his alleged responsibility for the mass murder of Muslims during the Gujarat riots. His nickname, the Butcher of Gujarat comes from that 2002 event.
He can now add the title of the Butcher of Kashmir to his name.
That title also fits previous Indian prime ministers.
Israeli current Prime Minister and his predecessors have been the Butcher of Palestinians including Benjamin Netanyahu, who presided over the brutal bombing of Gaza in 2014 that killed 2,100 Palestinians, a third of them children.
When the human rights regimes will become effective in the face of the bold brutalities used by India and Israel.
