The world’s strongest men are the biggest cowards

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and so forth have some distinct features that are quite common. Yes, hard work and talent are there but those are not the key factors behind their success as even they and many others admit. It is rather luck or what many call the hidden forces that are at work in the background. The belief in God makes people strong and brave. The belief in one’s own cunning and shenanigans as the keys to one’s success make them absolute cowards. While entrepreneurs may be brave men, most of the politicians are cowards if one understands this one basic concept.

Two of the strongest men on earth are Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden, in that order. In America, it wouldn’t be a stretch to argue that an Israeli prime minister is stronger than an American president. You can criticise America and American foreign policy but don’t dare try the same about Israel unless you are ready to be labeled as an anti-Semite and watch your career nosedive.

It is deeply saddening to see the images coming out of Gaza. Thousands of children and innocent adults are dying because of Israeli aggression. What is worse is how the Israeli soldiers post their videos having fun with the corpses of the Palestinians. That is the so-called moral army. Those are the self-proclaimed chosen people. My foot!

Let us look at some of the strong men around in the world that are directly or indirectly involved in this genocide. Turkey’s strongman Erdogan may have compared Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler but he is also doing business with Israel, which is well into several billions of dollars. The entire Arab countries are silent over this genocide and for all practical purposes have given up on the cause of Palestine. A few mild statements denouncing the Israeli aggression are issued just to prevent the water from boiling at home.

Let us look at the two men who are directly behind this genocide: Netanyahu and Biden. Their rationales for this continued aggression and the steps ahead are not only cowardly but also deeply criminal. For Netanyahu, removal from the office of the prime minister means not only the end of his political career but also the strengthening of criminal prosecution against him for various corruption charges, for which he can potentially end up behind bars. The continued spilling of children’s blood in Gaza will keep his head above water. For Netanyahu, the people in Gaza must continue to die so that the topic keeps changing from his corruption trial to the safety and security of Jews in Israel.

For Biden, the morally right thing to do would be to stop this genocide because not only does he have the power to do so but he also holds the key to this war; the American made weapons, which Israel uses in executing this genocide. But Biden choses to be a coward rather than being a morally driven human being. He not only continues to support Netanyahu and Israel but also does something even more vicious: he wants to change the topic from the killing of children to the construction projects in a flattened out Gaza. And he wants to do that so that he can enter the election campaign this year and brag about kick starting the reconstruction of Gaza. He is also actively indulging in what Orwell called ‘doublespeak’. The Biden administration is talking about dropping food from the sky to the remaining residents of Gaza while also bypassing the US congress so as to make the flow of weapons to Israel smooth and easy. So, while the residents of Gaza can try to catch the food bags falling from Biden’s helicopters, they would be hunted down with Biden’s weapons. Nothing gets more cowardly than this single act.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 28^th, 2024.

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