“Whoever stays until the end will tell the story.”
– Dr Mahmud Abu Nujaila
As the world enters 2025, the era of AI unleashes itself to its fullest. The very concept of human rights is going in a deep dungeon. Truthfully, the world, no matter how liberal it looks, is increasingly becoming polarising. The North is still thriving on the flesh and bones of the South. Meanwhile, the South is marred with blood, and that’s getting bloodier with each passing day.
Genocide, the relic of barbaric ages, is still living and thriving with its vile atrocities. It’s no more the phenomenon of the barbaric Stone Age. Rather, it’s the ultimate tool of the West to gain geopolitical advantages. In this grotesque calculus, the flesh and blood of the women in genocide are different and inferior to that of the coloniser. Their bodies are still war commodities. The women in genocide are ugly, repulsive creatures. They have uteri that are laced with the DNA of the lesser race. Because they will bear the same race that are being wiped off from the face of the earth.
What are the reasons behind this gruesome act, and when did it actually start? Genocidal rape seems like a new term, but it can be traced back to thousands of years ago. Rape is a wartime tactic. Women, men and children are always targeted sexually to deprive them of their identity and to collapse them as a nation. It’s a part of identity politics.
However, genocidal rape was first classified under the International Criminal Court for Rwanda and Yugoslavia when the Bosnian genocide alone witnessed 30,000-50,000 impregnation campaigns. A renowned Holocaust scholar, Joan Ringelheim, termed sexual violence as a “soul murder”. The scholar further equates it with murder that robs one of identity. But genocidal rape possesses another systematic dimension: culture.
1) Whenever a woman is raped in a Muslim culture, she becomes a stigma. She’s no longer suitable for marriage.
2) This leads to another impact, which is “the prevention of births”, because the more women are raped, the more they will become undesirable and even be treated as outcasts by their husbands.
3) The conscious and the most malicious intent of spreading HIV or AIDS among the victims.
The “child of the lesser god” goes through unbearable agony and pain. The architects of genocidal rape always target the colonised after going thoroughly through their culture, religion and psychology. That is why violence is often divided into three categories: systematic, structural, and cultural.
Here, it’s essential to note that the woman who’s raped and bears the child of the aggressor becomes an outcast in her culture. Her womb can no longer bear the baby of another man from her community. She becomes a war booty whose flesh was butchered and soul deprived of pride.
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is the open testimony of this heinous act. Israel is precisely hitting where it hurts the most. Israel knows that she has to kill the maximum number of Muslims in the whole Gaza Belt, though it would be impossible if women kept on bearing Arab babies. Quite strategically and cunningly, Israel is playing with the neocon strategy to break “Arab with rape” because they know that shame is the most valuable possession of Arabs.
The sadistic tactics of Zionists are surpassing even the bedrock of inhumanity. The bloodshed did not even spare men and boys. They systematically rape and then pile off on one another just like dead animals in a slaughterhouse. The only difference is that it is their soul that is slaughtered, and their pride that bleeds instead of their blood. The UN stats show that till March 2024, 872 men and 26 boys had been raped.
While the world is protesting, the neocons and Zionists are spreading their tentacles not only around the holy land of olives but also on the bodies of the innocent. But what remains is the belief that one day Palestine will be free. The unshakeable echo that roars around the globe, that we will keep fighting until we are martyred. In the voice of resistance:
They can snatch my olive trees.
They can loot my land.
They can snatch my hijab.
They can strip me off on my own land.
They can eat my flesh with their monstrous hands.
They can behead my baby with their guns, inflicting pangs.
They can snatch my pride and can put me in the tents.
Though I am tired and afraid of losing what I have
But they can’t snatch my resolve, because I belong to Palestine Land.