What excuse does the Islamic world have in El Fasher?

The genocide that Israel carried out in Gaza, despite two billion Muslims, against them and with the result of their humiliation, is having a traumatic effect on Muslims all over the world. No one should expect the Islamic world to withdraw further into itself and accept this trauma with great consent. Undoubtedly, the helplessness displayed in the face of this humiliation is not a lethargy but gives rise to an anger, a critical consciousness and a will as well.

The consequences of this are not at all good, neither for Israel nor for the actors who support it, turn a blind eye to it, or cooperate with it. Everyone is advised to calculate what comes next accordingly. US President Trump's observation that "in the past, anyone who said a word against Israel in American politics would have his political life ended, but now, on the contrary, anyone who says a word in favor of Israel runs the risk of ending his political life" is in fact the best sign that the expected end is in sight.

IS ISRAEL NORMAL, THAT THERE SHOULD BE "NORMALIZATION" WITH IT

Everyone needs to take the due lesson from this sign. Especially the Islamic countries, particularly those that are preparing to take so-called "normalization" steps with Israel... What everyone must know is this: there can be no normal relationship with a country that is abnormal, exceptional, outside reason and history. Israel is not a normal entity (Arabs call it "kiyan," an entity, so as not to refer to it as a "state"), such that normalization with it could take place. A normal relationship with the Israeli entity is fighting it, or at best ignoring it.

Be that as it may, Gaza is a trial for the Muslim world against an external attack to which it has been subjected. That this trial, because behind it stand not only Israel but the US and European powers, has led the Islamic world to a hesitation can be understood up to a point. Despite this hesitation, the minimum stance that can be displayed across the entire Islamic world is for Muslims at least to develop a culture of unity further on other issues.

WE CANNOT GET PAST GAZA, BUT WHAT EXCUSE DOES THE ISLAMIC WORLD HAVE IN EL FASHER?

Yet today the many conflicts and the disasters of war suffered in many places within the Muslim world itself are matters the Muslim world should be able to settle within itself. What excuse could the Islamic world have for standing by as spectators to the crimes against humanity committed by armed and incited militias against the Sudanese city of El Fasher? No, of course the event is not one that takes place and ends inside Sudan. What we have said from the start is that what is happening in Sudan did not begin and end in Sudan.

IN SUDAN THERE ARE NOT TWO EQUAL SIDES FIGHTING EACH OTHER. There is a legitimate government supported by the Sudanese people, approved and stood behind by its institutions and all civil society and political parties, and a gang of marauders and robbers rising against it. The great majority of these rebels have been brought into the country from outside Sudan as mercenary formations and have been promised only plunder and spoils. These elements, who are made up culturally of Bedouin peoples, are gathered from the countries of the region and have not the slightest project, ideology or good will concerning Sudan. They are motivated to leave once the plunder is over. What is worse, there is again another Islamic country behind these elements.

We wrote about this before. The UAE, behind this instability in Sudan, is one of the most important members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), that is, of the so-called Islamic world, yet so far it has not taken one beneficial step on the international stage, within the Islamic world, in favor of the Islamic world. All its policies are to be the most important cause and instigator of conflicts in all the conflict zones of the Islamic world. What does it want, what is it trying to do? No one knows. It acts contrary to all of the OIC's official missions and discourse. If we suppose that it is serving its own interests, it is not possible to say that it holds out any hope for itself in this respect either.

Especially from the moment its obvious role in the destruction and human tragedies it has caused in the case of Sudan was exposed, it has suffered a great loss of prestige in the eyes of the whole Islamic world. Not only in the Islamic world, but across the whole world today attention is drawn to its role, which is no different from the role Israel plays in Gaza. By the policies it follows, it does not only drive Sudan toward instability; because it pursues a politics of interest and occupation, unprincipled and without rules, it poses a great threat of unrest and instability across the whole Islamic world. Today, Saudi Arabia above all, as well as Egypt, Somalia and many other countries, are in serious concern because of this instability.

THE ISLAMIC WORLD'S TRIAL WITH EL FASHER

Here the Islamic world's truly great trial may perhaps emerge before Gaza. The Islamic world, which could not intervene in Gaza because it could not dare to set the US against itself, can begin by intervening in an unrest occurring within the Islamic world, by making this problem an occasion for demonstrating the existence of the Islamic world. Of course, first by exhausting all diplomatic avenues.

EL FASHER, THE OTHER FACE OF GAZA

After all, what is taking place in El Fasher represents another face of what is taking place in Gaza. The helplessness displayed by the Islamic world in the face of what is happening in Gaza is of course not a fate. The occupation and settlement policies in El Fasher seem essentially to copy Israel's occupation and settler policies. Members of tribes gathered from different parts of Darfur are being brought to El Fasher at great speed and an attempt is being made to settle them there. Thus El Fasher, as a city-state whose control lies outside, becomes a place where a complete Zionist occupation model is repeated.

Things are reaching such a point that, if El Fasher now looks like a continuation of the occupation of Palestine, then perhaps, as a way of intervening against the genocide and deportation in Gaza, it will be necessary to begin the solution with the rescue of Fasher.