By Afshain Afzal

President Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are playing very dangerous game as genocide and displacement of orthodox Muslim Palestinians has intensified. Some time back President Trump attempted military occupation of Washington and Los Angeles and now it is turn of Chicago to silence voices of conscience in favour of Hamas led Palestinians. There is a serious dent in the American democracy, where initially there was a war of words between Washington and Chicago over the protest rallies in favour of Palestine’s independence but Washington failed. Now President Trump is all set to deploy the Army National Guard troops with helicopters and weaponries to bring Chicago’s state machinery under its control. Are we going to witness holocaust of protesting Jews, orthodox Christians and Muslims once again, in the same manner how David Koresh was dealt by US military in Waco, Texas.

Chicago-based Jewish activists supporting Palestinian solidarity movement are on the hit list. They have openly announced, “It is Jews’ moral and religious obligation to raise their voices against Israeli genocide of orthodox Muslim Palestinians”. The US Federal troops if try to be tough… it would lead to another holocaust of Jews but it depends how the world, especially the Muslim world reacts. Almost every Jew whether living in Israel or elsewhere in the world have condemned ethnic cleansing of Palestinian orthodox Muslims at the hands of Israelis and their allies. A representative of Jewish Voice for Peace disclosed that many Jewish organizations as well as individuals are convinced that orthodox Jews and Muslims are not each others’ enemies and can coexist peacefully in all the countries as they use to live together since centuries.

Meanwhile, the Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani has been approached by US agents to agree limits Iranian nuclear and missile program as well as recognize Israel for several favours including Iranian influence our Middle East, South Asia including Afghanistan, unhindered Iranian oil exports, support to Hezbollah and the Houthis against Muslim rivals, loin share in Palestine especially Golan Heights etc and continuous US assistance to Iranian origin Bhais, Ismailis and Ahmadis communities in Middle East and elsewhere. In another development, President Trump has barred Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and around 76 other Palestinian officials from attending the UN General Assembly session in New York by revoking their visas. Some leaders in Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan and Syria are playing dirty game but not all.

Beside other developments, we need to focus the words of President Trump when negotiating with Tehran as well as regarding his meeting with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff in June 2025, when President Trump said, “They (Pakistan) know Iran very well, better than most, and they are not happy about anything. They said that they will bear with Israel, they know a lot actually but probably they know Iran better but as she was going on, he agreed with me.” However, Washington and Tel Aviv must know that these leaders do not represent their countries and general masses and the Parliament’s approval is mandatory.

If we recall, the UN set timeline where Israel is required to dismantle its occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerusalem by 13 September 2025. A UN Committee is all set to submit a report to be presented to the General Assembly for the 80th Session (UNGA80). There is strong hope that the Palestine state comprising of territories of Golan Heights, the West and East Banks, Gaza at the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea including Jerusalem, with a narrow tunnel connecting them would become independent and sovereign as Islamic Republic of Palestine. This time Muslims and many other allied nations are not ready to compromise and all future relations and agreements with pro-Israeli countries would be based of recognition of Palestine. There are high hopes that the UNO will be able to bring peace in the Middle East and around the world.