FOR decades, the Arab world has suffered from the actions of those who claim to be political analysts, media figures, intellectuals, strategic experts, and others, who align themselves with the enemy.
These individuals push for and glorify the signing of agreements and the establishment of relations with the Zionist enemy.
They work tirelessly to spread their agenda, sowing seeds of despair and frustration among hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims, while undermining any attempts to resist this criminal adversary and halt its atrocities.
They argue that Arab nations and their peoples are weak, incapable of standing up to this entity, and thus, from their point of view, the only option left for Arab states is to accept everything this criminal regime does in occupied Palestine: the killing, destruction, and humiliation of the Palestinian people, alongside the violation of international and humanitarian laws, as well as its repeated aggression against Lebanon.
Since October 7, these individuals have not ceased in their accusations — often bordering on outright insults — against the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, particularly Hamas and its leaders, claiming they will drag the region into the throes of war.
They ignore the decades of killing, destruction, and humiliation inflicted by the Zionist entity on the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, suffering that no self-respecting nation would tolerate from an occupying force.
These critics also label Hamas as a terrorist organisation, indifferent to Palestinian and Arab national security, disregarding the fact that Hamas, established on December 15, 1987 as an inevitable response to the Zionist occupier's crimes, is a Palestinian resistance movement rooted in moderate, centrist Islamic ideology.
It participated in the legislative elections of January 2006, where it won a sweeping victory, securing 76 out of 132 seats in the Legislative Council, with a voter turnout of 77 per cent. This triumph surpassed the Fatah movement, which only won 43 seats.
The late leader Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas's political bureau, was the prime minister of the first democratically elected Palestinian government in 2006 — one of the requirements of the Oslo Accords, signed by the late President Yasser Arafat in Washington on September 13, 1993.
Similarly, Hezbollah and its leaders, particularly the martyr Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of the party, who was assassinated alongside his comrades by the Zionist war machine in Beirut on September 27, have faced the same accusations.
Hezbollah is widely known as an armed Islamic party, established in 1982 following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and its occupation of southern Lebanon, as well as the formation of the so-called 'South Lebanon Army.'
The party’s establishment aimed to resist Zionist occupation, and Hezbollah has since become a key component of Lebanese society. Hassan Nasrallah took over leadership in 1992, after Israel assassinated the former Secretary-General, Abbas al Moussawi, and his family by firing incendiary heat-seeking missiles at his car.
In August 2008, the Lebanese government unanimously endorsed a political statement recognising Hezbollah as an armed organisation and affirming its right to "liberate or reclaim occupied territories."
Hezbollah continues to actively participate in legislative elections and successive Lebanese governments, making it a legitimate military-political party, not a terrorist organisation, as some Arab critics claim.
These defeatists belittle any notion that promotes resistance against the occupier. Such defeatist attitudes have led to humiliating weakness in the history of this nation, for example, during the Tatar invasion of the Islamic world in 1258 AD, when they entered Baghdad and killed the Abbasid Caliph Al Musta’sim Billah.
A Tatar soldier could walk unarmed through the streets, command a Muslim man to remain still while he fetched a sword to kill him, and the Muslim would obediently wait to be slain.
In more recent times, some have perpetuated the myth of the Zionist army's invincibility, attempting to glorify both the army and the Zionist regime.
However, this negative propaganda was shattered by the great Egyptian army and the Arab forces who joined it during the war of October 6, 1973, on the tenth day of Ramadan 1393 AH. There are countless examples of this kind.
Ultimately, it is unacceptable for these individuals to insult and demean the heroic resistance fighters in both Palestine and Lebanon by using unjust and derogatory labels.
These fighters have sacrificed everything, including their lives, for the dignity of their homelands and their peoples. They are not resisting a helpless lamb but a criminal entity responsible for atrocities and treachery unparalleled in human history, as attested by peoples of all nations, regardless of religion or ethnicity.
As the immortal leader Gamal Abdel Nasser once said, "Oh God, give us the strength to understand that the fearful do not create freedom, the weak do not create dignity, and the hesitant will never have the steady hands to build."
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