News:

A group of Palestinian activists dug a hole in Israel's separation barrier - "Apartheid Wall", to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and to remind the world that the illegal wall built by Israel to divide Palestine is still a huge point of suffering for the Palestinians and a clear symbol of Israel's ongoing occupation and oppression. (Middle East News - Al Jazeera)

Comment:

No matter how many shout-outs the Palestinians send to the International Community, international organizations, or people in power for liberation, their calls keep falling on deaf ears: echoing repeated failure to respond to the suffering of the most vulnerable people on earth. Apart from this rhetoric, there is hardly any military or political support from any of the Muslim countries and their rulers, so the survival instincts demanded Palestinians to start thinking of other ways to defend their right to live with dignity, honor and respect on their land, even though some of their actions come out as merely symbolic. Consequently, Palestinians started to hang on to the glad tidings of Islam's return as well as historical events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall to hope for a better future. As such, it is crucial to understand how and why the Apartheid Wall compares and contrasts with the Berlin Wall, although they might appear as similar in cause:

1.  It's interesting to see how the wronging powers that build the wall call the other side ‘fascists' to win the favor of public opinion. The wall normally grants advantage to one side over another, thus further splitting families apart, cutting off various opportunities for livelihood, and restricting freedom of movement through visas for entries given upon special conditions (e.g. elderly pensioners, professional reasons) or might be denied entry without stating any reason. Unlike Palestine, Germany did not experience the occupation of its land from an alien (Jewish) entity. Palestinians have to get a visa from their invading occupier in order to travel within their homeland and pray in Masjid Al Aqsa, with most of the time they are denied entry for absolutely arbitrary reasons. However, the occupying Israeli force is always free to invade and raid the other side of the wall with an ever-increasing impunity and unprecedented on Palestinians with no restraining conditions and accountability, whilst quelling any retaliation by shooting down anyone who attempts to defect the wall deeming their reaction as "extremism" and "terrorism".

2.  It is not surprising to see the US tacit approval in both cases to support the decision of constructing a wall to separate people from each other, as it falls well within its ideological agendas and its tried and tested policy of "divide and conquer". For the Berlin Wall, the US was expecting the fail and fall of Communism in Germany, and it took this opportunity to push forward Capitalism as an alternative way of life. In that way, Germans, just like the rest of the Europeans, will start thinking and adopting a similar way of life to the Americans, thus causing minimal threat to the US imperial power dreams. As for the Apartheid Wall, the US expects the rise and revival of Islam as a way of life in Palestine like elsewhere in the Muslim world, and it took this opportunity to push forward an apartheid that will suppress this awakening, at least for time being, under the pretext of "protecting" the Jews, thus causing minimal threat to its wider interests in the Middle East. It's well known that in the sacred precincts of capitalism, humanity and blood are meaningless when it endangers a major source of interests, and constructing a wall to destroy a harmonious life becomes a perfect isolation tool.

3.  In an ideological struggle, the fall of a wall does not just mean eroding a physical barrier but it signifies the death blow to an existing ideology and the birth of an alternative radical political change. In the Palestinian case, it's the re-birth of Khilafah "Caliphate" that shall bring the wall down in-shaa-Allah and be a form of governance that's just in ruling its citizens regardless of their faith. Unlike the Berlin wall, the Palestinian cause is shared by billions of Muslims worldwide making us strongly believe that the Apartheid Wall will fall just like the Berlin Wall fell, but the utmost significant difference is the reason why it should fall. The Berlin Wall fell for the "will of the people", but the Apartheid Wall will fall for the "Will of Allah" in order to reestablish Allah's authority in the Muslim lands once again under the protective shade of the Khilafah "Caliphate", ruling people justly and leading them from the darkness of servitude to man towards the guiding light of pure sovereignty of Allah (swt) alone. It will fall not only because the ongoing humiliating oppression and tyrannical occupation has taken its toll on the Palestinians, but because it has taken its toll on Muslims all around the world, who refuse to be slaves to anything other than Allah (swt).

Despite the tyrannical existence of this wall is being supported and funded by the West and the Muslim rulers, the word of Haqq will always be the strongest motivation and the strong faith of the Muslims in Allah's Mightiness will always be the strongest weapon against any physical or mental wall of oppression and tyranny. It is the ideological Islamic bond that connects the Muslims together from all around the world and it cannot be broken no matter what the infidels do and how much they hate it. However, victory does not come knocking on one's door, for it is necessary for the Muslims to unite, strive, struggle, and work hard in order to reach victory's door and knock on it, while praying to Allah (swt) that He (swt) will grant it to them in the form of a Khilafah "Caliphate" based on the method of Prophethood.

Meanwhile, it remains bewildering that the infidels keep wrongfully thinking that a wall, regardless of size and form, will stop Allah (swt) from having the Muslims fight them with whatever power they have until Haqq prevails over falsehood. Have the infidels not yet taken heed from the following verse in the Holy Quran, which is not only an important piece of revealing data that Allah (swt) has granted, but also a great relief for the Muslims in order to strengthen their steadfastness to Islam as the only true ruling system?

لَا يُقَاتِلُونَكُمْ جَمِيعًا إِلَّا فِي قُرًى مُّحَصَّنَةٍ أَوْ مِن وَرَاءِ جُدُرٍ ۚ بَأْسُهُم بَيْنَهُمْ شَدِيدٌ ۚ تَحْسَبُهُمْ جَمِيعًا وَقُلُوبُهُمْ شَتَّىٰ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ لَّا يَعْقِلُونَ

"They fight not against you even together, except in fortified townships, or from behind walls. Their enmity among themselves is very great. You would think they were united, but their hearts are divided, that is because they are a people who understand not." [Al-Hashr: 14]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Umm Adyan - Australia