Indian Muslims – Rana Ayubs and Arfa Khanums – are labeling Israel as a terrorist state, which is only trying to defend its identity and people from terror attacks launched from Gaza.
But will they call Pakistan as a terrorist state? This Muslim state had butchered a large number of Palestinians in Jordan in a 1970 military operation.
Brigadier Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan Army, who rose to become a general and overthrew civilian rule in Pakistan and ruled the country from 1978 to 1988, had butchered as many as 25,000 Muslim Palestinians and Syrians, in Black September military operations.
Zia-ul-Haq was dispatched by Pakistan to train the newly equipped Jordanian Army. King Hussaein had sought Pakistan’s services to target Palestinian terrorists as his army and air force was badly battered by Israel in the 1967 war.
On September 17, 1970, King Hussein ordered his army to target Palestinian terrorists operating from the refugee camps around Amman.
Next day, Syrian tanks entered Jordan in support of the Palestinian terrorists near the town of Irbid, which Palestinian terrorists had captured.
After Zia-ul-Haq effectively took charge of part of the Jordanian counterattack, the tide of the operation turned as Syria opted to stay out of the hostilities.
On September 26, then Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser summoned King Hussein and Yasser Arafat to Cairo to push for a ceasefire, which was signed the next day.
Before launching the military operation, King Hussein ordered the formation of a military government to restore order as clashes with Palestinian terrorists continued.
The Palestinians had tried to assassinate King Hussein twice in 1970 which led to the Jordinian Army shelling Palestinian refugee camps around Amman.
The Palestinians, who came as refugees after the formation of Israel in 1948 and 1967 war, had turned against King Hussein in 1970 because he did not want Israel attacking Jordan to target Palestinian terrorists. This resulted in Palestinians gaining support of the Iraqi and Syrian armies. The Iraqi Army was deployed in Jordan to protect it from Israeli attacks.
So, the history of Black September is all about Pakistan butchering Palestinian Muslims, and yet for Indian Muslims, it is not a terrorist state, but Israel, which is defending its identity from the marauding Palestinians, is a terrorist state.
Their hypocrisy knows no limits.