A bitter reckoning: Gaza’s plight and the silence of the Muslim world

In a searing reflection on global indifference, a stark message has emerged on social media — one that history, its chroniclers warn, will not write with kindness.

It will record that Egypt had the life-giving Nile, yet Gaza’s people died of thirst.

That Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates swam in oceans of oil, yet Gaza’s hospitals and ambulances lay crippled without fuel.

That the Muslim world, with more than 50 million soldiers, did not send a single one to halt the genocide.

History will note that while billions were poured into lavish concerts and festivals, Gaza’s families were left without bread or clean water.

That Turkey invoked the name of Islam repeatedly, yet the massacres continued unabated.

It will remember how the Islamic nation blamed its rulers, yet did not stop sipping Pepsi or Coca-Cola, nor boycott the enemy’s products.

That in the West, ordinary citizens flooded the streets against the slaughter, while many Muslims and scholars stayed home, debating age-old theological minutiae — even the tale of a woman condemned for mistreating a cat — while thousands of Gazans lay dead.

The warning is unflinching: history will show no mercy, neither to rulers nor to the ruled. And on the Day of Judgment, every action — or inaction — will be weighed. Only then will the truth of who truly stood with Gaza be known.