Why the Gaza ethnic cleansing is happening and no one seems to care?

I think the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza are happening because of two things: Racism and Lack of common interest.

The most powerful people in the world are white Europeans or descendants of white Europeans.
They don't care about an Arab Muslim innocent human being because they are not white Europeans with blue eyes.

But the mujahideen of Afghanistan received training and weapons from the powerful West, even though they were Arab Muslims with no blue eyes, because of the other component: Common interest.

The mujahideen of Afghanistan and the powerful West had one common enemy: The Soviet Union, so they supported them until they did 9/11 (according to Al Qaeda itself) and became terrorists.

Ukraine was all over the news and had all the military and financial support because they were white Europeans with blue eyes, and also had a common enemy with the powerful West: Russia.

The powerful people in the West won't help Palestinians because Palestinians are not Europeans with blue eyes, and the enemy of Palestinians (Israel) is an ally of the West that has a population full of Europeans with blue eyes; heck, Israel was founded by white Europeans funded by other white Europeans (US and UK).

It's a sad reality, but I think it takes a lot of effort to care about the human being, not their colour, ethnicity, or religion. The default is to care about people who share certain characteristics and interests with you.

If Arab Islamic countries were the most powerful, I don't think they would care about Ukraine, France, or Germany as much as they would care about Palestine, Saudi Arabia, or Malaysia. They would care about women who wear hijab in France and fight to give them their rights, but they wouldn't fight as hard to prevent the prosecution of Atheists, for example.

This puts a responsibility on us, Arab and/or Muslims, our states are not powerful enough to defend Palestine even if they want to, but by default, we as people care or will eventually regret not caring enough, and if we didn't do something, no matter how small, probably no one would.

History is full of changes driven by individual action, so boycotting a product, sharing a video, donating, everything could help.

If you wait for the powerful governments to help, they probably won't because Palestinians are not Europeans with blue eyes, and the Palestinian cause doesn't share any common interest with these powerful governments.

Palestine should be free because Israel is an apartheid Jewish state for Jewish people only (according to Yesh Din, B'Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and United Nations investigators), but in my mind, Palestine is a state for all Palestinian people: Jews, Muslims, and Christians, as it was the case before 1948.

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