One would think that the Americans are the saviour of the world. That is how it is played out in espionage movies or the Marvels. A long time ago, I asked my husband, “What did the Russians feel when they are always the bad guys in movies?” He said, they just laughed. He was a student in Volgograd at the time. Well.. thank god the Russians have humour in them. If Malaysians were painted as villains in any movie, you’d have Bawang Rangers crashing down social media in one day. The same goes for the Indonesians.

Perhaps the ultimate villain is the United States after all. They knew they had the power of Veto and were comfortable using it to overrule the call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Even the ‘villains’ from Russia or North Korea, if we are to base their characters on movies, know that there is a limit to atrocities especially when they are waged against children. The United States doesn’t.

There was a video circulating about how a Zionist preacher was saying that the kids must be killed. It is a now-or-never situation because 10 years later, the kids will grow up and come after them. This is the same thing that Firaun did in his time, and it was a story told in the Quran when he ordered that all the babies in his kingdom be killed because there was a premonition that one day a saviour would be born from a particular tribe. With Allah’s will, one baby survived and was even raised in Firaun’s own home. He was Musa (Moses).

This story is a consolation to the souls that cry for the lives of the children who were massacred in this Palestinian war. No matter how great a human being thinks he is, there is always Allah, a divine entity that will unleash His power when the time comes. Allah could instruct mosquitos to kill the Namrud army – showcasing there is no limit to what divine intervention can do and that UN is useless.