Qatar OK With Accepting Black Gazans, As Slave Labor

The term for “Black” in Arabic is “Abed,” meaning “slave.”

Doha, August 26 – The Emir of this oil-rich Persian Gulf state has made a dramatic shift in his regime’s attitude toward the disposition of Palestinians as part of the resolution of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, a palace spokesman announced today, under which the emirate will, in fact, take some Palestinians fleeing the conflict, and treat them the same is it does other “guest workers,” provided that the Palestinians in question have African features such as dark skin and tightly-curled hair, in keeping with Islamic human-trafficking tradition.

Sheikh Tamīm bin Ḥamad bin Khalīfa Āl Thānī representative Walla Giz’ani told reporters at a press conference today that the humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip have moved the Sheikh to deviate from his previous insistence that not a single Gazan flee for their lives from the territory, lest that facilitate ethnic cleansing. Instead, Qatar will accept Gazans of sub-Saharan African ancestry and phenotypes, and employ them in forced labor in construction, healthcare, and janitorial work, just as it employs migrants from other parts of Asia and coerces them into menial, dangerous, and and degrading work.

“His Excellency feels for Gaza,” stated Giz’ani. “Even as he empathizes profoundly with Palestinians facing Zionist aggression, he refuses to countenance ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland, which they insist is not their homeland because they wish to return to their ancestors homes in what is now the Zionist Entity, but I digress. Regardless, despite His Excellency’s hesitation, he will accommodate a symbolic gesture that involves welcoming Black Gazans to this country under the kafala system.”

The term for “Black” that he used was “Abed,” Arabic for “slave.”

Kafala, which binds foreign workers to their employers and subjects them to every manner of abuse while keeping them from leaving the country, has long drawn criticism from human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Those groups, however, reserve a much softer tone for Qatari and other Gulf Cooperation Council nations’ abysmal human rights records than the tone they adopt for democratic Israel; the human rights community’s reaction to this Qatari move remains undetermined, save for the by-default blaming Israel for the situation.

Giz’ani ended the press conference before journalists could inquire as to the regime’s intentions in invoking Islamic tradition, in particular the practice of castrating male slaves from Africa that characterized the Arab slave trade for much of its history. Reporters also missed an opportunity to ask about Gazans put to work in housekeeping at luxury hotels, where such staff, especially women, are “encouraged” to accommodate “all of the guests’ desires.”

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