It seems I have been reading about the Israel-Palestine
conflict since my early years. I studied the history of the lands in question
and all the historical events that have impacted the land and the people,
searching for some indication as to which side is right and which side is wrong
in this struggle but I don’t think that matters anymore…
The recent Gaza
incident where both sides pummeled each other with rockets, mortars and
airstrikes is just another example of the absurdity of this whole situation.
The people involved in the current turmoil are victims of
history; victims of decisions made many years ago by people no longer alive but
the people of today still carry the anger of those people and the same
determination of those people to get their land back.
The Palestinians can never return to the land they lost to
Israel when their forefathers had to leave or were forced to leave after a very
ill advised war on the Jews when they did have the option of sharing that land
with the Jews; shooting missiles into Israel will never make that pipedream
come true…so why do they do it?
The Jews keep building homes in areas reserved for the
Palestinians saying that God gave them the land and they have a “divine” right
to occupy it. Sorry but whoever wrote the Bible (a Jew) promised you the land
that was not his to begin with. Yes, Jews occupied this land for many historic
years but then they left…should the land have remained unoccupied till the Jews
decided to come back centuries later?
But who cares at this point, who was there first, etc. we
need to deal with the reality on the ground and the real suffering of people,
mostly Palestinians and mostly in the Gaza Strip.
The people in the Gaza Strip need to decide once and for
all, that they will never destroy Israel and take back the land they
still feel is theirs. They need to look to the future and start developing a
modern society that will prosper and grow. And to do that they cannot support
Hamas and other Palestinian parties that have as their only goal in life, the
destruction of Israel .
Once the ever improving missiles of the Palestinians stop
being fired into Israel and Israel lifts the blockade on Gaza ,
life may actually start getting better for the people of Gaza but the onus is on the Gaza Palestinians
to start the peace process not the Israelis.
But if they are stupid enough to keep doing what they are
doing one Israeli columnist suggested that Israel
do what the U.S. did to Japan when Japan would not stop fighting…
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