Israel Palestine Conflict: a Seemingly Hopeless Front
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It’s shocking! I am writing this article on the 2nd Jan 2009, which is the seventh day since Israel launched a massive attack on the people of Gaza. This is the biggest Israeli assault on Gaza since 1967 and the humanitarian crisis is at its worse since 40 years. It’s been about 90 years since the Balfour declaration was made, which was one of the major steps marking the beginning of this nightmare for the Palestinian people. There seems to be no solution to this conflict, but who is to be blamed. Of course there were many mistakes made in history. But, for the present there are some things which are making this conflict worse and I think the ones to be blamed are
1) The media is on the top list of the ones to be blamed for its intensely biased approach towards this conflict. Firstly, the biggest problem with the media nowadays is its blindness towards the history of this conflict. People nowadays are very aware of the present affairs due to the media, but profoundly illiterate of the past. People like me who are young and do not study history as a subject have to place in some effort to learn about this conflict. The problem with situations of conflict is that you always have multiple versions of history and if you start searching for slightly less biased accounts, it’s almost impossible. Its been quite a while since I have been trying to educate myself of the history of this problem and it was a difficult task. After some research I have come to realize that media is just a way to misinform fools who are already ill-informed.
Take this conflict; you seldom hear the media discussing the Balfour declaration and the scenarios in which this whole conflict evolved. The media never addresses the question “who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed?” in a historical context. People around the world are confused whether it’s Hamas which is to be blamed for firing rockets in Israel or is it Israel who is blameworthy for its disproportionate response. No one agrees that killing innocent civilians is justified but the media being controlled by the west has always this longing to portray Israel as being the victim of these rocket attacks. They never portray it as the aggressor occupying foreign land. I agree with the Israeli rhetoric that no sovereign country can allow rockets being fired on its citizens. But, then how can one allow people to occupy land which belongs to them. The justification that we are getting for the present incursion is that Hamas broke the cease fire. It was this same media that reported a month back that Israel has broken the truce by killing six members of the Hamas movement on November 4. Now the media is simply turning a blind eye to history as it does.
2) Secondly, the United Nations has failed to prevent war. It was created after the Second World War to stop conflicts. It failed to stop the Iraq war and now the killing of innocent people in Gaza. It should be dissolved or degraded to only a humanitarian crises organization. No one seems to listen to the shouting UN secretary general that this should be stopped.
3) The Arabs leaders have failed miserably to help their Arab brothers in this crisis situation. It’s utterly shocking to see Egypt close its border for innocent people trying to escape death. Arab leaders have failed to represent their people. One can easily feel the hopelessness in the Palestinian people of being abandoned by the international community and their neighboring Arab countries.
People like me dream of a peaceful world, but I don’t think that is something near in time. Oppression always breeds resistance and the way this conflict is going there is a fear of an intense response from the Palestinian people. I just heard in the news about the killing of a whole family by an Israeli F-16. Only one young member of that family survived and he is not going to grow up as some one who offers peace to the region.
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