Submitted by Yardbroom
As the bombs rain down on the heads of women and children in Gaza…over 460 Palestinians have been killed, to be fair as well as Hamas fighters. One is tempted to ask when will it all end, but before that question is answered we should ask ourselves when did it begin…I will not venture into Biblical history. I am also aware of the Hamas rockets fired on the Israeli cities including Sderot and Ashkelon.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the situation –human beings are being killed – what cannot be denied is that after the Second World War the world disgusted with themselves for the treatment the Jews suffered, sometimes with the acquiesce of some world powers and silence from others. Sought to redress the wrongs suffered by the Jews, in so doing it was the Palestinians who had to pay… and they did with their land. When the Israelis are asked how come you are entitled to these lands, they retort – God gave it to us, it is written in the Bible. They are not many people today who can show title to land they hold by reference to the Bible in a court of Law…but that is bye the bye.
That Israeli is entitled to live in peace is so obvious that is is not worth stating but so are the Palestinians.
We have had so many Palestinian “bogey men” who if they were killed or were out of the way all would be sweetness and light but they were killed or died…and there is no sweetness or light.
Do you remember Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon said he was an obstacle to peace and without his presence a settlement would ensue. Arafat is long dead and new fighters and leaders have taken his position. Do you remember Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin the nearly blind paraplegic who was assassinated by an Israeli helicopter gunship in 2004 he was said to be an obstacle to peace he is gone and yet there is no peace.
The shrouds have been wrapped around babies and they entombed. Mothers beat their breast and wail, the bombs rain down..there is no peace.
Conflicts have been settled and the world moves on, but I fear the Israeli Palestinian conflict will “grind” on for many a year. There will be no peace for the price of that peace is an acceptance that the other side is entitled to live in peace and harmony; bold is he/her who will predict that they will see peace in their lifetime in the Holy Land…I fear I will not see it, however there are always surprises in war.
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