It is over 6 decades now since Palestinians and Jews are fighting against each other in the Middle East. Palestinians are fighting to regain their land which they say their homeland and the same Israel has forcibly usurped while Israel is fighting to retain the usurped land with the excuse that it is their promised land as per the Biblical version.
Since time immemorial the dispute between Palestinians and Jews is in existence. Palestinians or Philistines as they are called in Biblical terms were known to fight historical battles with the Jews. Thousands of years back the army of Jews under the skippership of Jeshua fought against Philistians till Jeshua won the battle. With the help of God Jeshua defeated his enemies. To help win this battle God kept the Sun unmoved for 24 hours till Jeshua defeated his enemies Philistians. To keep the Sun intact thus was the greatest miracle God made to help Jew Jeshua to defeat Philistines.
A puny size Jew, David with the blessing of God destroyed the mighty Philistine Golliath and created a biblical history. This was another instance where God helped a Jew to finish a Philistine.
When there was a dispute between Philistine and Jews, it looks God stood by the Jews. Was it because the Jews were the chosen people? If this is so, then what about others? Were they not the children of the same God? Does God discriminate between his own children when God is Just? It looks like otherwise why God gave preferential treatment to only one racial class of people, that is Jews?
In the ongoing tussle between Jews and Palestinians Jews are killing innumerable Stone throwing Palestinians. Stone throwers are fools because thru this war with Stones against Bullets of Jews the Stone throwers are committing suicides and suicide is a sin. Thru this method of fighting with Jews, young Palestinians are losing their budding lives from the Bullets of Israeli Jews. One cannot fight a war with Stones against the Bullets.
During the last 6 decades by confronting Jews, the Palestinians gained nothing and with the continuation of the same method of confrontation they will gain nothing either. Palestinians need rights for their homeland. To work for it, they need no Arafat or terrorist groups. Terrorism and hijacking of planes fetched nothing for Palestinians, on the contrary they lost world sympathy, especially after the Munich Olympics operation done by the Palestinians.
The birth of Israel 6 decades back was based on cheating and wrong actions initiated by the crook British thru Balfour declaration. Israel in the present format was created by uprooting and dislodging the Palestinians from their land and homes by the Jews came from many parts of the world to resettle in the promised land. But what about the Palestinians uprooted from their places and homes? Where they will go? Don’t they deserve the right for homeland and homes?
Israel is afraid of its existence if Palestinians are allowed a separate homeland next to Israel. If Israel is uprooted from the current place, it will disappear from the planet. For this reason Israel is having sympathy from the Western world to strengthen the borders of Israel.
Palestinians need a Mahatma Gandhi with a simple “Dandi” in his hand and not a sophisticated Gun to fight for their homeland. “Sword beget Sword” and by challenging confrontation with confrontation Palestinians will gain nothing. Without firing a bullet and without killing a single soldier the late Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt in late seventies got back from Israel the huge area of land which Israel earlier captured from the Arabs. This was acquired thru peaceful methods because Anwar Sadat was a a wisdomatic visionary leader. Such leaders are missing now in the Arab World. It is a reality that Israel is a force to reckon with in its present location and no power in the Middle East can uproot it because the entire nuclear West is with Israel and besides, Israel itself is a nuclear power.
No power in the Islamic and Arab Worlds can defeat Israel and at least for the time being Israel is come to stay as it is. This is a hard fact one must be bold enough to accept and not to believe in the statement of the former President of Egypt Gamal Abdul Nassar that “we will put Israel into the sea”. We know who got immersed into the sea in the 1965 War between Arabs and Israel. It was not Israel but Arabs only under the same Nassar.
A few days back we saw how hundreds of Palestinians were released from the Israeli prisons by Israel in exchange of ONE Israeli prisoner soldier by the Palestinian. This again indicates the power of settlement of a dispute thru peaceful negotiation. If such a big deal can be acquired thru peaceful method of discussion and negotiation then why not other issues related to Palestinians and Jews in Israel and Palestine?
The present era is not of war to get independence but it is an era of getting independence thru peaceful negotiations which Israel and Palestinians must pursue for the establishment of independent Palestinian State. This is required because Palestinians too need a free and separate homeland for them. It is their birth right to have a separate independent homeland for Palestinians. They are also the children of same God just as the Israeli Jews are.
While concluding one must admire Israeli leadership to swap over a thousand Palestinian prisoners for One Israeli Jews. This shows how great importance Israeli Jews give for their one enemy captured Jew!! It is admirable gesture on the part of Israeli leadership to take such a bold step for the release of ONE JEW.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
