World appeals to Hamas to release hostages
If you love God and your families, in the name of Prophet,
release innocent people you have taken hostage with brute force. Violence doesn’t
bring peace, compassion does.
Condolences to family and friends of Israel and Palestine, the
victims of this great tragedy when wars have become new normal in Century
Twenty-One, politically, individually, globally. Palestine name first referred
by ancient Greeks was an area in the Middle East between the Jordan River and
the Mediterranean Sea. It was absorbed by the Ottoman Empire Year 1517 until
the World War. At the end of the war Turks were defeated by the British forces
who began ruling the homeland of the Palestinians from 1920 to 1948, the land
called Palestine. Since Palestinians helped the British to defeat the Turks, a
League of Nations Mandate was drawn out under McMahan Agreement that British
would return their homeland to the rightful owners, Palestinians. Though
British latter denied that they ever made such a promise under any Agreement. By
British the same area of land was also promised to the Jews as the Jews claimed
under the Belfour Declaration. In Year 1920 many Jews migrated to that area and
lived in the much populated area of the Arabs, both Jews and Arabs living
together in friendly relationships. In Year 1929 the relations between the Jews
and the Arabs soured due to the focal point of discontent concerning Jerusalem
which resulted in violence. Yet, many more Jews kept migrating to Palestine
between years 1931 to 1940. Due to the rise of violence and increasing number
of Jews in Palestine outnumbering Palestinians, British put a quota on number
of Jews who could enter Palestine in any one year. During the WW11, many Jews
fought for allies against Nazi Germany and gained much military prowess. When
the war ended in Year 1945, they used their skills in acts of terrorism. In the
aftermath of Holocaust, the British gave Jews the hope that they would be given
more rights in Palestine. Of course, at the expense of the Arabs in Palestine,
the British knew beforehand. As the terror acts of the Jews increased,
destroying even the British Military Headquarters in Palestine the British
decided they would eventually leave. In Year 1947 United Nations accepted that
idea-promise of the British to partition Palestine into Israel for Jews and
Palestine for Arabs. May 14, 1948 the British withdrew from the Palestine and
the Palestinians began their own counter-terror attacks lasting from May 1948
to January 1949, not recognizing Israel as part of the Palestine. To
Palestinian Arabs the area the Jews call Israel, will always be Palestine. To
Jews it is Israel. Thus began the conflict when the British policy of Divide
and Rule ended in departure from Palestine, and it continues to this day. Much
like the partition of India and Pakistan 1947 as described in the book,
Holocaust of the East. The same Divide and Rule policy, leaving behind a thorn
of Kashmir which belongs only to Kashmiris, neither to India, nor to Pakistan.
History has been written and rewritten
many times over in several books by different authors. Facts contradicted by
facts, discrepancies passed as factual. The Arab Palestinians themselves were
deprecated by Hitler as racially inferior to Germans. However, the radical
Jewish groups employed terrorism against the British forces in Palestine,
accusing them of betraying their Zionist cause. At the end of WW11 1945 United States
took up Zionist Cause. Since then, Palestinians were oppressed. Their lands
were usurped by Israelites while they were being driven homeless, their young
and old murdered. Aftermath of which was violence on both sides. Palestinians
branded as terrorists, tyrannous as Israelis portrayed as victims of terrorism.
As the saying goes, tyrants breed terrorists and terrorists become tyrants. In
this recent tragedy of Hamas attacking Israel, they sure are terrorists created
by ongoing tyranny of Israel regimes since decades. Tragedy of tragedies is
that innocent people suffer on both sides, while ugly wars are declared in the
name of peace. Peace can’t be attained by wars but by realization from both
warring factions that they need to come to an agreement, acknowledging futility
of bloodbath. People of the Book are children of one God, they must share God’s
holy land in peace.
“If we all believed in eye for an eye, the
whole world would go blind.” Gandhi
Ignorance is not a bliss anymore and
blindness is a disease our modern world has not been able to find a cure.
Wishing peace, harmony, healing for the
whole world.
A quote from Marcus Aurelius: ‘To look for
the impossible is folly and it is impossible that bad men should not do bad
deeds. It is a shame to let ignorance and complacency be stronger than wisdom’
