The conflict between Israel and Palestine is a case in
point. Depending on whom you listen to, it is a two, three, four, or even more
party conflict. For most American it seems to believe it is a two party conflict
because historically that is what it is and the most powerful propaganda
machines in this country have reinforced that belief by presenting it that way.
The current conflict is a conflict between Palestinian people and the Jewish
people. The confusion arises because they were all cohabiters of the same land
named Palestine; therefore, the name Palestinians applies to both the Jewish
and to the Arab contingent. The UN partitioned the land into three Jewish
sections and four Arab sections. The Jews inserted religion into the partition
by claimed biblical rights to the land long before the U.N. partitions spurred
on by the genocide in Germany, “give” them the rights to form a state of Israel
with all if it consequences, which happened in Nov. 1947. At the time, the Arabs,
feeling abandoned by the world, abandoned their territory, and fled the Jewish sections.
The Jews began the long tedious process of claiming the Arab lands; we hear
about this in the news as “establishing settlements”, which is really just establishment
of legal “rights” over Arab land in Jewish territory.
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Thus, the real or base conflict is an age-old bestial or dog
level style fight over control of territory. It was fight between the Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO) and the State of Israel. What has happened is that
multiple Islamic organizations including one named Hamas have inserted religion
in the form of their “God” on the Arab side of the territorial dispute; this is
the worst thing that could have happened in that conflict. Hamas is a militant
Islamic fundamentalist political movement, which gains support from Muslim
terrorists from around the world. That string of adjectives: ‘militant’, ‘Islamic’,
‘fundamentalist’ and ‘political’, introduces terror into my heart as should do
to everyone no matter in what country you find it including the United States. “Hamas”
is the leading perpetrator of terrorist activity with the objective of
destroying any hope of democracy in the region, and, if you care to listen,
they hope to destroy democracy around the world: America, Europe, and every other
democratic nation. Israel is just a steppingstone. They hope to achieve power over
everyone who is not Muslim. They are living in the dark ages of the crusades;
Abrahamic religions fighting Islamist.
“Arab Spring” is a name given to the widespread movement, away
from religious governments to democratic governments especially in the Middle
East. President Obama is reaching for this ripening plum and deserves all the
help we can give him to reach his goal. It is what Hillary Clinton and John
Kerry are working so hard to achieve. I listen to the Right Wing propaganda and
watch their efforts to recruit church groups into the political process including
Jewish groups. By doing so, they cause huge problems; thus, I see Republican
groups and myriad ignorant preachers adding “religious fuel” to the fire by ignoring
the basic issue in the fight, which they do by opposing Hamas and preaching
hate for Muslims, and catering to the radical right wing sect in the Israeli
Government as represented by Benjamin Netanyahu. There can never be a solution
following the Netanyahu-Republican tract, which inserts “God” or “Allah” into government;
by doing so they perpetuated a never-ending religious conflict—we have 10,000
years of human history to verify that.
Someone has to say
it; the minute a population enters “God” into government of man, you have
trouble. Obviously, we cannot elect either “God” or “Allah”. Our constitution says
it by stating church and state must be separate.
I put the words “God” and “Allah” in quotes because they
represents a concept—something that exist only in the mind of man. Anyone you
ask defines the words differently while declaring one real and the other
fiction. I have personally and arguably defined “God” as the “sense of survival”,
a biological phenomenon that exists in all living things and not just humankind.
In that way, the sense of survival resembles the sense of fear, taste, shame, and
many other senses that we all recognize. I define politics as social organization
based on hierarchy dominance. They both have the same objective, to survive. I find
it difficult to think in those terms and at the same time think of killing each
other over an indefinable concept.
Israel, live within the territory you legally own! Give the
land that you stole back and stop that nonsense that the Biblical gave the land
to you. Palestine must kick out Hamas from Palestinian territory; they are
hurting your cause and causing harm to your people. Republicans, shut up until
you understand the problem. A good way to do that is to listen to President Barrack
Obama; the first president we have had while in office that has understood the problem.
Carter learned how to understand the problem but after he left the White House.
Bush and his neo-cons made it much worse.
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