ISRAEL- JEWS AND PALESTINIANS (APA Format)

Running Head: ISRAEL- JEWS AND PALESTINIANS

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Introduction

Since the birth of this universe conflicts, disputes and wars have made the world much more exhilarating, though in the negative sense. The struggle for power and dominance has resulted in the form of millions of innocent people lying dead with no fault of their own. Decapitating people's lives for the cause of mass manipulation and political supremacy is the cruelest form of injustice any form of life can ever witness. The sinister and beasts of any culture reside among us wearing a transparent mask of sincerity and faithfulness but the history of politics which has existed for centuries represents a better truth. Are they really sincere?

The Middle East Conflict

The conflict that captured the roots of politics about half a century ago and has never been solved is of Middle East. Capitalists and dominant corporates (Fred Halliday, 1996) have been ruling over Middle East for years and used this issue for their own benefit. The concept of gathering small colonies and states by the Western giants such as Britain, Germany and France resulted into several disputes of which World War I & II are the most popular. After World War II Jews started settling in Palestine and soon the newly born United Nations decided to divide Palestine into two individual states and internationalize Jerusalem. Palestinians and other Arab countries were against this step and attacked Israel but were defeated by the Israeli army. Soon enough thousands of Palestinians were made refugees and were forced to leave Palestine. After that Israel and Arab countries such as Iraq and Egypt battled to gain supremacy over the region but Israel always has the upper hand.

On the Palestinian behalf the US support to Israel is the basic problem. The continuous support of US in the form of arms and ammunition is unsettling the Palestinians and making it hard for them to fight the Israeli army. This continuous war has given birth to new term terrorism and it is yet to be defined internationally. War itself is the biggest form of terrorism, most people would rather deny this fact but still innocent people die because of this barbarian act. The peace process is hardly possible with all these things going on simultaneously. More often this issue of terrorism is linked with religion blaming Islam as the religion of terror which is very hard to digest because Islam teaches peace and unity. To mix up religion and politics is not the right perspective rather it destroys the reputation of certain religious values. As far as the suicide bombers in the recent times are concerned, they are a result of continuing assault from Israeli army and it is not substantial to call these suicide bombers as Islamic militants. There is a difference between Jihad and freedom fight, Palestinians are fighting for their freedom instead of battling over the name of "Allah". In a very straight forward way religion has been used as a tool for political goals set by Western corporate to achieve necessary success in Middle East.

The media has been playing a vital role in circulating several view points among the people but the problem is that every media projects different truth and nobody gets the real perspective of the situation. BBC and CNN cover almost the entire world and they have set their monopoly in the news business and so almost everyone speaks their language. The hidden truth never reaches out to the Western public which doesn't even know whats been happening in the Middle East. The duty of news media should be to provide the truth rather than keeping substantial material hidden from the people. That way the situation can be more exemplified in front of the Western public.

The growing population of the Arab world is a haunting factor for the Western corporate because with the increase in the Arab population, all sorts of problems will formulate in the minds of corporate thinkers. According to Samuel P. Huntington, with the increase in Muslim population, Muslim thinkers and intellectual growth will also increase which is a major threat to Israel at this point. Although there is a negative perspective to it, Islamic fundamentalism will grow much more and may grab a hold of the situation (Samuel P. Huntington, 1997). The economy of the Arab world will boost but the fact of the matter is that all the Arab countries will have to unite for this purpose. In the current situation it is very rare to find unity among the Arab countries maybe because of the outside pressures and their inside differences.

Quite apart from the values and hopes which the State of Israel enshrines - and the past injuries which it redeems - it twists reality to suggest that it is the democratic tendency of Israel which has interjected discord and dissension into the Near East.

Even by the coldest calculations, the removal of Israel would not alter the basic crisis in the area. For, if there is any lesson which the melancholy events of the last two years and more taught us, it is that, though Arab states are generally united in opposition to Israel, their political unities do not rise above this negative position. The basic rivalries within the Arab world, the quarrels over boundaries, the tensions involved in lifting their economies from stagnation, the cross pressures of nationalism, all of these factors would still be there, even if there were no Israel (John Kennedy, 1958)

This conflict will never end until and unless both the parties try to talk about the compromises they have to make for the sake of peace to flourish.

References

" John Kennedy: Causes of Middle East Conflict, Jewish Virtual Library. 17 March, 1958. Researched on 14/05/2002 at
http://www.usisrael.org/jsource/Quote/jfkq1.html

" Fred Halliday: Islam and The Myth of Confrontation. 1996
p. 26-27. New York, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd.

" Samuel P. Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. 1997. p. 119. New York, Touchstone.

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