humans.
I don't support Hamas or Hizbullah madness and violence per se but Israeli callousness and hubris are pushing me to understand why jihadi groups spring up by the dozens and thousands are willing to die for their supposed ill-defined causes.
More than religion, more than ideology, INJUSTICE drives people to far indescribable deeds of revenge. More so when your grievances are unheard, dismissed and worse still, the world sides, pampers and support your oppressor.
This is the situation that Palestinians and by extension, the Islamic world is faced with.
One may wonder why Al Quaeda and other extremist causes receives some measure of sympathy from non-muslims and moderate muslims alike and not outright condemnation. It is because some of their gripe are genuine, their concerns are palpable especially relating to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
You get the full import of their ire just by listening to the haughty Israeli officials.
I don't support the Iranian theocracy when it comes to democracy and human rights and their assertion that Israel should be wiped off the map but their nuclear ambitions are justified in light of being neighbors with the evil state of Israel that itself has nuclear weapons.
Support for Israel the world over must be at all times low given the missteps and misdeeds of the past few years and especially the past one month.
The Israeli aggression in Gaza that killed 1300 civilians using uncoventional means like white phosporous was the beginning.
The blockade on Gaza that followed has been condemned the world over. Gazans are living in deplorable conditions because of the blockade, described by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as 'unacceptable'
Palestinians in Gaza are living without water, medicine and are deprived of means of survival because of the blockade. Humanitarian supplies to Gaza are consfictated by Israeli security.
Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI have also condemned the blockade as dehumanising. Hilary Clinton has urged Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak to end the blockade. Israel has chosen to ignore all these pleas!
A UN report, led by a South African judge, Richard Goldstone and adopted by the UN suggested that the blockade is a war crime and possibly a crime against humanity.
Save for Israel and its benefactor, the US, the whole world is unanimous that Israel is the main aggresor in middle east conflict.
Israel is sabotaging mediation talks aimed at a two state solution to the conflict. It is provoking tension with Palestine so that it justifys her murderous aggression in the West Bank and Gaza and by extension, their continued occupation of Palestinian land.
Half a million Israelis live in Palestinian land and Israel has announced the building of 1600 new settlements in East Jerusalem, which Palestine wanted to make it its capital city in a two state solution.
Israeli settlements are illegal but Israel insists otherwise. Israeli PM, Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking at a AIPAC meeting had this to say, " the Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3000 years and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today, Jerusalem is not a settlement, it is our capital"
And these are the people who claim to be honest and serious on the quest for peace! Such talks are meant to pre-empt any meaningful talks with Palestine.
The land in question belongs to Palestinians in fact and in law. The UN, EU, World Court deem the settlements as illegal.
UN Security Council Resolution 446 on March 22, 1979 stated that it believed the settlements were illegal "...the policy and practises of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East" it stated.
Amnesty International has argued the settlement policy violates Palestinian human rights. In fact, settlements in Offra, Elon Moreh and Beit El were built on private Palestinian land.
Israel also continue their campaign of wanton killings of unarmed Palestinian civilians, harrasment and even stoning their cars.
In all these, the US, which Israel solely owes its existence, continue its empty rhetorics of peace and a two state solution to the conflict. If US genuinely believes in world peace, then the culprit is neither Al Quaeda, Hamaz nor the Taliban. It is the nefarious state of Israel. Suspend aid and military support to Israel and they will be forced to respect her
neighbors.
America should stop wasting money and personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somali and wherever, you are pursuing the wrong target.
Israel exist courtesy of you, and that is why Islamic extremists target you. The grievance is Palestine. Mr. Obama, sulking about Israel is not enough, whip your Frankestein.
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