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Israel, the world’s only country with no internationally-declared borders, has begun the deadly dance of death and destruction in Gaza city which is located in 1.5 million strong Gaza strip, the world’s most densely populated area. As Israel prepares for a long haul with tanks massed along the Gaza after the aerial strikes, the official silence of Egypt and Jordan has resulted in mental agony for the hapless Palestinians. Palestinians have been betrayed not only by Israel alone but by their “own” people. This fact can be gauged from Egyptian government’s decision to seal its border along the Gaza strip at Rafah Crossing thus aggravating the humanitarian crisis fuelled by a country whose does not believe in human rights. Israel is the only country in the world which has violated the maximum number of United Nations’ resolutions since it came into existence in November 1948 with the help of a United Nation’s resolution!
Israel’s history of complete disregard to human rights and international law will put any human being to shame. Five years ago, Rachel Corrie, an American human rights activist with International Solidarity Movement was crushed to death by an armoured Israeli bulldozer as she was protesting against the destruction of Palestinian homes in Gaza strip.
The current situation was propelled by an economic blockade by Israel two months ago as a response to what it says “rocket and mortar fire” by Hamas, the ruling militant organization in Gaza strip. An Egyptian-brokered peace truce between Israel and Hamas was broken ten days ago. This situation was exploited by Israel to intensify an already existent economic blockade thus making ordinary life miserable. Just a day before the Israeli offensive, Rami Almeghari, a lecturer of Islamic University of Gaza could not find bread in Gaza!
An empty stomach has a right not only to hunger but anger as well. It is in this context that Hamas rocket attack into Southern Israel must be interpreted.
BBC reported on November 13 that “Gaza may be without United Nations food aid from November 15 after Israel has refused to allow in emergency supplies.” The Israeli blockade was not merely economic but academic as well. 27-year old Belal Bedwan, a resident of Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Central Gaza told BBC that he had twice missed the chance to study abroad since he was not allowed to move out of Gaza although he had got admission in Malaysian University as late as July 2008! “The Israelis stopped me leaving Erez in the north and the Egyptians stopped me at Rafah in the south,” he had told BBC.
A Palestinian noise is never heard through voice. Al-Qassam rockets are the only means to draw the world’s attention.
Shifa hospital, where most of the injured are being treated does not have adequate medical wares. Laila El-Haddad, a Gaza-based journalist wrote that medical supplies like face masks, surgical gloves, gowns etc. are in short supply.
She wrote that the heading in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz ‘Over 50 targets by 60 warplanes’ sounds like a “movie tagline or a game.” She sarcastically termed the Israeli offensive as “Neatly packaged war in a gift-box.”
Among 300 dead bodies, there are at least 20 children. Perhaps this war is the Jewish states’ New Year gift to a Palestinian mother.
Israeli has lost one war against Lebanon’s Hezbullah in 2006. Israel will lose this war against democratically-elected Hamas again because the days of age-old saying ‘Might is right’ are dead. Israel may win this battle but it will lose the war. An increasing number of non-Muslims are raising their voice against the Israeli barbarism.
An American Christian had this to say in a letter to a Palestinian:
I apologize for what is happening to your people and your family. I wish the U.S. were coming out more strongly in condemnation of the Israeli violent actions. I have called the U.S. Secretary of State office and expressed my concern and my desire that the U.S. more strongly condemn today’s Israeli actions. I sent an email of condemnation to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. I also sent an email to the American Jewish Committee, and expressed very strongly my disapproval of that organization’s statement today in support of the Israeli action.
With the ongoing global recession the downfall of Israel’s biggest ally has already begun. Empires don’t fall overnight; first comes the decline and then fall. The Mughal Empire’s decline began after the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. But the fall came 150 years later in 1857. At present America is sinking in a sea of debt. Afghanistan and Iraq wars have severely wounded the backbone of America’s economy.
Israel is heading the same path of destruction. It is digging its own grave.
Photo Courtesy: Khalil Hamra / Associated Press
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its really disturbing to read the comments on the above article. i always thought these communal hatred in our country was mainly coz of so called vote bank politics who easily brainwashed not so educated folks. to see educated people hating each other on religous basis is really disturbing.
to condemn inhuman act of anyone anywhere is the duty of an educated person if not education will become only money making source.
the world hates islam coz it sees islam in the muslims but the truth is that we muslims are too far from islam. we are either stuck with sherwani and biryani or else have moved to the other end of so called jihadism, where the fact is that islam lies in between these two points of rejection and extremism. i storngly feel, to know islam we have separate islam from muslims.
Manoj George said:
“Shama there are many better ways to voice symbolic protest rather than launch rockets and that also for days on end against a power which is militarily stronger than you.”
Ok, could you please care to let us know what you’d consider to be a better way?
Manoj George said:
“Hamas or Hezbollah have a support even amongst Indian Muslims leave the ones in middle east and these organisations openly want a decimation of Israel and so do many Muslim countries. Does that sound peace?”
No it doesn’t. Does it have to be? Ever cared to read Ben Gurion’s quotes? Please enlighten us if these sound pretty “peaceful” to you.
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“We must expel Arabs and take their places.”
– David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.
“There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
– Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.
“Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.”
– David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.
“Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.”
– David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
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And what’s wrong with Indian Muslims supporting it? Why do you seem to be so surprised? Just becoz Christians aren’t being killed the world over, at the scale where Muslims are, you probably wouldn’t know it.
Manoj George said:
“The current generation of Israel is not responsible for the mess and have a right of place in Israel. Take a cue from Kashmiri Pandits. They also face similar circumstances in Jammu camps but are not launching symbolic rockets anywhere and neither is their generation creating freedom fighters.”
Oh puhleeze ! They are downright responsible for the continuation of this apartheid policy which facilitates the new apartheid wall being built.
And what cue needs to be taken from Pandits? It is true that they got displaced (I won’t get into the reasons). But they are still FREE citizens in their OWN country. They are still eligible for all the jobs & facilities that are available to other Indian citizens. They aren’t treated as second or third class citizens. No one is building an apartheid wall around their camps. No one is blocking medicine or essential clothing to them. No one is sending drones or war planes over them. No one is bombing them, or their infrastructure. No one is using them or their kids going to school, for target practice and then make youtube videos out of it. They aren’t discriminated against anything. They don’t need the permission of their “occupiers” to travel. They can gladly vote and be part of the world’s biggest democracy.
The difference is stark. Please read it twice lest you should forget it.
When you lose your family, property & country would you still be talking the same? I wonder.
Milind Kher summed it up pretty well. All these non-Muslims are supporting Israel only because they are doing what these guys would’ve loved to to. For them any Muslim death is a good riddance!
The only Hindus that I have seen here in USA supporting Palestinians are the Communists from Kerala / Bengal. So far I haven’t seen a single Indian Christian supporting the Palestinian cause. Not one. But I have seen many American Christians openly supporting it. I guess prejudice blinds people.
It is really a terrible thing that is unfolding in the Gaza strip. The Israeli war machine is trying to annihilate a whole population for the defiance of some. This act has to be condemned whole heartedly by the world ( not that Israel cares about it). I don’t agree with those who try to justify this war by saying that Hamas has invited this upon itself by firing rockets into Israel.Hamas had already inflicted enough pain among the Palestanians by engaging in the FATA Hamas armed conflicts. Then also the common people were held hostage to violence. They were powerless to stop it. So why Israel in imposing this collective punishment on the whole population? How were the common people going to stop the rocket fires anyway?
I must admit that I would have liked to see more protests coming out in India…not the angry destructive kind ( since there is no use being angry in India and destroy our meagre public properties)or the CPM lal jhanda types( with an eye on the vote bank), but silent protest march showing our solidarity with the oppressed people of Gaza. I wonder why that is not happening… Yasser Arafat was a very good friend of Indira Gandhi, wasn’t he?
We used to support the Palestanians whole heartedly that time. So why is it lacking nowadays? Is it because the muslims have started invoking it as a Muslim problem? Is it why people are shying away from it? I have seen blogs and news reports and letters by Muslims, asking the Muslim world to unite and fight against this. Does that mean they don’t want the support of others? What have the rich Arab leaders done for them? They couldn’t even meet for even after 3 days since the bombardment started. Whereas people in Paris London etc have been holding rallies showing their support.
And for those Indians who think that Indian Muslims have no business condemning this act are so wrong. It is not only Indian Muslims, but Indians of every hue and colour should show solidarity with the Palestanians, and they should show it as Indians. Don’t compare it with Sudan, Darfur etc., where they seem more like barbarians. But when the civilized world starts to act as barbarians our world starts to shrink.
Shama, Texan, I guess you did not read through the lines. At least Shama you are clear that Israel does not respect recognition. Then can there be ever a peace talk. Whats the use to argue the case against a community you dont want to recognise? As for Muslims in India they have amalgated in India very respectfully. The palestinian parable is far fetched in that case. But if you did take this up then even the entry of Muslims in India was far from peaceful. Many of the RSS wallahs might quickly clarify that to you. After a bloody partition and an article 370 in Kashmir which is sometimes compared to Palestine we still have Indian Muslims. And yes they deserve every recognition as their current generation is not responsible for what their ancestors are supposedly accused to have done or not done.
Daniel, the kashmiri pandits have always argued their case verbally and through peaceful means. If their current generation would have been terrorising Kashmiri Muslims then we would have an Amarnath Row now and then. Even they were driven out of their ancestral lands but they kept working with the seperatists and in the mainstream. They are free citizens in India but still refugees and many of them still languish in base camps as near as Delhi. And yes many of them lost family, property and respect. I believe Daniel you need to read twice before accusing them of building an apartheid policy. As for as Christians being killed world over, they have been bloody attacked in India but I do not harbour anything against even the Bajrangis. And yes they have had fair share of attacks in many Muslim countries for simply wearing the cross and this has happened in democracies of Egypt and Pakistan. But they were again attacks by lunatics and the communities there will have to work with the states to be happy.
I still stand that you can not launch rockets for peace and if they are symbolic then they need to be launched in air and not at Israeli locations.
A better way of protest could have been to get facilities out of international community, building their identity as a palestinian state and efforts at living with an accepted Israel. Unless you give recognition you wont get it back. Unless you offer peace, you can not get peace back.
Tanveen, the act of killing of palestinians is condemnable and deserves every condemnation not because they are Muslims but because they are part of the same humanity. However, the path of peace can never be achieved through symbolic rocket bombings. I have read many Israelis and met some of them in UK and all of them are sad at this state of war. Humanity is always touched but politics never lets the human picture to evolve.
Please read an Israeli’s take:-
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231167265397&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Is it true that some 3000 rockets have been fired at Israel last year alone?
If yes, then why shouldn’t Israel defend itself?
What Israel is doing in Ghaza may be sound harsh but they have too few choices. It’s a circle, where one’s act justifies another’s.Israel is being practical. If say nepal or Bhutan send rockets into India for whatever reason, are we going to be quite, we are going to do what Israel did in Ghaza, it’s a war. If Israel didn’t do what it did in past , it would be having atleast 2 nuclear armed pakistans around it as Egypt and syria. If USA didn’t go for war on terror, it would have had several attacks on it in the last 7 years. Look at India, how many innocents die year after year in terrorist attacks, because Indian State likes to avoid controversial decisions until unless our politicians can get some votes from it.
In Ghaza, according to UN 25% of the dead were civilians and 75% were hamas terrorists.25% includes the family members of these hamas terrorists. Hamas is ruling Ghaza. The attack by Hamas is act of war,Israel is ofcourse going to take full advantage of it,and if Israel were to be careless about civilians, many more would have died. Obviously even Hamas doesn’t care about innocent palastenians. Don’t they know how Israel would react and how many will die or who will die , if they hide among civilians in densely populated Ghaza and keep firing rockets to kill a few Israeli civilians. Either they kill 300 hamas guys and save 100 Israeli civilians from them or not attack and save 300 hamas terrorists and 100 palestinian civilians and let 100 or more of their citizens die in the hands of these hamas guys over time. Which woould any sane state (inefficient Indian state not included)choose?
No doubt India should support the rights of palestinians, but definitely not Hamas. I don’t think there is anything wrong with muslims supporting palestinians, they don’t have to stop being muslims because they are Indians, Don’t Hindus extend moral support to hindus in other parts of the world. The problem woud be only if they go start fighting Israel along with Hamas.
Rick,
Making it religious issue is one reason why it is difficult to support Palestenians, but more importantly I think, it is because that time palestinians were not seen as terrorists or supporters of it, now it is not so black and white.. both are at fault and acts of Hamas makes Israel’s acts defensive. So it is not easy especially after seeing palestinians celebrating 9/11 on the streets.
And rich arabs spend millions to buy a shoe thrown on bush( How meaningless and stupid?)or to support terrorist acts, but no money for poor people anywhere(non-muslims included in a secular way) in the world. Look at Werren Buffet or Bill Gates, That’s why no one gets a good impression of these guys,not because they are muslims. How much arab world donates for common causes in the world?
“Don’t compare it with Sudan, Darfur etc., where they seem more like barbarians.” That’s why it is more urgent and more condemnable. Is it a more sentimental issue for muslims because of al quds?
Milind,
1. “Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization. Hezbollah runs many important institutions and organizations. They have successfully confronted Israel head on, and are well respected. Hezbollah fighters are legitimate freedom fighters.
Let us not be taken in by the propoganda of the western media.”
so, where do you get your news or propaganda on Hezbollah?
2. “The bottom line is that it is sheer Islamophobia that makes many people side with Israel.”
Do you even know what they show about Israel and jews on Palastenian TV? The phobia is on both sides.
3. “A lot of people support Israel because the Israelis are fighting against Muslims. Their sheer hatred for Muslims makes them support Israel. This is unfortunate. We need to have a balanced and mature approach in such matters.”
Hamas and palastine are not interchangeable. I support palastenians when they fight Israel for teir rights. But I support Israel when it fights Hamas. We don’t want Hamas kind of organizations anywhere in the world. It hardly helps palestanian causes.
Manoj:
“As for Muslims in India they have amalgated in India very respectfully. ”
Be quite strange if they did not. Many people [wrongly] believe that Islam came to India from the northern invasions of the Persian Mongols [Mughals], when in reality, the second oldest masjid on the world is in South India. Arab traders have been trading with India since the time of the Egyptian pharoahs
“The Sinai desert was important for its copper and gem stone mines, and its trade routes through Arabia to the Horn of Africa, and later to Persia and India. ”
Many people also do not know [never having been to Arab lands] that the term “hindi” is used by Arabs for all Indians, even Muslim ones like me, until today.
It was the British who recognising only Judaism, Islam and Christianity, invented the umbrella term Hinduism for all other religions. It originated in 1829, from the word “Hindu Kush” which is Farsi for Mountains of India [Kashmir probably originated from Kush, since the local lingo of Kashmir, Koshur, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Persian family].
Sometimes we know more about other people than our own cultures.
Slight correction:
I meant to say:It originated in 1829, from the word “Hind” [India] which was derived from the old word Sind, the name of the Sindhu river, and was used by people on the other side of the Sindhu [now called the Indus] to differentiate between them and us. One of the oldest uses of the word Hind is “Hindu Kush” which is Persian [not Farsi, Farsi is Arabized Persian] for “Mountains of India”
The name “Kashmir” probably originated from Kush [mountains], since the local lingo of Kashmir, Koshur, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Persian family].
Sometimes we know more about other people than our own cultures.
If you confuse the etymology of the term “Hindu” with what it means to live like a Hindu or know the Hindu culture, then yes to your above statement.
But I think that while most Hindus may not be aware of the source of the term Hindu, they are quite aware of their culture as they live it everyday.
@Arun
“Is it true that some 3000 rockets have been fired at Israel last year alone?
If yes, then why shouldn’t Israel defend itself?”
That is a cycle. If you go before that one may ask that Israel occupied their land and put a blockade and not allowing free movement of people. Not only that they continue their land grabbing. Almost every country (except US) has criticized Israel for this but it does not listen to anyone and continues to violate international law (as confirmed by International court of justice and UN). Then one may ask how is Hamas wrong in just firing a few rockets which at most would have killed a few people – not even ten.
Why to have such a selective view of a situation? Please think deeply in your heart that if it not had been Israel and Palestine but two different entities.
A place X and another one Y. People Y come in thousands and occupy X. They hit at the population of X in all ways and push them out of their lands. Then they occupy it almost completely. When the people of X fight back they say they are terrorists. They campaign their propaganda in all ways. When pushed hard, they commit to the world that they will accept a homeland for the people of X but then continue to build their settlements in whatever is left of the lands on which people of X live. They come up with one excuse after the other (like there is no partner in piece or there is no democratic government and so on). When a democractic govt is elected by the people of X they say the people have got a wrong choice. What would you call them? Would you side with Y and say it is the people of X who are wrong and they deserve it? Unless you switch the words Israel and Palestine I dont know how you can do that. And that is why I feel the people are so biased on this issue. What Israel is doing is terrorism – pure and simple.
Rick:
“We used to support the Palestanians whole heartedly that time. So why is it lacking nowadays? Is it because the muslims have started invoking it as a Muslim problem? Is it why people are shying away from it?”
No, because we are becoming, like the Arab nations who are also silent, complicit in this torture for our base interests. Israel supplies weapons, espionage on Pakistan and probably trains our troops in how to deal with terrorists. The last is an assumption because they trained US troops in Iraq and British cops in London [trained them to shoot a running suspect in the head rather than the stomach, which had some unpleasant consequences if you recall). And yes, its a shame. We did the same thing when we supplied the Burmese junta with weapons to attack their monks. All these right wing tendencies in India worry me.
Manoj said:
“I still stand that you can not launch rockets for peace and if they are symbolic then they need to be launched in air and not at Israeli locations.”
Please tell us how they should aim their symbolic rockets. Straight up, perhaps?
Manoj said:
“A better way of protest could have been to get facilities out of international community, building their identity as a palestinian state and efforts at living with an accepted Israel.”
Ok, so by doing these type of “protests” you believe the international community would take notice of their plight, thus forcing (or pleading with) Israel to give Palestinians their country back, right?
Srinivas said:
“Hamas kept on firing rockets for the past one year ….the count in the last six months go on to 6000 odd rockets ….they have declared that its thier right to attack ISrael and will not stop till the entire Jewish state is annhilated …..
ISrael is now giving it back ….”
This is the typical MSM propaganda that portrays Israel as the victim.
It is claimed by Israel, and repeated by other politicians and the media, that it was Hamas which broke the ceasefire. Yet a careful scrutiny of ceasefire violations shows that once Hamas defeated Fatah and took control of the Gaza strip, violations from its side dropped almost to zero, until Israel broke the ceasefire by an air attack and ground invasion on November 4. Furthermore, throughout the ceasefire Israel implemented a siege and naval blockade of Gaza, defined as acts of war in international law. So it was Israel which broke the ceasefire in an act of aggression, and the legally elected Hamas government of Palestine which was acting in self-defence (5). This means that in international law, the murder of each one of the over 550 Palestinians killed in the most recent massacre, whether the vast majority of civilians or the small minority of guerrilla fighters, is a crime equivalent to the crime of killing one Israeli civilian.
Indeed, even before the December onslaught, it was clear that what Israel was doing in Gaza amounted to genocide according to the Genocide Convention (1948), reiterated in the Rome Charter of the International Criminal Court (2002), which includes: ‘(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’ (6). The launching of rockets into Israel by Hamas was, like the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943, a response to impending extermination: a desperate bid for survival. The Zionists’ hostility to anyone standing up for the rights of Palestinians led them in 1948 to murder Count Folke Bernadotte, who had negotiated the release of tens of thousands of prisoners from German concentration camps and was subsequently appointed UN Security Council mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict. More recently, their shameful abuse of Richard Falk, UNHRC Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine (himself an American Jew), who in December 2008 was denied entry, ill-treated and deported, suggests that only pragmatic considerations prevented them from assassinating him too (7).
http://www.unnindia.com/english/story.php?Id=3823
Tariq:
> Then one may ask how is Hamas wrong in just firing a few rockets which at most would have killed a few people – not even ten.
I see where you’re coming from.
But this is Israel, not Britain or Norway or even India. You fire a few rockets, expect to be hit back with a disproportionate force simply because they can. But Hamas, just like other terrorist groups, obviously doesn’t care for Muslims – what are a few hundred earthly lives before the *eternal* life that’s to come hereafter!
I’m not glorifying what Israel is doing – what’s happening is plain wrong. I’m just saying that when provoked, Israel will act like Israel, and Hamas should have known that. I’m sure that the people in-charge in Israel know the future implications of their atrocities, and they’ve taken what they think are prudent measures.
Meanwhile I’m just glad that Israel is not China or USA. Or else the death toll would have been in the tens of thousands by now.
As far back as on 12th September,2005, Israeli settlers and military withdrew completely from the Caza Strip, in accordance with Oslo accords.Hence, Palestinian Authority gained control over that area.The Palestinians have elected Hamas as the new rulers.Hmas was willing to sign a 10-year truce with Israel subject to two conditions:(1) Israel should abide by the International Las and (2) it should end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territories beyond 1967 borders.Israeldoes not refer to Hamas as democratic or govenment of Palestine.It has branded it as a terrorist organisation out to crush Israel! Under such many “lies” Israel has launched apalan to force Palestinians to live in ghettos and be massacred!US has not learnt any lesson after its occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.It is giving full backing to Israel.
Nyamathullah, January 12th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Nyamathullah, If I am your neighbor and for what so ever reason- I openly declare that destroying you is my “only and ultimate aim” and then offer 10 year truce to you- will you accept it??? Would it not be taken as since I not powerful enough to kill you today- take 10 year truce and I hope by that time I would have gained adequate strength to “finish you off”. Israel is a reality- HAMAS must accept it- because the JEWS, as long as they were a people without a country of their own suffered a great lot for the only mistake of being JEWS and are not ready to let go of Israel, their dream country. The JEWS have centuries of injustice against them to compare with the injustice Palestinians claim that they are facing. IT IS NOT RELIGIOUS MATTER AT ALL. IF HINDUS HAD BEEN THE INHABITANTS OF PALESTINE AT THE TIME OF “CREATION OF ISRAEL”- JEWS COULD HAVE PROBABLY TREATED THE HINDU PALESTINIANS ALSO SIMILARLY. MAKING PALESTINE ISSUE, A PAN-ISLAMIC PROTEST IS ACTUALLY MAKING ISRAELIS RESORT TO MORE VIOLENCE AS THEY FEEL CORNERED!!!!!The INDIAN MUSLIM should be in a better position to understand the JEWISH MEND SET as the INDIAN MUSLIMS claim that they are a persecuted, neglected MINORITY community in INDIA, in spite of living in a “secular democratic country like INDIA”.
Singhji,The Jews were responsible for the crucification of Jesus!And also revolted against the Roman Empire.In 70 A.D. Emperor Titus suppressed the revolt,destroyed Jerusalem and banished the Jews.For nearly 1,847 years they were leading a miserable life in Europe. They were forced to live in ‘ghettos’ and massacred by periodic “pogroms”. Around 1917,the Zionist leaders spread their tales of woe to others and secured their sympathy.The British Govt.promised to help in the creation of a “Jewish national home”in Palestine.To wean away the Arabs from the Ottoman Empire, the British exhorted the Arabs to fight against Ottaman Sultan and promise a Palestine state earlier!The Zionist wanted the whole of Palestine and Britain wanted to carve out a Jewish state in Palestine and leave the rest as Arab state.When the Jews were left with no choice than accept a federal Palestine state and live as a moority or take up a new Jewish state considerably small in size!They opted for the latter openly> But they had a long term plan to facilitate large scale influx of Zionist from Europe and then using force and fraud drive away the Arabs!On 15th May, 1948,the Higher Jewish Council announced that “Israel” is born!Right from day one, Isrel has been makingthe best use of “Lies”and winning public support.The y set afloat the Le No.1 that Arab states attacked it and it has with the hep of big powers like UK,US, France and Russia gave a crushing blow to them and appropriated one third of Palestine!As regards the Arabs in resdual Palestine the Zionost drew away by foraud and force.For 47 years the Arabs of Palestine were forced to live in refugee camps in Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.Even there ,they were not secure! On 18th September, 1982, Ariel Sharon, then Defence Minister, attacked the Palestinian refugee camps in Sabra and Chatilla and carrried out a masacre!Atlat Yasser Araft, PLO leader, addressing the UN General assembly told the world body that Palestinians are ready to live in peace with Jews or else their guns will answer the Jews.In 1994, Palestininan National Authority was created as per Oslo Accords.Yasser Rafat became the first Chairman.After his death the Presidential election took place in January 2005,Hamas boycotted it and Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah Party became the chairman.Hamas a rival of Fatah had earned immense popularity by doing great social service to Arabs.It tasted victory in Municipal elections and in the election to the legislature. It secured 72 out of 132 seats!It was prepared to accept1o years truce if Israel stopped aggresson against Palestine and withdrew to its pre1967 borders.Israel floated the “lie” Hamas is a terrorist organisation out to wipe out Israel!In the 2006 elections Hamas did not call for abolition of Israel in its manifesto.It foiled CIA coup in 2007, an”event ordained in the Western media as “Hamas Sezure of power’! As late as on 19 june, 2008, Hamas accepted a six month truce and conscientiously lived uptoit till 4 november, 2008, when Israe raided Gaza and destroyed a building underthe lie that a tunnel was built there to smuggle guns from Egypt. To protest aginstthis and to draw world attention to the blockade placed by Israel only Hamas resorted to rocket firing!Compare the casualties due to rocket firing on Israel with that of aerial attack and launching war by Israel in retaliation!What Israel is busy with is “in making an Arab holocaust in Palestine!”.Many have condemned the Israeli action, including the PM of India.Israel’s desperation is quite intriguing!
Namathullah, January 14th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Namathullah Sab, Jews did not kill JESUS, they only demanded his death- it was the ROMAN GOVERNOR Pilate who ordered the crucifixion of JESUS, and it was the ROMAN SOLDIERS who executed it. So why are the ROMANS held accountable for the death of JESUS. If a HINDUTVA CHAP demands death to some MUSLIM leader and the Indian Govt hangs him- can the HINDUTVA chap alone be held responsible. WILL YOU NOT BLAME THE GOVT TOO.
“You have not addressed my main point”. 1. HAMAS must recognise Israel.
2.PALESTINE IS NOT RELIGIOUS MATTER AT ALL. IF HINDUS HAD BEEN THE INHABITANTS OF PALESTINE AT THE TIME OF “CREATION OF ISRAEL”- JEWS COULD HAVE PROBABLY TREATED THE HINDU PALESTINIANS ALSO SIMILARLY. MAKING PALESTINE ISSUE, A PAN-ISLAMIC PROTEST IS ACTUALLY MAKING ISRAELIS RESORT TO MORE VIOLENCE AS THEY FEEL CORNERED!!!!!The INDIAN MUSLIM should be in a better position to understand the JEWISH MEND SET as the INDIAN MUSLIMS claim that they are a persecuted, neglected MINORITY community in INDIA, in spite of having ruled India for 800 years and India being a secular democracy”.
3. Rocket attack is not about comparative numbers of death- leaving in perpetual threat of death is greater mental agony than “sure death”, and that is what people of Israel face due to rocket attack. WHAT WILL BE YOUR MENTAL STATE IF YOU DO NOT KNOW IF YOUR CHILD GOING OUT TO PLAY COULD DIE ANY DAY DUE TO ROCKET ATTACK???? IF IT WAS MY CHILD THAT GOT KILLED- GIVEN A CHOICE- I WOULD PERSONALLY PICK UP A WEAPON TO KILL THE PERPETRATORS OF THE CRIME. So peace can only be achieved by peaceful methods- violence begets violence only.
1.The chief Priest of Jews decided to let Jesus be crucified rather than allow him to go ahead with his miracles and impel the Roman overlords banish the whole Jewish community.Justice Pilate tried his best not to punish Jesus.When the Jews pressed him he “washed his hands” prior to delivering the judgement!The Holy Bible avers this.How,then,you could blame the roman Govt.?
2.I fail to understand what you mean by “if Hindus had been the inhabitants of Palestine at the time of “creation of Israel”,Jews could have probably treated the Hindu Palestinians similarly”?So you appreciate the “immigrants” force the original inhabitants out of their own land by force or fraud?
3. How many Indian Muslims have complained to you that they are “persecuted and neglected minority community in India”?It is a media hype and not a fact.
4. Did Hamas say in its manifesto for election to Palestinian National council that “It does not
recognise Israel?” On the other hand, Israel refuses to acknowledge Hamas as democratically elected Govt. of Palestine!
5. hamas conscientiously maintained the the six month truce of June 2008till 4th November.Israel attcked Gaza building saying that Hamas has built a tunnel inside it to smuggle arms from Egypt and blocked gaza.Hamas had to sek the medium of rocket firing to draw world attention.
6. The Zionist immigrannts from Europe into Palestine during 1877 to 1917 were the first to use “violence”in the Holy Land.
Jewish traders in the Jewish temple wanted Jesus punished because he stopped them from trading in the Jewish temple- Bible- Matthew 21-23&24. There are many Mosques which have shops in it’s premises. Try stopping the trade their and “YOU” could still be killed OR at the least be locked up in Jail. WILL YOU NOT BLAME THE GOVT TOO”. The all powerful Pilate- The Roman Governor- could not stop injustice. “By the way the Galilean Jewish Governor- HEROD- refuse to punish him and sent him back to Pilate. Bible- Luke 23.
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