Sunday 13 July 2014

The two-state Holy Land


I hate to say it, but it is high time that Palestinian men (and it always is men) and politicians just sit down, give up and admit they have been unfairly beaten.

In order for the rest of the world to help sort out this bloody mess, Palestinians must go against all natural instincts of masculine pride and justice, and stop throwing rockets over the wall into Israel, who will then have no excuse to throw rockets back in a much more efficient manner.

Squeezed into a tiny strip of land with the sea preventing them from further retreat, it is impossible for the most sophisticated Israeli weaponry to distinguish between an ordinary house or hospital and a rocket-launching site, simply because the two often serve the same purpose, and using civilians as a shield just cannot work, even if that is an unintended or impotent tactic caused by the lack of space.

Ordinary Palestinian people have become a tool for Islamic fascists, who just do not care how many innocent people get killed on either side. Someone is supplying them with more and more sophisticated rockets, and they cannot resist setting them off toward Israel.

Palestine has got to start as if it was day one and officially recognise Israel's right to exist, and Israel may start to relax and give the Palestinians a bit of breathing space. A few years ago, Israel was accused of paranoia against all Arabs, but now their fears are real. It is no longer a case of small boys throwing stones at tanks.

Of course you cannot ignore history - especially if the history of the nation is as young as Israel's - but this is a feud without end, and both sides have go against all their natural instincts for the sake of their ordinary citizens.

Up until the late 1940s, Jews, Christians and Arabs existed perfectly peacefully side by side as they had done for thousands of years. Would it be completely unrealistic to think that they could do this again?

Probably, or at least not until many thousands more women and children have been killed.

20 comments:

  1. I don't think the Hamas would agree with you.

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    1. That's the problem, even if they were voted in.

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    2. If we had a Marshall Plan for Palestine the Hamas would be an irrelevance.

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  2. Isn't it always the women and children who suffer most? It has been since time immemorial and I really don't see anything changing ay time soon.

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  3. Maybe Assad's millions will soon dry up, and they won't be able to afford all those indiscriminate rockets. The Israelis are a hard-working, and peaceful people (yes they are), and have had to suffer thousands of these effing rockets fired at random every year. You're right; if Hamas diverted cash to looking after their own people, rather than spending it on armaments, peace would naturally follow.

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    1. Iran is even worse off than Israel. At least Israel has the sea on one side. Iran has enemies on all sides.

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    2. I thought Iran were supplying Hamas with weapons.

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    3. Both Iran and Syria I believe..

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  4. Cro is right. I remember Hamas in the beginning fostering society, building an infrastructure of help for the people who elected it. A ploy?

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  5. Even the Germans had to surrender against overwhelming force in 1945, and look where they are today! Maybe your solution is the answer. Yes, the more I think about it the more potential I can see in it.
    A surrender followed by a Marshall Plan for Palestine
    could be a wonderful thing.

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  6. The above would make Hamas redundant.

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  7. I'm not even going to get started....*walks quietly away*

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  8. watch this https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=813446768675004 for another view. It's worth it.

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    1. Thanks, Marianne - I will watch it all tonight.

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  9. I will join in with the above discussions tonight - if I have the stomach for it.

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  10. I have just read a superb book written by a Palestinian about his life in Gaza. I highly recommend it. I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey: Izzeldin Abuelaish

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  11. Thank so much Tom Stephenson.You understad something that most of the brain washed people do not.

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