OK, it's been more than a week since I last posted. I am yet to find out exactly what transpired in the Zidane-Materazzi affair, not that I'm fixated on finding out anyway. Oh, and the big news now is Israel's offensive in southern Lebanon against the Hezbollah. The basic premise is that 2 of their soldiers were abducted by the Hezbollah and they would use any force necessary to obtain their release.
It's been the story of the region hasn't it?
The siege mentality adopted by the Zionist state surrounded by Muslim neighbours who'd gleefully rub their hand together at any chance they'd get at annihilating the Jewish neighbour they oh-so-love-to-hate. The turbulence engulfing the Middle-East shows no signs of abating and it seems like there may not be peace any time soon. Built from land usurped from their Arab neighbours, Israel seems to have this policy of striking first and striking hard at the enemy, and they excercise this policy a lot, mostly, with brutal outcomes.
For me, personally, I'd like to see the day the Arabs triumphing over their Israel, not because I am a Muslim, but more because I hold to the principle that no one has the right to chase the indigeneous people off their birthland. I felt the same for the Aborigines of Australia, long marginalised by the white immigrants, and for the Native Indians of the Americas. I do believe that Jerusalem should be sanctioned as an international city, due to it's uniqueness of being the cradle of the 3 major Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Then again, who am I to say?
Despite having UN Resolutions hanging over its head, there seems nothing that can be done to diffuse each and every flareup caused by the Israelis. However, if the flareup was caused by the Arabs, the rebuttal and response is swift and hard. Sad but true, in a region where stones are answered with bullets and "every means necessary", more often than not means excessive use of force, it's hard to see the end of such hostilities. The Arabs aren't doing much to diffuse it either, suicide bombings under the veil of martyrdom are hardly the kind of answers need to to the perennial question of the possibility of peaceful existence.
Fighting fire with fire will only cause the situation to get even hotter and more tense than it already is. Every Israeli incursion into the Palestinian territories, killing innocent civilians while at it, is replied with suicide bombings of innocent civilians from Israel. Likewise, any suicide attacks replied with more incursions. It's a vicious cycle which never seems to end. And now this. Israel attacks south Lebanon to force Hezbollah to release their kidnapped soldiers. While I pity the innocent Lebanese killed in this show of force by the Israelis, I can't help thinking that had these 2 soldiers be released, the bloodshed might just end - for now.
The way I see it now, the situation is set to escalate further, I'd probably not discount a full-scale invasion by Israel into South Lebanon just as they did in 1980. I do not think Israel should not excercise its right to self-defence, however, that said, they should have excercised restraint - a concept the Israel government seem to to find alien. It's kind of like a playground fight between 2 boys. The smaller boy provokes the bigger boy, calling him stupid, and get a slap, a shove, a punch and kick up the backside all at once. At the same time, sniggering at the rest of the boys, taunnting them to do domething about it.
Yeap, we are those other boys, some watching, some egging on the 2 boys, all the while waiting for someone to step in, only to see the biggest boy around sitting at the corner, pretending nothing happened, if you get my drift.
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