A long standing dispute

 

Subject: A long standing dispute.



What is it that bonds the Arab citizens in the Middle East in their hatred of Isreal. What is it which brings them out on the streets of Europe and other capital cities across the globe to protest so vehemently.
The Arab in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon have many differences but seem United over the issue of Palestine and Isreal. Biblically they come from similar stock but are separated by a religiosity which intensifies into an ideological sense of unique individuality. Much like Isreal’s sense of individual superiority “a chosen race” the Islamic cause instinctively creates a first and a second class sense of entitlement which naturally creates deep divisions. Mohammedanism, the bonding religion of most Arab countries has its own sense of religious superiority and religion being what it is, the manifestation of ‘gods word’ then the fervour of the manifest goes beyond rational thought.
The depth of feeling and sense of surety is frightening when you hear the Israeli spokes person laying down their interpretation of what is right and wrong, there is no equivocation, no sense that compromise is on the table, only a surety that they are right. And of course they are in their determination to see an end to Hamas who represent not only Palestinians but also a historical division between the religious options available to enfranchise people in the name of god.
Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, Al Qaeda are all integrated in the jihadi threat to non Islamic people and try as we might we have to come to terms with it and the sight of untold numbers of unidentified immigrants from Pakistan, India and the Middle East only re-emphasises the danger we are placing ourselves in.
The unspeakable acts of genocidal force acted out on the young Jewish people enjoying an innocent music festival whilst simultaneously raiding of the homes of Jewish settlers was barbaric.  The Israeli response to bomb close knit Palestinian homes in the hope of inflicting damage on Hamas is also unforgivable when seen from any rational persons eyes. If they had launched a ground invasion surgically targeting known Hamas centres with their powerful army there would still have been much collateral civilian damage but to rain bombs, rockets and shells indiscriminately on such a densely populated area is equally barbaric. Cutting off the power, water, food and medicine, effectively starving Palestinians has to be seen as a humanitarian crime.
I sent an interesting historical perspective going back to the ‘Great Powers’ carve up of the Ottoman Empire which included a division of the Middle East (the Levant) into a number of spheres of influence which included Palestine. The area of Palestine which also included a small  contingent of Jewish people was seeded into two areas by the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and what then remained of Palestine was designated to the creation of a Jewish homeland in 1947.
From such Great Power tinkering Middle East tribal history lay the seeds of latent rebellion and the emergence of Muslim fundamentalism in the form of jihadi intolerance
We are by far the newest kid on the block and when you challenged the old establishment don’t be surprised to receive a bloody nose.