Happy new year to those who celebrate it. I personally think its a highly commercialised alcohol drinking festival. I really don't ape westerners and I cant seem to understand its popularity here. Anyway for the record, Hindus have celebrated more than 5000 plus new years. It loses its thrill after a while.
Anyway, bigger things are happening. Gaza is getting pounded really badly. The amount of non-combatants Palestinians dead is staggering. And sad. The Muslim world is especially vocal. I just wonder why the non-Muslim world isn't. Those are innocent people.
If you google the word Palestine or Israel, you will learn a lot about the settlement of Jews there 3400 ago, their earlier fight for a state and subsequent defeats by the Romans, (132 BC). They did not rule the land for a long time after that. Later, after the Romans the the byzantine emperor conducted a the first of many genocides against Jews. During the crusades, Christians waged wars against Jews in the region. The Jews, original inhabitants of the area, were expelled many times and even driven close to extinction.
Muslims first conquered the are in the seventh century and ruled in until the 20th century.(the ottoman empire-area referred to as Palestine). Correct me if I am wrong but they were the first to allow the return of Jews to that area, known as Palestine. Once again, Jews became a sizable majority in Jerusalem.I did not come across articles any massacres of Jews by the Muslims or the ottoman empire. Once again correct me if I am wrong.
The British got into a fight with Germany during world war 1 and the Turkish took Germany's side. In return for financial support, Britain promised the Jewish people a home-state of Palestine when they defeated the ottomans for control of Palestine. They kept their word. See British mandate of Palestine and the Balfour declaration. The need for an actual formal country for the Jews became urgent after they were nearly exterminated(for the hundredth time in history). The Arabs firmly opposed giving any of their land to the Jews and the Arab Israel wars broke out in 1948. We all know who won.
The Palestinian Muslims became refugees and have since then been venting their anger at the Jews.
My question is this- did Hamas think Israel would compromise on the safety of their precious state after everything that has happened to them? They can actually defend themselves now. They enough massacres.
The Palestinians' anger is understandable. Many of their loved ones died during the Arab-Israel wars. They all now live in squalid refugee camps that are periodically demolished by Israel. They are surviving in horrible living conditions, lining up for hours to go to work in what was once their homeland.
Hamas fighters are prepared to sacrifice their lives for a proper home. But to they have the right to involve non combatants, knowing full well the extent of Israel's response? Why did they engage the Israel army with weak and ineffective rocket fire from settlement areas?
Israel will never defeat them. Hama's membership will hit the roof next month, by more people who lost their homes and children.
This vicious cycle will never end during our lifetime.
Whose side am I on? I think everybody should just STOP IT!!!
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