The
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In the summer of 2014 a new war was
started, another episode of the endless series of conflict between Israeli
Arabs and Palestinians.
The 2014 GAZA war
The armed conflict between Gaza and Israel began on July 8, 2014 and
lasted 29 days, it was triggered by two tragedies, the kidnapping and killing
of three young Israeli settlers, and the killing of a Palestinian boy for
revenge. From these facts, the political calculus and barbarism have triggered a new war.
Launching of rockets by Hamas-Palestinians against Israel,
and aerial bombardment of Gaza followed by the Israeli
ground troops invasion.
On August 5, when the two sides agreed to a first truce, the tragic
result of one month of hostility is 1,850 Palestinians
killed and 9,500 casualties. The UN estimates
that between these there are at least 1,312 civilians, including 408 children
and adolescents and 214 women. Israel's military
dead are 64, and three civilians were killed by rockets fired from the Gaza
Strip. For one Israeli 27 Palestinians killed!
Ca. 485. 000 refugees are forced to leave their homes, to take
refuge in UNRWA schools or by friends or relatives. The provisional estimate of the damage caused by the bombing
amounted to $ 5 billion.
Once again, the world is witness of a new act
of a never ending tragedy. Dismay is strong, the television images of civilian
casualties and the destruction is tormenting. UN, USA and Europe condemn the conflict, they act
through diplomatic channels, but no one can stop the demon of war.
The never-ending conflict
At the root of the Palestine-Israel conflict is the clash of two reasons: the right of two populations who compete for the same territory. Facts have proved that these two populations are not able to dialog, every initiative failed, the parties have not been able to find a solution to the conflict. Their most extreme factions at political level block every peace initiative. Too much hatred and desire for revenge have been accumulated. The moderate forces, the more civilized, more educated and wise are in the minority.
At the root of the Palestine-Israel conflict is the clash of two reasons: the right of two populations who compete for the same territory. Facts have proved that these two populations are not able to dialog, every initiative failed, the parties have not been able to find a solution to the conflict. Their most extreme factions at political level block every peace initiative. Too much hatred and desire for revenge have been accumulated. The moderate forces, the more civilized, more educated and wise are in the minority.
In face of this tragedy without end, the most
developed and powerful nations of the world and those who claim a leadership
role, those who feel to be civilized, those who are responsible for the balance
of the world, are not able to act. And they are forced to do so because they are indirectly
involved with their geo-politic and economic interests in the conflict.
Who has made the Israeli army one of the most
powerful in the world? From where are the F16 aircraft, the combat
helicopters, the smart bombs, the drone and all the other hi-tech war equipments?
Who finance HAMAS and has supplied kalaschnikov machine
guns and long-range rockets?
The unresolved Palestinian problem, with its
continuous wars, is a cancer that threatens to propagate worldwide, destroying
everything. Evidence of the facts is: the intensification of the conflict
between Arab and Western cultures, the extremist-Islam and international
terrorism.
The wise people opinion
Regarding the situation in Israel and Palestine, David Grossman, one of the most famous and important writers of Israel, in an essay argues that Israelis and Palestinians run the risk of dying of suffocation in a bubble of hatred and violence:
Regarding the situation in Israel and Palestine, David Grossman, one of the most famous and important writers of Israel, in an essay argues that Israelis and Palestinians run the risk of dying of suffocation in a bubble of hatred and violence:
"In this tumour bubble, brutal and without
hope, both parties are right. Both hears the law of evil, the law of force, of
war, revenge and hatred "
D.Grossman imagines both Israelis and Palestinians
convicted in a Dante's Inferno, and represents them as a pair of desperate
people who drag a huge millstone, that runs
perpetually destroying and overwhelming their innocent victims.
The Israeli government has never been able to
enter into negotiations for peace because it is controlled by right-wing
extremists, the settlers and the religious fundamentalists. The Israeli
people have lost the sense of reality because they are prisoner of fear, they
are surrounded by enemies and remember the sufferings of the Jews in the
history. The hope is that the more moderate and
wise forces in Israel are able to enforce the message that peace can only be
achieved through dialogue, compromise and recognition of Palestinian rights. As
long as Gaza is an open air prison, a “Lager”, there will be no security for
the Israelis. As long as the Jewish settlements are occupying the Palestinian
land, Israel will have no future.
Zeev Sternhell Holocaust survivor,
former professor
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and eminent scholar, shares the thought of David Grossman.
He argues that the occupied Palestinian territories were colonized by Israel, implementing a
regime of Apartheid. Gaza has been transformed into a giant internment
camp, a concentration camp. According to him
the only solution of the conflict is the creation of two independent states,
each with its own territory and its population. Israelis and Palestinians must
recognize territorial boundaries as those defined by the Arab-Israeli armistice
agreements of Rhodes in 1949. These agreements
put an end to the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 and established the armistice lines
that have been observed up to the Six Day War of 1967.
We are at a "zero"
point
It's time to stop! The civilized world should no longer tolerate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and must impose peace. The common European opinion can be resumed at some fixed points:
It's time to stop! The civilized world should no longer tolerate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and must impose peace. The common European opinion can be resumed at some fixed points:
Israel has to end with a policy of colonization
of Palestine and the Apartheid
regime imposed on the Palestinians.
Israel has to lift the blockade
of Gaza, now reduced in a concentration
camp.
Israel has to cease with the policy of
the Jewish settlements in the
territories of Palestine.
Israel has to withdraw
from the territories occupied in the Six-Day-War and recognize the
borders established in the agreements of 1949.
Israel has to accept the establishment
of an independent
and sovereign Palestinian State west of the
Jordan River.
From their part, the Palestinians have to
recognize that:
Israel has the right to exist as an
independent state within the boundaries assigned
by the agreements of 1949.
Terrorism must be banned as a method
of political pressure.
Conclusion
The monologue disguised as dialogue, in which Israelis and Palestinians speak only with themselves and listen only to their own reasons, must be broken. To do this an external multilateral intervention is necessary, the conflict is not local and represent a global danger, a danger to everyone in the world.
The monologue disguised as dialogue, in which Israelis and Palestinians speak only with themselves and listen only to their own reasons, must be broken. To do this an external multilateral intervention is necessary, the conflict is not local and represent a global danger, a danger to everyone in the world.
Sandro
September 01, 2014
