A Pact With The Devil
One group's devil is another group's loyalist protector. But to balance things out fairly the details that the devil has carefully placed in obscurity must be revealed and with that the just must re-align perspectives to reflect reality. In this particular instance that of a parallel refugee crisis which has never been acknowledged, to match that of the Palestinian population of Arabs who fled the area after the creation of the State of Israel.Enticed, in a good many instances, to do so by their neighbouring Arab states who convinced them to flee for the while, until such time as the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria accomplished the inevitable thrashing and ousting of infidel pretenders to ownership of sacred Islamic land. Such an insult to Islamic sensibilities could not be accepted, and would not be without the struggle of sacred jihad.
Which, as history would have it, proved unsuccessful, with the determined fledgling state fighting mightily for its existence in its historical homeland. And so, those Palestinians who fled, or who left because they felt vulnerable in this alarming new scenario, became homeless refugees. The thousands who fled to neighbouring Arab states were left to languish in squalid refugee camps, never permitted to enter the society as equals, held in everlasting disdain.
Their immediate needs for lodging, for food and medical help not seen to by their fellow Arabs but by the international community through the auspices of the United Nations. It's an old story, a sad one, a cautionary tale in and of itself, of ongoing enmities of aeons-long perpetuity. It was seen as permissible to have Jews - whose presence in the geography was of equal duration to any other historical denizens there - exist as tolerated dependents of the Islamic State, subject to its rules and regulations for non-Muslims.
That changed swiftly with unsettling news of the impending, then the reality of a Jewish State being imposed upon the geography. Suddenly, all Jews, no matter where they lived, how long their ancestors had occupied a place in the greater Muslim geography, became complicit in the insult to Islam, and as such instant enemies to be routed, their homes and belongings confiscated. Acting in concert, the League of Arab States created a blueprint for Jewish denationalization and property confiscation.
Yet the original 600,000 Palestinians who refused to accept the solution of partition, a portion to belong to them, the other portion to Israel, were more than matched by the 850,000 Jews who were forcibly removed from the Arab countries in which they had been citizens, tolerated as a cultural-social entity different than the hosts', but representing a religion that had seen respect and tolerance over the ages in earlier incarnations of Islam.
While the fleeing Palestinians became an instant class of beleaguered, victimized refugees, their presence and needs ignored by the larger Arab community, the newly homeless Jews cast out of the Arab world as newly-minted refugees were welcomed and their presence cherished and supported within the new Jewish State. Palestinian Arabs were permitted to fester in squalor and need, newer generations inheriting the psychosis of victimhood and revenge.
Jewish refugees became an integral portion of the new State of Israel, transferring their allegiance through necessity, ethnic pride and welcome stability in the protective custody of their own. The Jewish refugees have never sought compensation, would not dream of returning to their countries of origin, knowing full well what awaits them there. The Palestinian refugees agitate for the right of return, their numbers swollen with the new generations to millions of potential returnees.
This, they aver, is their right. To flood and submerge the population of the Jewish State with their unabsorbable numbers, to re-create and reconfigure Israel from its current status as a Jewish State, to more reflect what has been acceptable in recent history; a minority presence of Jews in a majority rule of Arabs. A pretense of solidifying and legalizing borders in the creation of a nascent Palestinian State is underway. With Arabs co-jointly insisting on their rightful ownership of Jerusalem.
The United Nations has for too long seen fit to behave as though there was only one community affected by the dire condition of refugees resulting from the turmoil of re-aligned geographic borders. Despite the knowledge by many that equal treatment on behalf of all displaced residents would more justly reflect the status of the United Nations as a force for even-handedness equally measured for all its member-states.
Where now are the easy solutions, the expectations that it is Israel alone that must submit to sacrifice for the purpose of satisfying the needs of complicit, disrupted lives?
Labels: Israel, Justice, Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Monday, November 05, 2007
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