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Focus On Reality

Peace, at what cost?

For the Israelis the fear that they will be required to withdraw hundreds of thousands of settlers from the West Bank. That they will be compelled by world opinion, settled on compassion for the world's longest-dedicated refugee-plight to absorb almost five million descendants of the original 700,000 Palestinians who fled the territories after partition. That they will be expected to surrender their most holy of holies to the barbaric Muslim practise of destroying other religions' sacred edifices.

To the Palestinians painfully surrendering their beloved refugee status, their guarantee of support from the international community, their place as the world's only UN-supported refugees of a fairly permanent nature. They are absorbed in the permanence of their refugee status, it has proven to be eminently bracing as a financial endowment, a device whereby the international community pays handsomely for the Palestinian status as refugees, faithfully encouraging that status.

There is great power in capturing the imagination of the international community, of a suffering people living squalid, impoverished, desperate lives of unending desperation. There is even greater power in being able to slur and tarnish and slander a country that urgently attempts to keep itself separated from the violence to which Palestinian terror groups are prone to mount on their enemy, the 'occupier'. Surmounting the difficulty of presenting as helpless pawns, even as they commit mass murder.

As for the fiction of the greater Middle East being totally engrossed in the passion of the Palestinian plight, resistance to the presence of a Jewish state is the identifiably incendiary problem, not the existence of a group of expendable Arabs whom no other surrounding Arab country is eager to absorb. Ensuring they remain downtrodden in the minds of the international community also ensures that the state that is reputed to have cast them out remains itself a moral canker on the world's conscience.

When will the Middle East be prepared to accept the legitimate presence of the State of Israel? Why, when it is no longer a nation set aside as a predominately Jewish one. When a change of name will have been effected, and Palestine finally becomes the State of Palestine. A situation which, pre-Israel, was resisted by Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, all eyeing the territory as their own. Which new status will permit of the presence of some Jews, but they will have to know their place, one of subjection to the majority Arab population.

And then what will the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iran do to divert attention from their totalitarian rule from the people whom they oppress? What an unspeakable conundrum...!

Labels: Israel, Middle East, Peace, Political Realities

posted by Pieface @ Sunday, August 08, 2010