Israel’s terrorism
In this ruthless world we repeatedly witness events which are too distressing to be described in words and clichés. Even in this enlightened era, sophisticated brutality frequently reigns over the trampled emblem of humanity as the civilized world turns deaf to the desperate calls of the oppressed. The harrowing pictures of the Gaza carnage everyday remind us of this unacceptable and yet inescapable axiom. It’s easy for political analysts to put responsibilities on several factions while seating in luxury cabins. World leaders, who have been silent for long, are now engaged in formulating complicated reconciliation schemes, instead of taking immediate pragmatic initiatives. The international community is engrossed in its pursuit of the hard facts while concrete actions are needed to end the gloomy misery of a confined race dying hopelessly. I guess today only the innocuous Palestinians who are being brutalized mercilessly can sense the concrete ‘hard facts’. The hard fact for them is that as the civilized world silently watches they have to count the bloodstained bodies of their infants and endure the merciless Zionist butchery.
The Israeli rationalization of this mayhem is utterly baseless as it’s understandably not possible to eliminate an organisation like Hamas by literally waging war against defenseless civilians who are trapped in the middle of a grim humanitarian crisis. Instead of subverting Hamas this impetuous offensive will actually help Hamas expand itself and make its causes more justifiable. The impracticality of the Israeli military objectives becomes apparent when we underscore the fact that the majority of the Palestinians killed by the military assault are harmless civilians who had no link whatsoever with Hamas. This actually manifests that the real objective of this brutal military mission is what it is actually achieving: namely, mass murder of civilians in order to consolidate the Zionist supremacy in the region, demonstration of Israel’s military strength and demoralizing the destitute Arab race so that their aspiration for a free homeland dies out forever. Furthermore, this military operation will eventually prove to be fatal for the rest of the world as this conflict will inexorably deteriorate the global terrorism situation and pave ways for fresh conflicts. In the past identical Israeli aggressions gave birth to hatred and belligerence in the Arab world that ultimately culminated in numerous terrorist activities. To a great extent, the ongoing Israeli aggression has put emphasis on the actual origin or the ‘root’ of global terrorism. America and the other world powers should understand the simple fact that ‘the war against terrorism’ will never be successful unless and until such ‘origins’ are carefully uprooted. When it comes to the rise of global terrorism the western leaders incessantly blame radical organisations like al-Qaeda and Hamas. And in the process they diplomatically remain oblivious of the terrorist nations like Israel and its impulsive actions that are responsible for unleashing the vicious monster of global terrorism. I’m not arguing in favour of the terrorist organisations or their extremist ideologies. However, we must understand the fact that in order to exterminate the inescapable curse of terrorism we must also formulate a ‘preventive approach’ alongside the popular ‘cure strategy’, which is only possible by internationally counteracting the destructive policies of terrorist nations like Israel that directly and indirectly stimulate extremism.
***The ineffectiveness of the UN was clearly demonstrated in its failure to prevent Israel from carrying out its heinous attacks on Palestinian civilians (with the death toll crossing 1000).The silence of Arab countries(with some mere rhetoric from some countries) is not surprising since Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are basically being run by US backed governments. In addition, the EU countries have also not acted swiftly enough with only recently the EU humanitarian chief condemning the violence. Israel’s motive is clear. Since they already have a greater control of West Bank, their obvious target is now to entirely capture Gaza or weaken Hamas so that they will no longer be a force to reckon with. Hamas’ rocket firing into Israel is basically being used as a pretext to carry out massive genocide on Palestinian people.
The incoming Obama administration now has a role to play. The world is waiting for Obama to end this violence. But as far as the US foreign policy is concerned, it is hard to expect Obama’s administration to be belligerent towards Israel. But if Obama really represents “change”, then he must act in the way we all expect him to. While the US does not waste time in condemning Iran, North Korea and Cuba for their violation of human rights, their support for Israel basically indicates their “doublespeak.”
Wasif Wahed , Old DOHS, Dhaka
***With thousands of Palestinians killed in recent Israel’s Gaza offensive, the world leaders are still keeping quite, despite knowing the consequences of it. Every now and then we found Palestinians wailing in both print and electronic media over loss of lives or habitats.
From my very childhood I have been witnessing this situation but I couldn’t realize why Israel was committing this genocide, or who were backing them up. Thousands of people were killed in a sequel to the crisis between the two countries. People became and still are becoming homeless due to this long conflict.
Innocent children who know nothing about politics are becoming the worst victims of this conflict. As far as the recent reports are concerned one third of the Palestinians killed recently in air attacks carried out by Israel were children. These children, however, lead uncertain lives with no basic rights provided for them.
It is high time for the world leaders to come to the same platform to help rescue the people of Palestine from this dreadful situation.
Sarwar Hussain, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong
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