As I write, people are dying
This is true always I suppose
But.. it seems harder now
Israel and Palestine
They have been at war for centuries, truly
but now.. today, I know a bit more and so I feel a bit more
Israel has killed children in their sleep, children in the park, children on the beach
How bloody is that?
Hamas is firing rockets relentlessly into Israel
Despite all the killing of children, Israel has been unable to stop the harmless rockets
I say harmless but they are tactical
They suggest power to hit back at Israel
So they are not harmless but quite powerful, even if they do not take lives as yet
What is all this?
How can it end?
Will it end?
1. Hamas is firing rockets to ask Israel to lift the blockade imposed on them. This blockade does not allow Gaza people to move freely or live independently or with dignity
2. Israel imposed the blockade because they do not want to allow Hamas to be supplied with ammunition for war and attack. But the blockade of course affects all people, not just Hamas
3. Was Hamas democratically elected? are they a terrorist group? are they freedom fighters? I don't know. Its just a term maybe.
4. So now, Israel is so close to wiping out the Palestine. They are not going to stop. They can face all the recrimination from the world for war crimes later on. No problems. Like Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers. They just went ahead and destroyed the LTT and all civilians in the way, to end the war between them. Now they can face justice for war crimes for ever. It will not matter. Those lives lost will not come back. Everything that has happened, has already happened.
5. Israel is not going to stop. If they stop and lift the blockade, after all this, of course, they can expect people to re-arm themselves and they have to brace themselves for attach after some time, as revenge for the 1300 lives lost in three weeks. That's just the beginning.
6. Hamas is not going to stop. If they do, Israel will come down harder on them, reduce them to living pathetically, even more pathetically than before. What kind of a life will that be?
7. So both will keep fighting until one is defeated
8. Palestine now cannot defeat Israel. So the fighting will go on until Palestine is no more, really.
9. Then what?
10. OR, the fighting will go on till Hamas is defeated and they surrender. Then what? Okay, life will be made miserable for some time. Then what? If they impose crazy laws that make living unbearable, Hamas or another group will just rise again. This will happen again. It happened in 2012, 2006, now it's 2014, it will happen again, 2016, or 17.. who knows. but it will happen again. People cannot live without dignity, without access to basic amenities, without a right to move around freely.
11. WW1 - how it ended led to WWII. Germany was made to bear full blame for every life lost, made to pay crippling war reparations, people left to feel ashamed to the core, and then angry and then like a wave, it rose again in WWII.
12. We cannot cripple people, even our enemies.
13. So now, tell me, how will this all end?
This is true always I suppose
But.. it seems harder now
Israel and Palestine
They have been at war for centuries, truly
but now.. today, I know a bit more and so I feel a bit more
Israel has killed children in their sleep, children in the park, children on the beach
How bloody is that?
Hamas is firing rockets relentlessly into Israel
Despite all the killing of children, Israel has been unable to stop the harmless rockets
I say harmless but they are tactical
They suggest power to hit back at Israel
So they are not harmless but quite powerful, even if they do not take lives as yet
What is all this?
How can it end?
Will it end?
1. Hamas is firing rockets to ask Israel to lift the blockade imposed on them. This blockade does not allow Gaza people to move freely or live independently or with dignity
2. Israel imposed the blockade because they do not want to allow Hamas to be supplied with ammunition for war and attack. But the blockade of course affects all people, not just Hamas
3. Was Hamas democratically elected? are they a terrorist group? are they freedom fighters? I don't know. Its just a term maybe.
4. So now, Israel is so close to wiping out the Palestine. They are not going to stop. They can face all the recrimination from the world for war crimes later on. No problems. Like Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers. They just went ahead and destroyed the LTT and all civilians in the way, to end the war between them. Now they can face justice for war crimes for ever. It will not matter. Those lives lost will not come back. Everything that has happened, has already happened.
5. Israel is not going to stop. If they stop and lift the blockade, after all this, of course, they can expect people to re-arm themselves and they have to brace themselves for attach after some time, as revenge for the 1300 lives lost in three weeks. That's just the beginning.
6. Hamas is not going to stop. If they do, Israel will come down harder on them, reduce them to living pathetically, even more pathetically than before. What kind of a life will that be?
7. So both will keep fighting until one is defeated
8. Palestine now cannot defeat Israel. So the fighting will go on until Palestine is no more, really.
9. Then what?
10. OR, the fighting will go on till Hamas is defeated and they surrender. Then what? Okay, life will be made miserable for some time. Then what? If they impose crazy laws that make living unbearable, Hamas or another group will just rise again. This will happen again. It happened in 2012, 2006, now it's 2014, it will happen again, 2016, or 17.. who knows. but it will happen again. People cannot live without dignity, without access to basic amenities, without a right to move around freely.
11. WW1 - how it ended led to WWII. Germany was made to bear full blame for every life lost, made to pay crippling war reparations, people left to feel ashamed to the core, and then angry and then like a wave, it rose again in WWII.
12. We cannot cripple people, even our enemies.
13. So now, tell me, how will this all end?
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