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the everlasting misery
On this planet there are now some six and a half billion people, many
simply dying of hunger . At the same time we spend some $ 600 billion
each year on ways of killing each other. That amount of money would solve
most of the world’s problems .
It is time we did ; we have the knowledge, the brains, the ability but
not the will , surely a sad reflection on our claim to be homo sapiens
! It seems odd that failing to fix it is going to rebound on us to such
a devastating effect, yet we are determined NOT to do anything about it
. The UN you would think would be in to this, but spends it ‘s time licking
the power and money crazed American’s boots ( who killed Hariri , etc
). Let us look at two of these problems .
There are two major ones.
Palestine peace and Oil security need to be resolved in a sensible and
fair way, The original problem was caused by the Western Powers, Britain
and the US by the interference with the Middle East , whether in Iran
with the deposing of Mossadeq and the installation of a puppet Shah, the
son of a corporal in the old Shah’s army, or the splitting up of the Ottoman
Empire in the area with the creation of two kingdoms Transjordan and Iraq
with the sons of the Sherif of Mecca as rulers . Later, after the second
war, the imposition of a Jewish land on top of the indigenous Palestinians
who along with the Jews are the descendants of the Moabites, Edomites,
Canaanites, Sodomites , Philistines, Israelites, and all the Semitic people,
now generally known as Arab, that lived there already was never thought
out. The Palestinians were not catered for, nobody cared.
The yearning for a homeland by the Jews is totally understandable, as
they have not had a home for a long time . This is why they have accentuated
their clothes - black hats and all that ,and why they have clung to their,
by now, outdated religious practices, in what is rapidly becoming an homogeneous
world order to try to be different ,( like the Shia ,foe example refusing
to electrically stun animals before killing them as the Sunni Muslims
do ), as they are their only form of identity .
It is hard to put a date in the separation of the Jews from mainstream
Semitism, The Egyptian Pharaoh Tuthmoses the third used to hunt elephants
on the Orontes in 1400 BCE, and he fought a battle at Kadesh, between
the Orontes and the sea , against the Hittites , and had no records of
meeting them then. Some hundred and fifty years later Ramesses the second
in about 1250 fought the Hittites also at Kadesh ,and on his way there
took hostages from all the tribes that inhabited Palestine to secure his
supply lines . Their effigies are on the base of his monument at Abu Simbel
. There is no evidence of either the Hebrews or the Judeaens in any Egyptian
records of the time , or on this monument . The only identifiable people
are the Canaanites . As Kantor , the eminent Jewish American historian
in ‘The Sacred Chain’ states, all Jewish history pre David (975BCE) is
pure myth.
My guess is that the separation started when the Israelite tribe of nomads
met the ancient Babylonians , (who succeeded the Assyrians ), and adopted
their idea of a monotheistic state religion, logically about 1100 BCE,
started by a Persian nobleman called Zoroaster in about 1600 BCE. Intermarriages
would , of course have continued between the tribes after that . The independent
kingdom of Israel only lasted from about 975 BCE after the collapse of
the Hittite Empire, until the Assyrian Empire swept everything away in
925 BCE. Thereafter all these people, basically nomads, with a few
tiny towns (Jerusalem was only half a mile across, and Israel about nine
hundred square miles - which does not look much compared with the Assyrian
Empire of three million square miles stretching from the Mediterranean
to the Indus !) lived in the area together as petty tributary states till
the end of the Roman Empire and thereafter just as a free people within
the Ottoman Empire. ..Everyone exaggerates their ancestry and the Jews,
I suspect, are no exception!
When the British gave the part of Palestine to the Jews they failed to
take account of the by now dispossessed Palestinians, so the situation
in Palestine today is again because of European interference, and can
only be remedied by further outside interference .
I believe the Europeans and Americans should quite simply give Gaza to
the Jews and the West Bank to the Palestinians, thus making two ,contiguous,
governable states .
The treatment of the Palestinians, who have lost their land through no
fault of their own , is the cause celebre for the Muslim world . Sixty
per cent of the world’s oil comes from the Arab countries, and apart from
the humanitarian side, this precarious oil situation is getting worse
as religion is rearing it’s ugly head with American fundamentalist goading
. I seem to be knocking the Americans a lot, but they seem slow learners
that being a world power has responsibilities rather than opportunities
.
If the Palestinians continue to be pressed into ever-decreasing areas
( where is Israel ? ) with an increasing population, with less to eat
, less freedom, less hope, less everything, they will come to an explosion,
and when that happens we will have a true crisis with their true conditions
exposed .
At present, Hamas has been entirely democratically elected by the Palestinians
to represent them. Hamas is a political party that wants to represent
their people. An enemy of anarchist Al-Kaida .
To sort out Palestine we need a strong leadership on both sides, and
as a Mr Halevy, until recently head or Mossad , says Hamas will recognise
Israel ( why this obsession with recognition ?)when they sit round a table
and recognise each other which seems to me to be reasonable . The problem
is that the Israeli politicians are just politicians and want power, unable
to see long term , and apparently unable to see the world is getting tired
of their antics .
The Israelis want weak Palestinian leadership, Abbas is their man . They
do not want Hamas or even Marwan Barghouti ( held in prison indefinitely
on false suspicion , but mainly because the Israelis are terrified of
a clever opponent dedicated to peaceful Palestinian leadership ) across
the table . The Americans follow suit, as their Middle Eastern foreign
policy was written for them by the Israeli intelligence services ,the
Europeans follow and the money is illegally shut off . This leads to Hamas
under pressure and fighting between the factions and presto, the Israelis
say they have nobody to talk to, so we will grab half the West Bank anyway
.
As the Palestinians muffed it with Yasser Arafat dithering with Barak,
so the West is missing a fantastic opportunity with Hamas, whose social
services, education and lack of corruption and control ( total Hamas ceasefire
for fourteen months ) are outstanding . Of course if they are financially
crippled, they will turn to violence, what else can they do ?
Every people want peace and security and freedom . Palestinians, Israelis
and all of us. Let us apply some brains and forceful fair solutions or
the killing will just go on and on and on.
June 2006
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