Sunday 3 February 2013

A Question about Israel and Palestine?


The question was posed...
A lot of people say Israel created the PLO and Hamas etc. Don't you think that it doesn't necessarily mean that today Hamas are actually doing Israyhells bidding?
I felt compelled to respond....

It's the fixation upon the division between both peoples that sets up the conditions that creates the conflict. Neither one necessarily created the other because both peoples existed before the boundary and both groups are made of the same stuff as each other (flesh and blood). I guess you could argue that whoever created the boundary, the division or the line in the sand is the one that created the schism so in theory the victors of World War II are responsible and that would collectively implicate the Allies for they, within the framework of the League of Nations (now the UN), defined the landscape and set the unpleasant project into motion. It is however the people who now define themselves by said division that perpetuate the illusion that they are somehow different from each other. Every boundary that people create or imagine will produce and define opposites and therefore opposition. Inside and outside, love and hate, the bully and the bullied, oppressor and the oppressed, winner and loser, Tall and short, up and down, left and right. We seem to have stopped fighting about which is better, left or right, and have come to accept that they compliment each other. without one the other would cease to exist. It would just BE. That way, over there.
 What do you think? Comment below....

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