World Peace “Lennon Ivan Style” – Part XXXXXXXXVIII: As a continuation from my last blog whereby I believe the root of “World Peace” is centered on peace in the Middle East with the first step being negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians, I would like to remain objective and independent in my views such that I would like to address in further detail why the extremist factions of the respective Parties like Hamas (Palestinian); Hezbollah (Palestinian); and Mossad (Israeli) should be part of the negotiations on-line and on-time via teleconferencing, other than for security reasons to avoid a wild UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) style street fight. It is important that this issue now be addressed as on May 30, 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Israel’s wait-and-see approach to the Fatah - Hamas unity talks was “appropriate”. As a friendly reminder, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President of Fatah, needs to accept such a unity with Hamas as a sign that the hand (Hamas) will react in line with the head (Fatah) and avoid the hand (Hamas) slapping the head (Fatah) in order to be able to negotiate a long-term sustainable solution with Israel. Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, needs to accept such a unity between Fatah - Hamas as the foundation to allowing Fatah (head/ political movement) to represent Hamas (hand/ military movement) at the bargaining table for long-term sustainable peace with Israel. However, this has now become more difficult as Israel buried three Israeli teens it says were kidnapped and killed by the Islamic militant group Hamas consisting of Eyal Yifrah (19); Gilad Shaar (16) and Naftali Fraenkel (16) who initially disappeared on the night of June 12, 2014 as they were hitchhiking home from Jewish seminaries they attended in the West Bank. While not condemning the abduction, Hamas denied responsibility for the teens’ death. To add fuel to the raging fire, tensions mounted in Jerusalem as a local Palestinian teenager, Mohammed Abu Khudair (17), was found dead, on early Wednesday, July 2, 2014, in what some fear may have been a reprisal attack for the killing of the three Jewish Israeli teenagers abducted in the West Bank. Ignoring international appeals for a ceasefire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing targets Saturday, July 12, 2014 to include civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties. One strike hit a centre for the disabled, killing two patients and wounding four people. In a second attack, an Israeli warplane flattened the home of Gaza police chief Taysir al-Batsh and damaged a nearby mosque as evening prayers ended, killing at least 18 people. Fifty were wounded, including al-Batsh himself. On Sunday, July 13, 2014, Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip for the first time as its military warned northern Gaza residents to evacuate their homes as part of a widening campaign against militant rocket fire that has killed more than 160 Palestinians. “We dont know when the operation will end”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday. “It might take a long time.” Without getting into further excessive details and without reacting based on wild rage, it is clear to me that Israel is looking to cripple the Hamas organization with its current military campaign aimed at taking out Hamas’s ability to fire rockets at Israel. Although Israel blames the Palestinian civilian casualties on Hamas, as Israel alleges that Hamas uses its own Palestinian people as human shields to protect its rocket firing technology, while Israel uses its sophisticated technology “Missile Defense Dome” system to minimize Israeli casualties, the reality of the current situation in Gaza is that based on brut military force, Israel will ultimately prevail in the short-term on the ground. However, that being said, this Israeli offensive will not resolve the underlying root problem of hatred between the Palestinian and Israeli people and will not eliminate Hamas from the equation in the long-term. In my opinion, the harder the Israelis strike Hamas, the harder Hamas will ultimately retaliate with a terrorist strike as from Hamas’s point-of-view, a terrorist strike is the only viable alternative to hurt Israel as Hamas does not have the military capability to beat Israel on the battlefield of war. However, that being said, even if Israel succeeds in crippling Hamas today, Hamas will never give Israel any peace of mind for tomorrow and for sustainable long-term peace. In my opinion, whether you like them or you hate them, the reality of the Hamas organization is that they will resort to whatever means necessary, including terrorism, before ever seceding to defeat at the hands of Israel. Therefore, in my opinion Israel is now quickly approaching the point of no return whereby the more damaging the crush to Hamas today, the more severe will be the Hamas retaliation in the future via terrorist strikes, regardless of whether terrorism is wrong or right, as we all know that terrorism is wrong, but when Hamas sees no other choice, Hamas will ultimately strike with a terrorist voice. Therefore, in my opinion, at this stage enough is enough as Israel has already given Hamas enough punishing blows militarily on the ground such that further bombardments will only further accentuate hatred and revenge leading to a cycle of never ending avenge. In summary, I refer to “World Peace Lennon Ivan Style – XXXXXXXXVIII” as the belief that Israel has already given Hamas enough punishing blows such that further revenge will lead to a cycle of never ending avenge. John Lennon – We Can Work It Out: youtube/watch?v=FVBnkOL-8Jw July 14, 2014
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:50:21 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015