A Palestine state and the roadblock

The majority of UN member states in an unprecedented show of solidarity with the Palestinian cause have voted to upgrade Palestine to a non-member observer state. Obviously, this UN vote is not going to deliver a Palestinian state, unless Israel reverses its policy of occupation nothing will change on the ground.

However, hoisting a Palestinian flag in the UN General Assembly immediately after the vote is more than a symbolic act — it indicates ever-growing international condemnation of the continued Israeli occupation.

Yet more significantly the vote in General Assembly clearly underscores the reality that the US stands completely isolated internationally on its immoral Israeli position; 138 countries voted in favour and 41 abstained, only nine countries voted against the motion.

In case there is an actual Israel-Palestine conflict, it will not be an exaggeration to describe it as the mother of all the conflicts. This bloody conflict entails wars between nations, occupation and worst military subjugation of a people.

And in case the much purported clash of civilisation is also to be believed, Israel-Palestine conflict is alluded as one of the primary reasons for that.

Jewish and as well the Christian extreme right-wing ideologues are ever-ready to provide a historical reference, even citing from scriptures, about the so-called historic nature of this conflict. The concept of holy land seems to be the driving force behind the Zionist desire to seize all the territory that belonged to Palestine if not in pre-Islamic period at least from the time when Muslim armies under second Caliph Omar Ibn al-Khattab conquered Jerusalem in 638.

The moderate faction of Palestinian resistance led by Mahmoud Abbas is willing to recognise the right of Israel to exist albeit well within the 1967 borders and provided that Israel is willing to accept the formula of two-nation states — Israel and Palestine living side by side.

However, hard-line groups like Hamas are totally opposed to the partition of Palestine.

“We do not recognize Israel, nor the partition of Palestine, and Israel has no right in Palestine,” said the spokesman for Hamas after the UN vote.

Palestine-Israel conflict is based in history as extremist elements on both side of the divide tend to believe. Or else historic events come into play due to the existence of an ongoing conflict.
And in case it’s understood that the reason behind the conflict are historic and ideological then this conflict will never get resolved.

Disgustingly Israel owing to variety of reasons has reached a conclusion — obviously the entire edifice of Israeli is based upon occupation and even conceding an inch according to its own premise makes the state untenable — that the conflict can never be resolved.

According to some reports emanating from Israel the operative metaphor is often described as “cutting the grass,” meaning a task that must be performed regularly and has no end. There is no solution to security challenges, only delays and deterrence.

That’s the reason why Israel unleashes timely military offensives in the occupied territories to level the acquired military capabilities of the Palestinian groups. But does this ridiculous policy of ‘cutting the grass’ brings any respite to Israel?

Noted columnist of New York Times Roger Cohen in his column quotes few lines of an article of Gilad Sharon, the son of Ariel Sharon: “We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza ... There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.”

Cohen retorts: “Atomic bombs, blackness, stillness, nothingness — Sharon allows himself to indulge the old Israeli dream that the Palestinian people should just disappear. But of course they do not. They regroup. They find new leaders. They endure with hatred of Israel reignited by loss.”

Israel willingly will never end the occupation; thereby the conflict will never come to an end.

That’s a well known fact, but why the United Stated is persistently patronises a rogue behaviour is most intriguing question.
Instead of wondering why extremism is on the rise, for the sake of international peace the United States needs to revisit some of its disastrous imperialistic policies.