Israel's brutality
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It has been a week that Israel has been slaughtering innocent Palestinians indiscriminately in Gaza . About 900 civilians, women and children along with others of all age groups, have been killed, while more than two thousand people are mortally wounded. Reports say, BBC- AL JAZEERA and CNN, wounded people are confronting an acute shortage of medical support and other necessities around.
Israel's point to carry out such deadly attacks is that they need to save their people from Hamas' rocket launching into its territory -- Hamas is throwing Sam missiles into its territory that killed two Israelis. However, one does not need to have much wisdom to understand certain facts: i) Israel being an intruder into Arab land has no right to be there at all. ii) Hamas, the Palestinian representative, does not have the right to kill Israelis, but should try to resolve the crisis through a global debate on the issue; moreover, the Sam or the might that the team possesses is as good as a stone in comparison to mighty Israel's destructive powers. And this fact determines the point that Hamas in its bid to show anger with the occupation forces is letting Israel crush innocent Palestinians, which by no means justifies their act --- it is like instigating a deadly hound with stones only to be slaughtered ruthlessly. Hence, Hamas is responsible for the destruction that has taken this brutal humanitarian toll; they have either to obtain equally powerful weapons that Israel possesses or they should try hard to engage the leading countries of the world in a sensible debate to resolve the issue.
However, at such a critical point, experts are of the view that world's leading countries should come forward to calm down this hound Israel-- to restore peace in that turbulent region.
Once again innocent people are being killed in Palestine by the Israeli government. If Hamas were the only target of Israel its army would not have killed so many women and children . This is simply genocide. The Israeli government has chosen innocent Palestinian children and women to test their weapons under the direction of their Godfather (Arms merchants). I do not support Hamas but one thing we must not forget is that during the last six months of ceasefire Israel did not allow any economic activities to take place in Gaza and thus made peace impossible.
I would request the Israeli people to compel their arms merchant and fanatic government to do something which reduces hatred between Israelis and Palestinians. We must keep in mind that only dialogue can bring peace in the Middle East. More than 50 years of experience clearly indicates that a military solution in the Middle East is impossible, rather it creates more hatred and reduces the chances of peace. To God, the life of a human being is more precious than the whole world and hence much more important than a piece of land for which we are killing each other for decades. The Holy Quran says, "Save one life and save the world."
To bring peace we must get rid of the dirty desire of arms merchants, understand and love each other and also understand religion in the truest sense (be it Islam, Judaism or any other religion).
Dr. Mahboob Hossain, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, The University of Asia Pacific
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