The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is characterised with brutal occupation versus a wily but implaccable resistence. Yes, both sides think their right, but that doesn’t mean they are both equal? Though according to the director of ‘Interfaith Youth Core’, Eboo Patel in the Washington Post, they are!
He unveils his radical idea of how we should be trying to come up with ’rules for a solution’, as opposed to ‘rules of the status quo’, when it comes to the conflict in the middle east between two sides who both think they’re right. In history, both the Nazi’s and the allies thought they were right, were they both right? Perhaps we should have been thinking in the way of creating ‘rules for solutions that acknowledge both sides points of view’ when it came to WW2??
The reality is, what justifies someone engaged in a conflict, is justice, but what does not justify someone, is nationalism. The Israelis are not just nationalists, they are ultra-nationalists. Fatah (aka Israel’s proxy) too are Nationalists. But the Palestinians (and Hamas) call for and desire justice.
I think we can see who is in the right here, and who is in the wrong.
We should not be surprised when ‘Muslim’ secularists like Eboo Patel suggest moral parity with people who believe that their heinous actions are justified by Nationalism, since the ‘Muslim’ Secularists too believe in Nationalism! How can they be a people who would ever call for real justice, when their politically expedient criteria for life makes them abhor anything that actually requires sacrifice, steadfastness and patience.
Thus when ‘Muslim’ secularists suggest ‘Rules for solutions’, in truth, they are more like Rules for selling-out…
N.B. Interestingly, ‘Muslim’ Secularists call anyone who dares to remain prinicipled and moral ‘well-meaning organizations’ who then are described as ‘dangerous and destabilizing to [our]community’ which after ‘peace is finally made with the other side, your first battle is going to be against them.’
So we should all accomodate and make peace with the unjust, but fight and make war with the Just; all for the sake of peace- nice one ‘Muslim’ Secularists!…
It is also ironic that Mr Patel, remarked how: ”I spent much of the weekend communicating with Muslim and Jewish leaders on the recent crisis in Gaza. Here was my basic question: “Have you reached out to leaders in the other community to find a solution to the conflict?” – though Mr Patel is a Secularist, he has used his faith-orientated organisation to attempt political forays into current affairs. Why can’t secularists just separate Religion from politics? You’d think we wouldn’t have to tell them…
