Too much muttering is
going on among many Indians about the Palestine Israel conflict. So many photos
of dead children, burned houses, crying mothers and many more are circulating
on facebook declaring their support for Palestine. Most of it insist or even
plead to the Indian government to support Palestine and criticize Israel for
its brutal actions. The episode that is taking place now is not at all one
sided as most suggest, the Hamas are raining missiles over Israeli towns too
but the reason for less or no causalities from the Israeli side is because of
its counter missile systems. The Israelis are protecting their citizens
while the Hamas are failing in that aspect. More than a dispute for
territories, it’s a conflict between two religions and that alone gives both
countries this much attention in the international level. If the religious aspect
in this matter is the only criterion for a third nation to take a side, then India should side neither, first of all we
already have few matter of conflict of our own to worry about and second taking
a side in this case will only cause more religious tensions within the
country.
I don’t want to explain
the details about the conflict and conclude my views, if I do that someone will
definitely try to read out favoring in my lines. As far as I am concerned both
sides are responsible for the state they are in now because if one takes the
religion out of this madness then there won’t be a conflict at all. The
question about which side deserve justice, Palestine or Israel is the same as
asking which born first, the chicken or the egg, picking one is almost
impossible unless a god (or religion) is involved. Now I will come to the main
point that made me write this post, why most of my friends and many others are
so interested in supporting Palestine, is it really because of the concern for
human lives or is it because of one particular religion involved in it. If they
say it is for the sake of human lives only, I will call them liars because few
years back a brutality much worse than this happened in a small island which
lies to the south of our nation, Sri Lanka (26-year military campaign ended in 2009).
