Jerusalem Day
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I am about to bring up a really sensitive issue and I urge all respondents, if there be any, to show consideration in their replies.
''Jerusalem'
On a roof in the Old City
Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
The white sheet of a woman who is my enemy,
The towel of a man who is my enemy,
To wipe off the sweat of his brow.
In the sky of the Old City
A kite.
At the other end of the string,
A child
I can't see
Because of the wall.
We have put up many flags,
They have put up many flags.
To make us think that they're happy.
To make them think that we're happy.
-Yehuda Amichai
Today is 'Jerusalem Day'. A day which the Muslim world commenmorates the Palestinian struggle. Throughout this day, Muslims from Tehran to Cairo take to the streets in protests of the Israeli juggernaut that has repressed their fellow Muslims from their rightful inheritence. While watching the news a while ago, I came across a scene where a contingent of men from the militant group 'Hizbullah' marched down the streets of Beirut to the ruptious applause of the surrounding crowd. It was a scene not just of conflict, but a scene that reflects the establishment of power by groups that breed upon conflict to sustain this power. Similarly, we look at the democratic state of Israel, poltics has been degraded to the level of where people's top concern is when the next rocket is going to fly in from the refugee camps or when is the next suicide bomber going to strike at the price of human lives? So what is the Palestinian Cause? What is Israel's self-defined mannifest destiny?
The road map? No, it is the power derived from conflict. -
The Palestinian cause is the total destruction of the state of Israel.
The Israeli cause is for Jews to have a nation in their ancient homeland. -
And may I add this - while the rest of the world focuses or takes side on the fight between Palestinian and the state of Israel, nobody cares for the fact that the Palestinian and the Israelis are people of the same race, of the same blood and of the same ancestry but separated by religion.
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Mahmoud Abbas could well be a Samaritan, who knows. But at the end of the day, Jews and Arabs still trace their descent to Abraham, meaning they are brothers and should not fight each other.
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That bring us to the domain of religion, isn't it? Most, if not all, religions preach unquestionable, undisputable, absolute values, aren't they?
And in so doing, the pureness of religion values can become more important than life itself, isn't it? This is where I find the irony of religion - the sanctity of human life which religion so dearly upholds can be itself turns upside down or inside out by religion's own completeness and pureness. -
Hell is a cauldron of seething discontent,
Even God knows not his creation
Wilt one day end up fighting,
Trying to destroy one another,
Once he observed from his heavenly cove
And wanting to destroy the seething earth,
To end all suffering,
Alas he loved men and decided to be foregiving,
But now it looks like forgiving is not right,
That he might just deem the final answer is to destroy men,
And only then will it end all feuds of all ages.. -
Hahaha Lovely and poetic .....nice to see Robert still going strongOriginally posted by robertteh:Hell is a cauldron of seething discontent,
Even God knows not his creation
Wilt one day end up fighting,
Trying to destroy one another,
Once he observed from his heavenly cove
And wanting to destroy the seething earth,
To end all suffering,
Alas he loved men and decided to be foregiving,
But now it looks like forgiving is not right,
That he might just deem the final answer is to destroy men,
And only then will it end all feuds of all ages..
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ready..1...2...3... FIGHT!
