The Nation Newspaper The Israeli-Palestinian crisis
While discussing the fate of Jews, Blacks and Arabs sometimes in 1963, Leopold Sedar Senghor, the great African philosopher, poet, author and first president of Senegal referred to them as a “Trilogy of suffering peoples”. As an African, one can empathise with the Jews and Arabs as part of the tripod of victims of the powerful western imperialism.
Since that time the Jews and the Arabs have fought over the issue of who owns Palestine in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and 2006. This is apart from battles and skirmishes directly between Israelis and Palestinians over decades since 1948. The United Nations has passed many resolutions on the Israeli- Palestinian question, the most famous of which was passed after the 1967 war.
This was a great tragedy for Israel which had lived under the illusion that its security was watertight. Most of its Western allies led by the United States rushed to Israeli defence and declared that Israel had the right to defend itself. This Carte Blanche is being exploited by Israel to mean total destruction of Gaza and not just the Hamas party and government.
Whatever the outcome of the current crisis in Israel, the critical players must find a solution to the problem of how to satisfy the national feelings of the Palestinians while guaranteeing the security of Israel. Whatever the formula may be worked out, the Jews have no other home than Israel. Anything short of that is a non-starter. Some have suggested a secular state in the whole of old Palestine in which Arabs and Jews will be free to practise their religions.
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