Imagine a world without the conflict between Israel and Palestine. What would the news do without this war?
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How many of us were born in the era of middle-east conflict? How many of us remember the day when the peace initiative took place? And how many of us know what the hell is going on between Israel and Palestine? The answers of these three questions are the origin and maybe the solution to the conflict.
We all leave and die in the shadow of middle-east crisis, of never ending conflict that stops for a day, or for a year or two, and then again starts to take its spoils of war from the lives of children and the innocent. We don’t even know how to live without the constant fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. It’s almost frightening to watch the news without hearing of the Gaza region, the West Bank, Golan High Ground, or complicated Hamas/Hezbollah/Lebanon/Israel issues. But be brave, and for the sake of this article, let’s pretend that the middle-east is actually place of peace, of thriving economy and cultural intermediation.
“Having in mind the horrors of war, inherited from the collective memory of Jewish people, Prime Minister Netanyahu advices both sides in the Ukraine conflict to be wise and to start negotiating”
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would say the TV correspondent from CNN, or FOX news, or Russia Today, or any other worldwide network.
“Israel’s example of the peaceful existence of different nations, who live in mutual respect, should be helpful in finding the right model for peace to be reinstalled in Ukraine, or any other war zone on the planet,”
Netanyahu would be quoted on television.
And that’s it. No more words from some, wait the second, aaa…yes, Benjamin Netanyahu, the president. Oh no, he is actually the Prime Minister of Israel. He is now the head of some long forgotten, peaceful and completely uninteresting country from the region of the middle-east, which we informally refer to as the piece of land placed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. It would be like hearing in the news from Scandinavia that the president, or prime minister, or I don’t who, maybe the King of Norway made a public appearance about the Ukrainian crisis or Somalia’s pirates, or the extermination of sharks in the Chinese sea. Nobody would care what the King of Norway or the Prime Minister of Israel had to say about anything like that.
“We have a recorded statement of Israeli’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and … never mind because the King of Norway has made a public appearance in which his highness is appealing for a more equal approach to gender diversity among his Royal pigeons, frequently used in parades and public celebration.”
With determination on her face the correspondent would announce the news and already forget about the preside…, oh no the Prime Minister of Israel. Israel, a nice place for holiday, it would cross thoughts for a moment, Norway too.
So, the days would be a real nightmare living a life without persistent conflict? Without the constant presence of the “mother of all conflicts”, in our modern era of humanity. No news about murdered children, bombed hospitals, terrorist attacks, jihads, religious tensions, divided communities. No more Palestinian issue, no more Israel as a country threatened by its neighbors. No more hatred between Jews and Arabs.
It is a completely new world. Totally new! It’s unknown territory, an uncharted map of political existence. How? Why? It is outrageous! People might be scared, or even horrified, because peace is totally unknown to the middle-east, and war, war is something that people know how to handle.
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So, the answers of questions of How? When? Why? Of the middle-east crisis is known but totally irrelevant. Constant war is what we know, and that’s all we need to know.