There is a patch of land between Egypt-Syria-Iran that calls itself an independent country; however, there are two claimants of this geographical land, the Arabs and the Jews. A David terrorist organisation attacks the Goliath government, which has a dedicated army for its people’s liberation against Goliath’s ill practices. There are bombings, bloodshed, and international interest on this subject, with the United Nations trying to decide on an appropriate way to stop this war. The UN is unable to decide who the aggressor is, and peace talks are delayed leading to repeated killing of innocent civilians or collateral in the process.
You might call the land Israel or Palestine, this patch of land, the holiest ground in Abrahamic religions, is a war zone, and has been one historically. In the new series of bombings and crises for this land, which began in October 2023, you would not find a lot of differences from what happened in the middle of the 20th century. Time might have changed the side that was represented as David or Goliath, but they have stayed true to the characteristics of these mythological figures. Yesteryears’ Irgun is today’s Hamas, to some extent. However, you might not find a mention of Irgun and its battle for Zionist freedom when there is a discussion of Hamas and Palestinian freedom.
In their book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt point out that one of the main strategies employed by Zionists seeking their own state when they were in a comparable precarious situation was terrorism. The practice of planting bombs in buses and big crowds was first brought into Palestine in late 1937 by Jewish terrorists from the notorious Irgun, a militant Zionist organisation. Even in 1948, Irgun with Haganah led the Zionist charge against the Palestinians in the wake of the Partition Resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly. Up until the 1967 armistice lines, Egypt and Jordan, respectively, were in charge of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following the war.
A couple of years later, when Palestinian or Arab terror organisations rose in the form of Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel questioned their ways, whereas their terrorism doctrine is similar to Irgun’s with the same goal of independence. Why is one more legitimate than the other? An apology on either side or any form of reparation is not enough. Mearsheimer and Walt, whose works are mentioned above, point out how important it is for us to see that it is the lack of political will that drives the war and nothing else. They also mention that neither of the offenders care about the people– both the people they represent and the ones they defend them from.
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