Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Its too complicated!

Whenever I've spoken to many people in India about the Israeli Palestinian conflict, the first thing I hear "Its too complicated".
Well, I don't know where this complication arises from, but it just takes a little bit of reading to know that the Palestinians have accepted 78% of historic Palestine to be a part of the State Of Israel.
What the Palestinians want is clear, the whole of West Bank and Gaza Strip to be a part of their future sovereign state and East Jerusalem as their capital.
They also want their refugees before 1948 to return back to wherever they lived.
Basically, a two state solution and the implementation of international law as a solution to the conflict.
What do Israelis want? A complication of the situation, it seems to be in their interests to portray the situation to be very complicated and they need to act beyond international law in order to 'survive'.
Israel's 'survival' is at stake. I disagree.
Israel's 'survival' as a Jewish state is at stake. I agree. Building an exclusively 'Jewish' state on a land where Christians, Jews and Muslims have flourished and co-existed for many centuries is neither moral nor ethical