Observing from a peep-hole

War and chaos was, is, and until the beginning of the end, will be the climate between Israel and nearly every other region in the Middle East. Many in Malaysia(particularly Muslims) tend to hate the Jews, claiming that they are persecuting the Muslims in Middle East(mainly the Palestinians) by causing all the war and turbulence over there. This hate against the Jews have led to our government to stop not only Jews to step into this country but for us to freely, without any red-tape, enter Israel. For Israel is the homeland of the Jews and we as Malaysians can't go there, even more if you're a Muslim cuz (to the Muslims here) it is a form of apostasy to walk in the land of the Jews. Aiyo!!! Doesn't all this drama sound absurd and over zealous?Lets perform a biopsy on the basis of this hate against Israel and the Jews.

The war between Israel and Palestine....It has set aflame in many Muslims in Malaysia a hate for the Jews just because the Israelis are dropping bombs into Palestine and not letting the Palestinians live in peace in the land which people here think should belong to them. Many of us feel that there is injustice there and the plight to capture Jerusalem has seen Israel doing very unjustified deeds against the Palestinians. So.... who do we blame? THE JEWS!!! Am i not right? I mean to most ppl here.... Israel=Jews and Palestine=Muslims and this war is a war between the Jews and Muslims....right? My brothers...WAKE UP!!! It is not so! The war between Israel and Palestine is purely a struggle for land. Its a fight to capture Jerusalem not because the Jews want a hold on the city neither is it because the Muslims want to have the city in their hands. It is because Israel and Palestine want it. Period. The whole idea about the Jews are killing the Muslims and Muslims killing the Jews there is folly. War is both Israel and Palestinian's economy. They can't go without war(the situation is more corrupt than we think). Now i'm not saying that because its a war for land that the whole fray is justified...no. I'm just saying that we should have a proper perspective on the situation there to keep us from making assumptions and brewing unfounded hate against the wrong things. One can't say for sure that most of the population of Israel is Jewish neither can one say that most of the population of Palestine is Muslim. Both have their fair share of Jews, Muslims and Christians(yes, MANY Palestinians are Christians and Jews).

Another good example would be the Hezbollah frenzy in Lebanon some time back. If you don't remember, there was some chaos in the beautiful country Lebanon due to a clash between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The ppl here went crazy saying that " The goes the Jews again..killing more Muslims in Lebanon!" and it was also at that time when i was aware that there were people here who are the extreme opposite of what i've been describing so far in this article saying "I support Israel if they bomb the Muslims in Palestine or in Lebanon...in fact i'm gonna donate some money to them to continue their war"...now hold on to that for a moment, i'll get to that later. About the previous statement, it reminded me about a conversation that my father told me about when he was in a conversation with two political figures, one a local minister and the other was a minister from Dubai(both Muslim). The Malaysian minister asked the minister from Dubai, " What do you think about the foolish Jews from Israel bombing our Muslim brothers in Lebanon?". So the minister from Dubai replied "Seems to me the only fool is you. It is not a matter of Jews from Israel bombing Muslims in Lebanon." . He later explained that Hezbollah is a party of radical Muslims in Lebanon who were disturbing the peace in Lebanon(Lebanon is also doesn't have a majority of Muslim population...half of the Lebanese are Christians) . The Hezbollah are like the Abu Sayaff or the Jemaah Islamiah in this region and the Lebanese government was having a hard time keeping them at bay. So they called for the aid of the Israeli military. Now the news reports showed much collateral damage by the Israeli military when in Lebanon but why is this so? The Hezbollah were hiding their arms and ammunition in schools and hospitals and used them as their bunkers and hide-outs. This gave the Israeli military a terrible time wiping the Hezbollah out and hence the collateral.

Moving back to the statement which i told to keep in mind, the(fucked-up) man who said that is NO different from the others who blindly hate the Jews for the Middle Eastern pandemonium. Both characters don't understand that this is no war between the Jews and Muslims. It is purely a political war between Israel and the others. Thus if anyone is to be blamed for this, its the politicians and governments who refuse to end the violence in the Middle East and not faith!! The local media has led many of us to think that it is a war of faith when its not. And those who buy those scenarios are observing the situation from a peephole, missing out on the bigger issues at play. So please i urge all Malaysians to get our perspectives right and stop living in this world of religion-ism. Stop thinking that Jews=Israel and Muslim= All the other Middle Eastern countries cuz its absolutely WRONG. Its the same as saying that Caucasian=Christian. I don't know how we can come up with such equations but i know that its about time we brake these social inferences and get out perspectives right.



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there is an interesting (pretty outdated) article by Helen Ang which touches on the Caucasian=Christian issue. Its entitled Holy smoke! They're Godless in the West