Thursday, January 08, 2009

The true evil is the war, not the countries in it.

HELL YEAH lets boycott Coca Cola!
And Maybelline, and Starbucks and everything that America has a hand in.

This way, America will know that Malaysia CONDEMNS the excessive aggressiveness of Israel in the Gaza strip. So far the death toll has gone up to 500. And in comparison, only 5 (okay maybe now around 10) Israeli's have died. The Horror! Why should there be such violence against the Palestinians when their initial incessant shelling of Israel only caused 5 people to die??! So what they sort of "started" it first? After all, in the words of my friend A "How would YOU like it if someone came into your living room and took posession of it?"

My simple answer? If my family had to die for it, I will gladly give up my living room.

SURE, we CONDEMN the war. The atrocities. The violence. But how many of us have sat down to think, now, why is Israeli retaliating as such? Is it because Hamas have been shelling them every damn day? And the rest of Palestine have plainly refused to recognise Israel? Just as the Palestinians have the right to live, so do the Israelis. Sure, the Israeli's were the unfortunate ones to be plucked out of obscurity and placed right smack in the middle of Islam central hence taking over land belonging to Palestine. How many have thought of how the Israeli's felt? If I were living in Israel I would wish every day that my country will one day LIFT itself and just go somewhere else with no opposition to the creation of that state.

Yes, I may sound biased, but at the end of the day, what I truly feel is that there is NO justification for the war. AND there is NO reason why both sides just cannot see eye to eye. Yes, this is the reality. Israel is there. Unless a big tsunami washes the whole of Israeli away (or my LIFT and go somewhere else theory comes to fruition), it is not going to disappear one day. So, would it not make more sense to just accept the inevitable and then move on from there?

Instead of all these fighting?

And by countries taking SIDES, it just FUELS the war. Malaysia can condemn the WAR, not Israel. Malaysia should condemn the VIOLENCE. NOT Israel. Because why do we support Palestine just because they are an Islamic country? What if it were the other way round? Would we condemn Palestine? Did we do anything to boycott anything Islamic during September 11? Or did many of us secretly thought HAHA, its about time that US feels the wrath of the Muslim world?

I do not agree to the stand that Malaysia has taken. We are supposed to be Non Aligned. And by that it means we DO NOT take sides. And by boycotting America because they are supporting Israel, we are taking sides. Both countries have been aggressors. And they both have to stop. Now its a game of lets see who has more support. And this will never end if we jump into the fray.

CONDEMN THE WAR.

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