100 years gone by, but the reasoning didn’t change.
100 years ago: We are weak. We lack in education. We don’t invest in research and development. No innovation. No technological advancement. Poor health. Poor personal growth.
100 years later: We are weak. We lack in education. We don’t invest in research and development. No innovation. No technological advancement. Poor health. Poor personal growth.
Another 100 years later: Draw the analogy yourself.
Nothing but hypocrisy.
We – the Pakistanis – participated in Yemen’s blood personally. We don’t know anything about Uighur because of selective amnesia. We had personal dollar-in-hand interest in Afghanistan in making it what it is today. The Kashmir we got is the Kashmir unhappy.
Then we have our own background of unmarked graves. Hazara genocide happened for over a decade in our own land with hundreds of coffins telecasted live on our TV screen in routine news bulletins. Hundreds and thousands of people were displaced (formally: Internally Displaced People), and a whole province is an unsafe region for poor while the powerful elite makes billions out of its minerals.
Hypocrites.
With crocodile tears.
And nothing to offer but amusement over dramatics.
Never said don’t fight back. Fight back. Resist. Stand. But don’t be an idiot by getting your own ones assassinated and annihilated. If the enemy comes and destroys you without you even knowing it, and you just throw stones at them to make a display – then you are fooling yourself and making a million other fools happy.
This isn’t how a war is fought. This is how a play is acted in a theatre.
What’s the result? Benefitting Netanyahu. Benefitting the mass murderers of Israel.
First you think. You prepare. You make yourself better. You grow and adopt strategies. And when you believe you are at par at least in certain aspects, you go to war. Else, you go for a suicide.
If Israel was supported by the UK and the USA, the whole Arab World also came together multiple times to win over. Yet, failed. What you think should be done, had been done, thrice – for nothing but more failures. Because wars are not won over emotions.
In the history of mankind, empires came and went down with some other empire to takeover. How did Muslims come to Mesopotamia? Spain? Persia? India? Africa? Alexandria? Constantinople?
And Jerusalem?
Who had this land of Jerusalem before Muslims? Who had this land before Christians? And who had this land before Jews? Humans.
We know the history from King David perhaps. Or Daud for you.
Then King Solomon. Or Suleman for you.
Babylonians came destroyed.
Then Persians came allowed Jews to come.
Second Temple by Herod. Reminds me of Oscar Wilde’s Salome and John the Baptist. Or Yahya for you.
Then came Alexander. Then Romans.
Then Constantine – the guy who founded Constantinople in 330 AD – came and made Jerusalem a Holy Christian land.
Then came the Muslims. Arabs.
Then came Crusaders to too back Jerusalem.
Followed by more Crusades in Ayyubid Period. Saladin recaptured the land.
Long story short, came the Ottomans to make the longest stand. Till the 1st World War.
Then came the victorious Britain who defeated the Ottomans, and captured Jerusalem and established their mandate.
So, who had it? Who owned this land? Which religion? Who who? Humans. Humans suffered there. Since forever. Behind the flags of three different religions, with the same message: PEACE.
The land of Jerusalem is sacred for all, and the land of Jerusalem is cursed for all too.
I am with you for peace. But I am not with you for dramatics for vested interests which are not aimed to save human lives but to make more idiotic reasons to get more killed. If the resistance is by force, then it better be true force at par.
Otherwise, you are just getting your own people killed. Over and over again.
Don’t sit back. Don’t watch. Learn. Adopt. Grow. If not Sun Tzu then maybe Machiavelli can help you how to grow yourself politically, socially, and regionally.
Get them by the balls but be able to do that first.
If you condemn one incident and are on numb on the ones happening in your backyard, and in your neighborhood; then try to discharge your hypocrisy first.
And if the arguments were same 100-year back as they are today, then they shall remain the same 100 years later. In all this mess, you may write a chapter of history with two beautiful videos of how 180 missiles went from Iran to Israel to make a billion Muslims happy after a hundred-thousand massacred and a hundred-thousand to be massacred.
I’m out of that history.
