When Israel provoked Hamas on 14th
November this year by killing Ahmed Jabari,the hamas military chief of staff,it
did little service to its own cause of
surviving in Mid east in the long run. After all, this was not the sole manner whereby it could demonstrate the strategic superiority of its newly developed Iron Dome missile that was capable of intercepting enemy missiles.
surviving in Mid east in the long run. After all, this was not the sole manner whereby it could demonstrate the strategic superiority of its newly developed Iron Dome missile that was capable of intercepting enemy missiles.
The weeklong intense battles
that ensued witnessed raining of missiles across the borders
of Gaza and Israel
which resulted in damage of property and lives of Gazan already living under
siege and extreme suffering.But part of missiles fired from Hamas that remained
unintercepted also reached region of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Later a bus
also exploded within the territories of Israel. This also sent alarm
bells ringing in Israel and
prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the recall of a huge number of
(75000) reservists for launching ground operations against Gaza, though the intentions were also to
occupy chunks of areas of neighbouring countries. No wonder in ground
operations Israel
would also have suffered sufficient causalities that it did not due to air
superiority.
US President Barack Obama
ensured immediate de-escalation of the threatened ground operations
and temporary truce was brokered between Hamas and Israel thanks to the
role played by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi who has
ideologiocal ties with Hamas and had to ensure that transition underway
in his country due to Arab Spring is not jeopardized due to threatened
ground operations .Though the powers assumed by him through decree
continue to stir the feeling of his countrymen who doubt the semblance of
acts of Hosni Mubarak when he grabbed dictatorial powers.
The sufferings of Arab people
that resulted in Tsunami of spring revolution that overthrew
dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and rages on seriously threatening the
regimes of Yemen and Bahrain and eludes solution at the hands of US (mentor of
autocratic regimes in Mid East installed to perpetuate suffering on their own
countrymen) has become a headache for the superpower . More so the situation
some how also drags US into fiscal cliff that heralds a severe US recession
and worldwide slowdown.
Similar flawed policies
have been pursued by Israel
by persistently denying the rights and privileges of Palestinians and
dragging on with the peace process and not implementing the two-state
solution that would enable Israel
and Palestine
to exist side by side in harmony and amicable environment.
Weapons superiority do not
always determine the outcomes of the
conflicts . The communities persistently wronged against are normally instilled
with valour and that they are able to reverse the outcomes of conflict even in the
face of the considerable odds. Otherwise how would have world powers of the
yore crumbled ,as they also indulged in arrogance.Wisdom thus ordains that
continuous suffering inflicted on any community should
be ruthlessly avoided.
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