Since the creation of Israel, animosities between Israel and Arab neighbours have resulted into several conventional wars and many ongoing acts of terrorism and violence in this region.
Roots of the animosities are not on the shoulder of one or another side, but both and the weakness of the UN which could not effectively bring peace in the region.
In the case of Israel, since its existence in 1948, whoever governs in Israel, the policy is more or less influenced by Zionist ambitions. Zionism propagates the idea that the whole region is the sacred homeland of Jews, where allegedly the early Jewish nation originated over 3,200 years ago. Zionism is a fundamentalist ideology in the region. It goes so far that it claims the entire Palestine. It violates the UN mandate of 1947 dividing Palestine into two independent states. Zionism explicitly ignores the rights of many vibrant communities who have been living there during the last 3000 years.
The counter-pole to Zionism is Islamism which grew up in the region after the advent of the IRI. Islamists dream of destruction of Israel as expressed by president Ahmadinejad. Their goal is to create a God’s state in its place. They regard the territory of Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank as an inalienable “Islamic waghf” (Islamic assets), which should not be governed by non-Muslims.
The two Islamist militant movements fight to push back Israel from their occupied territories, but at the same time sow seeds of Islamism in these territories with the hope to pick their fruit. They do not intend to free their territories for the sake of freedom and prosperity of people but to impose the yoke of a God’s state on them. The God’s state dreamed by Hamas is similar to the IRI which is now largely rejected and abhorred by a growing majority of Iranians.
Despite that the Islamic revolution of Iran failed, the Islamic radicalism of which it was a projection, continues to be an aggressive ideology and imposes problems for the entire region. What now bothers all freedom loving people is the future of this region which is widely overshadowed by the plague of Islamism. In other words, not only Israeli occupation, but also a take-over of Islamists in Palestine is a serious alarm for Palestine.
The international community must help Palestine to attend its deserved rights of independence, while rejecting any God’s state in the region. The plague of Islamism in Palestine was reborn with Hamas, founded in 1987 in Gaza by late Shaikh Ahmad Jassin and started its existence with its jihadi attacks on both military and civil targets in Israel.
Though Hamas is a Sunni organisation, however, a protégé of the IRI; it follows a strict charter which is not different from IRI’s official policy towards Israel -- the State of Israel must be wiped off the region and replaced with an Islamic state. Hamas rejects a non-Islamic state, even represented by the majority of people, in Palestine.
Hamas, like all Islamists, opposes to any peace process with Israel; it regards such a process a "betrayal of God's will". This is its fundamental difference with the PLO which in 1988 recognised Israel's sovereignty, Hamas’s last success in the Palestinian elections is rather a related reaction to the deep frustration of Palestinians who were disappointed from the West. This frustration is characterises by the continued postponement in the resolution of Palestinian conflicts, US foreign policies in their absolute support for Israel in its occupation of "Islamic” territories.
Islamists, wherever they are, guided or inspired by the IRI, stage the question of state at the middle of their battleground. The legitimacy of such a state cannot be ignored. Therefore in the case of Palestinian independence, the PLO or any non-Islamist political force will not be for Hamas in the legitimate position to govern.
The second IRI’s proxy-movement in this region is Hezbollah. It was formed in 1982 by the IRI’s officials and the Revolutionary Guards Corps. It was to import the “Islamic” revolution of Iran in the region. The movement was logistically helped to fight Israeli occupation following the 1982 Lebanon war. Hezbollah’s ideology is based on the Shiite Islam, specifically in the concept of absolute power of supreme leader or "Welayat-e-Faqih" put forth by Shiite Islam in Iran.
Although, Hezbollah is considered by the West as a terrorist organisation, it is a recognised political party in Lebanon, where it has ministers in the government. The Lebanese government rejects Hezbollah’s slogans: "God is the target, the Prophet is the model, the Koran the constitution, jihad is the path and death for the sake of God is the loftiest of the wishes”.
Terror is its principal weapon and Islamism its only ideology. It follows a jihadist and Islamist policy dictated by IRI’s officials. Lebanon with only 40 percent Shiites is not a cosy cradle of Mullahs. Hezbollah has taken this fact into consideration; therefore, a God’s state, on the IRI’s model, is not officially demanded. However, it claims that an Islamic state requires the consent of the people, and since Lebanon remains a religiously and ideologically heterogeneous society, their political platform favours the introduction of an Islamic state in Lebanon by non-militant means.
All trilateral parts of conflicts, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Zionism, reject constantly peaceful solutions. All of them believe that Palestine is a consecrated land for their future generations and only so it must exist until Judgement Day. If all of them are at the height of their radicalism, they will gender an eternally vicious spiral of war and violence. The two antagonistic poles have different charges and sacred altars. Neither Zionism’s sacred expansionism nor Islamism’s God’s state can guarantee peace and co-existence in this region.
It is to mention that Israel is implicitly authorised by the US to continue its animosity not only against Islamist groups, but also the legitimate rights of Palestinian.Now, the least the international community is to encourage both sides to achieve peace and co-existence based on the UN repeated resolutions and bilateral agreements. If this conflict is to be stopped, the international community must defend the historically rights of Palestinians to install their UN proposed state. The Lack of an international consensus can be interpreted as a green light to continue the conflict.
What concerns Israel and Palestine, a durably peaceful co-existence of all peoples in the region can be guaranteed when only the democrats and seculars are the official peace-makers of both sides. Zionism and Islamism cannot narrow down their differences.
For the peole of Iran, as a part of the international community, a UN mandated two-states option is the best and fairest solution because it is consequently a defeat of fundamentalist ideologies from any calibre in this region.
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by sfklwjsmf;kwsfk (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 08:32 PM PSThjgyjug
Israel is built on the
by AnonymousYahoo (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 08:09 PM PSTIsrael is built on the blood-soaked remains of hundres of PALESTINIAN villages that were ethnically-cleansed of their inhabitants by Zionist racists. EVERY INCH of Israel is STOLEN, ever drop of water you racists drink is STOLEN, every whiff of air you breath is STOLEN. You entire "country" is an embarrassment to humanity and a stain on the conscience of the world that has been silent for too long in the face of your racist expansionist avarice.
To: Annoymous008 What kind
by Kj (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 05:34 PM PSTTo: Annoymous008
What kind of evil " zionist" would allow the population of his enemies to quadruple where they now present a demographic threat to the "expansionist" zionist???? Use your brain instead of parroting your IR's indoctrinations.
Khak bar sare Israel va khak bar sare Palestine
by Red Wine on Wed Feb 06, 2008 04:28 PM PSTagha beh ma cheh marbuteh ? ma cheh kareh hastim? khoda ham zionist ha ro va ham hamas va s.a.f va hezbolah ro lanat koneh ª ma kheili zerang bashim,keshvare khodemun ro edareh konim.
ey khak bar sare un irani keh beh israeli va pelestini komak mikoneh vali beh irani nemikoneh .
belakhareh ye ruzi mireseh keh taklifeh in jur adama malum besheh.kuft bokhorid keh darid maleh mardom ro mikhorid,manzuram hamun haei hastan keh nokareh usa va england va arab va israel hastan .tikeh tikeh beshin,elahi ta 7 jad va abadetun besuzeh.cancer va AIDS begirid keh pouleh iran ro midid beh arab ha va israel va england va usa .
Finally an article that
by Wondering (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 04:06 PM PSTFinally an article that deals with both sides of the coin properly instead of knowingly or unknowingly taking sides where neither side is right. It is unfortunate that some people feel offended instead of realizing that truth is better than BS.
Islamic Republic is expansionist
by sz (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 03:12 PM PSTI don’t know how “expansionism” is defined over there in England, but as far as I know within this context in most English speaking places it is defined in relation to physical space, land. Were it as you define it, then Germany, Japan and many other countries with low birth rate and declining population who are actively recruiting emigrants are expansionists. Even the Islamic Republic is sort of one too. Its past policy of encouraging propagating new soldiers for the cause has doubled the population or in your parlance has expanded the population Finally, even if those wily Zionist expansionists are at it by actively recruiting Jews to emigrate to the state of Israel, what of it. As you probably did yourself don’t they too have the right to immigrate to another country? We are in so much post enlightenment period that sometimes we forget its basic tenets.
Anti-Semites
by Anonymous-008 (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 02:12 PM PSTSZ,
I am not sure if you are Iranian or not but your comments are, like all the other Zionists that I have met, a lot of bollocks.
"The premise that Zionism is for expansionism is the figment of IRI and other Anti-Semites’ imagination world wide and has no basis in reality or corroborating evidence."
Why Then has there been a massive effort on the part of Israel over the past 50 years to get Jewish people from around the world to emigrate to the Jewish state? Expansionism is not just land grabbing.
The Protocols of the elders of Zion
by sz (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:21 AM PSTMore often than not I agree with your views expressed in posted articles. Not in this instance. To equate Zionism with Islamism not only is a fallacy of first degree that is to equate two diametrically different entities on par with one another, it is also falling into the Islamic Republic’s trap. The premise that Zionism is for expansionism is the figment of IRI and other Anti-Semites’ imagination world wide and has no basis in reality or corroborating evidence. Were it so, the Sinai would not have been returned to Egypt, nor would active feelers been put out to negotiate the return of Golan Heights to Syria. To believe in your premise requires one to believe in the legitimacy and authenticity of the Protocols of the elders of Zion which has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be the work of Czarist Russia secret police.
Aren't you forgetting another leg, the USA?
by Anonymous8 (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:43 AM PSTRemember what Rice did while Lebanon was being bombed into the stone age?
I Agree! The Hell With Both
by Al Sefati (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:18 AM PSTAlthough I think Zionists are more racists toward Arabs and Palestinians than Islamists are toward Jews, but one can't deny that both want each other out of there. Both want to control the land completely and neither are willing to live together or side by side.
The solution is what you just said. To abandon both of them, and I think reach out to moderate sides. Both will need to compromise for sake of peace and their future and I know one thing, IRI needs to get our hands out of there, it is not our business.
If Iran and Iranians are so concern to help Palestinians, they should raise awareness and help through legitimate humanitarian channels.
I am so sick and tired of Palestinian and Israeli issue, which is unfortunately is shaping the entire US policy toward Middle east.
You're equating Zionism --
by AnonymousYahoo (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 09:53 AM PSTYou're equating Zionism -- which insists on Jewish superiority -- with Hamas and the Palestinian claims -- which don't claim any such racist views. You're putting them together but in fact it is the Palestinians who are the ones who have been driven from their homes, while the Israelis are living in stolen lands.
Mr. Rashidian! I think also
by Puja (not verified) on Wed Feb 06, 2008 09:47 AM PSTMr. Rashidian!
I think also like you that the only solution for the problems in the region is (like you wrote):
"What concerns Israel and Palestine, a durably peaceful co-existence of all peoples in the region can be guaranteed when only the democrats and seculars are the official peace-makers of both sides. Zionism and Islamism cannot narrow down their differences.
For the peole of Iran, as a part of the international community, a UN mandated two-states option is the best and fairest solution because it is consequently a defeat of fundamentalist ideologies from any calibre in this region."