Gaza–Israel conflict: Why it is not religious but a power struggle
No doubt, the international world who have not really been following the rage in between Gaza and Israel, will assume it is purely a religious war— it is not! While it has a tint of it, that is what they use to garner support from subscribers of each religion.
No doubt, the international world who have not really been following the rage in between Gaza and Israel, will assume it is purely a religious war— it is not! While it has a tint of it, that is what they use to garner support from subscribers of each religion.
It is a territorial war, in the box of power struggle. You will recall that the conflict began closely between 2005 and 28 June 2006, when large scale conventional warfare beyond the peripheries of the Gaza Strip abducted Corporal Gilad Shalit. Which propelled Israel to respond by launching Operation “Summer Rains”.
Moreso, the operation became the first major mobilization within the Gaza Strip since Israel unilaterally disengaged from the region between August and September 2005.
However, the renewed violence began on the 6th of May 2021 when Palestinian protest began in Jerusalem over an anticipated decision of the Supreme Court of Israel on the eviction of six Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
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You will observe that under international law, the area annexed by Israel, is a part of the Palestinian territories that Israel currently holds under belligerent occupation.
Currently. the conflict has led to the displacement of over 500 people, including children in the duo state: as the civilian casualties grow, the conflict has polarized Israeli society, and the world, as seldom before, and it has spurred unrest within Israel and the occupied territories that have been more intense than any in years.
While many critics have attacked Israel, the question Israelis keep asking is “what will you do if a terrorist group (which Hamas is, according to the U.S. and European Union) committed to the elimination of your country, fired missiles at it day after day, inducing widespread terror?”
Evidently, the current Israel attack was forced after Hamas, the movement that rules Gaza, fired rockets at Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh on May 10; which the group said was a response to injuries of more than 300 Palestinians in an Israeli police crackdown at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem.
Gaza was part of historic Palestine before the state of Israel was created in 1948 in a violent process of ethnic cleansing, expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
Rebuilding has been next to impossible because Israel continues to prevent construction materials, such as steel and cement, from reaching Gaza.
The war between Isreal and Gaza is as old as time; the event must be viewed not from religious differences but personal interests between main actors that led to widespread calamity. Attack and ground incursions that led to lost of lives, damaged pipelines and sewage treatment infrastructure. As a result, sewage often seeps into drinking water, which has resulted in a sharp increase in waterborne disease.
We must always remember that there are Israeli Arabs and Christians, and Palestinian Christians and Druzes. So it is dangerous to take a side based on religion, rather let push for peace based on humanity and respect for human right.
