While Ariel Sharon's current plan to unilaterally disengage from the West Bank and Gaza Strip seems quite practical to many of us here in America, it is not being so viewed in Israel. Today, 130,000 protesters formed a human chain stretching from the Gaza Strip to Jerusalem to protest the move. That is a chain of people over 45 kilometers long. (That is about 30 miles for those who may be metric-system-disadvantaged.)
What we in America often fail to realize is that to many Jews the fate of the occupied territories is tied in with their own eschatology. They believe that until the Jewish people have occupied the entire land originally given to Abraham, the Messiah will not come. Thus, the Palestinian territories are not merely a political issue to them. They are a spiritual issue, as well. If we believed only by occupying a strip of land could your children see paradise, one wonders if we would react simlarly.
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder