Molly Charles-Reflections

  War or Conflict is not just about resource control, identity supremacy or even land control it can also be carrying on business in the evolving tech based military industry; or it can be multiple factors acting in combination based on actors involved. The onslaught of Israel on Gaza is linked to desire to depopulate the place and ensure Greater Israel and in the process achieve also the goal of annihilation of an ethnic religious group, Israelis have an inherent hatred towards and for which they believe they have religious justifications which even sanctifies war crimes or genocide carried out against Palestinians. It is an issue about Israeli society as a whole, how it evolved and what it assumed its existential goal is – to recreate past called Greater Israel. The skewed mentality of assuming Israelis have the right to depopulate Palestine, is not linked to one party or a few individuals it is the raison d’etre of almost entire population. There is one question to the great vision

  Human history is filled with war crimes and genocide of different scales and shades. Experts on Genocide have a personal favourite in debates on what qualifies as a Genocide. Does one go by numbers, intent or maybe both. They seem quite oblivious to the detached cruelty in their statements on genocide for it goes far beyond the numbers game. The stark dehumanization in the approach has them present it as concepts used in association with any hunt. This attitude towards the victim clearly demonstrates the ground rule - anything is permissible as long as the goal of annihilation is upheld, and its justification is grounded in shades of grey enough to deflect any accountability. No religion can today claim innocence from the violence that accompanies Holy Wars, Christianity, especially. Even though Christ spoke of love, peace and nonviolence, ardent Christians sought and embraced violence to assert their Faith. The only religion that may claim some limited innocence is Buddhism, though