Wars snatch homes from people. Wars ruin families. Wars are so inhuman that they separate humans from humans.
Wars are catastrophic. They are not fought to win or lose but to write bitter histories that remain post-war and post-warmongers. One wonders if had there been histories had there been no wars. Wars have given birth to histories and history has preserved the pains and pangs of war like an ominous treasure.
How these wars have come into being? Have they been created by God? No, they are purely bizarre human inventions to justify violence on earth, to kill and be killed and to gather authority over others. What astounds God is that humans wage wars against humans. Humans kill humans. Humans destroy humans and unfortunately, humans celebrate the victory over humans and mourn the defeat of humans.
Wars are fought by humans against humans to kill humans. It is true that choice is the root cause of human suffering because humans don’t know how to handle choice. They utilise their choice to perpetrate violence, to destroy beautiful creatures of earth. Specifying the wins and defeats of wars is ironic. No one wins the war, it is only lost, lost by humans on both sides. There is no victory in war but destruction, damage and dispossession. Palestine-Israel war stands no exception. Saying Israel is winning the war and Hamas is losing it, is not a good analysis and good conclusion and saying vice versa is inauthentic.
Wars only make us strong or weak, dominant or subjugated, occupiers or occupied oppressors or oppressed, superior or inferior. There is no other categorization possible. Wars are strange entities which unravel themselves only in the aftermath, after killing and after devastation. Palestine would require a century to rebuild itself and Israel would need history to heal the wound that Hamas had caused it. Both lost. Both would repent. Both would never be the same again. Wars change shapes and figures. Wars change perspectives. Wars change emotions and sadly wars change humanity into barbarity and savagery as one clearly observes in the ongoing Palestine-Israel war. Wars are omnipotent. They change what never changes. They destroy what best has been built and which can never be rebuilt again after its doom. They reveal what is hidden. They demonstrate what is thought-annihilation, extinction and devastation.
Both Palestine and Israel wrote histories for their posterity. The descendants would experience the trauma of this history and develop the same bitterness in them. For so many generations, this war will create more and more wars ceaselessly. Wars last longer than humans. They shape the minds of humans. New Palestinians and Israelites would be born with the war-ridden memory haunting them and provoking them to resort to violence. The expression of violence is only violence.
The role of the world community while wars go on is noticeable. Their alienation and indifference towards the countries who wage war and who receive the savagery of the war is pitiable and questionable. Involvement or neutrality is not the good and moral stand of people that can be appreciated because neither of them mitigates the intensity of war. These are and should be solutions. If involvement puts an end to war, one should get involved but if neutrality is the demand, one should not falter to adopt it. Every country watches the futility caused by the Palestine-Israel war but no one strives to interfere to end this war. There are countries which if interfere, the war will end but people have learnt to be keen spectators of the devastation caused by wars. If we all are waiting for God to descend on earth to confiscate the weapons of soldiers, we deceive ourselves, we excuse ourselves to perform the obligations to stop this war.
Wars do have morals like everything else like not to kill children, women and old people, not to cut down basic amenities of life, and not to bombard schools and hospitals but these morals have been infringed since the commencement of this war. No one is spared. Wars do not see the ages of people. They do not bother to think about homeless children, about the rubble of human values that they cause.
It is also true that Iran and Lebanon besides other countries deterred this war to a greater degree because Israelites would have begun their ground incursion operation if they did not have the fear of extending this war to greater intensity. Wars bring phobias as well. They bring nightmares of two previous world wars. If you think it is easy to plunge into war, you are mistaken. Wars have easy entrances but difficult outlets. There are no outlets for different wars. They go on and on endlessly.
Palestine-Israel war needs to be checked now or it will ensue dreadful results. Wars have frightening results that wring out bravery out of brave men and soldiers. Hundreds of Palestinians have become homeless. Wars snatch homes from people. Wars ruin families. Wars are so inhuman that they separate humans from humans.
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