Holy War
Let’s be clear about it, if religion didn’t exist, then the current conflict between Hamas and Israel wouldn’t exist. It doesn’t even have to go that far; if some portions of the Torah (the Old Testament to Christians) didn’t exist then this conflict wouldn’t be happening.
Israel is anciently considered a “Holy Land”, and that it was set apart by God to be the homeland for the Hebrew person, thus when modern Israelwas created as a Jewish State in 1947 it was considered by some to be a fulfillment of Gods promise for a holy lands because of the ancient contract between God and his covenant people, the Hebrews.
When it was created as Jewish State, many of the Arabs living there were displaced.
This is a clear division of land, state and power between 2 groups of people; Jews and Arabs.
One group (Jews) feels entitled to the land they live in, partly because of the words in their holy book, the other group (Arabs) resent the Israeli occupation of what they consider to be their holy lands.
If the borders of Israel and the Gaza Strip were merged, and there was no separation of people according to religion and race, would this conflict even be happening?
This conflict, at it’s root, is about difference of beliefs about God, and isn’t that tragic? Take God out of the picture and these are just people with different ethnic backgrounds, with no pre-concieved notions about “heretics” and “gentiles”.
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