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Dear Mr. Irfan Hussain

With regard to your (mostly
one-sided) column http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/26/enough-enough-enough.html
 on the Palestinian statehood bid at UN,
you have pointed to Barack Obama’s abdication of his commitment to Middle East
peace and the unreasonable stance of Israel.  You have however not mentioned anything about
the Muslim-Arab-Palestinian intransigence which is the root cause of the
conflict.

To your credit, at the end of the
column, you mention that Israel’s millions of opponents need to accept it as a
member of the international community. In view of this however, your lament about
Obama’s proposed veto of Palestine’s bid is contradictory. How can a state of
Palestine be allowed to be created if it does not recognize the right of the
Jewish state of Israel, its neighbor to exist. And it is clear from several
indicators, from speeches of Palestinian diplomats to the statements from Hamas
and others in the Arab world that statehood is only a small battle in the
Palestinian cause while the final war remains for eradication of the Jewish
state of Israel as it exists.

It is noted that there is no
basis for institutionalized hatred for Muslims or Christians anywhere in the
Jewish scriptures or from the lives of their holy figures. On the other hand
however, Jew hatred is enshrined in Muslim scriptures of Koran, Hadees &
sira of its prophet Mohammed. Jews are much vilified in Islamic texts and all
are well aware by now of various suras and ayahs of the holy scripts where such
vilification is there for all to see. Mohammed is known to have carried out
several expeditions against the Jew tribes of Arabia in his time. It is also
noted that on his deathbed, Mohammed is known to have declared that the two
great religions (namely the Jews and Muslims) could not co-exist in the holy
land (of Arabia) and thus set his seal on Jews to be banished forever from the
holy land. It is due to this proclamation of their prophet which the Muslims deem
to be their religious duty, that the Muslims remain so resolutely and irreconcilably
opposed to the Jewish nation state of Israel. Thus it can be seen that
Palestine issue is not about land or self-rule of Palestinians but is all about
eradication of the state of Israel in accordance with Islamic injunction.

The above was the reason of
banishment of Jews from Arabia. It was the reason of the uniting of several Arab
states to undertake several hostilities against Israel and their continuing to
not recognize Israel’s legitimacy as a nation. It was the reason that Gamal
Nasser of Egypt was deemed a great hero amongst Arabs to have undertaken war
against Israel. It was also the reason, why Anwar Saadat of Egypt was assassinated
(for making peace with Israel). It is the reason why Khomeini & Ahmadinejad
of Iran vow publicly to eradicate the Israeli regime. It was the reason why
Yasser Arafat did not conclude the best ever peace deal offered to him by
Clinton and Barak for he feared that such a deal would render him a villain
akin to Saadat in the eyes of the Muslims and that he would meet the same fate
of Saadat if he did so. It is the reason why Palestinians continue to choose
terrorists like Yasser Arafat earlier and Hamas at present who vow to on a fight
to death against Israel. It is the reason why the terrorist outfit Hamas which
now rules Gaza, urges Abbas of Fatah to not submit statehood bid to UN as it
would in some way legitimize Israel. It is the reason which unites the
otherwise disparate and opposed Islamic factions of Sunnis and Shias like Iran,
Hezbollah, Hamas etc. to come together to wage war on Israel. It is the reason,
why the Arabs refuse to make peace with Israel and move-on despite the fact
that Israel occupies such a miniscule of an area in the Arabian Peninsula. See
pic. http://twitpic.com/57sphi It is the reason that
Palestinians instigate intifadas of terrorism against Israeli military and
civilians. It is the reason why Israel required building separation walls and
check-points to secure themselves against the Palestinians. It is the reason
why Israel needed to cordon off Gaza to stop Gaza rulers Hamas to acquire
weapons and attack Israel.

In view of above, it is disingenuous
and downright inappropriate to suggest that the Palestinians should be granted
any concession before they change their attitude of unreasonable hatred and
hostility against Jews and Israel. Justice demands that there should be equity
amongst all parties and no party usurp any rights of the other. However, if the
parties remain unreasonably opposed to each other and if one party remains
adamant on not allowing the other party to exist, then it is only fair that the
rights of the intransigent party be curtailed and it not allowed its freedoms
until it agrees to abide by the ‘live and let live’ principle.

Mr. Hussain also hinted that
Hamas was created by Israelis to counter the PLO, thereby suggesting that it is
in cahoots with them. However, as we know, Hamas and Israel remain resolutely
opposed to each other and Hamas is the main reason of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which is known to all. In an earlier column, Mr. Hussain
had mentioned of the ‘Occam’s razor’ principle of accepting facts as they
present themselves, without looking for deeper and indirect meanings into them,
which advise he had given to the Muslims of Pakistan when considering issues of
terrorism and suicide bombings. However, Mr. Hussain fails to heed his own
advice in the issue of Hamas vs Israel.

It may well be true that Israel
itself is not blameless and it may quite be culpable of imperialist and expansionist
ambitions. But once its right to exist as a nation-state is accepted, then any
of its actions to secure its existence which are deemed downright oppressive
and brutal are sure to get benefit of doubt of being carried out as a reaction
to the original hostility against it by its Arab opponents. And as long as
Arabs and Muslims continue to have Jew hatred and anti-Semitism prescribed in
their scriptures and as long as these verses of hatred are not reformed or
given up openly and truly by the Muslims, they will continue to be considered
as the ones who are the original sinners in their conflict against the Jews.

This Mr. Hussain is the fact of
the matter which is not considered by the like of you or leftists like Noam
Chomsky etc when you pronounce your views on the Middle East conflict.