Road map's end of the road
Shahjahan Ahmed, Dhanmandi R/A, Dhaka
The twin suicide bombings in Israel on September 9, that killed 14 people, may indeed put the so-called road map, initiated by the United States, into a deep freeze. While the suicide bombings are being condemned and may be rightly so, no one seems to bother why the young Palestinians are killing themselves. Unless this aspect is focused upon, there cannot and will not be an end of this atrocity. Since the start of the Intifada, more innocent Palestinians, including children, have been killed by Israeli soldiers. The innocent Israelis killed are lesser in number but their deaths are covered more graphically to distort the real cause behind such unfortunate killings. The Palestinians are fighting to liberate their motherland against an illegal occupation. They have no army, arms or ammunitions. They just have a cause and strong will. They are up against a regional super power, armed to the teeth that also possesses an arsenal of WMD. Against such overwhelming odds, maybe the Palestinians have chosen these acts as their only way out of the military inferiority. Of course this may stop, if the US as the world's only Super Power forces Israel to withdraw their soldiers from Palestinian lands and send them back to pre-1967 borders and give the Palestinians their state with a part of Jerusalem as their Capital. These are all legal demands, and mandate of the UN in accordance with the principles of international law. The US should know what is going on in the Palestinian minds. They bombed innocent civilians in Vietnam and Japan to convey the message of peace! So, they should see the Palestinian problem in the same light. It is therefore high time to seek the causes of the Israel-Palestine conflict and resolve the problem by removing the causes. The suicide bombings would end only when Israel withdraws its soldiers from the Palestinian lands. For any peace process, to have even a faint chance of succeeding, two things are required. First, an unconditional withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian land. Second, America's role as a fair broker and not as an Israeli.
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