THE SHORTEST PATH TO AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINE
Charles Jalkh

Global Politician, NY
March 20 2007

Back in the 20th century, one man, inspired hundreds of millions
to march proudly, unarmed, peacefully, and stoically, into hails of
police batons and sometimes bullets, to demand freedom. The Indian
nation rose en masse, in peaceful civil disobedience, forcing the
end of the British occupation. Mahatma Gandhi shamed the brutal
"civilized" world into withdrawal. He did not incite a revolution nor
carried arms, yet planted a seed for humanity and showed by example,
that freedom can be achieved through peaceful means.

The Palestinian people can also achieve their dreams of a dignified
life if they adopt similar peaceful means instead of blowing up humans
in buses, discotheques, and pizza parlors. In this 21st century,
the pen is indeed mightier than the sword, or perhaps, the pen is
the sword. A flower is far more effective than a Kassam rocket. The
power of conviction through peace is mightier than all armies.

Humanity today listens to a lower frequency than the one broadcasted
by the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah. Humanity is more interested in
global issues, climatic changes, planetary resource sustenance, peace,
order, neighborly civilized conduct, economic progress, social justice,
the welfare of all humans, and the enlightenment of the individual.

The people of the world would be much more sympathetic, if
Palestinians, families and children, old and young, descend to the
Gaza beaches on a cool pink summer sunset, armed with candles and
prayers, to demand liberty and offer genuine peace. The world would
then light a billion candles for peace for the tortured Palestinian
and Israeli people. Humanity would pray for the souls of all victims of
these futile wars, and to honor the living, Palestinians and Israelis
alike. For a Soul bares no nationality in the eyes of the Loving God.

Another great historical example is dramatized in the Armenian
tragedy. One and a half million Armenians were massacred at the hands
of the Ottomans in 1915, many more exiled throughout the Middle East
and the four corners of Earth, while what’s left of their homeland got
absorbed by the Soviet Union. Yet, the Armenians rose from underneath
the ashes, as a powerful cultural and economic civilization throughout
the world. The Armenians did not carry arms.

They enlightened the world with music, poetry, art, inventions,
commerce and sciences. And today, Armenia is free without firing
a single bullet. Similarly, the shortest path to an independent
Palestinian state is through peace, and the fastest way to peace,
is through the Love of all life. There is no "holy land"; only Mother
Earth and human life are precious and holy.

Twenty or thirty years into a peace, it would not matter much what
geographical boundary your state controls. Through treaties, trade,
and cultural exchanges with neighboring nations, your citizens would
feel right at home in a larger geographical human extent. Observe how
an Italian, a Lithuanian, or a French feels today in the EU, with the
freedom to travel, to engage in business, even buy property in any
of the union states. Frontiers become irrelevant between humanistic
democracies. What matters, is human freedom and dignity. This is
the essence of the western civilization. It does not mean losing
your cultural peculiarity. It means contributing uniquely to a larger
fragrant bouquet of cultures. For we are all roots to the tree of Life,
and any weak root, diminishes Mother Life for all.

The world in this 21st century is attentive to the sufferings of
people, but is much more repulsed by acts of violence committed in the
name of the "oppressed". The cruelest of all oppressions however are
ignorance, delusion, hatred, and the refusal of peace. The Palestinians
can reenter the conscience of humanity when they lay down their arms,
make true peace with Israel, and turn their attention towards healing
their nation and lifting their people into a new age, a New Palestine,
living side by side with its Semitic cousin Israel.

Charles Jalkh is a Lebanese Freedom Fighter opposed to the Hezbollah.

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