Middle East flare-up: Intel diplomacy failure

English , Middle East - مشرق وسطٰی , / Sunday, November 17th, 2024

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Hameed Shaheen Alvi

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An academic geo-demographic survey of the Middle Eastern landmass titled as Palestine by history from ancient times down to the present day paints all phases of history as wildly bloodiest with humans and flora and fauna blood and bones littered all across the region; totally unwelcome it is! nauseating!! but the gory on-ground history shames all human claimants to humanism, worthiness of peace, co-existence and flourish of humane civilization; so by all angles of geo-political analysis one can conclude that the Middle East, spiritual throne to the three revealed religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam – would stay at unease for yet more centuries; this conclusion, not verdict, is based on nonconformist character of the region and its inhabitants.

Look at the latest picture: savage exchanges of fatal missiles, air, ground fires and fights ongoing across the region, be that Palestine, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Iran by the latest counts; hundreds of thousands of humans have been killed, vast acres of lands have been rendered uncultivable on account of poisonous bombardments, arsoning, suffocations – retaliations of the meanest type. But all the wondrous phenomenon is that the whole world seems paralytic not having any feel of influence to stall these near-universal bloodbaths; the UN raised 79 years ago by the military-elders-nations of the then world is least respected even by its originators; they are horrendously numb; their eyes widest open to see the vastness of human destruction and desolation all across the Middle East.

Now the scale of exchanges of ‘aggressions’ by Middle Eastern contiguous countries has become a night-and-day humans annihilation sport; a Japanese type of harakiri, if one is fully aware of what gory harakiri sport Japanese play at will. So is the physical state of affairs in the Middle East today, countries overlapping one another’s territories, boundaries, airs and ground spaces and what not! It is no secret that the latest running human bloods saga streaming goes on as a consequence of denial of geographpic and demographic existence of the older race of region – the Palestinians; once a flourishing population there but now loitering about homeless, even denied of stomach feeds. Again those big ones who had brought about the present UNO replacing the League of Nations seem ear-stuffed towards all these serial human tragedies in the Middle East.

The Saturday, October 26, 2024, Israeli rain of aerial strikes hitting reportedly three provinces of Iran seems an expansion of armed aggressions; it is no logic that one country justifies bombing of cities, populations – humans and animals and living creatures – of the one or the other country in the region. So much so that Lebanon seems an unsheathed lamb before the aerial and ground devastation being carried by Israel. Taking all warring sides into careful consideration one reaches the conclusion that majuscule wars of attrition are ceaseless in the whole of Middle East benefiting none but slashing all. These wars can trigger a miniature world war third, riveting on Middle East. Today’s global elders seem satisfied with this potential or likelihood. They want to keep the Middle East subsoil wealth, oil sea, under their sway. It is no callous remark that the warmongers or warwares manufacturers see such armed devastation as is going on in the Middle East as a celebratory event for them, for their armaments production hike!

I have examined almost all the media feeds of the analysts of the current Middle East situation and I cannot hook back my regrets that none of them is suggestive of any peace hint or even near conciliation idea for all the countries involved in the running gruesome flare. This shows all sleepily want total sky to earth war escalation in the Middle East, come what may! When the thinking minds converge on such an apathy then horribleness explodes at the door steps of each inhabitant in a threatened region like the Middle East. As no peace help seems coming to the region from any outer side the commonsense demands that all conflict affected countries in the region should form  their own mini-United Nations (1) to cease the bloodshed, (2) let rehabilitation process back on rail (3) talk openly with international guarantees of co-existence, (4) build back the fallen infrastructures starting from education and loans from humane minded governments outside of the region, (5) opening of all sacred sites/places/monuments/landmarks for adherents of all three religions – Judaism,Christianity and Islam. This needs strength of mind stronger than being used in the devastating wars going on unbridled in the region. End.