by Moshe Kerr

Created on: June 22, 2008

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Personally Ian Loft's perception of viewing this conflict with wider broader lenses, this makes much sense in my eyes. As an Israeli/American who has lived the last 20 years of my life within the borders of the Jewish State I personally compare this conflict unto a Persian rug; their exists many threads and knots in these disputes, and all of them operate independently from the others, but all form a complicated general clash of feelings interests dignity and power.

For an outsider, understanding this conflict requires nothing short of a miracle! Modern wars involve much more than soldiers and tanks. Warfare, especially in a long drawn out conflict, the main weapon which governments employ, it's not the army navy or air force, but rather diplomacy and propaganda. Diplomacy qualifies as the art of making alliances. And propaganda seeks to destroy the morale of the enemy's will to continue the conflict.
The Arabs have vast experience in this latter type of conflict. The comparison of the Crusader State unto the current Jewish State immediately enters the minds of Arab leaders. The Arab victory over the Crusader Church, this precedent shapes Arab and Muslim policy deciders perceptions in the on going conflict.
The West views this conflict with a completely different set of cultural experiences. Europe for 2000 years struggled to find a solution for it's "Jewish problem". The Shoah, resulted as the culmination of Church bigotry and oppression of Jewish minority communities in Europe has disgraced and spiritually undermined the foundations upon which Christianity stands as a religion.
The total criminal accountability of the Nazi crimes, coupled with the open publication and continual remembrance of European descent unto total barbarism, has destroyed the 19th century European Imperialist perception of their moral "White Christian" superiority over the colored natives of the world. European domination of the planet, which appeared complete in the 19th century, has vanished like smoke in the 21st century.
The Church in Europe compares to the dying embers of the Pagan religions that Christianity once replaced. Hitler failed to exterminate the Jews, but he utterly disgraced Christianity. The replacement theology, once so popular where both Catholics and Protestants wherein they called themselves the "new Israel", such callous ignorance of born again' theologies of the previous Christian crimes against humanity simply has lost the luster

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