by Nechama Winston

Created on: July 02, 2007   Last Updated: April 09, 2010

The Unrecognizable

Religion, money and want of power never failed to be the cause of worldwide confrontation. Napoleon embraced the great powers of Europe with his crazed fixation on world domination. The horrifying Hitler also thought to conquer the world while attempting to annihilate the Jewish people. Now, genocide is underway in Darfur, where the Sudanese government funds the Janjaweed militia to quell the non-Arab African rebel groups.

It seems unfathomable how one group can be guilty of countless accounts of rape, torture and killings against their own people. However, while this tragedy of war all seems hopeless, never-ending and incurable, the world still remains to have a fighting chance.

War and violence have spread over the world like a disease that infects the human body. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is an issue that is becoming worse and continues to grow increasingly out of control.

Biased and inaccurate recordings are reported to such an extent that it throws other world dilemmas out of sight. Individual details are magnified, while other key facts are ignored to the point where they become obliterated and insignificant.

They are simply unmentioned, making this conflict an out of focused and opaque blur to the world. In effect, other issues that grow in severity are neglected.

In today's world, acts of terrorism have increased at a rate so high it forces the innocent and defenseless to live in constant fear. Terrorists have turned the world upside down, bringing those in charge of national security to enforce expensive and inconvenient safety regulations.

The world is so overwhelmed and confused that it fails to realize it needs to fight off the evil that currently seems random, unconnected and irrefutably impossible to contain.

If only the world's leaders would see the progressing connection of these violent attacks on humanity. September 11 was the indelible day in which the World Trade Center was bombed down with two high jacked planes.

Before and since then, bombings have taken place not just in Israel, but all over Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In 2004, Madrid suffered a massive attack, while the following summer, bombs exploded in London.

These acts of terrorism are not individualized accounts against various countries; they are battles in one unofficially declared war. It is a war, just like the ones we have fought against Napoleon and Hitler.

If the truth is embraced and these thousands of terrorist victims step back and take a look at the whole picture, not just one microscopic piece of it, perhaps this global war on terror could begin to be recognized, fought, stopped and won by the powers of justice. If truth is seen, the world could be cleansed of its violence and washed away by the waves of the sea.

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