Guest Article by: Sharique Anwar
Mary Kay Ash has rightly said that there are three
types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch
things happen and those who wonder what happened. Ariel Sharon is one of them
who made things happen. It is a different story altogether that what he did in
his life was utterly against the concept of humanity. His thoughts were as
tyrannical as his actions. He advocated the existence of Israel at the cost of
human lives, innocent human lives. His ruthless killing of peace-loving
Palestinians and mass murder of unarmed civilians of Lebanon endorse the claim
that he was wild in his war mongering approach. He crossed every limit in
pursuit of his target.
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Not only that, he fell to such a level that he adored
only his Jewish community to be the supreme creation. While addressing the
media professionals at a press conference, he once famously said, “Israel may have
the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the
Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial’’. His arrogance, belligerence and thirst for blood of
innocent men, women and children during his tenures in the capacity of an Army
General and a Political orator earned him the moniker “Bulldozer”.
He, time and
again, proved that he didn’t care for peace, harmony and brotherhood by unilaterally
declaring war against Palestine. He not only belittled but also laughed off the
peace initiative of the UN at umpteen times. Almost all efforts by the UN for
peace-building failed or derailed in the middle because of his strong pertness
and arrogance. Someway or the other, the powerful Jewish Lobby in the US was
the prime source of his audacity. In true sense, he was an ambassador of hostility,
war and blood-shed. He left an indelible mark in the history because of his perennial
war rhetoric. History will remember him as a butcher who enjoyed the killings
of innocent, peace-loving and helpless people of his neighborhoods. The alive
all are bound to face warlike situation day in day out. They are refugees in
their own land.
Arik, as he is known as in the political sphere in
Israel, rode on the popularity and support of Western Media, breathed his last
on January 11, 2014. He was 85 years old. He suffered a massive haemorrhagic stroke
in 2006 which he never recovered.
Serving the Israeli National Army IDF, he propounded
the cause that Palestinian land should be distributed evenly among the new
settlers coming to Israel from across the world. He is the prime culprit who masterminded
the mass-murder of the helpless Palestinian refugees of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut in
1982. He allowed his army to go and orchestrate the massacre. As per the
confirmed reports from different sources, more than 5000 innocent people were
killed. This state-sponsored pogrom invited wide condemnation from across the
globe. However, he shrewdly managed to present the case that it was a
retaliatory act perpetrated by the Christian army to take avenge of the
assassination of the Lebanese President, Bachir Gamal, the leader of the
Lebanese Kataeb Party. He further claimed that
this was carried out to drive the PLO’s torch-bearers to bring peace to the
Israeli nation. The entire world knows that it was a pure lie and truth lay
somewhere else. See what I mean. This criminal act stunned the entire world.
He
was on February 26, 1926 in a fundamentalist family of Jews in Britain occupied
Palestine. He traced his dynastical roots are from Belarus. At the age of 17,
he joined the Israeli militia who fought for Israeli war of independence and
eventually became an army man. It is a bitter truth that he was a stubborn
throughout his life. He was uncompromised as an Army General, as a political
entity who initiated, created and supported the illegal settlements in Golan
Heights and East Jerusalem and as a war-mongering Israeli Prime Minister when
he unexpectedly pulled out his army from Gaza strip. As a Prime Minster of
Israel, he gave free hand to all Israeli settlers by legalising their
settlement colonies.
While on the one hand, he pulled out his army from Gaza
strip in a gesture for peace, he ordered for the construction of West Bank
barrier to disrupt the daily lives of Palestinians. In the end, it proved to be
a mere eye-wash. This strategy to build a separation wall (wall of apartheid)
will collapse soon because democracy lies on the foundation of head-counts. The
growing population of Palestinians (or better to say Arab Israelis, also known
as Israeli Arabs in Jewish media) inside Israel will not only threaten but also
challenge the existence of this separation wall in the years to come. During
his political career, he served as a defence minister of Israel in the hawkish
cabinet led by Menachem Begin. Begin once famously quoted that he was reluctant
to give the post to Ariel Sharon because of his bellicose tendency. Let’s wait
and watch if there is any change in Israeli policy towards its neighbour after
the departure of Ariel Sharon from this planet. I hope not! Ariel Sharon has
gone but he has gone leaving the legacy of war, destruction and blood-shed
behind.
Note: The writer belongs to Quazi Magha, Jamua, Giridih, Jharkhand. Currently he is based out of Dubai working with multi-national company (MNC) as a Sales Trainer.
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