Despite the document written by Jews, there is still condemnation about the document raising questions about the facts given by it. Inspite of the critics, I think, anyone interested should get hold of the booklet to know what is really happening there. I suppose that the support of US towards Israel might change the scales in favour of Israel, but the references in the document, still would give a lot of indications of what happened in the early years when the conflict actually came to life.
Most of today's news are censored and biased and what we come to know about the conflict as a news is what the news reporter, the news channel and the country as such would like to filter and provide us. We are not certain if we get the gist of the extract, but it is how you see it through their lens.
The origin of the conflict also shows a similarity to the conflict in Sri Lanka. The Jews claim the right to the state of Israel based on the fact of their ancestoral home. In Sri Lanka, it is a bit more - no ancestors and heredity, but a mere presence of the Tamils there have started their freedome movement.
Recently in Toastmasters meeting I had a chance to talk about freedom and I think that freedom is not only struggle - but if one has a freedom of thought, that gives freedom in every sense. This what I had on freedom ......
Dear Toastmasters, for many of us, freedom is the ability to do whatever we want, eat whatever we like, talk whatever we want to say and move about everywhere we want to go.
It is mostly the desire of want without any oppression/suppression that defines freedom. But freedom, as I personally see it, is a capacity of our mind. For an year old kid, freedom is the ability to move to any corner of the house without being scolded, for a seven year old, freedom is the ability to play whatever game he/she wants to without being questioned by parents, for a 12 year old, freedom is the state where they can see a movie/read a book according to their taste, for a 20 year old, it is the ability to choose a partner according to his/her state without being questioned and so on and so forth.
Similarly, according to the work we are in and the work we do, freedom gets defined. For an engineer, it is the ability to do a project as he sees it, for a carpenter it is the ability to use as much wood as possible to get a good furniture so on and so forth.
Finally, when it comes to a leader, freedom is the ability to put forward his thoughts and execute it without anyone else control. Freedom falls back to liberty - the ability to express yourself freely and without anyone to oppose / control / question your actions. Still, for most of us, it the actions and the suppression of actions that define the concept of freedom. But with the world evolving, I see freedom not as the suppression of actions, but the suppression of ideas and thoughts.
In today's world, if your ideas can transcend boundaries, then you are free. With the digital revolution, freedom has gained new insights. Now you can write whatever you want and that is why we have around 5 million blogs - the storehouses of freedoms - the freedom to think, the freedom to express, the freedom to write and the freedom to say. The importance blogs have achieved in the current state of world is tremendous. Blogs have turned into free press. With Blogs, we can see what is happening in the heartland of the Israel-Palestine conflict without any censorship, we can hear what a CEO thinks firsthand about the company and the industry.
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