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Comment by Md. Ashraf Hossain on September 25, 2009 at 8:35am

Hi Ehtesham Ul Haq Tariq Thanks.
Ashraf Hossain
ashraf.bangladesh@yahoo.com

Comment by James S. Oppenheim on September 24, 2009 at 11:19pm

Web location of the Organization of the Islamic Conference:

http://www.oic-oci.org/

A defensive posture may make it difficult to acknowledge and wrestle with internal rivalries and live-fire conflicts that come down especially hard on innocents within and outside Islam. There seems also a great emphasis on force and approaching difficult issues as martial rather than cultural or intellectual challenges.

Perhaps states that have found their way to comparatively peaceful cooperation in development and union across a number of positive dimensions have worked at least since WWII methodically and systematically to obtain and preserve that state of affairs.

My father, God rest his soul, broke a lot of tools in his lifetime, and there are only two ways to break a tool: misapplication or too much force. Languages and governments are tools too and all pay a price when they're abused (as they may be with assorted kleptocracies) or, focused or obsessed with power, positioned as autocratic, unyielding, and belligerent.

Comment by Ehtsham-Ul-Haq Tariq on September 21, 2009 at 11:23pm

Thanks for your reply, We the Pakistanis mourn over the ineffectiveness of OIC Organization of Islamic Conference. If all Muslim countries are united and United Nations take serious action over the miseries and plight of Palestinians ,then we would have been successful to help Palestinians in the achievement of their just cause .
The peaceful resolution will contribute to improve the peace situation in whole world . Because wherever the rights are violated, it has impact on the world peace. The UNO will have to take drastic measures to make an end the Afghan, Iraq and Palestine War so that we may live in this world with Peace .What do you think about the Role of Organization of Islamic Conference and United Nations in the maintenance of peace of world?

Comment by James S. Oppenheim on July 15, 2009 at 11:36am

Several wars and more than 60 years of majority-Jewish Israeli administration and defense across the contested landscape have made the "two-state solution" provided by 1948's UN Resolution 181 a latterday prize for the Arab refugees within its borders, for that is the prize that perpetuates conflict with hazy Arab and proto-Arab (I refer to Iran's regime) hopes for the diminishment and erasure of the Jews from the land.

Moreover, I think the "two-state solution" has become a lazy answer for Jews and Muslims alike who passionately engage this conflict arena while putting off wrapping their heads around the idea of a more helpful and permanent integration.

Pakistan has been called an Islamic Israel ("In several respects--ethnic and cultural pluralism, not to mention religion's role in both the state and citizenship--Pakistan resembles Israel", from Stephen Phillip Cohen's _The Idea of Pakistan_, p. 162), and its experience with the internal marketing of permanent enmity, its loss of its eastern partition (Bangladesh), but its continuing struggle as both host and enemy of Islamic militantism, may prove instructive, especially in light of India's comparative success as a religiously plural and tolerant state (India's Muslim population approaches or equals Pakistan's own).

Pakistan may be going through a long overdue cultural, military, and political sea change, so one may hope, and Israel and the still unsettled people in its midst face similar challenges.

For the time being, Israel, centrally defined by its Jewish aspect and in its Muslim territorial aspect, enjoys peace, its chief goad being Iran, and the regime in Iran faces the distractions of severe internal security issues today as well as archaic ambitions having more to do with Iraq than with Israel.

Similarly, politicians and powers within the West Bank and Gaza would seem to have their hands full with one another.

In fact, Hamas vs. Fatah may have been more in the press this month than any conflict having to do with Israel or its internal refugees in the context of the living state (Israel this month interdicted several runs on its naval blockade while promising to send aid shipments through after inspection, presumably for arms; internally, the haredi have been angry about keeping a public parking lot open on the Sabbath--compared to what Hamas has been up to with round-ups of suspected Fatah, Israel's worst summer news would seem, so far, a long yawn).

Among the consequences of peace and the acquisition of the luxury of time that peace affords is the ability to expand intellectual exchange across a troubled campus, and I suspect as much goes forward--or walks across the borders--every day. Online? This would seem a small part of another sort of traffic.

As regards Jerusalem, there are international responsibilities associated with administration throughout Israel. I would liken those responsibilities to both the public and private ownership of designated historic properties in the United States. When such have been deeded to private hands, owners become owner-caretakers: reinforced by public code and by public opinion, they know the significance of their homes excedes their individual importance; they know their property will have a longer life in national culture and history than they will as individuals under the best of circumstances; and they are obliged to manage such properties accordingly.

One might suspect the Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Jerusalem have recognized and adopted or internalized a similar set of behaviors--and if not, well shame on them because for the rest of the world, such would seem their most beautiful and wonderful obligation.

As a world irrevocably altered by the World Wide Web, I think humanity is being asked to be a little larger and less parochial than it has ever been. Dealing with that may be what Israel and other culturally-driven conflict arenas come down to--i.e., exceding themselves as humans, collectively, by outgrowing a very few old ideas.

Comment by Md. Ashraf Hossain on July 15, 2009 at 1:33am

Two-state notion is a better solution but UN Demrakation of 1947 included hundreds of border line between Israel and Palestine and it should be revised again. The geographical boundary/ border of the proposed Israel and Palestine State must be redemarked to avoid border clash and conflict. For this the UN can resettle the Jewish and Muslim and their property canbe exchanged as per a new Law-The Exchange of Property ACT. The family whose property cannot be exchanged as per law, or lack of equal property from the other side should be assisted by UN Fund. Email: ashraf.bangladesh@yahoo.com

Comment by Phillip James Walker on June 23, 2009 at 8:31pm

Dear All--I deleted the last discussion (on 2 state solution) because I felt (without pointing a finger) that some of the comments were rather disrespectful. Let's try again....

Comment by shyam tosawad on March 26, 2009 at 8:39am

Dear friend
i think instead of fighting for our demand or right better better we should think for secrificing our own interest for each other .and should follow they path of non violance and peace and brotherhood ,all are qualy important for survival and their rights but sulution is i thing will come out by mutual respect and love and compassion.shyam