Six day war - 40 Years on ...

To all of us who hope and expect that problem in west Asia may be resolved ...
I share the hope - earnestly, but not the expectation ... here is why:

Negotiations happen only between people will comparable power … they can happen between US and Russia, India and Pakistan, where the powers, though not same, but are of same order of magnitude … but not between a WWF champ and myself, with my 5'8'' frame …

There is an exception though .. if the entities are living in a society … civil society …

The basis of society (from which man being a 'social' animal is derived) is that society sees to it that negotiations / peaceful and just resolution of conflicts happen between people irrespective the difference in power they weild … If a society can not guarrant it, it is not worthy of being called a society … it is a jungle …

Unfortunately, this is what the world of international politics today is … :(

An urdu couplet comes to mind,

Ye Daur bhi dekha hai taareekh ki nazron ne
Lamhon ne khata ki thhee, sadiyon ne saza payee

[History has been a witness to an age like this ...
When mistake which lasted moments made the centuries suffer ... ]

Shadkam Islam
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