Partha Chatterjee: " Israel continues to build walls to fortify the Jewish population, imposes a ruthless regime of passes and security checks that every Arab-Israeli or Palestinian has to daily negotiate, and ignores every international norm to build Jewish settlements in Palestinian lands in order to permanently scuttle all chances of a sovereign Palestinian state coming into existence."
So, why do Israelis build walls to fortify the Jewish population? Does Mr. Chatterjee have a clue?
Mr. Chatterjee thinks wall is being done to practice apartheid, which tells a lot about his views on the Israeli-Palestinian problem. The problem is - he is an ideologue college professor, like most college professors today.
Ideologues are not practical thinkers. Due to that mental defect, ideologues often arrive at the wrong conclusions about most social/political situations.
As far as I know, the history of Jewish population in the region did not start at the end of the British Regime there, it started before King David, which a few thousand years ago.
In any case, that's not what should be the basis for drawing the conclusion about the situation there. History have changed over thousands of years, and our actions and conclusions should reflect that change.
We, Bangladeshis, were Indians only 68 years ago, and now we become refugee, when we try to India to settle. Mr. Chatterjee should understand that better than anybody else; but, he does not due to his ideological thinking.
In my view, college professors should be held accountable for instilling their block-headed ideology into young minds, as he is doing in this article. In fact, Mr. Chatterjee has become one of the anti-Semite activists. Such people are part of the problem, not solution. They can only inflame the already volatile situation. Surely, they cannot help Palestinians at all. I did not see any analysis of the current practical situations in the region; everything he has been doing is based on historical perspectives, which are totally devoid of the reality on the ground.
Palestinians need a state. There is no question about it, but that cannot be achieved by wiping-off Israel. It has be two state solution, and Israelis and Palestinian need to come to the negotiation table as a good neighbor, not enemy. Let's promote such ideology.
Jiten Roy
From: "Sukhamaya Bain subain1@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 8:17 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] Israel, Kashmir and Tripura - My Comments on Partha Chatterjee's Article
Partha Chatterjee's likening of Kashmir and Tripura with Israel is hardly rational.
The non-Muslims of other parts of India did not consider Kashmir anything like a 'promised land' to settle in, the way the Zionists of the world did to Palestine. In fact, there is an Indian law that prevents non-Kashmiris to buy land there. If the Kashmiri religious majority had an opportunity, that land most likely would have been something like a Pakistan or Bangladesh today, with the non-Muslims of that land totally expelled/marginalized. Even with all the Indian military presence there, the Muslim majority there have driven out the minority Hindu Pandits from the Kashmir valley. The Muslims of that land have all the power there, except for making that land an Islamic nation of injustice and atrocity. The Muslims of Kashmir certainly have a lot more sovereignty than what the Arabs have in Israel.
Similarly, Tripura was not considered a 'promised land' by the settlers from East Bengal (today's Bangladesh). The persecuted Hindus of East Bengal went to India, including Tripura, for shelter, not for ruling, not for subjugating the local population. Being more educated, they had an advantage over the local population of Tripura. Being too many in number from the densely populated East Bengal, they also became a majority in the land that had been sparsely populated. But their intent was never like what the Zionists wanted to do to the Palestinians. As Mr. Chatterjee has also observed, the Bengali dominated government has been trying to build bridges between the Tribal and the Bengali populations. There is no policy of settling more Bengalis from other parts of the world in Tripura; quite unlike what is going on in Israel.
See the article here: http://savageminds.org/2015/09/09/partha-chatterjee-why-i-support-the-boycott-of-israeli-institutions/
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Posted by: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
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