Compare and Contrast Kashmir and Israel/Palestine
Parallels drawn between Israel-Palestine and Kashmir
In the world media, the propaganda war rages fiercely, paralleling the conflict it describes. Nighty talk shows air programs with Israeli or Palestinian guests screaming a bewildering array of claims, counter claims, propaganda and information, leaving the uninformed westerner with the impression that this is a bad family feud far from which a wise person should remain. It is virtually impossible to sort out the arguments presented by Israelis and Palestinians without a lot of effort, but one thing is painfully obvious: both sides can't even agree on the historical facts that spawned today's conflict. Although, not receiving the media as other hot spots in the world, India and Pakistan have propelled themselves toward a scaled down "Cold War." Both being nuclear powers and investing heavily into their military with Kashmir stuck in the middle, should raise a global eyebrow. These two conflicts seem to divide the worlds 2 largest religions. The West imposes it's ethnocentric values upon the middle east by Spreading democracy in a righteous manner, hoping to stabilize oil rich areas for it's own self interests, but ironically these parallel disputes reflect the West's lack of ability to impose it's will on the area. This great divide is separated by two fundamentally incompatible worldviews, something the global community needs to address before pointing to religion as the cause of all the world's problems. In both Palestine and India, political leaders responsible for the crises consistently utilise a rhetoric of peace to justify their policies, and to pretend that those policies are geared toward a higher aim of resolving conflict. However, in both cases, the peace talks and overall peace process have meant nothing for the people under occupation. In both cases, the irrelevance of the peace process, the indifference and indeed open hostility of the international community to justice, has meant that
In the world media, the propaganda war rages fiercely, paralleling the conflict it describes. Nighty talk shows air programs with Israeli or Palestinian guests screaming a bewildering array of claims, counter claims, propaganda and information, leaving the uninformed westerner with the impression that this is a bad family feud far from which a wise person should remain. It is virtually impossible to sort out the arguments presented by Israelis and Palestinians without a lot of effort, but one thing is painfully obvious: both sides can't even agree on the historical facts that spawned today's conflict. Although, not receiving the media as other hot spots in the world, India and Pakistan have propelled themselves toward a scaled down "Cold War." Both being nuclear powers and investing heavily into their military with Kashmir stuck in the middle, should raise a global eyebrow. These two conflicts seem to divide the worlds 2 largest religions. The West imposes it's ethnocentric values upon the middle east by Spreading democracy in a righteous manner, hoping to stabilize oil rich areas for it's own self interests, but ironically these parallel disputes reflect the West's lack of ability to impose it's will on the area. This great divide is separated by two fundamentally incompatible worldviews, something the global community needs to address before pointing to religion as the cause of all the world's problems. In both Palestine and India, political leaders responsible for the crises consistently utilise a rhetoric of peace to justify their policies, and to pretend that those policies are geared toward a higher aim of resolving conflict. However, in both cases, the peace talks and overall peace process have meant nothing for the people under occupation. In both cases, the irrelevance of the peace process, the indifference and indeed open hostility of the international community to justice, has meant that