Time for Peace Reinvigoration
 

The US recent seemingly reasonable stances regarding Mideast crisis are indeed encouraging. President George W. Bush’s speaking of the legitimate right of a Palestinian Statehood, and Secretary Powell’s statements before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee add to the glimmer of hope in a region, fed up with tension and violence. Powell said recently before the Senate: “ some groups sometimes described as terrorist might be seeking to redress grievances, gain rights or achieve freedom from oppressors. Such a stance would definitely give impetus to the strong belief held by the majority in the region that the need was dire for a sharp line to be drawn between terrorism and freedom fighting, a form of resistance against ‘’ oppressor's’ practiced by almost every nation of the world. True is the fact that “not every case would be "black and white" and that there would be "gray areas" that might need to be treated politically.

"But then you start to run into areas where one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and that's where you have to apply judgment," Powell added, according to Reuters but not the US. State. Gov. Internet Website, which raises many questions regarding the non-posting of such important statements; simply speaking, those who occupy other’s territories and usurp their rights denying them the simplest rights tom life should be held accountable for being terrorists once they use every means of killing as to eliminate others indiscriminately with no respect for children, women, the old or for and peaceful civilians whose utmost ambition is to breed his family and buy them necessary food. The case isn’t that difficult once the US does intend to curb the increasingly escalations, violations and threats by Israel against its very surroundings. Such a surrounding has been ever calling for the realization of a just and comprehensive peace based on the internationally recognized and acknowledged formulas and resolutions. To state it simply, once the causes for tension fade away, a new are of understanding, stability and prosperity would usher. As the ongoings have proved; whatever retaliatory and escalatory measures are counterproductive for all and would but only lead to the more of blood shedding, in a the region which is thirsty for water and not for blood. Damned are those who want to dig for wheels of blood .
Thus, the US top diplomat acknowledged that “the Israeli response to Palestinian attacks was counterproductive because it set back the prospects for peace.” There should be a way out; which is only through an Israeli recognition of the importance of peace, as the main outlet out of current crisis, "Ultimately your security ... has to rest on peace between the two parties in the region. Anything ... that makes it that much more difficult to get back to the path doesn't serve your interest at the end of the day. "In all of these months now of responding that way, using force, justified as it may be in some instances, security has not been restored," This is the very strong belief held by Syria, who repeatedly calls for peace tracks concomitance; hence peace can never secured for any party at the expense of others, The world of today has been transformed into a small village where all members, willy nilly, have but to co-operate, consult and co-ordinate. No country can live in isolation of the other; so why not to seize the standing opportunity for peace as to join hands in building the brilliant future of tomorrow, at least for generations to come! Peace and security for all members of the region; hence, as history and present facts tell, it is a very well connected and organic region, if a member suffers, the entire body needs a physician to consult and receipt to be prescribed. It is the prescription of peace; found almost in the pharmacy of each house of the region peoples.
"We're just going to have to persuade everybody to stick to it and continue to make distinctions between that which is legitimate protest and legitimate movement toward freedom against an oppressor and that which simply doesn't meet that standard. But there are not going to be black and white rules in every instance," The oppressor in this case is very well-known. It is the other side which manipulates every evil in the interest of its sinister schemes. What happens in Afghanistan is diametrically different from than inside the occupied territories. Supposedly Afghanistan is hit because it harbors terrorism bases and wanted terrorist perpetrators of Sept.11 attacks, though no substantial proof has been yet given, arbitrarily massacred the innocent of more than 80 nationalities, in the Palestinian territories, the oppressed are fighting back with light weapons and stones against the oppressors who use every sophisticated means of killing indiscriminately against civilians. Israeli itself has started the assassination and killing, should the other side put hands in pockets and watch the elimination of its political symbols and figures by the Israeli Apache and rockets. Assassinations would lead no where but to more of retaliations and killings. God only has the right to end life. Israel should be ashamed of itself when it compares its attrition war against unarmed civilians, whose land occupied and rights usurped, to the ongoing international campaign as to rid the world of terrorism. There is an international consents that the black Sept11 attacks against the US is a heinous terrorism against the entire civilians of today’s world. Such a consents and international coalition has to contribute to the elimination of the roots of Israeli state terrorism in Mideast region. Peace resumption and reinvigoration has to find its place on the agenda of the present coalition.
Time is ripe now for a reconsideration of the past committed mistakes and for a new approach to the region countries even-handedly as to address the listing of some countries on some unjust lists. In line with such a reconsideration, hopefully, names of freedom fighters and their supporters would be dropped once and for all from suspicious lists. As a an elect-UN Security council member, Syria would spare no efforts, as underlined by President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa, and as deeds on the ground have proved, in the sake of international security, peace and stability. If not, it will be unjustified contradiction and unbearable injustice against the whole international community which voted for the just demands and the wise policy.
 

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