niaz
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I can recall an incident when as young college students we were sitting in a café in the Lahore’s Tolentin market near the Punjab University (before it moved to the new campus). It was raining; a well-dressed college girl (no head scarves in the 60’s) slipped and fell flat spoiling her fancy clothes. We all laughed our head off even though the poor girl was probably hurt.
Charlie Hebdot thrives by deliberately making fun of politicians, religious personalities and even religion itself; even though it hurts a lot of people. Some burning issues such as homosexuality in the Catholic Church are highlighted, but the magazine plays largely on the human psychology of enjoying seeing other people hurt. A bit sickening for some but not for its readers.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a wily politician. Even though Israel is the biggest perpetrator of state sponsored terrorism, he would exploit every opportunity in the national interest of Israel. That is why he came uninvited to Paris. Could anyone ever imagine that Israel and the quintessentially Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia would have a political consensus? However, both the gov’ts were unanimous in pressurizing USA to bomb Assad's regime! Best to ignore Netanyahu’s antics as realpolitik. I keep stressing that one must not mix Charlie Hebdot affair with the Palestine issue.
Palestinian issue and the Kashmir problem are the cases where “might is right” is in play. Unlike Kashmir, where short sighted interference by Pakistani jihadists, has intertwined the issue with international terrorism and thus lost lot of international support; Israel blatantly ignores international opinion.
Palestine population constantly suffers from forcible eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for the Jewish townships. This is clear violation of the basic human rights and despite totally unjust support of the US, world opinion is slowly but surely changing in Palestine’s favour.
IMO independent Palestine state is only a matter of time.
Charlie Hebdot thrives by deliberately making fun of politicians, religious personalities and even religion itself; even though it hurts a lot of people. Some burning issues such as homosexuality in the Catholic Church are highlighted, but the magazine plays largely on the human psychology of enjoying seeing other people hurt. A bit sickening for some but not for its readers.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a wily politician. Even though Israel is the biggest perpetrator of state sponsored terrorism, he would exploit every opportunity in the national interest of Israel. That is why he came uninvited to Paris. Could anyone ever imagine that Israel and the quintessentially Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia would have a political consensus? However, both the gov’ts were unanimous in pressurizing USA to bomb Assad's regime! Best to ignore Netanyahu’s antics as realpolitik. I keep stressing that one must not mix Charlie Hebdot affair with the Palestine issue.
Palestinian issue and the Kashmir problem are the cases where “might is right” is in play. Unlike Kashmir, where short sighted interference by Pakistani jihadists, has intertwined the issue with international terrorism and thus lost lot of international support; Israel blatantly ignores international opinion.
Palestine population constantly suffers from forcible eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for the Jewish townships. This is clear violation of the basic human rights and despite totally unjust support of the US, world opinion is slowly but surely changing in Palestine’s favour.
IMO independent Palestine state is only a matter of time.
