It was two months and a half ago that I wrote my last blog in this column. Even before that my writing had been rather sporadic. I sincerely apologize for my idleness, at least as far as this column is concerned. This writer was terribly busy writing a book from 15 September 2013 to 15 August 2014, and was not able to attend to all other things seriously. The book is on Gandhi. Right now I am trying to have it published in India in English. I will talk about it in greater detail if and when it comes out.
In the meantime there have been certain changes in our environment. There was a very good article in yesterday's Japanese newspaper Asahi by Sakai Keiko, one of our foremost Middle East specialists.
Her argument is roughly as follows. The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a fight to restore to themselves the life and the human rights by the local Arabs who had coexisted there but had been pushed out of the land at the time of the creation of Israel. There was a time when the creation of a country in such a way was allowed. It was also the time when the Jewish people had almost despaired of living on in Europe. Israel was the realization of the ideals of the Jewish people no matter how the Arabs who had been living there were affected.
If so, she continues, and this is where this article is original, what about the ISIS? Suppose they are the people who entertain the idea that they want to establish a pure and orderly Islamic state in the present lawless countries of Syria and Iraq ?
It is original because she has combined the Israeli-Palestinian question and the ISIS. She is not suggesting any particular solution on the ISIS here, but says that the danger comes from outside when some group of people fix their eye on a certain land as their own, their holy land, their mother country. It is clear that she is after a peaceful solution.
Right now the US is looking for the ways and means of attacking the ISIS more effectively, if possible from inside Syria also. It seems to this writer that that would mean a potential danger to involve Japan after the recent change in our security policies. Let me discuss it the next time. Thank you.
In the meantime there have been certain changes in our environment. There was a very good article in yesterday's Japanese newspaper Asahi by Sakai Keiko, one of our foremost Middle East specialists.
Her argument is roughly as follows. The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a fight to restore to themselves the life and the human rights by the local Arabs who had coexisted there but had been pushed out of the land at the time of the creation of Israel. There was a time when the creation of a country in such a way was allowed. It was also the time when the Jewish people had almost despaired of living on in Europe. Israel was the realization of the ideals of the Jewish people no matter how the Arabs who had been living there were affected.
If so, she continues, and this is where this article is original, what about the ISIS? Suppose they are the people who entertain the idea that they want to establish a pure and orderly Islamic state in the present lawless countries of Syria and Iraq ?
It is original because she has combined the Israeli-Palestinian question and the ISIS. She is not suggesting any particular solution on the ISIS here, but says that the danger comes from outside when some group of people fix their eye on a certain land as their own, their holy land, their mother country. It is clear that she is after a peaceful solution.
Right now the US is looking for the ways and means of attacking the ISIS more effectively, if possible from inside Syria also. It seems to this writer that that would mean a potential danger to involve Japan after the recent change in our security policies. Let me discuss it the next time. Thank you.
