to truly create a modern nation state based on the Salafist Islam understanding of the world, not the understanding of European colonialists, US imperialists or their ideologies. Challenging those who refuse to accept the idea that such a state is either justified or possible, Napoleoni asks the reader if it wasn’t a similar concept – the retrieval of land historically claimed by a people who once lived there – that informed the creation of Israel. Continuing the Israel analogy, she points out that Israel, too, was created through a campaign of terror.
Napoleoni boldly asks if officials of the US may one day be shaking hands with officials of a recognised Islamic State. Although the current political situation seems to indicate this scenario will never happen, the only military solution that could end Isis’ existence is one that would likely kill thousands of innocents. Military solutions have never worked in the long-term (and rarely in the short term) in the Arab world. There is nothing to indicate that this has changed. Napoleoni ends her short book with a call for all parties to attempt consensus, no matter how difficult it might be; no matter how repulsive each party finds the other. One wonders how much bloodshed it will take before those in a position to consider the ideas in her text will do so. One also wonders if by then it will be too late.
Excerpted from: ‘Different Story, Same Futile War’. Courtesy: Counterpunch.org
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