A Revolution on your System of Beliefs?
by Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad ~ February 1st, 2008. Filed under: Palestinian, Israeli Conflict.
Is it easy to criticize ourselves, how can someone talk about his community and the wrong and right things that are done in it. What if you see something in a different way than your community does, or you decide to change your system of beliefs that you were taught since you were a young child. In his amazing seminar Unleash the Power Within in London 2007, Tony Robbins the known life coacher talked about this and asked from the twenty thousand participants to try to build their own system of beliefs and forget about the beliefs they used to have and did affect their life negatively, but isn’t this considered as a revolution on the community that you live in and does it work out with all the communities, I mean if you are living in the west it will be much more easier for you to refuse something that the community believes in because each one has his own private free life, but in the east and specially the Arabic communities it is limited and almost eighty percent of your life is painted by the community, the religion and the teachings that still exist since hundreds of years. This is similar to political analysis; which means isn’t it difficult for someone to analyze or make a research on his country’s crisis or struggle. A professor at the Hebrew University Galyah Bar Natan said in one of her classes that it is really hard for a scientist to make a research on his own country without leaving himself affect his vision because of his connection with this country, but what if one can really get out of the frame of his community, try to be independent, and also forget his identity which is the most difficult and try to analyze and see where the source of struggle is and who exactly Is causing it, will his community accept his ideas or he or she will be ignored and even accused of being a traitor. The truth is that the healthiest improvement that someone can do for his community is to criticize the wrong decisions and ideologies that it has in order to change it for the best and not leave it without any change. The world changes, and our life also changes and needs someone to change the way we live it, of course there should be a respect for the religion and basic beliefs that each community has but this doesn’t say that only the people who lived before us and those who are considered as leaders and well known only have the right to set for us our system of beliefs. God gave the freedom for each one to decide what he or she wants and also kept his right to judge at the end. Anyways what made me think of this was a discussion that happened between a youth Israeli – Palestinian group that lived with each other and made great friendship. The discussion started when part of the Israelis said that since they consider any Israeli violence activities against Palestinians as terror, then the youth Palestinians should declare frankly that they are against the suicide bombings against the Israeli civilians and also consider it as terror. Some of the Palestinians didn’t discuss it at all, the others said they are not against and not with, and others started to talk about the Palestinian sufferings and explain why Palestinians cant easily consider these acts as terror because they were taught since they were children that they have the duty of fighting the occupation, some known Arabic Media such as Aljazeera still call these attacks as patriot operations. The truth is that after deeply thinking about it I realized that I am against any armed activities against civilians in cities in the both sides and I consider them as a work of terror although that my people are suffering everyday because of the Israeli occupation because my beliefs are built on the basis of peace and not war, on the other side I do consider any resistance against any Israeli activities inside the Palestinian territories which means the sixty seven lands as a natural response for an attack. As I said before, it is not easy to come out with an idea that may be against the opinions of so many others in your community but the one who makes such a thing will feel the taste of the change that he or she is asking for, after they work for their belief. The Palestinian first Intifada that was peaceful and only worked by demonstrating and sending our letter that says that we are only asking to live with dignity and in peace did convince a lot of Israelis and others in the world of our right to live, it simply did more than the armed activities that caused damage for the both sides. Remember that by creating your own system you become a leader because a leader is independent and does not follow other’s system.
Tags:
beliefs,
israel,
khalil,
palestine,
Robbins,
Tony,
zayyad,
ziad
Related posts
Loading ...
