Letter in The Hans India dated 15th October 2023
The Unedited Version
The roots of the Israel-Palestinian conflict lie in the havoc played by European nation-states and the world wars they initiated. Most of the world’s problems today trace back to the colonialism of European nations, which spread across the world to forcibly plunder most nations. Decrees from the church and academia in the universities were happy to provide justifications for the expansionism and all that went along with it. The English are responsible for many problems in India, just as they are primarily responsible for the mess while carving out Israel from Palestinian lands.
Going even deeper, it is finally a clash of religions. The hatred for Jews has been unbelievably consistent since the beginning of the common era among both Christians and Muslims. Both Christianity and Islam, arising from Europe and the Middle East, respectively, have disrupted the world order for two thousand years. Sanatana Dharma is precisely not a religion because such violence and intolerance are unknown to its philosophy. A person can publicly call for the extermination of all Sanatanis and still go around free since blasphemy does not simply exist. The religions that came from alien lands became Sanatani and tolerant because that is how India absorbs diversity.
Instead of continuing that process, our thinkers are consistently making our Sanatani traditions (Vedic and non-Vedic) into proper religions in the Abrahamic mould, generating a hardening of stances and intolerance. Fundamentally, religions say, ‘I am true and you are false’ while traditions say, ‘I am true but you are not false’.
The solution for the world is Sanatana Dharma, which allows the integration of diversity like no other, but it looks like a distant dream. The strife is going to increase in the days to come. The Palestinian conflict, along with all the other world conflicts, will end only with either a nuclear war, which would flatten the earth and perhaps start a new cycle of evolution, or an alien attack, which might temporarily unite humanity. A better option is Sanatana Dharma.
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