Hello beautiful members of PAX Nation. I thought it would be nice if I introduce myself because usually in all groups that I’ve joined people often get confused who the hell am I… My name is Niyah (Nee-yah) and I immigrated to the United States permanently in June 2011. The first time I came here was in June 1994 when I was a year and a half but I wasn’t a permanent resident I had to go back but I used to come and go back often… back and forth. I am of mixed race, Baloch, Persian and Afghan (in case you’re wondering who are Baloch people, Balochistan is a Texas-sized Stateless region divided among Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, people from there are called Baloch . Citizen of 3 third-world countries; Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. So I guess that equals one first-world country…no wonder I live in US now haha.
I just wanted to say that I am Pro-Peace, I support Israel’s right to exist, I strongly believe that Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze etc should live peacefully like brothers in that region and religion should be a personal thing not a reason for having disputes. Most Israelis I have met or am friends with are beautiful people and knowing them has made me love their country, get interested in their history and culture even more but that does not mean I am biased and I don’t feel bad about what’s happening with the Palestinians. I know checkpoints, settlements, refugee issues and everything. I will stand against anyone who would generalize all the Arabs for not wanting peace just like I would if I see someone spewing Jew-hatred or you can say being a total Anti-semite.
The first time I got to know about the Holocaust was when I was 10 and I asked my uncle (who lives in Holland and came to visit us) if there’s someone very famous from Holland and he said “Anne Frank”, I have a habit that when I hear about someone or something new I go and research, when I researched about Anne Frank and read about her life I couldn’t stop crying for 3 days and I kept asking G-d what can I do to bring her back. The other day I was reading some parts of her diary and I couldn’t stop crying, I just stopped. I can’t stand people who say “the Holocaust never happened”. Sometimes, I see people making fun of Anne Frank, praising Hitler or denying/making fun of the Holocaust, what did she or other Jews who died in the Holocaust have to do with Israel other than being Jewish? Well, I can understand good-heartened people caring about the situation Palestinians are in BUT it saddens me to see when people deny something that is so well documented I don’t know if we should keep such atrocities happening, because we refuse to learn from the past. To be honest, “Peace in Israel-Palestine” and “Peace in the Middle-East” is why I am on active on the internet most of the time. I am not interested in other people’s life or about celebrities, etc. I feel I actually don’t need to be remembered when I die. If I managed to teach someone something that actually affected the future in a positive way, then I have lived a good life. It does not really matter if anyone knows I did it or not.
I know what war is. There was a time when my elders used to tell me that “don’t worry if we die from terrorist target-killing or get abducted and killed, we will go to heaven for getting slaughtered without any reason like the Balochs before us”. I remember my 19 year old neighbor, Farooq, in Quetta, Balochistan who was protesting for the missing people of Balochistan and was kidnapped by the Pakistani Army later they found out his mutilated corpse dumped with another Baloch’s body… their teeth, eyes, nails were plucked out, joints were drilled, also drilled under the eyes then he was shot in the ear his mother is not normal she doesn’t talks to anybody. My cousin died in a bomb blast his mother has attempted suicide many times, many of my relatives are missing, some people say that they are dead. I remember seeing blood on streets in Balochistan.
My friend in Afghanistan went outside and there was a bomb blast her whole body was burnt and injured she was alive for several hours kept begging the doctors to save her, she told them she wants to live but they couldn’t save her, she was 16. I know what war is but if you compare Israel with what Pakistani Army and ISI, how they treat Balochs or what Taliban is doing in Pakistan and Afghanistan then seriously that’s nothing, no comparison.
While 100,000 have been killed in Syria, about 50,000 people brutally tortured to death and abducted in Balochistan, people dying in Egypt…. the world seems to enjoy the luxury of being concerned with Jews in Israel and Palestine. Sometimes I really don’t understand people or why they find some topics more interesting than other topics. I have met Palestinians who are sick and tired of war and they just want a serious “PEACE” solution they keep saying we want peace, we don’t want to throw Jews in the sea or kill all Jews or anything we want to coexist with them like good neighbors and brothers. They call Hamas a terrorist organization and accuse it for making them all look bad. When I meet them I have a strong hope that there will be peace one day but when I see these groups I feel peace is merely just a dream. I know Israelis who want to have peace and would do anything for it but in groups all the time I see Palestine supporters pointing fingers at Israel supporters and vice versa.
Do you guys really think that blaming each other or making fun of each other’s beliefs is the solution of peace? Before doing that think what if you were born in Gaza, Palestine? or what if you were born in Shoham, Israel? Honestly speaking, the way I see people arguing, hating, remembering past events or massacres I don’t think anyone is serious about peace. This is the age of enlightenment and reasoning. Why is war in this era? War is the symbol of dark age. We are all one. We bleed red. We are all the children of Adam and Eve or if you’re an Atheist then I’d say we are all Homo Sapiens so come on people PLEASE for heaven sake start loving each other. Stop fighting about who created the WORLD!!! Fight against the people who are destroying it! I’m not an activist or a politician, but I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights and animal rights. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other”- Mother Teresa. Be realistic forget about the past, past is past it’s not going to comeback even if you keep remembering it and blame each other, just think of the solutions now. Stop perverting the word Zionism because I could show you many Zionists who work for peace and are actively working for Palestine to get it’s own State and THEY call themselves Zionists and also stop making fun of Islam or say it’s violent because in every religion and Holy Scriptures there are violent or homophobic passages which will make you uncomfortable.. What gets me is, how people can generalize like this when they have not met every Muslim on the planet? or every Jew/Israeli on the planet? Let’s stop painting everyone with the same brush! Look at the similarities instead of looking for the differences.
“Whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.” [Quran- 5:32]
“Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a)”
I would also like to quote Anne Frank (my role model) here…
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row]“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
Nia what you said is true….but its aint necessary that everyone thinks like how you think…physically ‘”every action have equal and opposite reactions”” this may be a physical law but this is how things workout…we get what we give…even if it is violence or love..
Good Job
Hey Ubaid,
I agree with you. People in Pakistan (and some in Iran) accuse Baloch people of being traitors, terrorists, trouble-makers as Balochs want liberation and want their own State but the question is who made them “traitors” (or whatever they call them) in the first place? You take all the resources and treat the people of that State as if they are worthless then expect them to love you?
All I wanted to say is that peace in Israel and Palestine can be possible once people become united and think of a real-solution like two-states, 20% of the population in the State of Israel is Arab. 50.2% of the people in Israel are Arab Jews who immigrated to Israel forcefully from Arab lands. Estimate value of Arab Jewish property shows $10 billion to $30 billion. Others argue that the property of the Jews of Iraq alone reaches $100 billion and that the property of Egyptian Jews is worth $60 billion. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3450988,00.html.
I still see the possibility of coexistence between Arabs and Jews in that “Holy Land” region but I don’t see the possibility when you talk about Balochistan because Pakistan is actually going backwards, target-killings, terrorist attacks, suicide bomb attacks, Shia-Sunni dispute, Balochs getting slaughtered and abducted all that is increasing not decreasing. Oh well, you cannot compare Israel and Pakistan because it’s like comparing day and night.