Terror leaders safe, followers thrown into war

By O J George

“We will sit in crevices, corners and caves in high mountains or hide in deep forests or coastal belt in cognito. You people go and wage a war and get killed”. This appears to be the message given out by so-called messiahs like Osama bin Laden, Hamas leaders, LeT, Jaish and other outfits, as well as LTTE’s supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran.

In Gaza, hundreds of innocent people, including women and children, are getting killed and maimed in the war between Israel and Hamas. Hamas has been launching rockets from safe hide-outs in Gaza which was vacated by Israel earlier. The rockets were being launched from the fences close to the border with Israel. There are forces out in the world to see that Israel is not safe. Once the Jews were dispersed all over the world. They had no place to live. When they were being hunted out, India was one among the few countries which offered asylum. So we had jewish settlements in Mumbai, Kochi and the like.

Israel was carved out for Jews by UN-led efforts. But certain elements have not taken kindly to the Jewish nation. Now, when Israel has invaded Gaza and has been killing Hamas perpetrators of terrorism, innocents getting killed in between, it seems Hamas is coming round to seeing reason at least for now. An attempt to monitor the Hamas from not getting armed further has been conceded.

Velupillai Prabhakaran has been offering the moon to the Tamils in Sri Lanka. His methods were terrorist. Now he is paying the price for it. The victims are Tamils in Sri Lanka. They have been laid in the lurch. People should understand that terrorists cannot be trusted.

The only displaced leader who has sworn against warfare is Dalai Lama who is in exile in Himachal Pradesh. An independent Tibet is out of the question. China would not even grant autonomy to Tibet. Dalai Lama is a refugee. All the same he has not taken to warfare. He will be know in the annals of history as a man of peace.