Jews and Muslims in Australia

11.01.09

If to remove 01 from today date we will get bloody numbers of of 11.09 and maybe that is why I ve been moved today by politic – religious issues.

I wanted to express here some of my very positive emotions about our last night-out to Sydney Festival with our new friends (another Estonian-Polish couple) but I wont do it. It is all because of Richard Dawkins and his today’s morning program on ABC TV. Why atheist has no place in Jerusalem and why we are doomed everyday by bloody news from Western Bank of Jordan and Gaza strip? They kill each other there as long as I remember. The topic itself irritates us for ages. And always when I start to find solution I realize that there is no solution and this fact drives me crazy. The key problem is the temple in the heart of Jerusalem:
1. It is most holy place for Jews – the believed place of First and Second Temple,
2. It is third holy place for Muslims (after Mecca and Medina) where Mohammed flew away to heaven from.
Both parties want to have this place for their own. None of them wants to move away from there. It seems that all the bloody battles are about one particular building. Two religions and two points of view on God, and nothing but war between them. And those bloody “junk” news from Israel every time I switch TV on. Grrrrrrrr.

But maybe there is a light in a tunnel? Why not to stop talking about them and let them kill each other in peace? Governor Phillip made a similar mistake in his policy on indigenous Australians. Year1790. Beneelon an aboriginal man who started to live in British settlement showed his will to kill his wife. He was going to do it because she offended him seriously. “He was deranged (obłąkany) with rage, shouting and roaring. When the whites grabbed him, his followers snatched up (schwytali) their spears but then were content to watch as Beneelon screamed throats, brandished (wywijać) a spear at the governor, and yelled for a hatchet (siekierka) to finish the job on the girls…” (cited from the book "Dancing with strangers", I. Clendinnen, page 146). The wives were their private territory. When the Whites started to interfere into the domestic matters of the Locals they started to feel offended. And from this point on it went only worse. Violence was escalating. The conclusion is: Cross-cultural policy is not easy.

Ps
Some more difficult words I had to look up in the dictionary. Their Polish equivalents I placed in next-to brackets.