Just a thought

The situation that happened in Mumbai recently has got me thinking about the movie that I saw last year. I vaguely recalled the name of the movie, but if I'm not mistaken it’s called “Paradise”. The director is Palestanian and the story itself is about two Palestanian young guys who were recruited to cross into Tel Aviv to become a suicide bomber. I think it was a nice change from having to watch all those pro-Israeli especially in the Hollywood movies. In fact this movie has caused a stir especially amongst the Jewish group all over the world whom have always being perceived by the Western media as victims.

The movie showed the preparation they have made before they embarked on their journey. Mind that they did not enter the Israeli state easily as doing all the ‘cop’, ‘cop’ at the immigration and it's done. And the fact due to the circumstances, the possibility of Palestanian to enter the Israel with ambition to bomb away the Israel people is wide, they had to encounter such hindrances, the challenges in which they have to face first.

So these two young guys were all prepared to be the messengers by God and determined to die as martyr. And in due course of undergoing that path, the director, in all fairness was able to invoke the audience’s thought as to what goes into the mind of these suicide bombers. Indeed they were struggling within them as to whether it's going to worth it.

There is one particular young man who was being potrayed as strong-headed, was angered to the fact that his people have been killed in their struggle to maintain their homeland from being forsaken by the Israeli, whom they claimed that “your country does not exist” and was determined to do something to get back to them at any sense.

It wrenched your heart to see here and as potrayed in this movie the condition of the remaining Palestine land. You could see that at one hand the Palestin land look nothing less like a deserted area, it was dark as it was clouded by dust and dirty all over the road. It looked just like this ‘war-zone’-area in the movie you have seen with buildings that were wrecked beyond recognition and yet there are actually families living inside that buildings, their home after it has been bombed away by the Israeli days before.

And on the other side, the self-proclaimed Israel land, there were palm trees near the beach, people taking a stroll with their happy family and beautiful, beautiful buidings almost everywhere. It was almost a resemblance to “Miami” or Beverly site in the US (as if I have been to those places. Well, I watched TV).

It was so beautiful, but yet after seeing the differences, you can’t help it but feeling sick to your stomach to see that people is actually doing to other people, occupied the other people’s land just like that. And not only that, they used suppression and various forms of violence to occupy the land that was not even theirs to begin with. And the Palestanian does not even have army and literally had to use their own hand to throw a bunch of rocks to the Israeli’s tank and what-not.

I remember the article that I read on Discovery’s magazine few years before. There is one particular family that was forced to evict from their own house by the Israeli. They had nowhere to go and were living off the street not far from their own then house and in the article it has a photo which showed their then house were now being occupied by the Israeli family. Though the land was (still at the time) Palestanian land but nonetheless it was guarded heavily by the Israeli army. You can also see that in the picture that house was the only nice house there in the area and it was surrounded by nothing, nothing at all but all dirts and wrecked buildings.

I don’t know what goes into the mind of the Israeli family that lived there but one thing for sure, they sure to have the heart as cold as ice. To take away things which are not yours in first place and yet could bear to see the view of others being suffered, slaughtered everyday by the Israeli army which only a mere metre away from you, is something you cannot imagine but yet it happened, in fact it happened everyday.

We may not realised it, in fact sometimes I also forgot that this is what happened in the other side of the world.

We may think that well, it’s easy than being said and done and that’s probably true. If not, there wouldn’t be any killing of innocent people in the name of religion. The things that have happened in Mumbai recently should not have happened in first place if we know the first thing to be civilised.

But then again, we may not understand the circumstances that they personally have to endure, the pain and the personal struggle not only to maintain the integrity of your country, but yourself. At the end of the movie it showed that as he strapped himself with the bomb pack and to detonate it inside the bus, he was still under the dilemma as to whether to go ahead with it or not.

Nonetheless, he eventually for some reasons did not proceed with the plan and it was a personal battle to survive thereon, basically. (I’m sorry if I may mislead the story since it has been awhile since I watched the movie, I have the memory as weak as gold fish)

However, I remember the scene where his girlfriend has persuaded him before not to go through with the plan. Maybe that has got him thinking that while he may make such sacrifice, it would be so small in comparison as to what will happen then; the Israeli army would use it as excuse to attack their homeland, once again.

To retaliate back, and to retaliate to those who are innocent would only be an act or cowardice. How true and how people could see that in that view.