Indonesia can treat Palestinians better
I am sure most Indonesians are not aware of the fact Indonesia is blocking Palestinian individuals from visiting Indonesia as tourists. I am not talking about the Palestinians who are living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but those who are living in the area where Jews established their own state in 1948.
These Palestinians are Israeli citizens. They have been punished twice by many sides. Israel suspects them as collaborators with their Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Occupied Territories, so they are discriminated against by most Israeli Jews as potential traitors. On the other hand, the Muslim world is preventing these miserable Palestinians from entering their countries, because they are “Israelis”. It could be a very funny situation, if it were not so sad.
Indonesia today prevents any Israeli from entering Indonesia as an individual tourist, no matter if he is a Jewish settler or discriminated-against Palestinian who lives in the land of his ancestors. This policy has been in place for the last five decades!
Indonesia can help this ignored Palestinian population. Currently, there are more than 1 million of them; they account for more than 20 percent of the Israeli population.
Indonesia can promote justice and peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians by giving tourist visas to any Israeli who – while applying for a visa – denounces terrorism and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This way, Indonesians can meet justice-and-peace-loving Israeli Jews and Palestinians, and can hear about the situation over there directly from them.
(The article was published in www.thejakartapost.com)
I am sure most Indonesians are not aware of the fact Indonesia is blocking Palestinian individuals from visiting Indonesia as tourists. I am not talking about the Palestinians who are living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but those who are living in the area where Jews established their own state in 1948.
These Palestinians are Israeli citizens. They have been punished twice by many sides. Israel suspects them as collaborators with their Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Occupied Territories, so they are discriminated against by most Israeli Jews as potential traitors. On the other hand, the Muslim world is preventing these miserable Palestinians from entering their countries, because they are “Israelis”. It could be a very funny situation, if it were not so sad.
Indonesia today prevents any Israeli from entering Indonesia as an individual tourist, no matter if he is a Jewish settler or discriminated-against Palestinian who lives in the land of his ancestors. This policy has been in place for the last five decades!
Indonesia can help this ignored Palestinian population. Currently, there are more than 1 million of them; they account for more than 20 percent of the Israeli population.
Indonesia can promote justice and peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians by giving tourist visas to any Israeli who – while applying for a visa – denounces terrorism and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This way, Indonesians can meet justice-and-peace-loving Israeli Jews and Palestinians, and can hear about the situation over there directly from them.
(The article was published in www.thejakartapost.com)
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