Garden of Lily

The Tale of Two Brothers

(Note: this is a factional account. This author is not sure if this tale ever took place in real life.)

Long long time ago, in the island of Qirat, lived a father with his two sons. To their father’s sorrow and dismay the sons were always quarrelling with one another. Not a day go by, without a fight between the two brothers. No one ever saw them agreeing with one another. If one would say it was day then the other would say it was night. In the beginning, the father thought that they will eventually grow out of this unpleasant phase, but as the years dragged by and the disputes between the sons intensified, the father gave up hope. It was during these times of intense conflict that the father grew sick and eventually passed away.

Many people attended his funeral, as he was known for his kindness and wisdom. People respected him but at the same time, they pitied the poor fellow for having such disagreeable children. As the funeral came to an end, the lawyer assembled all the relatives for the will to be read. It was common knowledge that the father owned quite a bit of land. The will was simple and to the point, the father left the land to his two sons, and advised that it be divided into two equal parts among his children. There was uproar among the relatives. How would two siblings who have never agreed to a single thing divide the land evenly?

As you see dear readers the land was unique in that it has patches of both fertile and barren land. When one brother proposed something the other would disagree and purpose the opposite of it. The disagreement become so great that the people got concerned, everyone was sure that one brother will eventually kill the other. Neighbours gathered together to purpose a solution and when no solution seem to work, they all decided to see the wise man. So they climbed and climbed a great mountain known as Itif. As they reached the top, they were greeted by the wise man. They told the wise man, the tale of the two brothers. To everyone’s amazement the wise man gave them a simple solution.

Now dear readers before I impact the solution to you. I would like you to take minute and reflect. Is there a solution to this dilemma? That can also solve the situation in Israel and Palestine?

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The wise man said: ‘let one brother divide the land and the other one be the first to chose between the two’

So you see, dear readers, all it would take is to get a reconized group from Israel. Then a reconized group from Palestine . Forming the groups themselves might pose a problem. In the case of Palestine, best would be to include respresntatives from all the small groups, that would off-course include ’so called terror groups’ (kindly note this author do not define anyone as a terristist until there is proof, thus ambiguous terms such as ‘terror groups’  are not endorsed by this author).  It is this author’s opinion that if you don’t include resprestative from all the groups then it would not end the conflict since one party may say that its opinion was never counted. After these two groups are formed,  a third party group (NOT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, which support Isreal) will be needed to oversee the agreement. Third party group should be such that it hold no interests (in order words, it would not gain or lose anything from helping either side)  in both Isreal and Palestine.

If readers are interested to look further into what has been done kindly go to Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli Peace Plans

With this solution, this author take her leave.

This is Aqila writing from No man’s land