Omen
The West-Asia War is raging: One Israel against three — Hamas (Gaza), Hezbollah (Lebanon) and Iran. What will the future be?
The genesis of the Palestinian War and its cause are well-known. Jewish Israel and the Arab Palestinian West-Bank and the Gaza Strip were born with blood and iron in May 1948. Since then both Arabs and Jews have been fighting a war of attrition with no settlement in sight. Wars and Military conflicts are continuing in regular intervals — 1948-49, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, 2006 and 2023, the present ongoing one. Let it be. After all, as Hitler famously said, ‘War is first born in the mind of the man.’ Therefore, to end any war, the man must end the war in his mind and make room for peace. Sadly, this is not happening in this West-Asia War.
Many ask about the possible escalation of the present war because Iran has joined the Arab forces. Will it lead to a Third World War? In recent times we have heard of a possibility of a Third World War for water, not for territory. This one is for territory.
Therefore, this should remind us of books written either with prophecies about the future of this world or about the events that would shake the world bringing in a New World Order. Among the books I can recall are ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the books ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, ‘Future Shock’ by Alvin Toffler, ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ by Jules Verne, ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ and ‘The War of the Worlds’ by H.G. Wells (written in 1897), ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley and many others.
‘The War of the Worlds,’ a novel, deals with a catastrophic conflict between humans and the extraterrestrial ‘Martians.’ It is frightening to read as to what happened during the Martians’ invasion. It sent shock waves among people when broadcast on radio as a play in Britain with listeners believing the Martian invasion to be true for a moment.
In the epilogue of the novel, the narrator draws the attention of the readers to its significance and warns future generations to prepare themselves for such an eventuality. Israel may draw a parallel and learn a lesson from this. In the given political climate, Israel seems to be under a constant threat of war. If so what could be the future scenario for the world?
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