Sad state of affairs in Cameroon

There is an advert which starts with the line "I see the world through the eyes of a child..." You know the one I mean where a couple fly past the Nelson Mandela monument, as young children watch from below. There really is nothing wrong with seeing the world that way, because at the beginning we were all children anyway, and the gods held our hands to lead us through the vicissitudes of life.

Canada officially speaks both English and French, but there is no war in Canada resulting from that. The question that comes to mind is - did the new "post-independence" rulers ever consider making both English and French official languages in ALL of Cameroon, and making both languages compulsory subjects in all primary, and secondary schools? 

You see, the trouble with Africa's politicians is that they are rarely "national" in their approach to politics. Instead of trying to work out a system by which peace and unity would reign in the country, they are always looking for cleavages in a country which they can exploit to propel themselves to the top. Once they are at the top, there is no longer an incentive for bringing peace to the nation.   

Middle East Peace

 Southern Africans want to see peace reign between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What we, as Southern Africans (not only South Africans) consider desirable and possible is that Israelis and Palestinians do live peacefully, side by side IN ONE COUNTRY. After all that is what freedom-seeking South Africans, aided and abetted by the rest of humanity, achieved – live together in one country. Unfortunately, and for some weird reason, humanity this time around does not seem to believe that the ONE COUNTRY solution is possible. Even the United Nations believes that the two state solution is the only viable solution to strive for.

Given that the two communities, Jews and Palestinians are fighting over the same piece of land, you’d wonder why those who support either side continue to hold firmly to the goal of a two state solution. The two-state solution involves borders. Borders established in a state of war can never be permanent. The state of war between the Jews and Palestinians has its origins in the Biblical Exodus. It stands to reason therefore that if two states were established today, along the 1967 war borders, such borders will be breached in the not too distant future. And the breach may be through the use of nuclear weapons.

I am one of those people who believe that a one state solution for the Jews and Palestinians is possible. Unlike the majority of humanity which sees religion as an impediment to peaceful co-existence, even graver than one’s COLOR, I subscribe to the belief that God is blind to one’s religion. In my view a pious Muslim has the same access to God as a pious Jew or a pious Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. God can see through us all, because we all reside INSIDE God and therefore we cannot hide anything from God.  

Of course the simple argument in favor of a one state solution is that in almost every country that currently advocates for a two state solution in Palestine/Israel, there are religious Jews and Muslims living side by side in peace. Why can’t that be the case in Israel/Palestine?