There’s more behind the religious feud

Dear Mr Parker, I refer to your letter published in the Cape Argus March 16, 2015, almost three years ago.

You complimented my letter on the Chumani Maxwele poo incident.

Following your letter I found that I had no real understanding of this complex and emotional issue, but that it was one of the most important issues in the modern Western and Middle Eastern worlds.

I have read up widely, attended every talk I could, and for most of this time I felt that the symptom, not the cause was the subject of the very numerous, and unfortunately personal letters for and against the issue.

Please find a copy of a letter known as the Balfour declaration 100 years ago.

Dated November 2, 1917, to Lord Rothschild, British Foreign secretary, Sir Arthur Balfour, promised the land of Palestine as a homeland for the Zionist movement.

Britain, the colonial superpower, had no right to offer something that was not theirs.

So my feeling that this fight is one which played into the then commercial and political best interests of the Western colonial powers, much like the genocide “tolerated” on the indigenous local Khoisan people over the first 250 years, but still enforced as the ongoing threat of force by the colonial governing model, that has recaptured the present rainbow elite.

This is not a fight between Jews and Muslims; it is an issue of decolonisation.