Wars may happen due to several reasons like greed of a nation, abundant natural resources, wealth, manpower et al. These wars obviously cause a lot of mayhem, ruthless destruction and devastate each other but such wars generally come to an end. They have a time frame.
But the most dangerous reasons behind a war is ideological differences, the very nature of human thought process. Thoughts are the most potent weapon and when thoughts are directed onto thinking in a particular narrow direction they are devastating. When ideology is the reason behind war…. Such wars never end. There might be a slight lull for some time but these are indefinite war.
The war between Arab world and Israel is an example. Some might argue that the dispute started when Israel was carved out as a separate nation. But, if one digs a few more gravel, there has never been a state of peace there. The BIBLE clearly states of umpteen wars of Israel against Syria (Assyria), Iraq (Babylon), Palestine and Egypt (Mishr). The root of these dates back to the Abraham. The controversy being who is Abraham’s wife? Sarah or Haggai. From Sarah came the Jews (Israelites) and later Christians. From Haggai came Islam. And the war has raged on since then.
India and Pakistan: When Pakistan lost 2 wars two India, it was quick to realize the low morale among its defense forces and citizens. It needed to motivate them, direct their action against India and a reason that they believe should be bigger than the daily problems. A reason “Bigger Than Life” as some call it. So they looked to the Arab world and the Holy Crusades (around the time of Saladin) and came out with the concept of “JIHAD” (Holy War) and the entire territory issue of Kashmir turned into something very different. And obviously like the Crusades which lasted for decades and the Middle East crisis which has kept dragging on, the conflict between India and Pakistan shows no sign of seceding.
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