the brothers
the main enemies for both the world wars Germany and The British (English) shared a common anglosaxon ancestry. they were anglosaxon brothers.
the english and french that were neighbouring naions had the rivalry as long as they could. they were the Caucasian brothers who were neighbors. so did the english and spanish... when their another Caucasian brother Germany became stronger their rivalry was put to an end and they became allies...etc
the Indians and Pakistanis who were the children of the same nation for thousands of years became the world's number one rival nations....(israel palestine is more arabs and jews conflict than nations...) even a game like cricket (something like baseball) between these two nations resembles a battle field with high emotions.... their enmity is match less though their culture, habits etc.. are very similar!
for it takes the closest brothers to show the most bitter rivalry...!
the russians and american that scared the world with nuclear annihilation with their rivalry(cold war) both shared common european (caucasian race) ancestry. they further divided the Caucasians into east( communist ) and west (capitalist) camps!
Iran Iraq though both are Muslim nations had fought a prolonged war for 8 years...
Iraq is dominated by Sunni Muslim while Iran is Shia Muslim... which could have possibly contributed to the war! In Pakistan minority shia Muslims are regularly targeted by Sunni extremists... though they both are brothers in their belief towards Allah ( the God) and nationality (Pakistani)!
above all the rivalries is the Esau and Jacob the twin brothers who are forefathers of the Arabs ( Muslims), and Jews respectively whose rivalry never abated but is relentless with no salvation in near! we know how critical is the Israel and Palestine, the irony is that they are the descendants of twin brothers...
the fight of the twin brothers never lessened and it even spilled further to involve the Europeans( Christians) who fought crusades and more with the Muslim middle east!
The irony is that these three religions(Islam,Christianity& Judaism-Jewish) consider Abraham/ibrahim as the patriarch.... so they are the brothers according to their holiest books!
I hope now it is very well evident that greatest rivalry can be expected from brothers only....
Because brothers are rather equals and fighting between equals never takes a simple course of one winning and other losing...
whats the Take home message:
hoping that our race or creed or religion becomes the world number one then we(our people) can have prosperous life or happiness is illusion.
power never likes the same place for long time and sooner or later the number one place goes to another religion,creed or race...
If not something like that is happening we will make an enemy from our own brothers...
And fight for the power is eternal ...if there is no fight then there is no power. power always creates fight!
so, today we fight against different religion race or something and possibly win and in the end we still dont have the that happiness! instead now we will focus about fighting the next man from our own people with any differences( that is how power guides us) and form groups again... and again my people and your people start and the same story...
we love to entertain and engage our differences and we naturally have enmity towards "our enemy" if that "our enemy" is finished do not worry we will make another enemy from ourselves!
that's why Jesus said love thy neighbour as yourself!
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