Shylock’s demand: provoking Palestinian’s fortune of torture

Abstract

Palestinians’ sufferings are not just mere illusions or imaginations, but it is very much real and the core truth where humanity is trapped and human beings especially women and children are dying every day. The occupants’ Israelis have tried to justify their actions against Palestine by the sufferings they endured during the holocaust created by the Nazis that is mentioned in Philip Roth’s book. In this write up, the justification has been dissected to comprehend how and why the Palestinians’ fall into this misery. Arab Muslims and Palestinians’ have not only saved and helped the Israeli occupants from the Nazis during the holocaust but the Arab rescue efforts also crossed all boundaries to extend help to outside of Middle East as well during World War II and after the fall of France . Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, an Arab Muslim had arranged forged papers to protect for about 100 Jews to certify them as Muslim besides arranging the Jewish refugees hidden in the masjids at times of German roundups and also saved almost 500 Jews by disguising them as Muslims to avoid arrest and deportation. In this write up author has brought up the depiction of the Shakespearean Shylock’s characteristics and mental state to understand Palestinians’ fate of this sort. Nevertheless, all justifications seem to fall short while describing the sufferings of Palestinians.