I.
Introduction
People
in the society have recognized with the person who found the land namely
America. People know that discoverer as
Christopher Colombus. Unfortunately
society never knows who he was, what kind of person he was, was he nice person?
Or was he great person who was full of with goodness? That was problematic, people did not know
exactly about that one. Howard Zinn is
the writer who only tried to fulfill that missing part in the people realization
with his writing. Unfortunately people were
so hard to accept Zinn’s effort. Even
Howard Zinn got so much criticism from the society. It is the sign that to give the real fact is
really hard. Moreover, fixing the
mindset of the people is surely will be more difficult. It is because people realization have been
establishing since long time ago. They
are so consistent and never say what they have known is wrong. Howard Zinn wanted to fix it, wanted to break
that with his writing on the paper, but he did not write the complete facts
about Colombus and the discoverer of America.
The article of Howard Zinn still
has a missing part.
II.
Summary
All
facts that people know about Christopher Colombus were attacked by Howard Zinn
by explaining the opposite facts. People
recognized Christopher Colombus as the nice man and also holy man. In that part Howard Zinn attacked people’s
mindset or knowledge regarding Christopher Colombus. Howard Zinn wrote in his book “A People History of the United Nation States”. That book describes Christoper Colombus as
the bad man. Kidnapper, torture, rapist,
and spread the sexual disease and the other bad criteria, Howard Zinn wrote those
facts. But unfortunately, it was so hard
to unsure the people that what that great book says is great and full of facts.
There
is a main reason why Zinn’s article is totally right. Christopher Colombus raped one of the
daughters of the Spain nobility who was still 13 years old, that was the reason
why he was sent off to look for the new world namely India. He did not find that land, instead he found
America land which was considered as India by him at the first time. Christopher Colombus background also is so
bad, he found America only because of his bad attitude, raping. No wonder Howard Zinn wanted to erase the
understanding about Christopher Colombus which was wrong. Howard Zinn also wanted to change the wrong
knowledge of every person in the society about Christopher Colombus, so the
children as the next generations will not get that fantasy anymore and recognize
that Christopher Colombus is nothing and even bad man. Then also Howard Zinn wanted to deliver that
is absolutely unnecessary to adore him and even establish the Colombus day does
not make sense, because bad man is not proper to be admired.
III.
Main
Body
Howard
Zinn has done the right thing, he fixed everything. People question “Why he did not complete it
with fulfilling the information about America, especially the real discoverer of
America?” Nobody knows about that. It is
like a puzzle, people actually can organize a piece to a piece become a
complete puzzle. Hundreds years before
Christopher Colombus stepped on the America land, there were the others sailor
who stepped on there. Laksamana Cheng Ho
and his army found America hundreds years before Christopher Colombus. People question again “What’s wrong with
Cheng Ho?”, Howard Zinn would not feature the missing part of his book about
Christopher Colombus if he also provided the information about Cheng Ho as the
real discoverer of America.
Howard
Zinn is the son of the Jewish immigrant, while Cheng Ho is a Muslim. So, there was a possibility that the reason
why Howard Zinn never wrote Laksamana Cheng Ho as the first discover of America
was only because of many conflicts between Islam and Jewish itself. This reason also is supported by the year of A People's History of the United States publication
which was written by Howard Zinn. That
book published in 1980 when the conflict between Islam and Jewish got
worse. So, Zinn was afraid if his own
writing instead featured the intensity of Muslim.
Firstly
a group of Jewish bought land in Palestine and built the first Jewish school
there. This could be called by the first
splash of fire between Jewish and Muslim.
It happened in 1835. This
activity was sponsored by the Jewish millionaire from England, Sir Moshe Monteveury. In 1838 England opened the consulate in Jerusalem
which was the first representative of Europe in Palestine. What made worse was when there was a campaign
to support the immigration of Jewish to Palestine, and that era the number of
Jewish could be more than three million people in Palestine. Surely, Palestine refused this big Jewish
immigration and sent the petition to Sultan Abdul Hamid, the leader of
Khilafah. But unfortunately, before
Sultan Abdul Hamid did what Palestine hoped, he was fired by Syaikhul
Islam who was influenced by England. So,
Palestine did not get what they wanted, instead in 1891 the world war one
appeared.
Even
Zionist international congress could be held in Basel Swiss. This congress was held in 1897. This congress also said that 50 years from
that year, there will be a Jewish nation.
It was because this congress decided that Jewish was no longer a
religion but a nation with the strong aim to have a life independently. Not only that, there were the other one who
also supported Zionist. He was the Jewish
Foreign Minister of England, Arthur James Balfour. He commanded the leader of England Zionist,
Lord Rothschild, to strengthen the Jewish residence in Palestine through the
Balfour Declaration. Jewish always got
the good respond from mostly the big country in the world in that era. For example French and Russia, with their
secret Sykes Appointment tried to control and grip the Arab areas and Khalifah
Utsmaniyah, then after the First World War, Palestine could be controlled. Even United Nation Mandated the England to
lead Palestine in 1917.
Indeed,
England had a big and crucial role in this case. In 1944, Labor Party openly supported the
Jewish to get in to Palestine and gradually they would be the majority in
there. Finally, in 1948 Israel as the Jewish country got their
independence. Nevertheless
Israel had not been the perfect nation.
It was because Israel had not had the capital city. Yet in 1980, exactly in the summer Israel
declared Jerusalem officially as their capital city.
Since that accident when Israel
declared their capital city, conflicts between Muslim and Jewish always happens
until know even. Moreover Israel is
always supported by America, especially when there are some decisions from United
Nation which are harm for them. For
example as like what happened in 1982.
Israel attacked Lebanon and slaughtered the refugees from Palestine in Sabra and Shatila. This trespassing
and the others ones could not be brought to the international forum in PBB, the
reason was still same. It was because
there was a help and support from America for Israel.
So, what happened in 1990s about
Muslim and Jewish in Israel with what Howard Zinn wrote in his book have a
connection. The book A People's History of the United States which shares the new understanding about who Christopher Colombus is,
has missing part. It is because Howard
Zinn as the author never stated about Laksamana Cheng Ho as the first
discoverer of America who is Muslim. The
year of the publication of that book was really full of the revival process of Jewish
with attacking the Muslim. So when
Howard Zinn stated Cheng Ho in his book, it would be problematic, because he is
also a Jewish and he does not want to say that Muslim have big role in the
place where he immigrated.
IV.
Conclusion
This becomes clear, why Zinn never wrote even touched
the real discoverer of America. He was
not brave as the people thought. Zinn
only broke the American mood by saying the bad Colombus, but he was afraid to
deliver who is the real discoverer because he is Jewish while the discoverer is
a muslim. If Zinn wrote about Cheng Ho,
there would be a possibility for him to be murdered by the Jewish country and
his supporters. It is more logical
because A People's History of the United States published when the conflict between Palestine and Israel
was happening. Then, If Zinn a
Muslim, Islam in America even in around the world cannot be minority
anymore. It is not wrong if imagination
is used in this section.
Reference
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