The saplings of Israel raised their heads a hundred years ago 2020 thoughts

The saplings of Israel raised their heads a hundred years ago

For more than seven decades, Israel and its allies have continued to try to wipe out Palestine through occupation, torture, attacks, wars, and blockades.

The time is 100 years ago. After the end of World War I, the prime ministers of Great Britain, France, and Italy, as well as representatives of the governments of Japan, Belgium, and Greece, gathered in San Remo, Italy, to divide the troubled Ottoman Empire. There they decided that Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia or Iraq would be ruled by a Western mandate. Syria is under the French mandate and Palestine and Iraq are under the British mandate. They had the mandate to rule through the League of Nations.

There was a far-reaching goal of taking Palestine into the British mandate. Three years ago, on November 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, wrote in a letter to Baron Rothschild, a Zionist leader, that the British government would do everything necessary to establish a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. This is known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’. But Britain had no legal authority over the Palestinian territories. The point was this: those who had no rights to their land, completely ignoring it, agreed to give ownership of that land to a third of the population only by force of their own colonial power. This agreement is reinforced in the minutes adopted at the San Remo Conference on April 25, 1920. It said: The British government was given the responsibility to implement the declaration of the British government (Balfour) on November 8, 1917
. It was supported by other Allied powers in order to establish a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.


If the Balfour Declaration is to sow the seeds of the establishment of the Jewish state, then the San Remo Conference is the first seedling from that seed. This increased the migration of Jews from Europe to the Arab lands. However, the indiscriminate extermination of Jews by the Nazis in Hitler's Germany during World War II in 1939-45 seemed to confirm the legitimacy of Jewish settlements on Palestinian soil. Europe, responsible for the Holocaust massacre of 6 million Jews, puts its sword of punishment in the Arabian Peninsula. As a result, the Jewish state in Palestine became a matter of time.

In those days, armed terrorist Jewish forces like the Stern Gang and the Haganah stood out. They terrorize the British administration and forces in Palestine. Britain also pushed the issue to the UN to get out of there. In August 1948, a proposal to divide the Palestinian territory under the British mandate at the United Nations between Arabs and Jews was passed by a vote of 33-13. And in November it was approved as Resolution 161. It gave Jews 55 percent of the land divided between 1.2 million Arabs and about 600,000 immigrant Jews, even though they owned only 7 percent of the land at the time. Then Britain announced the withdrawal of their rule from 15 May 1948.

Thus, on May 14, 1948, 26 years after the adoption of the San Remo Declaration, the Zionist leader and the first Prime Minister of the new country, David Ben-Gurion, officially declared the establishment of the state of Israel for the Jews by force in the Palestinian territories. In the 11th minute, US President Harry Truman recognized Israel. That was the beginning of the endless disaster for the Palestinians. Millions of Palestinians or Arabs were driven out through planned killings, attacks, rapes, and looting. They became refugees and asylum seekers in neighboring Arab countries. The few who remained, and those who later had the opportunity to return, were exiled and besieged in their own land for generations. Their houses, lands, gardens, wetlands, hills, and valleys were occupied. Since the catastrophe began on May 15, 1948, the Palestinians have observed this day every year as "Al-Naqba" or Disaster Day. Last Sunday, Nakbar turned 72 years old.

Nakba for the Palestinians means the official establishment of the Jewish state of Israel. For the Jews, it is a return to the “Promised Land of God” for the “chosen people of God” described in the Hebrew Bible. In fact, it is the implementation of a colonial aspiration of the Ashkenazi Jews, soaked in the pride of the European bania and upper castes, where the myth of the Hebrew Bible has been used to legitimize this occupation. The state of Israel, whose 72nd anniversary of independence was celebrated in the last week of April, according to the Hebrew calendar, is the best proof of how skillful and credible the combination of religion, mythology, and trade interests can be.

Since its inception, Israel's occupation-colonial character in historic Palestinian lands has been deliberately denied. The sensitivity of Muslims to the Palestinian question has also been established not as a reaction against occupation and colonization, but as an expression of Muslim hatred against Judeo-Christians. And for more than seven decades, Israel and its allies have continued to try to wipe out Palestine through occupation, torture, attacks, wars, and blockades.