Ever since the idea of a Jewish home, (and not a state), was conceived in Balfour’s treacherous letter of 1917, which is wrongly called a Declaration, the Zionists and their Western backers have hardly done any thing that would earn them a right to exist or live in peace. Let us detail out what we mean.
The Zionists were active for a Jewish state since late 19th century. When the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War on the side of Germany, the Zionists saw an opportunity in it. It was natural that they would work for the defeat of Germany which they did. They realized that with Germany’s defeat the Ottoman Empire would be weakened further, if not destroyed. They decided to wait for that opportune moment which they would capitalize upon to create a Jewish state in Palestine.
By the time Balfour wrote his infamous letter to the Zionist financier, Lord Rothschield promising therein that Britain would work for the creation of a ‘Jewish home’ in Palestine, it had become quite clear that Germany would not be able to occupy and annihilate England. In fact, England and France had even started to divide the war spoils among themselves. In this sinister colonial game they, specially Britain, did not think of the glaring contradictions in the promises they were making to all and sundry. They promised to give Syria to France which they had already given King Husain through McMahan’s correspondence with him. Next, they promised to give Palestine to the Jews which they had already committed to be a part of the Arab state that was to emerge after the defeat of the Ottoman.
Britain’s promise of giving Palestine was specially sinister and diabolical. As far as the French were concerned, they had only colonial designs and just wanted to rule over Syria. The Zionists, on the other hand, had a more dangerous plan. Their aim was to create a ‘Jewish State’ in Palestine by settling the Jews there. In plain words it meant the annihilation, dispossession and banishment of the Arab population from Palestine. Britain had no sovereign right over Palestine and yet it gave this land of the Arab nation to the Jews who were still not a nation or a country.
It is a well known history how Britain facilitated the Jewish immigration into Palestine against the express and vehement Arab protest. The Jewish terrorism of late 1930s and 1940s is also a known and well-documented history. They indulged in wide-spread killing of Palestinian villagers and destruction of their properties with a view to terrorize and throw them out of Palestine. Thus Deception, Destruction, terrorization and killing of innocent people have been the Jewish tactics for the creation of Israel. Their purpose has not been to win the hearts of the Arabs and live in peace with them. instead they have always wanted to dominate and subjugate the Arabs which is he anti-thesis of peaceful coexistence.
By using the sinister tactics of heartless terrorism and the politics of dispossession Israel came into existence in 1948. That was the time when Britain had been weakened beyond recovery due to World War II. The Zionists, then, turned to the United States for support which they have been receiving ever since. With Europe’s moral, diplomatic, even military and financial support and all out backing of the United States Israel ahs always adopted and practiced the policy of domination. Its thinking and philosophy has been that it can secure Arab surrender by exhibiting enormous and overwhelming fire power. It has never adopted or practiced the policy of recurring the willing acceptance of the Arabs for a right to exist in peace. As a result it has always tried to defeat and annihilate the Arabs either through warfare or through the politics of dividing the Arabs. Its philosophy has been to be militarily so strong that the Arabs would never dare to attack it. And in this philosophy and programme of military domination it has been well-supported by Europe and the United States.
One wonders if being powerful is enough to win the respect of your neighbour or secure a peaceful neighbourhood? Surely the answer is in negative. By exhibiting sheer and brute power you can momentarily overawe your neighbour and even you might live in peace for a while. But you can not always enjoy peace at the expense of the respect and dignity of your neighbours. Now see what Israel has been doing to the Arabs since the last one century. It has forced large numbers of Palestinians into exile and not only dispossessed them of their homes and lands but has also tried to change the whole landscape beyond recognition. We all know in what miserable conditions the exiled Palestinians are living in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and in other Arab countries. further Israel has occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank since 1967. The entire world knows the life of humiliation that the occupied Palestinians are forced to lead. The Israeli kills them with impunity, imprisons them without reasons and tortures them to paralize them, mentally and physically. The Arabs living in Israel proper have also no right. Israel practices a sinister policy of apartheid and has denied its own Arab citizens of almost all the fundamental rights. And yet the West calls Israel the only shining example of real democracy in the region. The million dollar question is if these are the ways to live in peace with your neighbour.
When your life is made a hell, when you lose all hopes of outside help, when your peaceful protests fall on deaf ears, when you are denied your right to self determination, when your people are exiled unjustly, when your leaders are murdered, when your villages are bombed and burnt, when your youth are jailed, tortured and paralized, in sum, when you are subjected to lead a life of indignity under the heavy yoke of occupation, what else would, or should, be your response? Should you surrender or fight by all means? The Palestinians have chosen the second option. Their armed freedom struggle, wrongly called “terrorism” by the West led by the US which is known for practicing state terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, has yet not been able to annihilate Israel but has surely denied it the luxury to live in peace. And the struggle must continue till the final victory.
[July, 2007]
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