PALESTINE and the establishment of an apartheid state

How was the Democratic State of Israel established?

When talking about Palestine and Israel most people forget to discuss a very crucial event, the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine under Ceaser in 1 CE. Jews since then believe that God has promised them a return to Jerusalem and it is their Holy right to rebuild the temple of Solomon, ruined by Nebuchadnezzar and then Ceaser. This belief and the belief that a Jewish only state should exist in Palestine is a brief summary of Zionism. 

The temple of Solomon existed where the al Aqsa compound stands today. Zionists believe that rebuilding it will pave way to the arrival of their Messiah, who we call the Dajjal. And that's what they plan to do, they have been digging under the Al Aqsa compound for quite some time now in attempts to weaken its foundations- so that its fall can be blamed on the smallest of natural disasters. They also hope to find the Ark of the Covenant lost 3000 years ago which contains some miracles from the earlier prophets including the real staff of Moosa (AS). 

Al Aqsa compound

Anyways, back to history, how did the Jews return to Palestine? Some Jews started returning to Palestine as early as 1200 AD, when they started being expelled from Europe. In the 20th century a large number of Jews fled Europe and Russia due to religious persecution and made their way as refugees to Palestine. 

A very important thing to note is that Jews did not feel afraid of facing religious persecution in Muslim regions such as Palestine. For them Palestine was a safe haven. This is further proved by the fact that 100,000 Jews fled Nazi Germany and Poland and came to Palestine, and they were welcomed. I think that says a lot about the 'violent and vicious and extremist Muslims'.   

In 1897, long before Nazism was founded, Theodore Herzl founded Zionism. 
At this time Palestine was under the Ottoman Caliphate, when the caliphate was abolished, more or less as a consequence of the first world war, Palestine fell into the greedy hands of the British. Hence started an era of colonialism and ethnic cleansing.

The British supported Zionism in attempts to ensure Jewish support in both the first and second world wars. Jews arrived to Palestine in large numbers. 

The Balfour Declaration (“Balfour’s promise” in Arabic) was a public pledge by Britain in 1917 declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.

Arabs suffered at the hands of the white Zionist settlers - and still are- there was much violence in order to force Arabs to flee. 

In between 1922 and 1935, tens of thousands of Arabs were displaced as Zionists 'bought' land from absentee landlords. In 1936 Palestinians launched a large scale uprising against the British occupation and Zionist settler colonialism. It was called the 'Arab revolt' (much like the 'Indian revolt' but that's a story for another time) and was crushed by the British within 3 years. The British destroyed at least 2,000 Palestinian homes, put 9,000 Palestinians in concentration camps and subjected them to violent interrogation, including torture, and deported 200 Palestinian nationalist leaders.

This was followed by a Zionist uprising against Britain when the British tried to curb Zionist migration into Palestine in fear of more violence. So in 1947 the British handed over the affairs to UN. In resolution 181 the UN recommended the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.

At the time Jews formed about one third of Palestinian population and legally owned less than 6 percent of the land, yet UN recommended that 55% of land be allocated to Jews. Not to mention that this land included most of the key agricultural areas, important coastlines and major cities. Arabs, who still possessed common sense, rejected the proposal and the Nakba followed.

The Nakba was a war between the untrained, inexperienced Palestinian Arabs and the well trained, well experienced, armed Zionist military groups. As a result 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and made refugees. They were made homeless in an attempt to save their homes. 

Zionist forces took more than 78% of Palestinian land, destroyed and ethnically cleansed 530 villages and cities, led more than 70 massacres and killed 15,000 Palestinians in a series of mass atrocities. Some sources claim the number was more than 15,000.

Britain had already announced that they would be ending their mandate in Palestine on 15 May 1948, the same day David Ben Gurrion (first Prime Minister of Israel) announced the declaration of independence in Jaffa (Hebraized to Tel Aviv). To date Zionists celebrate 15 May as their independence while Palestinians remember it as the Nakba day. (Nakba - catastrophe)

A Jew reading out the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948 (Reuters)

In 1967 another war broke out, now between Israel and other Arab states including Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Post war Israel illegally occupied the remaining Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem (giving them access to Al Aqsa), the West Bank, and the Gaza strip.

Another 430,000 Palestinians were displaced in the Naksa war. 

To date Israel continues to occupy these lands and continues to use land grabbing and discriminatory policies such as the absentee property law, forced evictions, forcible transfers, restriction of free movement, expression and speech, arbitrary detentions, property demolitions and much more. Today Israel controls more than 85% of what was known as Palestine while the UN only allotted 55% of it to Jews. 

Sources: Amnesty International, Al Jazeera, National Geographic

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