A historical review on the land of Palestine and the European movement called Zionism: Historically, there was a land called Palestine where the Palestinians lived. Palestinians are a kind of diverse Muslim practitioners. After WWII a new Jewish nationalist ideology called Zionism was developing in Europe. The Brittons called for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine after Germany’s Trizonia was declared through the Potsdam Conference and the Meeting at Yalta subsequently among the “Big Four” or the Allies. The Brittons took the western part of Germany’s Trizonia, and Stalin of Russia took the Eastern part originally called Prussia. So that, from 1947 onwards, the Brittons sent increasing numbers of Jewish Europeans who immigrated to Palestine, causing the Jewish population to grow from a tiny minority to about 35% of the population in the land of Palestine. The United Nations proposed a partition to the land of Palestine in the following manner: The Jewish partition was about 55% as per United Nations declaration of borders. And only 45% for the Palestinians. The Palestinian indigenous people declined because they have been tilling almost already 75% of the whole land of Palestine and only to be given to the Jewish. At the time of partition, the Jewish population owned less than 6% of Palestine. This was the final agreement: In 1948 Israel declared independence, but chose not to name its borders. It seems like Israel is the only nation in the world with undeclared borders. After its founding war of 1947-49, Israel came into existence on 78% of Palestine land, a percentage it has steadily increased in subsequent years, a process that continues today. Between the time of partition and the declaration of Israel on 78% of historic Palestine in 1948, the newly formed Jewish state had depopulated (through massacres, expulsion orders, and fear tactics) over 400 villages and made refugees of at least 726,000 Palestinians (see U.N.). As Moshe Dayan puts it: “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because there is nothing in geography books about the 1967 Israeli occupation.” In 1967, Israel occupied the remaining 22% of land of Palestine: the West Bank and Gaza (as well as large sections of Syria and Egypt). Since then Israel has transferred many of its citizens to the Jewish “settlements,” (colonies, which are illegal according to the fourth Geneva Convention). Today 40% of the West Bank is off-limits to Palestinians, as they are not allowed to live in Israeli settlements, drive on Israeli-only roads connecting these settlements, or even live or travel through “security zones,” surrounding the settlements. Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu juancole/2014/07/palestinian-thwarted-speaking.html
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 05:16:03 +0000
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