The Root Cause of the Middle East
Crisis
Background
Theodore Herzl became an advocate of Ashkenazi Jewish
migration to Palestine as a solution for anti- Jewish sentiments in Europe in
the 19th century. The main problem faced by this movement (Zionism)
was how to establish a Jewish state in Palestine when the area already was
populated by native Palestinians. The indigenous population (Muslim and
Christian) were 92% of the population and indigenous Jews and other group
constituted the remaining 8%. Many of the native Jews (Sephardic), including
the chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, were opposed Zionism. Herzl’s diary revealed that
he thought it possible to “spirit the penniless (Palestinian)population across
the borders…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must
be carried out discretely and circumspectly”
The First Zionist Congress in
1897 adopted a program that depended on support by one of the existing imperial
powers, The Zionist movement approached the German Government, the Sultan of
the dying Ottoman Empire (Middle east and Balkans), and the British. Ultimately,
the British Foreign Minister, Lord Balfour issued the 1917 Balfour Declaration,
which stated: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people….” Finding themselves in the
midst of WW1, the British found Jews to be useful allies, and hence embraced
their cause. With the death of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, Britain took
Mandatory Power in Palestine. Ordinarily, a mandate meant that the Mandatory
Administration would prepare the area for independence. In Palestine, the
British Government made conflicting agreements with the Zionist movement (Balfour Declaration, 1917), and the
Arab Nationalist movement ( Hussein/McMahon letters,1915). The Zionist aimed to
establish a Jewish state in Palestine as a colonial venture while the natives
expected to gain independence as with other Arab states in the area.
While the British ruled the area
to fulfill their pledge to help the Zionist colonial venture, they had to
put-up with massive resistance from native Palestinians that culminated in the
revolt/uprising of 1936. This was put down brutally within three years but led
to rethinking British policy. This attempt at balance was too little and too
late because by them, the Palestinian leadership had been decimated following
the uprising and the Ashkenazi Zionist forces were well entrenched. Zionists
started acts of terrorism against both Palestinian and British civilian and
civil services.
Palestinian
Refugees
In
October 1947, under pressure from the US Truman administration (itself under
pressure from Zionists in the US), the UN general assembly voted to recommend
partition of Palestine. Under this arrangement,
a Jewish state would be created on 55% of Palestine. Jews at the time owned 6% of the land and
while constituting 34% of the population, were mostly new immigrants brought
under British auspices. Between that
date (October 1947) and May 14, 1948 (the declaration of Israeli independence
and the launch of the war that followed with the rag-tag Arab armies), over
half of the Palestinian refugees were created by a process that today would be
called ethnic cleansing. In other words
and unlike the Israeli propaganda, the removal of natives from the area
unjustly allocated to a Jewish state started some seven months before the
alleged Arab armies intervened. In these
and the months that followed, 450 Palestinian villages and towns were
completely depopulated (according to Israeli historians like Benny Morris and
Avi Shlaim). An estimated 800000
Palestinians (some 80% of the Palestinian Population in the area that was to
become Israel) were expelled from their homes and lands. In 1967, after Israel occupied the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank, approximately 350000 Palestinians were made refugees, many
for the second time. Israel confiscated
their lands and instituted laws to prevent them from returning or claiming
their property.
Today there are almost 5 million
Palestinian refugees; about 3.8 million are registered with and receive
services from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Refugees and displaced persons make up over
70% of the entire Palestinian population.
Palestinians are the largest refugee population in the world. According to the U. S. Committee on Refugees
one in four refugees world wide is Palestinian.
Palestinian refugees are scattered around the globe and live in varying
conditions. About one million of these
refugees live in 59 refugee camps located in the Gaza Strip, West Bank,
Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
International law and resolutions
are very clear on the issue of Palestinian refugees. United Nations General Assembly Resolution
194 (December 1948) “Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their
homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do at the
earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the
property of those choosing not to return and for the loss or damage to
property…” This resolutions has been
reaffirmed one hundered and ten times by the UN. The Fourth UN Geneva Conventions (1949)
Article 49 prohibits “individual or mass forcible transfers…regardless of their
motive” and calls for evacuated persons to be
“transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in
question have ceased.” The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948) Article 13 states: “(1) Every one has the right to freedom of
movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any
country, including his own, and to return to his country.”
Israel apartheid against Palestinians
-Basic
laws in the state of Israel that allow any Jew to acquire automatic citizenship
while denying such citizenship to millions of Palestinian refugees (unless they
convert to Judaism).
-Israel
is the only country in the world that distinguishes citizenship from
nationality. It considers all Jews,
regardless of their citizenship, as “nationals of the state with certain rights
not granted to others.
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Crisis
Background
Theodore Herzl became an advocate of Ashkenazi Jewish
migration to Palestine as a solution for anti- Jewish sentiments in Europe in
the 19th century. The main problem faced by this movement (Zionism)
was how to establish a Jewish state in Palestine when the area already was
populated by native Palestinians. The indigenous population (Muslim and
Christian) were 92% of the population and indigenous Jews and other group
constituted the remaining 8%. Many of the native Jews (Sephardic), including
the chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, were opposed Zionism. Herzl’s diary revealed that
he thought it possible to “spirit the penniless (Palestinian)population across
the borders…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must
be carried out discretely and circumspectly”
The First Zionist Congress in
1897 adopted a program that depended on support by one of the existing imperial
powers, The Zionist movement approached the German Government, the Sultan of
the dying Ottoman Empire (Middle east and Balkans), and the British. Ultimately,
the British Foreign Minister, Lord Balfour issued the 1917 Balfour Declaration,
which stated: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people….” Finding themselves in the
midst of WW1, the British found Jews to be useful allies, and hence embraced
their cause. With the death of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, Britain took
Mandatory Power in Palestine. Ordinarily, a mandate meant that the Mandatory
Administration would prepare the area for independence. In Palestine, the
British Government made conflicting agreements with the Zionist movement (Balfour Declaration, 1917), and the
Arab Nationalist movement ( Hussein/McMahon letters,1915). The Zionist aimed to
establish a Jewish state in Palestine as a colonial venture while the natives
expected to gain independence as with other Arab states in the area.
While the British ruled the area
to fulfill their pledge to help the Zionist colonial venture, they had to
put-up with massive resistance from native Palestinians that culminated in the
revolt/uprising of 1936. This was put down brutally within three years but led
to rethinking British policy. This attempt at balance was too little and too
late because by them, the Palestinian leadership had been decimated following
the uprising and the Ashkenazi Zionist forces were well entrenched. Zionists
started acts of terrorism against both Palestinian and British civilian and
civil services.
Palestinian
Refugees
In
October 1947, under pressure from the US Truman administration (itself under
pressure from Zionists in the US), the UN general assembly voted to recommend
partition of Palestine. Under this arrangement,
a Jewish state would be created on 55% of Palestine. Jews at the time owned 6% of the land and
while constituting 34% of the population, were mostly new immigrants brought
under British auspices. Between that
date (October 1947) and May 14, 1948 (the declaration of Israeli independence
and the launch of the war that followed with the rag-tag Arab armies), over
half of the Palestinian refugees were created by a process that today would be
called ethnic cleansing. In other words
and unlike the Israeli propaganda, the removal of natives from the area
unjustly allocated to a Jewish state started some seven months before the
alleged Arab armies intervened. In these
and the months that followed, 450 Palestinian villages and towns were
completely depopulated (according to Israeli historians like Benny Morris and
Avi Shlaim). An estimated 800000
Palestinians (some 80% of the Palestinian Population in the area that was to
become Israel) were expelled from their homes and lands. In 1967, after Israel occupied the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank, approximately 350000 Palestinians were made refugees, many
for the second time. Israel confiscated
their lands and instituted laws to prevent them from returning or claiming
their property.
Today there are almost 5 million
Palestinian refugees; about 3.8 million are registered with and receive
services from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Refugees and displaced persons make up over
70% of the entire Palestinian population.
Palestinians are the largest refugee population in the world. According to the U. S. Committee on Refugees
one in four refugees world wide is Palestinian.
Palestinian refugees are scattered around the globe and live in varying
conditions. About one million of these
refugees live in 59 refugee camps located in the Gaza Strip, West Bank,
Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
International law and resolutions
are very clear on the issue of Palestinian refugees. United Nations General Assembly Resolution
194 (December 1948) “Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their
homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do at the
earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the
property of those choosing not to return and for the loss or damage to
property…” This resolutions has been
reaffirmed one hundered and ten times by the UN. The Fourth UN Geneva Conventions (1949)
Article 49 prohibits “individual or mass forcible transfers…regardless of their
motive” and calls for evacuated persons to be
“transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in
question have ceased.” The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948) Article 13 states: “(1) Every one has the right to freedom of
movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any
country, including his own, and to return to his country.”
To avoid any war
in the Middle East, and keep peace of all worlds, you have to fight Zionist apartheid in
Palestine, we have to collect global efforts to establish: One Country in Palestine contains, Muslims,
Christians, Jews, and others, as like as in USA, no discrimination based on religion,
race, color, and as Islamic Values stated the same. Case of Palestine has to be
treated as South Africa treated before; this is the available solution in this
time, with the fair compensation for the victims of this case.
Israel apartheid against Palestinians
-Basic
laws in the state of Israel that allow any Jew to acquire automatic citizenship
while denying such citizenship to millions of Palestinian refugees (unless they
convert to Judaism).
-Israel
is the only country in the world that distinguishes citizenship from
nationality. It considers all Jews,
regardless of their citizenship, as “nationals of the state with certain rights
not granted to others.
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