~Palestinian-Pride

This is quite simple. It really doesn't help anything in the event of today's struggle. But i want to get it out of me anyway.

Simply put, the root of the problem is Zionism.

Before the Balfour declaration there was no enmity between Arabs and Jews. Lots of Jews lived in Palestine with their Arab neighbors in harmony and peace.

When the Zionists decided to make a homeland for themselves and expel all Arabs in those lands, thats what sparked the flame.

People might say, but what about the 1948 UN resolution for a 2 state solution?

Let me make this real clear.

Person A : you, living in your house.
Person B: a person you've never met before, whose family was murdered.

If person B comes to your house, kicks you out but allows you to live in his (your) backyard. would you accept and call it fair?

What happened to the Jews in the Holocaust was Terrible, and I'm sorry to sound insensitive but how is that the Arabs fault? If the West felt so bad for the Jews give them a piece of land in Germany, since it was the offender here.

Now answer me, why should the Arabs give up more than half of the land to a minority of Jews who have no tie to the holy land anyway (being European converts) and accept that and call it fair, and be happy about it?

The analogy that comes to mind is of a Thief giving a part of his booty to the victim and expecting him to be thankful.

Let me Quote David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

Indeed, why would anyone in their right mind accept that. It defies logic.

And to anyone who is actually buying into the Anti Islam propaganda i have this to say to you:

This is a pure nationalistic struggle.
It has nothing to do with religion. in fact, in the crusades the Jews and Muslims banded together to fight back the crusaders. Jews found shelter in the medieval Muslim world while they were being persecuted in the whole of Europe.

This is a fact, proven by history.

Why should we Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from our homes so that Jews from New York can live in them?

At the time of the Nakba, Jews only legally owned 6% of the land that is Israel today. so no they did not do it legally, there was nothing legal about it.

Unless you count scare tactics and massacres against civilians to be fair play. And no, the Arab countries did not issue a calling to all Palestinians to leave their homes.

"The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) monitored all Middle Eastern broadcasts throughout 1948. The records,
and companion ones by a United States monitoring unit, can be seen at the British Museum. There was not a single order
or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation from Palestine, from any Arab radio station, inside or outside Palestine, in 1948. There is a repeated monitored record of Arab appeals, even flat orders, to the civilians of Palestine to stay put."
Erskine Childers, British researcher, quoted in Sami Hadawi, "Bitter Harvest."

Now flame me all you want, call me anti Semitic (kind of ironic seeing how I'm a Semite also) but i beseech you to use some logic and dig deep and think. There are no good and evil side here, just facts.

"Those who complacently attribute the Middle Eastern tragedy to resurgent anti-Semitism among disposessed, displaced and humiliated Arabs should know better. They are blaming the victim."
Tony Judt

In the end, i would like to share a Quote by Mahatma Gandhi over the whole issue, think it sums it up pretty nicely.

“ Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French…What is going on in
Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct…If they [the Jews] must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs…As it is, they are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.
” Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in “A Land of Two Peoples” ed. Mendes-Flohr.