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|  15/05/2008 Nakba, Arabic for (Catastrophe)
A land without a people for a people without a land or a nation.
A saying coined by Zionist intellectuals to justify their occupation of Palestine.
Initially, Palestine was not the target.
But, it's suffering throughout ages due to occupations and conflicts on its sacred land made it a dreamland for every greedy entity; and the pretext was religious.
"There is a country, and its name is by chance Palestine. A country without a people and on the other hand, there is the Jewish people
without a homeland."
This is what the president of the enemy state during Nakba, Hayeem Wiseman, who played a significant role in issuing the Belford promise said.
The Ottoman occupation fell in the trap of the Zionist plot
that worked on offering money as allurements to bring Jewish emigrants to dwell near sacred sites.
The first agricultural settlement was built in 1878, it was a preface to bring thousands of Jews from Diaspora.
Four years later, the first batch of Jews comprising 25 thousand people arrived from eastern Europe.
The idea of creating a national homeland for Jews began to show in different articles and opinions compiled by Austrian Jewish author and journalist (Theodore Herzl).
Herzl established the international Zionist organization to bring Jews in Diaspora together. The organization's first conference was held in Bazle, Switzerland in 1897.
40 thousand Jews arrived in Palestine during World War 1.
Jewish inhabitants now formed 6% of the population.
In 1917, the Sayks-Piko Treaty was signed. Soon after, British Foreign Minister, Belford, made his promise to create a homeland for Jews. To realize this, Britain should control Palestine and this is waht happened one year after the promise.
Creating a national homeland for Jews means draining the land from its original residents, and this requires an army, weapons
and international cover. Ethnic cleansing was top priority for the new occupier to lodge the coming Jews on the ruins of more Palestinian lands.
In 1920, The League of Nations was formed as a prelude to give independence to the occupied country, or the country under mandate as they called it, by preparing it officially, constitutionally,
politically and socially.
Palestine was mandated to the British Kingdom.
Instead of achieving independence for the Palestinian state, it cleared the way, since 1921, for Zionist gangs like Haganah and Irgun, to heavily arm themselves. Haganah determined that the ages of immigrants should be between 15 and 40, because the people, they said, should be young and strong for the battle to come.
The number of settlers increased in Palestine to change the demographic reality. Britain's census in 1922 revealed that 89%
of the population were Palestinians with 757,182 residents, whereas Jews constituted less than 9% of the population.
This indicates that Palestine was not empty as the Zionists had claimed. The increasing flow of settlers prompted the Palestinian leadership to seek an end to it.
The Palestinian people took to the streets to protest the flow
and deterred the new occupation.
In the early 30's, the Britons issued the so called "White Paper" that determined the quotas for Jewish emigrants with an annual cut to 15 thousand Jews for five years. Ten years later, according to the "Paper", the Palestinians would rule their own unified state after they declare their independence.
However Zionists sought to nullify this "Paper" in 1939.
Then Zionist leader Ben Gorion said:
"We will fight the war (WW2) as if there were no White Paper and we will fight the White Paper as if there were no war."
The situation in Palestine got worse.
Zionist control began to appear during the British occupation, through committing massacres against hundreds of Palestinians, destroying their homes and displacing them.
Before "Nakba", half of the Palestinians had been displaced
under the eyes of the United Nations which replaced the League of Nations. Ten years later (1947), and instead of declaring the independence of Palestine, The United Nations divided the country when the General Assembly issued resolution 181 that stipulated taking 56.5% of Palestinian land to build the Jewish state and leaving 43% of the territories forthe Palestinian State, whereas Quds (Jerusalem) remains under international supervision.
The Palestinians rejected the decision to divide their country of which they own 94% at a time Zionists, as foreigners, owned less than 6% of it.
The Arab League was entrusted with the mission of liberating Palestine on behalf of its people because they did not have the means.
They were backed by the Salvation Army which lacked arms and wise leadership. The number of Arab soldiers was small
compared to the heavily armed Zionist militias whose number reached in 1948, 120 thousand combatant Zionist.
Horrifying massacres took place, as well as terrorist acts and schemes to fully control lands leaving one-third of the Palestinian population with no other choice but to run for their lives.
On the 15th of May 1948, Ben Gorion declared the "State of Israel"
thus chronicling the return of the Palestinians after their "Nakba" had begun.
60 years on, nothing has changed for the oppressed Palestinians.
60 years on, the west and, unfortunately, some Arab governments are colluding against the right of the Palestinians to return.
60 years on and Bush comes to occupied Palestine to celebrate the creation of the Zionist state that was built on the blood and flesh of the Arab people, and then takes off to visit some Arab leaders and receive red carpet treatment.
O Palestine, 60 years on, you are still and you'll always be Palestine.
Gaby Jaafar contributed to this report. |
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