Palestinians Observe Al Nakba-Catastrophe

While the US led west continue to destroy Middle East

by Latheef Farook  :  

Palestinians worldwide observedthe 1948 Palestinian exodus, known as the Nakba, meaning “catastrophe", on 15 March 1948, tomark the expelling and fleeing of 711,000 Palestiniansfrom their lands to create Jewish state of Israel.

Dispersed Palestinian ended up in refugee camps in neighbouring countries. These refugees and their descendants number several million people today They are divided between Jordan (2 million), Lebanon (427,057), Syria (477,700), the West Bank (788,108) and the Gaza Strip (1.1 million), with at least another quarter of a million internally displaced Palestinians in Israel where they are virtually second class citizens.

It was the atrocities of Jewish terror groups and fear of Deri Yassin type massacre forced many Palestinians to flee for their lives. Added to this were expulsion orders by Israel, collapse in Palestinian leadership and an unwillingness to live under Jewish control. Later, a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented them from returning to their homes, or claiming their property.

This yearPalestinians commemorated their displacement with a call for British government to apologise for helping Zionists to create Israel.

Shedding light on the issueQatar’s Al Jazeera Television in a four-part series on the history of the Palestinian exodus Al Jazeera stated as follows;

This sweeping history starts back in 1799 with Napoleon's attempted advance into Palestine to check British expansion and his appeal to the Jews of the world to claim the Palestine in league with France.

The narrative moves through the 19th century and into the 20th century with the British Mandate in Palestine and comes right up to date in the 21st century and the ongoing 'nakba' on the ground.

British historian Arnold Toynbee said; the tragedy in Palestine is not just a local one; it is a tragedy for the world, because it is an injustice that is a menace to the world's peace”.

This story starts in 1799, outside the walls of Acre in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, when an army under Napoleon Bonaparte besieged the cityto defeat the Ottomans and establish a French presence in the region.

In search of allies, Napoleon issued a letter offering Palestine as a homeland to the Jews under French protection. He called on the Jews to ‘rise up’ against what he called their oppressors.

Napoleon was ultimately defeated.  Yet his project for a Jewish homeland in the region under a colonial protectorate did not die, 40 years later, the plan was revived but by the British.

In 1917 the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour   declared that:"The four Great Powers (Britain, France, United States and Soviet Union) are committed to Zionism.  And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desiresand prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land"

On 29 November 1947, the UN  Resolution 181 divided Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state, with Jerusalem as an internationalised city.The United States played a leading role in blackmailing member countries of UN to vote for partitioning Palestine.

The ideologically divided United States and the Soviet Union stood together  in creating the Zionist state in Palestine - showing to what extent the Jews had control over the two super powers and effectively the world at large. ”.

In early 1948, Jewish terror gangs ,Irgun and Hagana,began to seize more land in Palestine.

The Arabs in Palestine rejected the UN resolution to partition their country into two halves because that meant would be tantamount to cleaving their own motherland. You will recall that it was through her willingness to abandon her own baby, rather than have it halved into two, that the woman in the famous Biblical story helped Solomon the Wise to identify her as the disputed baby’s true mother. But unfortunately sitting on judgment in this case was not Solomon the Wise but the UN, the impotent tool that has become notorious for legalising the conspiracies of the US and Europe to dominate the world.

Speaking of the unjust nature of the UN move to partition Palestine renowned author and historian H.G. Wells said, “If it is proper to reconstitute a Jewish state which has not existed for more than 2,000 years, why not go back another two thousand years, and reconstitute the Canaanite state? The Canaanites, unlike the Jews, are still there”.

There was more widespread condemnation of this injustice from all right thinking people. In an article which appeared in The New York Review of Books I. F. Stone said:

“There is a good deal of simplistic sophistry in the Zionist case. The whole earth would have to be reshuffled if claims 2,000 years old to ‘irredenta’ were suddenly to be allowed. Zionism from its beginning, tried to gain its aims by offering to serve as an outpost in the Arab world for one of the great empires.

In May 1948, Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte was appointed as the UN Mediator in Palestine to seek a peaceful settlement.

The Count surveyed devastated Palestinian villages and visited refugee camps in both Palestine and Jordan. The scale of the humanitarian disaster became apparent, as he witnessed cramp living conditions, long queues for basic food and scarce medical aid.

In a report dated 16 September 1948, he wrote:

"It would be an offence against the principles of elementary justice if these innocent victims,Palestinians, were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."

The Count's first proposal argued for fixed boundaries through negotiation, an economic union between both states, and the return of Palestinian refugees - the proposal was turned down.

On 17 September, the day following his UN report,Count Bernadotte's motorcade was ambushed in Jerusalem. He was shot at point blank range by members of the Jewish Stern terrorgang.

Killing anyone in their way has been the Jewish speciality.

What actually emerged as the Jewish State was anything but the “state” planned for under the partition plan. It was the upshot of brute force, created in violation of the principles of the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the very resolution under which the Israelis now claim sovereignty.

What is happening today? Under the guise of fighting a war on terrorism, which is a US creation, US, Britain, France, Russia and Israel   invade and destroy Middle East countries and massacring innocent people to create a greater Israel.

Unprecedented Judeo-Christian crime

Palestinian refugees leaving their homes and lands in 1948

Palestinian refugee camp-

Makeshift Palestinian school

Palestinian refugees fleeing  barefoot for safety Ruins of the former Arab village of Bayt Jibrin, inside the green line

west of Hebron

Keys to his house in what is Israel now

Palestinian Loss of Land 1946-2005

 Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian youth during a protest commemorating the Nakba at Damascus Gate, outside Jerusalem’s Old City, May 15, 2014.v