Free Palestine (entry 1)
Zionism, Anti-Semitism, Free Palestine, colonization, Arabs, Muslims, and Israelis... In this blog, you will be reading how the illegal state of Israel was formed without acknowledging the natives of the land, also known as the Palestinians, who are suffering injustice to this day.
Free Palestine
People like to call what is currently happening between Palestine and Israel a two-sided situation, or even a conflict, but here is where they are wrong. The illegal and one-sided creation of the Israeli state took the lives of many by oppressing for nearly half a century the indigenous people of the land, the Palestinians (فلسطيني).
In order to be objective, one should not be neutral. People can have different points of view, therefore that does not mean that the truth should be somewhere in the middle or that there is a common ground. Similar to that, "Israeli colonialism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is an objective fact. Maintaining a neutral position on this war crime is not only immoral but enables Israel to commit further heinous acts in the future" (https://greenisthenewblack.com/free-palestine/). And this is why I stand in a clear position: The Liberation of Palestine.
How it all started:
1-The Jewish Immigrations
The struggle for the Palestinians began with the Zionist movement, and the Zionists themselves, who wanted to turn Palestine into their national home and independent state by bringing more and more Jews from everywhere around the world, specifically from Europe and America. This movement consists of taking the land of the Arabs in Palestine and kicking them out with the help of the British government during WW1 in order for the Jews to live in it, and build their own nation, with no regard to the Palestinians. The truths which the media and the news hide is the ethnic cleansing and oppression of Palestinians for decades mainly by the Israeli Defence Forces and the Israeli government who are unfortunately supported by some of the most developed countries like the United States of America, Canada, France, Australia...
Let's go back to the 1850s before the growth of Jewish nationalism in Europe: Palestine only had 5% of its population that were Jews because the rest were mostly Muslim Palestinians and the other 10% were Christian Palestinians. 14 % of the population in Palestine was Jewish by World War I, thus the number of Jewish immigration escalated as a result of the Balfour declaration issued in 1917 and the declaration of a Jewish national home in Palestine by the British. According to Al Jazeera, the Balfour declaration was a controversial public pledge or promise by the Britains to establish a home for the Jews in Palestine.
2-The Balfour Declaration
It is outrageous how Arthur Balfour, the guy who is known for aiding the Zionist movement, is just a white selfish supremacist, and an anti-Semitic. I personally find it ironic how dear Balfour was in control of the legislation that restricted the Jewish immigration into Great Britain and gave speeches at the same time to try to act as a friend of the Jews only to get them off his country and make the Arabs deal with the oppression and violence that the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) pushed upon them, according to AlJazeera. This criminal left the Arabs to deal with a lost Jewish population, knowing that the Arabs were weak and could not fight back. In addition, what is even more ironic is that, nowadays, when the Palestinians do fight back, they are seen as the Arab terrorists who are stealing land, are antisemite, want death to Jews...and not as the victims of this ethnic cleansing who have no power over their own holy land that belongs to them!
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdvn8QHyX8
Sources:
-Crashcourse. (2015, January 28). Retrieved January 1, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wo2TLlMhiw
-Gan, T., Gitnb, Dickson, S., & McNulty, L. (n.d.). OPINION: #FreePalestine: Palestinian history, present and what you can do to help. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://greenisthenewblack.com/free-palestine/
-Tahhan, Z. A. (2018, November 02). More than a century on: The Balfour Declaration explained. Retrieved December 27, 2021, from https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/11/2/more-than-a-century-on-the-balfour-declaration-explained
-Voxdotcom. (2016, January 20). Retrieved December 29, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU
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Wow, this was very impactful, I had heard of the situation but never really fully understood what was happening, this was very informational and I can tell you're very passionate on the subject. The visual pictures and videos links were very helpful to better understand what you were trying to communicate. This is obviously an important thing to talk about and I'm happy to say after reading this I feel much more educated on the subject.
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