In 1948 a charter was given to European Jews to establish their own country in the Middle East, the charter was set on land known as Palestine. Palestine was what compromised much of the ancient holy land for the Abrahamic religions. The charter for the Jewish nation called Israel wasn’t given to the settlers by the Arab nation of Palestine or a representative of the Middle East. The charter was given by the European countries of France and Britain, who have a past of forcing their way into countries that don’t involve them.
A charter given by two countries over 2000 miles and a continent away has no right to draw up the lines for nations that were already sovereign, unfortunately, European colonial powers have done this for centuries. Contrary to popular belief in the West, Israel is an illegitimate state, it is land being occupied by settlers that was established by false means and should not have been created.
Before the establishment of Israel starting around World War 1 an idea of a sovereign Jewish nation began spreading. As it gained more popularity it became known as Zionism. During World War 1, in order to gain favor with Jewish citizens, many of whom were wealthy and powerful, Britain and France began using the promise of a sovereign nation to use the influence Jewish people held. And of course, after World War II Zionism exploded in popularity. However, there are a few issues with Zionism.
First is how Zionism has turned more extreme than just wanting a home country. The Nakba was an event in 1948 after the settlement of Israel. The settlers took weapons and violently forced the Native Palestinians out of their home killing thousands and displacing ¾ of a million people. At this point, it had changed from wanting a country to a violent occupation. Since the Nakba Israel has taken more and more land, killed more Palestinians, and displaced millions.
The second issue with Zionism is that it directly contradicts the Jewish faith. When Zionism was first introduced one of the biggest opponents to the movement was Jews. In fact, the majority of the pro-zionists weren’t even Jewish. The Jewish faith states that the “promised land” is only meant to be returned to when the Messiah allows it. There is also the belief that the promised land is not human land but God’s land and he allows the people to live there as long as they stay up to the moral standards. However, the state of Israel directly opposes these beliefs. Killing thousands of civilians and forcing them from their homes is most definitely not moral, and the state of Israel was established before God’s return.
The current conflict in Israel did not start on October 7th. This has been almost a century of violent occupation in the making. Hamas’s spokesman came out and said that 85% of the members of the militant group are orphans whose parents were killed during the Israeli occupation. Israel is an illegitimate state founded on theft murder and colonialism.
Rpm • Oct 29, 2024 at 12:34 am
Right off the bat – first paragraph – you state the (UN) charter ” wasn’t given to the settlers by the Arab nation of Palestine..”
There was not, nor has there EVER been a nation of “Palestine.”
This was simply the name given by the conquering Romans to the
geographical area. It was a remote part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries before its collapse after WWI.
The Arab inhabitants did not start thinking of themselves as anything other than South Syrians or simply ‘Arab,’ until after the State of Israel was founded. They self- identified primarily by Clan, or family groups,
or part of the larger Arab people.
There was no sense of “Palestinian” as a separate nationality, even after the armistice ending the 1948 war. Jordan (then Trans-Jordan) annexed the area now known as the West Bank, while Gaza was under Egyptian administration.
There was NO call for an independent “Palestinian” nation during all the time the area was free of Jewish habitation. Only after Israel acquired the areas after the 1967 War did the Arab inhabitants start self-identifying as “Palestinians,” and clamoring for independence.
(or, more to the point, the eradication of the world’s only Jewish state.)
This article is just pockmarked with historical inaccuracies.
You mention the Nakba, but do not even bring up the invasion of Israel by seven Arab armies that led to the open warfare and the refugee crisis after Israel fought off its more numerous and powerful attackers.
Nor do you bother to cite the simultaneous population exchange, wherein over 800,000 Jews living in middle eastern and North African countries were expelled by those nations, becoming refugees themselves.
Israel took in and re-settled those people, but the neighboring Arab countires refused to take in the Palestinians who left, leaving them to live indefinitely in squalid refugee camps..
We could go on and on…(The “wealthy and powerful” Jews of Europe after WWI? Please….You’re talking about maybe 2% of the Jewish population,…most Jews lived in poor shtetls and faced discrimination daily.)
This article reads like Hezbollah propaganda.
Barry • Jun 26, 2024 at 7:38 am
“A charter given by two countries over 2000 miles and a continent away has no right to draw up the lines for nations that were already sovereign”
This is untrue. There was no sovereign state in the land of Israel, never. It was “controlled” by the Ottoman Empire for 400 years, but never made a state. When the Ottomans were defeated in WW1, the Principal Allied Powers obtained the rights from the Turks to do what they pleased with the land. That’s how the world worked after war and it made more sense than today’s methods.
The British and French were all for “reconstituting” the ancient Jewish homeland and gave them 11,000 square miles. They also gave the Arabs one million square miles, which was a pretty good deal.
The idea that the land was stolen is just plain wrong Of the 600,000 Arabs living in Palestine at the time (vs. 60,000 Jews) few had deep roots in the area and most had come from Egypt or Syria to work.
Jews were the indigiinous people to the land and were few in numbers because many had been forced out by the Romans and others, and many were killed.
If you know of Jesus, who lived 2000 years ago and who was Jewish, then how can Muslims pretend they were there first, when Islan was only crated 600 years later in 610?
Whoever wrote this has no real understanding of the Middle East. It is wrong on many fronts, but I just chose one to dispute in order to expose the wrongful thinking.