For 75 years since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 Palestinians have been the target of pogroms,massacres,mass expulsions , extra judicial murders and ethnic cleansing.
The theory of a land without a people for a people without a land was the rallying cry for Jewish immigration to Palestine from 1902 onwards.
The Jewish National Fund was raising monies from 1901 in order to facilitate the buying of land from absentee Ottoman landlords who owned huge swathes of Palestinian land under the Turkish occupation of West Asia
With the defeat of the Turks during the first World War Palestine and indeed the whole of the region came under British and French colonial rule.
The land simply changed ownership and the new occupiers wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine honouring the secret deal between Lord Balfour on behalf of the British government and Lord Rothschild on behalf of the Zionist movement who agreed to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
It is claimed this agreement followed a promise by Zionists to bring Ameruca into the war to help save Britain in 1917.
The British and French Sikes /Pico agreement carved up the Ottoman empire and created new kingdoms in the Gulf loyal to Britain and France and this agreement is solely responsible for the ethnic tensions,national wars of independence and total destabilisation of the region which continues unabated to this day.
Between 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee for their lives under the murderous assault of the Hagannah the Stern gangs and Irgun terrorists who later became the backbone of the Israeli armed forces and the government leaders in Israel , tens of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered, many more imprisoned and over 8 million left as refugees.
The latest assault on Gaza has left 750 dead including 140 children and 100 women with nearly 4000 injured.
Bombing civilian areas and civilian homes where the population is taking refuge as they have no bomb shelters or safe place to wait out the Israeli aggression is a war crime.
After 16 years of sanctions placed on Gaza by both Israel and its complicit ally Egypt has left Gazans without medicine, destroyed the economiy, leaving the population with undrinkable contaminated water ,and electricity only a few hours a day can we really condemn Palestinians for trying to liberate their occupied land and homes from an alien apartheid racist genocidal regime ?
All settlers over 18 serve 3 years in the IDF and are military reservists for the rest of their lives .
They are not civilians.
They all play an active part in the continuing ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation of Palestine.
The only innocent Israels are the children under 18 who have no blood on their hands.
Palestine Aid Belfast is a registered Charity.
I would urge anyone who wishes to help alleviate the suffering in Gaza to donate now .
All monies go directly to Gaza and yesterday this charity sent 2000 dollars to help children and families in need.
A drop in the ocean to be sure but a contribution from you would be most helpful.
I condemn all deaths on all sides but the genocidal policies of successive Israeli governments and their denial of Palestinian human rights and sovereignty is fundamentally the root cause of the problems between Palestinians and Israelis and the wider regional collective.
Israel has stopped all food ,fuel and drinkable water from entering Gaza.
If that’s the most moral and humane regime in West Asia, then God help us all.
Donate here please, add gift aid if you are a UK tax payer.
Check what you buy. Sanctions brought SAfrica down along with a boycott/ ostracisation of the Zionists.