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Palestine: Why is it Happening?

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August 11, 2014

A Zionist State

The plan to create a Zionist state in Palestine was underway much before Hitler came into power with the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917.

The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

The text of the letter was published in the press one week later, on 9 November 1917. The “Balfour Declaration” was later incorporated into the Sèvres Peace Treaty with the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate for Palestine.”[2]

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Figure 1: The Balfour Declaration. Credit: Wikipedia

What came to the aid of the Zionists were the events of history, and they were prepared to take every advantage. The great Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was being dismembered and parceled off to local rulers who were puppets of the real rulers – British/American/European combine. The goal of finishing off the Khilafa Othmania or Islamia had been accomplished. Mustafa Kamal Pasha was enthroned on the Ottoman Throne with the mandate of demolishing the Khilafa which he did. However, two major problems remained – what to do with the Jews and how to ensure that a new Islamic Khilafa didn’t emerge if one day all the local rulers decided to unite under one banner.

The solution was very simple for anyone who’d read history and happened to have the strings of power in hand at the time. Create a so-called ‘historical Jewish homeland’ in Palestine, which was the traditional land of the Abrahamic Faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Palestine was never Jewish alone after Titus finished with it, and was always the common property of the three religions who claimed common lineage from Abraham (Ibrahim ). But at this point in history, Islam was on the back foot – the Ottoman Empire was dead and the local chiefs who had recently been given their own kingdoms were like kids in a toy shop – beyond care for anything other than the latest toy their money could buy. The Christian powers were the brokers and the Jews were more than ready to make the deal. So the term Judeo-Christian came into being, and Israel was born.

This served both the objectives – getting the Jews out of Europe and putting a Europe-friendly power in the middle of the chicken coop of Arab countries, which could be used in the future to keep any aspiring leaders in check and ensure that no puppet could break his string. That is why all the military aid, atomic weapons and a carte blanche to Israel – after all you don’t become tough on your own.

As for Palestinians, they were conveniently as weak then as they are now. They belonged to nobody and were fair game; open season was declared on them and this has not closed since then. As the saying goes, ‘As long as lions have historians, history will always glorify the hunt.’ Weakness has never been fashionable and as Hitler said, ‘Victors write their own history.’ The poet Iqbal also put it very aptly when he said,

Taqdeer ke Qazi ka ye fatwa hai azal se Hai jurm-e-zaeefi ki saza marg-e-mafaajaat.”

From the first day of creation the ruling of the Judge of destiny has always been the punishment for the crime of weakness is sudden death.

Now let us apply the laws of Allah to this situation. As is mentioned in the ayah above, Allah laid down two rules – adherence to the Kitaab wal Sunnah and Unified Strategy. Each is not sufficient by itself. They have to both exist simultaneously and work dynamically for the result to happen. A plane needs wings and an engine.

Neither by itself is sufficient. The man making dhikr and dua still needs to pull the rip cord of the parachute if he doesn’t want to die. The rule is the combination of its elements. Not either element by itself. The equation works when both sides interact. With only one side it is not an equation. To recollect what Allah said:

And obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not dispute (with one another) lest you lose courage and your strength depart, and be patient. Surely, Allah is with those who are As-Sabireen (those with staying power). 8:46.

The first part of the equation deals with the importance of personal piety and I have dealt with that in another article – without it there is no connection with Allah and therefore no success.

Talking about the second part of the equation – Unified Strategy – there is probably no better example of what lack of unity can do than in the 13th century (1200-1260) when Genghiz Khan (in 1220) annihilated the Khwarazm Sultanate with its iconic cities of Samarkhand, Bukhara among many others which were iconic names in Islamic civilization and history. Entire populations were slaughtered, libraries burned, masaajid demolished, fields turned into grazing land for Mongol horses and cities razed to the ground. Khalifa An Nasir of Baghdad, the rival of Sultan Alauddin of Khwarazm, watched in delight as all this happened, not knowing of course what was to happen to his family and people in Baghdad.

In 1258 Hulegu Khan besieged Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Khilafa and upon its capture, executed Khalifa Al Musta’asim and burned the city to the ground. When Hulegu saw Musta’asim’s treasures he was so enraged that Musta’asim hadn’t used them to raise an army to defend his kingdom that he locked him up with the treasure and said, ‘Eat it as you are so fond of it.’ Musta’asim died there. The famous libraries of Baghdad and House of Wisdom were burned to the ground and the population decimated. This is considered the end of the Golden Age of Islamic Civilization.

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Hyde

August 11, 2014 at 3:36 PM

I’m still waiting for some dare raise an eyebrow about the role of Saudi Arabia in all this. We all know that the house of Ibn Saud is one of the biggest supporters of wars against Gaza.

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- Aly Balagamwala
  
  August 12, 2014 at 1:49 AM
  
  Dear Hyde
  
  You may submit an article at http://muslimmatters.org/submissions/. Looking forward to hearing all about it.
  
  Aly
  
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M

August 11, 2014 at 8:26 PM

There are so, so many pieces on this website covering the Palestinians, yet none, none on the massacre and rape of minorities at the hands on Muslims in Syria & Iraq. Absolutely nothing on that!

There are Yazidi women being sold into sexual slavery, but you are not writing about any of it! Where is your humanity?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/11/yazidis-tormented-fears-for-women-girls-kidnapped-sinjar-isis-slaves

This goes to show, your website does not give a sh*t about non-Muslims who are being killed by Muslims, you just do not care at all. Where is your humanity?The other article asked why prayers for Gaza are not being answered, and included the social & political hypocrisy of Muslims as a reason. Yet even after identifying the hypocrisy amongst Muslims, you still refuse to give coverage on the brutal killings of minorities at the hands of Muslims in Syria/Iraq, in favour of yet another article focussing on the Palestinian cause.

I am not saying not to cover the Palestinian cause, but when pages upon pages are written about it by Muslims, and yet not a single page is written about what is happening to Yazidis in Iraq (even though the treatment they are receiving at the hands of ISIS is much more brutal then what the Palestinians are suffering)- it makes you wonder. I think this highlights the hypocrisy of Muslims (including your website) perfectly!

You only rally when Muslims are suffering – and not just any Muslims, only Arab Muslims generally (I mean if you really cared about all Muslims equally, the coverage you give to the suffering of Muslims in CAR, the Rohingyas, northern Nigeria etc. would be equal to the coverage you give to the Palestinians. I can only remember a minimal number of articles published on those issues, compared to the pages upon pages dedicated to Palestinians. If you did indeed care about all Muslims equally, then there would be 10,000 strong weekly demonstrations against the treatment of Rohingyas in major cities around the world, with Muslims being a strong contingent. Of course none of this happens. Only for certain Muslim causes, would Muslims protest in such force (read Arab Muslim causes because you don’t care about blacks or Asians).

So forget about your lack of humanity & empathy with non-Muslim suffering, you don’t even care much at all about Muslims suffering worldwide! You do not care about black and brown Muslims, and you are certainly silent about the suffering of non-Muslims- you only care about a very, very small subset of humanity.

Until the day Muslim Matters’ coverage of the plight of Yazidis & the plight of Rohingyas is anywhere near equal to the amount of coverage you give to Palestinians, this website will remain a case in point about Muslim hypocrisy!

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- soob
  
  August 12, 2014 at 3:16 AM
  
  There are two videos of lectures by sheik waleed basyouni which sums up the atrocities of ISIS. But I agree I’d like to hear more about what is happening to other Muslims even C.A.R, china etc. aswell as non-Muslims. But how do you chose, literally everywhere has some kind of problem. Gaza is unique in that the people have nowhere to run.
  
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  - wasim
    
    August 12, 2014 at 4:16 AM
    
    How can you compare the atrocities committed by a rogue group such as ISIS to that of
    atrocities committed by a well established first world country such as Israel?
    
    Also I dont see all christian websites condemn atrocities committed by Christians
    around the globe.
    
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  - Aly Balagamwala
    
    August 15, 2014 at 5:26 AM
    
    http://muslimmatters.org/2014/07/14/a-historical-analysis-of-islamic-state-isis-and-the-khalifah-part-1/
    
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Talibeilm

August 14, 2014 at 12:30 PM

Jazakallahu khayran katheera. This was an eye opener for me
Barakallahu feek.

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Samy Merchant

August 24, 2014 at 7:28 AM

Salams, brothers and sisters.

You will ONLY understand this conflict when you see it through the prism of ZIONIST theology. Yes! Zionism is a theology, with its roots in Judaic texts. And because it is a theology, it has fervent appeal for its followers. (“Aqeeda” ties people!) Zionist theology is based mostly on the Talmud but justification for it can be found even in the more moderate Torah. The Torah says:

Zephaniah 2:4 “Gaza will be abandoned and Ashkelon left in ruins. At midday, Ashdod will be emptied and Ekron uprooted”

Isaiah 13:9 “See, the day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.”

And according to Talmud theology:

Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b “The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs.”

Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425. 5 “It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah.”

Baba Kamma 37b. “The gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has exposed their money to Israel.”

It is IMPOSSIBLE for Zionists to make peace with the Palestinians. Zionist theology REQUIRES them to “uproot” the “sinners” (ie Palestinians.) In fact, the Moshiach, the Zionist Messiah, cannot come until this happens.

***Below is the link to a video which illustrates what I am saying. In this video, the Lubavitcher Rebbe is prodding the Zionist Israeli Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to hasten the Moshiach’s coming. Netanyahu knows his theology only too well, and what is required of him!

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFr4C2BPLeM

Of course, our Gazan brothers and sisters, the pride of Islam, are throwing a spanner in the works, Al-Hamdolillah

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