The British Mandate of Palestine

                                    The British Mandate over Occupied Palestine.                 

                         How the Balfour Declaration Supported Zionist Movement.

                                To Occupy the Sacred Palestinian land. 

Mosque Al-Aqsa

 The word “Zion”, is a Hebrew term that refers to “Jerusalem”. Throughout history, Jerusalem had been a sacred place for Jews, Christians, and Muslims as well.  The fundamental philosophy (to establish the Jewish state where they can proclaim their basic rights or to return to their homeland (considered) and resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel) of the Zionist movement has existed for hundreds of years. But the modern Zionism formally took root in the late 19^th century. Around that time, Jews throughout the world faced growing Anti-Semitism.

As History is evident the British Govt made a statement to support the Jews to form their National Home in Palestine. This public statement was issued by British Govt in 1917 during the First World War. At that time in Palestine there was an ottoman region in place with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter Dated 2 November 1917, from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild a leader of the British Jewish community for transmission of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. This whole process is called the Balfour declaration.   

Zoinst Flag Hovering

The Jewish aspiration to return to Zion got overheated by the Balfour Declaration.  The Balfour Declaration was endorsed by the principal Allied powers and was included in the British mandate over Palestine. To terminate the British mandate over Palestine and the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked a full-scale war (1948 Arab-Israel war) which erupted after May 14, 1948. Four Armies of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq invaded the area of British mandate from Lebanon.

 The Gaza strip and the west bank had been occupied by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, from the 1948 war until 1967. Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza strip in six days war (a war fought by the Arab states of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and Israelis) in 1969. Also known as the June war. And seized the Gaza strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the west bank, including Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. In 1980 Israel officially absorbed East Jerusalem and proclaimed the whole of Jerusalem to be its capital. The inclusion, though never formally amounting to legal annexation, was condemned internationally and declared “Null and void” by The United Nations Security Council. The brief war ended with a U.N.-brokered ceasefire, but it significantly altered the map of the Mideast and gave rise to lingering geopolitical friction.

However, Israel disengaged from the Gaza strip in 2005 dismantling 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip. The disengagement was proposed in 2003 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the Gov. in June 2004, and approved by Knesset (Unicameral National Legislative) in February 2005 as the Disengagement Law. It was implemented in August 2005 and completed in Sep 2005. 8000 Jewish settlers from 21 settlements received an Avg. of more than US $200000 in compensation per family.

The recent situation (around 7 May 2021) of war is led by the Sheikh Jarrah eviction case which involves the dispute politically involving the ownership of certain properties and housing units in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem between Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews. As well as this incident grow on the backbone of Non- The sense law of Israel. Israel’s law allows Jews to file claims over land in West Bank and East Jerusalem which they may have owned prior to 1948 (without any evidence), but reject Palestinian claims over land in Israel which they owned. So basically they are the illegal settlers with the political power (and their illegal tenancy is recognized by certain so-called countries and organizations), and by using such power they are kicking out the real owners of the land.

Bulldozing the Homes of Palestinian People

However, this situation got further escalated when the Israeli forces entered the Holy mosque “Al- Aqsa”. Which is considered the sacred place of Muslims after Makkah and Madhina. Literary known as “Qibli Awal”. This is the mosque that the Islamic Prophet Mohammad (saw) visited on a nocturnal journey (literary known as Mehraj). However, after entering in mosque Israel Gov. received threats from Hamas that they should vacate their forces immediately or face the consequences. Technically Hamas group operates in Gaza but the whole Muslim Ummaha will stand with this mosque because of its historical importance as said above. Despite this Israel shows its military might and killed hundreds of civilians and thousands wounded. Despite the fact, Israel has one of the most powerful army and defense system we can’t compare Gaza with Israel which don’t even have its official army. But still, in the honor of the mosque they fired several rockets toward Israel but that had no impact on Israel because of the capability of their defense system (known as Iron Dome). In retaliation to it, Israel fired hundreds of rockets towards Gaza which results in the killings of hundreds and injured thousands. And many people have lost their homes, dear ones, and as well their last stand. Which include the deaths of childrens, women, and as well press personnel. They are often deprived of basic utilities like water, electricity, etc. because these facilities are operated and controlled by Israel.

The whole reason behind this Israeli barbarian attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque is that Israel wants to demolish the Al- Aqsa mosque and built a third temple for their upcoming messiah which their religious texts also support. However, if this happened then the world should prepare for the Third world war.