By Hasan Afif El-Hasan
Palestine Chronicle
"The Zionists and their supporters read the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within the context of success in establishing the State of Israel; but the facts suggest it is a history of injustice that has beset the Palestinian people because of no fault of their own.
Israel was created on narrow ethno-religious grounds, replacing and dominating the Palestinians who lived there for centuries. Israel would have never celebrated its sixtieth anniversary or even the first without the support of the West. And the Palestinians have been defending themselves with very limited resources against the powerful international Zionism and the great powers of the West since the inception of the Zionist movement.......
While Israel and its supporters celebrate its birthday, the Palestinian people whether under occupation or in the refugee camps or third class citizens in Israel, have won two moral arguments. First, they proved the Zionist slogan that “Palestine was a land without people” was a false claim. They have been defeated by their enemies, Abandoned by their friends and betrayed by their own leaders, but they have survived and they have not given up. Second, contrary to the Zionist speculation that Jews would be safe only in a country of their own, the Palestinians have proved them wrong. Even after many war victories and political recognitions, the only place where the Jews feel threatened and insecure has been in Israel. Israel is the sole nuclear power in the Middle East but the Israelis act as if they live in a country under siege from a host of enemies outside and inside its borders that have never been defined.
On its sixtieth birthday, Israel should dedicate the celebration to Britain and the US because they earned it. And the Palestinian people, going it alone in their struggle seeking statehood and justice, are justified to pity their Arab governing friends who surrendered the solution to the Palestinian’s national struggle to the “best friends Israel ever had”."
Palestine Chronicle
"The Zionists and their supporters read the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within the context of success in establishing the State of Israel; but the facts suggest it is a history of injustice that has beset the Palestinian people because of no fault of their own.
Israel was created on narrow ethno-religious grounds, replacing and dominating the Palestinians who lived there for centuries. Israel would have never celebrated its sixtieth anniversary or even the first without the support of the West. And the Palestinians have been defending themselves with very limited resources against the powerful international Zionism and the great powers of the West since the inception of the Zionist movement.......
While Israel and its supporters celebrate its birthday, the Palestinian people whether under occupation or in the refugee camps or third class citizens in Israel, have won two moral arguments. First, they proved the Zionist slogan that “Palestine was a land without people” was a false claim. They have been defeated by their enemies, Abandoned by their friends and betrayed by their own leaders, but they have survived and they have not given up. Second, contrary to the Zionist speculation that Jews would be safe only in a country of their own, the Palestinians have proved them wrong. Even after many war victories and political recognitions, the only place where the Jews feel threatened and insecure has been in Israel. Israel is the sole nuclear power in the Middle East but the Israelis act as if they live in a country under siege from a host of enemies outside and inside its borders that have never been defined.
On its sixtieth birthday, Israel should dedicate the celebration to Britain and the US because they earned it. And the Palestinian people, going it alone in their struggle seeking statehood and justice, are justified to pity their Arab governing friends who surrendered the solution to the Palestinian’s national struggle to the “best friends Israel ever had”."
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