By: Hamid Hamdi
Everyone in the world knows what happened in the land of Palestine, which’s now called Israel. For those who are unfamiliar with the events or fuzzy on the details, here’s a brief summary of the tragedy that plagued the Holy Land for the past 76 years, it’s called Israel.
In 1948, the Zionists Jews occupied most of Palestine and called it Israel. In the process, they committed a number of massacres, killing without any mercy, everyone that stood in their way. The ones they did not kill, they rounded up and put in trucks and dumped across the Jordan River to live in refugee camps in Jordan. The Palestinians fought heroically but they were no match for the well-equipped Zionists who had all the weapons they need, supplied to them by the British Army, while the Palestinians had those rusted, obsolete guns that miss-fire more times than they fire.
Why did the Israelis choose Palestine to establish their miserable country in? although they were given a choice of several other locations in the world? The land of Palestine was, and still is, called THE HOLY LAND. It contains holy sites of the three main religions in the world, Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
Israel occupied the biggest part of Palestine in 1948 and the rest of Palestine, the West Bank, in 1967. They treated, and still do, the Palestinians as slaves, robbing them of their land and building settlements on it in the West Bank in spite of the declaration of the United Nations that this action is illegal and they should stop, but because of the unconditional support of the United States, they gave the United Nations the middle finger and continued building settlements which are financed by the United States.
In GAZA, the Israeli army pulled out in 2007 but built a concrete wall around the strip, preventing anyone or anything from leaving or entering the enclave. They imposed a tight siege on the strip to slowly starve people and eventually kill them. Before October 7th, 2023, The Palestinians in GAZA were allowed 4 hours per day of electricity and limited amount of water and medicine. As one Israeli official said, we’re going to put the people on diet. After October 7th, all of that stopped, no electricity, food, water, medicine fuel or medical supplies.
On October 7th, 2023 The governing organization in GAZA, Hamas, decided to break the siege and invade the area of Israel outside the strip, killing 1200 people, although a large number of those people were killed by the Israeli soldiers, and taking about 250 hostages to use as bargaining chips. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, lost his mind and decided to destroy GAZA and kill a large number of its people. Thanks to the United States, he obtained all the bombs and weapons he asked for. Not one building in GAZA, residential or commercial was left untouched. The evil Israelis destroyed all schools, hospitals, houses, apartment buildings, mosques and churches. Not because those buildings were posing any danger to them but because they can. They also, completely, shut off all electricity, water, medicine, food, medical supplies and gas. The Israeli soldiers wanted to show how mean they are, they destroyed everything they found in their way. They used to go to a house in GAZA and the West Bank and steel the valuable stuff and destroy everything else including counter tops and cabinets, just because they can with no accountability by the evil government of Israel.
In the bombing, over 46,000 people have died and many more wished they were dead after losing an arm or a leg in the bombing and having to get their limbs amputated without anesthesia.
The Arabic countries in the area, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, The United Arab Emirates and others, the so called brothers, said and did absolutely nothing, as if what’s happening in GAZA, happen to some other people far far away. They cowered under the bed like a dog scared of lightening. Some of them, like Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority, even collaborated with Israel. With brothers like those, who needs enemies?
I must say, some Arabic countries, like Kuwait and Qater, were very supportive of the Palestinian cause but their assistance was limited.