Palestine and Israel
During World War-1, the UK invaded and occupied the Turkish Muslim Empire in the Middle East and cut the Arab world into pieces.
After World War II the UK and the USA initiated the creation of two independent states within the state of Palestine for the Arab Muslims and Israel for the Jews of Europe and the USA.
The 'two state and 'divide & rule' policy of the UK and the USA encouraged the Jews' unilateral declaration of independence of Israel in 1948.
The UK and the USA promptly accorded recognition to the newly created state of Israel and gave a bluff to the original state Palestine.
Ever since 1948 Israel is an independent state on the one hand and it is getting stronger day by day with mammoth US economic and military aid. And on the other hand, Palestine is deprived of independence, it is languishing and the sufferings of millions of Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis know no bound.
All the times we hear about meetings, conferences, meditations, negotiations, assurances and promises under the leadership of the USA for comprehensive peace in the Middle East and independence of Palestine but all in vain. The arrogance, bellicosity and Israeli democracy turned dictatorship have made the 'two state' policy of the USA and the UK for peace in the Middle easy totally obsolete.
More than six decades have passed and the Jews immigrants, now Israelis, have been controlling the whole of Palestine. The Israelis are enjoying freedom but the Palestinians are not enjoying freedom and human rights.
The synopsis of the history of Palestine is that 1) Palestine is the holy land of the Jews, 2) of the Christians because it was the scene of Jesus Christ and 3) of the Muslims because Jerusalem is the traditional site of our Prophet's (Pbuh) ascent to heaven.
If the people of various faiths including black and white people can live together peacefully and happily in the USA, South Africa, Mozambique and many other countries, why could not the Israelis and the Palestinians live in a single state of Palestine?
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