My Conclusions
- As shown by the Report written by the Prime Minister of Great Britain,
- Campbell-Bannerman, in 1907, the Western Powers feared that
the downfall of the Ottoman Empire would bring about the formation of a
pan-Arabic bloc in the Middle East and decided that “a foreign body should
be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the convergence of its
wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never-ending
wars”. This strategically important report was kept secret and was never released to the public till 100 years later. - Zionism, aiming at a Jewish State in Palestine following the
ethnic cleansing and oppression of the indigenous population,
carries the seeds of inevitable injustice for the Palestinian people
in it. Arthur Koestler calls the Balfour Declaration a document in which “one country takes the land of another country and gives it to a third country”. - The United States, with other States, decided to promote the
State of Israel in order to prevent the formation of a pan-Arabic
bloc and keep the area in a fractured state, while at the same time leaving
them free to use the area for their own purposes.
Believing that it is in its own interest, the USA now
provides unquestioned support to Israel despite the UN and world opinion,
together with billions of Dollars of financial support.
It also continues to make efforts in the name of peacemaking to
suppress Palestinian nationhood and self-determination.
To this end it is guided and affirmed by the Israel Lobby and the many people in
prominent positions in the USA whose primary interest is the welfare and
benefit of Israel, not that of the USA. Palestinians see negotiations
as a way to attain a just peace, while Israel sees them as a negotiating
strategy to attain positions more advantageous to itself. - The 350 Million Arabs (only 16 million of them
Palestinians) and the Millions of Muslims in the world, with the increasing
spread of the mass media, are aware of the injustice suffered by the
Palestinians and hate Israel and the USA. - Despite wide-spread despair among Palestinians, there exists
the collective confidence that injustice cannot last forever, and that the
force which supports that injustice is not only Israel itself, but the power
of the United States of America behind it. - Some of the issues to deal with in the future
- Jewish religious belief that the Jewish people are a
special people chosen by God, and the conviction, as written in the Torah,
that the Land of Israel was given to them by God. - changing demographics, increasing religious power blocs within the Israeli
- government based on rising religious population numbers,
the growing international BDS movement, disenchantment with Israeli
politics, diminishing importance of the USA, and rising consciousness in
Arab nations.
- Israelis I talked to often prefer the continuance of the status quo. Palestinians
prefer to eventually have their own Palestinian State. But many, Israeli and - Palestinian, expressed the following vision of the future:
Unless Israel succeeds to transform itself into a nation with a middle-eastern
flavor (since it is after all located in the Middle-Eastern region) in which Jews and Arabs can
live together with the same laws and rights and mutual respect, Israel will
inevitably go down and the mighty walls will fall, maybe not in 20 years,
maybe not in 100 years, but they will fall.