How to Solve The Palestine Question

One question that needs to be solved once and for all is the Palestine question. Forgive me if I may sound anti-Semitic in the process of explaining what I think is the solution to this complex problem. Arab nations tried the politics of excluding Israel, it didn’t work. Palestinians have tried terrorism, it hasn’t worked. Its time to look at it in a different way.

Israel was created out of Palestine by a foreign power, the British with help of the United Nations around 1948 with the excuse of providing a home for the Jews who had been subjected to mistreatment wherever they had lived especially by Adolf Hitler.

After the World War I and as the Ottoman Empire collapsed foreign powers were given the mandate of running colonies by the forerunner of the United Nations known as the League of Nations. When the colonies became unmanageable, the British rulers had to leave the Protectorate of Palestine and other occupied areas in the Middle East.

To settle the problem of the Jews, they had started looking for a place to settle them and considered other places where they had control such as Argentina and Uganda. Palestinians protested when their land was later chosen because of historical reasons yet for more than two thousand years, there had never been a country known as Israel. Even biblical sources reveal that Jesus was born around Bethlehem in Palestine.

The fact that the Jews once occupied this area did not give them a right to the land after more than 2000 years in the Diaspora. It was like black Americans trooping back to Nigeria or Ghana or some other West African country and settling their by force. Studies reveal that the Jews in Palestine were a minority during the creation of Israel, numbering close to 49,000 and only trooped back, and alienated the Palestinians with the help of Britain and other foreign powers.

It was proposed that two states be carved out of the area one for the Jews and another for the Palestinians, but even before this could be formalized, the Jews annexed close to 80% of land set aside for the Arabs. Consequently Arabs were expelled from these occupiers from their own land and therefore became refugees in their own country. Some moved into Lebanon, Egypt and their environs.

Jews were not satisfied with the 80%. With impunity and a complete disregard for human rights, they moved into the remaining 20% occupied by the Arabs, namely The Gaza Strip and the west bank in 1967 after a senseless six day war.