Hamas was founded in 1987 to ease hardships of refugees from Palestine controlled by Israel ever since 1948 when colonial British government gave Arab territory to Israel–the same land to both sides carved out of Palestine. It is easy for any nation to break up other people's land and say they will support it. But the Brits broke their promise as the Jews overwhelmed Palestine with a multitude of immigrants violating the documented Balfour Declaration.
Dear Ones,
Israel and Palestine are both Semitic nations in the region around Jerusalem. In Bible times Abraham became the father of Isaac and Jacob (representatives of Jewish religion) as he also became the father of Ishmael (representative of Muslim religion). Israel claims "God said Hebrews were his chosen people" because their leaders put words into their deity's mouth back in the days when people thought every time there was an eclipse of the moon a monster was taking a bite out of it!
Besides primitive people other cultures throughout history have committed the same arrogant bigotry, as Aryan Nazi Germans said Caucasians were the chosen "master race." But no deity has ever spoken directly to men other than through their own delusions.
In regard to the 1917 Balfour Declaration named for British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour, the British created an Israeli "homeland" since Great Britain faced bankruptcy and needed to have Jewish support to defeat Kaiser William II during WWI in 1914-1918. This Declaration, leaning toward the Judeo-Christian and the Coptic Christian view in Egypt, assured displaced Jewish people of a place for them by taking land from Arab Palestinians. This historical document, although favoring Jews, in essence was written to protect the rights of Palestinis whose land was soon occupied with an onslaught of thousands of newcomers rushing in to take over the Arab land. In no way did this historic document mean that Israel would become a state. This recorded declaration stated:
"That nothing shall be done to prejudice civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish residents in Palestine," as Jewish synagogues and Christian churches became prevalent. Religious freedom is not free when absolutist faiths claim their persuasion is the only true one, such as the three Abrahamic ring of fire. Once that happens, terrorism reigns violence everywhere. Instead of ending fighting for revenge there must be religious reform through human values that bring civil rights, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all nations.
Meanwhile the newcomers immediately overpowered the present owners in 1917 and 1918 through Zionist land-grabbing that Great Britain originally supported. In 1947 and 1948 during the Israel-Palestine War, Arabs were defeated with 450,000 Palestinis becoming refugees. According to United Nations report by1950 the count reached 700.000 displaced people imprisoned in their own land by Israel who also with Egypt closed ports that made Palestine destitute, with limited or no fishing rights and an illegal blockade against essential needs imported to the Gaza Strip.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurian of Israel declared independence in 1947 followed by the Israel-Palestine War in which children especially suffered. By then Israel had also captured the Golden Heights and the Old City of Jerusalem (1967) making the inhabitants Israeli citizens.
Thus, Palestine was forced into building tunnels into Egypt and Israel for smuggled material. When Hamas was intentionally being annihilated, the Palestinis for defense used these same tunnels to transport weapons into their people. This strife that began when the Balfour Declaration was broken by zealot Jews ended up in both sides trying to kill off one another, most devastating to all youths involved in futile religious revenge that has no end.
Today Gaza is smoldering in gray ashen ruins by religious hostility in which Israelis killed nearly 2000 people, mostly civilians of Palestine, with about 65 Israeli soldiers disportionately dying. Although a ceasefire has been called on both sides, the stench of death from schools, hospitals, clinics and United Nations so-called safe refuges, still lingers in the air. Palestinis suffered the most grief and anquish, what the UN calls a war crime in need of prosecuting–the nation having an overabundance of nuclear missiles and other weaponry overpowering their foe. As a penalty how about Israel cleaning up the environment and rebuilding ruins that contaminate and cause aftermath devastation deforming generations of yi=ouths for decades with toxic radiation and lethal chemicals.
Mame
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