How the State of Israel was formed by occupying Palestinian territory
The Promised Land. The Chosen People. The Land of No Man for a Landless People. Three very powerful narratives established in the Western world, based on which the forced establishment of the modern state of Israel in the historical Palestinian territory for the Jews has been legitimized. According to the Jewish scriptures, the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, God promised the prophet Abraham that a land had been designated for his descendants, which would remain their holy land for generations. Geographically, that land is where Palestine and Israel are today, although according to another account in the Bible, it extends from Egypt to the banks of the Euphrates River. Again, those to whom God promised this land are the Jewish people, who, according to this Bible, are the chosen people or nation of the Almighty God. The Jews have the closest relationship with God, they are the only ones who have the good fortune to have a covenant with God. That is why they are the best nation in the world, who consider all non-Jews to be inferior. Since Judaism is not only a religion, but also a community or nation, it is an exception to other religions. Jews are united by religion, anthropology and culture at the same time. However, like Jews, Christians and Muslims also follow the monotheistic Abrahamic religion. That is, the original father of these three major religions of the world is one—Abraham {or according to the Holy Quran, Hazrat Ibrahim (AS)}.
Jews are also known as the Hebrew community, since their language is Hebrew. The people of the nation or community chosen by God will live in the promised land of God. They have been doing that since Moses (AS) brought them back from Egypt through the Sinai Valley to Canaan (approximately 1400 BC). However, more than two thousand years ago (in 70 AD), the Romans destroyed the Second Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly expelled them. The Hebrews were uprooted from their homeland and scattered throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Despite their exile, their hearts remained fixed on that ancient land, where the ruins of Jerusalem and the Second Temple of the Jews, ancient Judea and Samaria, and Mount Zion are located. They also believed that one day they or their descendants would return to this promised land. So the Jews living in Israel today are descendants of the Hebrew community that was expelled from this land two thousand years ago. Who was in this land during the long period between the uprooting from their homeland and the return to this land through the establishment of an independent Jewish state two thousand years later? Or was this land uninhabited? The answer is as follows: Those who stayed later are not actually the people of that land, nor even a human community! And so that land is a land without people. To establish this statement, it is said that there is no such thing as Palestinians, there is no such thing as a Palestinian people or community. Rather, the real claimants to that land without people are the Hebrew people. So when they came back and started living here, this land returned to its rightful owner. Those who stayed until then and have been for generations for more than a thousand years, that is, the Palestinians, especially the Muslims, are deportable and it has been done rightly, and is still being done.
With the beginning of the final occupation of the Jews, an endless disaster befell the Palestinians 75 years ago (now almost 77 years ago). That was on May 14, 1948. The establishment of the State of Israel was officially announced on the land of Palestine. Immediately after this, the catastrophe of more than 700,000 Palestinians being driven from their land and becoming stateless began. In Arabic, the catastrophe is called ‘Nakba’. Palestinians therefore observe May 15 every year as ‘Al-Nakba’ Day. And this year is the first time that the day is being officially observed at the United Nations. The United Nations Committee on the Realization of the Indisputable Rights of the Palestinian People (UNCIRPP) approved the General Assembly on November 30, 2022, to observe Nakba Day with various day-long events at the UN Headquarters in New York. Of course, the Palestinians have not been observing this Nakba Day for 75 years. Rather, in 1998, when Israel prepared to celebrate the golden jubilee of independence, the legendary Palestinian leader and former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat decided that they too would commemorate the 50th anniversary of their Nakba. He declared the day after Israel’s Independence Day as Nakba Day.
On the evening before the first Nakba Day, then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was not responsible for the Palestinian tragedy; rather, its leadership was. But what an irony for Palestinians that, a century later, when Nakba Day is being celebrated, the same Netanyahu, whom the Israeli daily Haaretz has repeatedly called racist and xenophobic, is the Israeli Prime Minister. How the State of Israel was
