Times Of Swaziland: THE REAL OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

THE REAL OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
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The Editor on 22/02/2021 21:42:00


Sir,
Joshua 21: 43, ‘So the Lord God gave to Israel all the land He had solemnly
promised to their ancestors.’ The plight of the Palestinian people is one of
the most contentious issues the world is faced with; with many countries (and
people) accusing the Jewish people of ‘illegally occupying Palestine. But it
is necessary to go back in history to fully understand how this situation arose
to begin with.
Palestine was the name given to the land of Israel by the Roman empire during
the time of Jesus. It was during the Roman occupation of Israel that the Jewish
people were exiled from the promised land for the third time in their history.
Following the collapse of the Roman empire, another great empire emerged and
took control of Israel – the Ottoman empire.
Ruled
The Ottomans ruled Israel for over 1 000 years, resisting attempts by the
Vatican-sanctioned crusaders to expel them. It would only be in 1918, during the
First World War, that the Ottomans were eventually expelled from Israel by
another mighty empire – the British empire. The British themselves would also
be expelled from Israel in 1948 when Jewish nationalists began their war of
independence against Britain, but not before the British allowed mostly European
Jews to return to Israel under the Balfour Declaration, and that is when Arab
settlers, who came to be known as ‘Palestinians’, began to demand an end to
the so-called ‘illegal occupation’ of Palestine.
Recognised
There were never any calls for an end of the Ottoman occupation of Palestine,
perhaps due to the fact that the Ottomans were also Muslims, with the Jewish
city of Jerusalem also being one of Islam’s holiest sites. It was only during
former US President Donald Trump’s administration that Jerusalem was finally
recognised as being the rightful capital city of Israel, as previous
administrations refused to do so, demanding, instead, that Israel should
handover large portions of her territory to her sworn enemies – the
Palestinians – in what became known as the unworkable ‘two state
solution’.
It is obvious that doing so would make Israel vulnerable to being attacked by
neighbouring states, and it wouldn’t be the first time, as Israel has suffered
several attacks from her hostile neighbours in the past 70 years.
Perhaps those American presidents who refused to recognise Israel’s
sovereignty over Jerusalem forgot is that America itself is a country founded as
a white settler colony after being illegally occupied by the same British who
also previously occupied the land of Israel, believing that it was their
‘divine right’ to do so, because they considered themselves, together with
their Germanic and Nordic brethren, to be the ‘real Jews’, as claimed by the
‘Brit-Am’ and ‘Nordic Israelism’ movements. This is how the British
justified their Illegal occupations of North America, Australia, India and much
of Africa.
Instead of demanding that Israel handover the land God promised their ancestors
to people who wish to drive them into the sea, why don’t the Americans and
Australians handover their illegally occupied territories back to their rightful
owners?
LiSwati citizen