In 1948, the Jews seized all Palestinian aid, none of which had yet been returned.
The
Palestine-Israel problem is one of the oldest, most complex, and most difficult
problems in the world. The Arab Palestinian people, who have been oppressed by
Israel for hundreds of years, standing in the valley of death, still show
courage and patriotism and remain uncompromising towards their motherland.
Recently, the Palestinian armed group Hamas has been involved in a bloody
conflict with extremist Israel. Recently, Israeli officials repeatedly entered
the Al-Aqsa Mosque and destroyed its sanctity, in addition to the 16-year-long
Israeli blockade of Gaza. This has limited the income of Palestinians.
Frustrated and enraged by the economic crisis, including food, Hamas launched
the attack on Israel, which is believed to be the biggest ever. This is the
first time in 75 years that Palestinian fighters have crossed the Green Line.
Hamas spokesman Khaled Kadomi told the media that Palestinians have been
subjected to extreme brutality for decades. In response, they attacked Israel.
In response, occupying Israel launched the largest massacre in living memory, a
brutal military operation, leaving children, women, and the elderly in bomb
blasts on the streets. Thousands of people have already lost their lives,
destroying entire houses, hospitals, mosques, schools, colleges, and
educational institutions. This time, they launched a military campaign with the
promise of completely razing Gaza to the ground.
More than 1 million Gazans were told to leave their homes from northern to
southern Gaza ahead of the Israeli ground offensive. The so-called Westerners
talk of carving out a corridor for humanitarian aid in Egypt's Sinai Valley.
But for Palestinians, who have burned through the pain of displacement for
generations, the corridor is a scary sound. It meant choosing to live as a
refugee in Sinai, Egypt, once again facing genocide. Living in tents again.
There are three major parties involved in the Middle East peace process:
Israel, the Arab world, and the United States. The role of these three parties
is strongly significant, with every issue as important as the political
stability of the Middle East and the solution to the Palestinian problem.
This tripartite disagreement and conflict is one of the reasons behind the
conflict in the Middle East.
Although the Arab world and the United States are blamed for this, observers
consider Israel's barbaric and inhuman treatment of the Palestinian population
for centuries to be the root cause of the problems in the Middle East. Israel
has also disobeyed most of the resolutions adopted at the international level and
by the United Nations to date. And publicly announced that he did not accept.
On the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, United Nations
Resolution No. 181 was unanimously adopted, stating that the British Mandate of
Palestine would be divided into two equal parts of 20,770 square kilometers to
form two independent states: Israel and Palestine. Although the state of Israel
was established in 1948 with the covert support of the British authorities, the
state of Palestine has not yet been formed.
Rather, after the establishment of the Jewish state, in the face of the genocide of the Jews, millions of Palestinians fled their homes and became refugees in neighboring Arab countries every year. According to the survey, in 2019, more than 5.6 million Palestinian refugees were registered with the United Nations.
In
1948, the Jews seized all Palestinian aid, none of which had yet been returned.
However, according to UN Security Council Resolution 194, those who want to
return should be allowed to do so. And those who don't want to come have to pay
compensation; there is an established law.
After the signing of the Camp David Agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1978,
the United Nations again passed Resolution No. 446. It stated that Israel would
leave the territories occupied in 1967 and stop Jewish resettlement in the West
Bank. But Israel does not accept any of these conditions.
In 1980, the United Nations passed Resolution 465. It called for the demolition
of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, but the Jews
ignored it and continued the new Jewish resettlement work in full swing. In
1948, Israel's area was 5,000 square miles, but in 1955, Israel's area
increased to 8,000 square miles due to the continuous occupation of Palestinian
territories. In 1967, it increased to 30,000 square miles. And so it continues
to grow, as they illegally seize Palestinian land every year.
Recently, Israeli forces repeatedly attacked the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East
Jerusalem, which has been occupied for several years. Various videos of the
arrest, beating, and even extreme torture of worshipers praying at Al-Aqsa
Mosque spread on social media. When the world condemned their terrible and
dangerous actions, even the Israeli people took to the streets against their
government. The general public says that the government is inciting in various
ways, creating incendiary situations and religious conflicts.
On the other hand, they have carried out operations in response to the Israeli
government's usual claim of rockets fired from Gaza and Lebanon.
In this way, over the years, Israel has been carrying out brutal killings of
the Palestinian people for 70 years, regardless of peace policies introduced by
the United Nations, reconciliation proposals, and the protests of the whole
world.
The country that can directly influence Israel on the Palestinian issue is the
United States. These two countries are bound by a strategic alliance. Even if
the governments of these two countries change, there will be no change in
strategic ties. The United States often favors Israel's interests. Former US
President Jimmy Carter and former Defense Secretary Bob Gates said that the
anti-American sentiment among Muslims around the world is behind US Middle East
policy. The United States has sent two warships to the eastern Mediterranean
amid ongoing clashes between Hamas and Israel to send a strong message to
anti-Western powers. The United States has said that if anyone intervenes, they
will have to confront not only Israel but also US troops.
The US gives Israel $4 billion in military and financial aid each year.
America's keen interest in the Middle East is not just for strategic reasons;
it is also recognized as the lifeline of the US economy. A large part of the
economic prosperity of the United States is tied to the oil resources of the
Middle East. For this reason, the United States never wants a power hostile to
the United States to raise its head in the Middle East, to have this area under
the control of another power, or to disrupt the free flow of Middle Eastern
energy in any way. Even the United States is ready to engage in frontal war if
necessary to prevent these.
In
addition to financial and military aid, the United States has provided Israel
with political support by using its UN Security Council veto power 42 times out
of 83 times its veto has ever been used. Between 1991 and 2011, 15 of the 24
vetoes were used to protect Israel.
May 14, 2018, was another sad day in the bloody history of Palestinians. The US
was opening its embassy in Jerusalem that day. And that day, Gaza turned into a
bloody wasteland. According to Palestinian officials, Israeli forces killed 58
people in Gaza that day. About three thousand more were injured. Since the 2014
Gaza war, so many Palestinians have died in a single day. That day was the 70th
anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. Israel was founded on this
day in 1948. And to the Palestinians, the day is the 'Nakba' or the Day of
Catastrophe. Millions of Palestinians were driven from their homes in Israel
that day. Every year, they observe the day as 'Nakba' day.
Another undeniable obstacle to peace in the Middle East is disunity and
mistrust among the Arabs. Part of the current Middle East is controlled by the
United States and its allies. The other part is influenced by Iran and its
proxies. The Arab states, which stretch from Syria to Morocco, share many similarities
in language, religion, and culture but have wide political differences.
Disagreement is also emerging in resolving Middle East issues, as Arab leaders
have stark differences over leadership. At one time, Egypt's Jamal Abdel
Nasser, Saudi King Fahd, Syria's Hafiz al-Assad, Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, and
Iraq's Saddam Hussein were Arab leaders.
The image that the Arabs have built has been shattered by the crushing defeat
of the Arabs in the Arab-Israeli war.
Not only Arab leaders, but leaders of almost all Muslim countries are busy
protecting their power. The OIC is the largest organization in the Muslim
world. It has become a lifeless organization. Only statements and accusations
are absolved of liability. But this OIC was born to protect the interests of
Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestine. This very institution has not done anything for
Palestine in the last 52 years.
And in the last decade, this organization has become more useless in the
leadership fight. Saudi Arabia could not accept Turkey's leadership in the OIC.
So there has been a deliberate attempt to keep the OIC largely inactive under
Turkish leadership. And the organization called D-Eight with eight countries in
the Muslim world was created by the former Prime Minister of Turkey, Nazimuddin
Erbakan. That, too, has been conveniently disabled. On the other hand, the Arab
League is another useless organization.
Over 9 million people live in Israel. Despite that, politically, 42.7 million
Arabs, rich in oil resources, are bowing to Israel. Between 2000 and 2019,
Western countries like France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany provided
$9.6 billion in arms and military equipment to Israel. In these 20 years, they
have sold more weapons to Arab countries than that. During this time, they provided
$29.3 billion to Saudi Arabia, $201 billion to the United Arab Emirates, $17.5
billion to Iraq, $9.1 billion to Iraq, and $6 billion to Qatar.
The reality is that if Israel ever invades Arab lands again, these weapons will
do little to protect the Arabs. If anyone is to be blamed for today's plight in
Palestine, the Arab countries are to blame the most. Because the Arabs are
terribly divided.
Commentator for Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper, Azzasami, wrote, Thank you,
Netanyahu; may God give us people like you who will destroy Hamas. The Middle
East is burning with unrest today because of the shameless flattery of Arab
kings and emirs. Apart from the above reasons, the failure of the United
Nations, OIC, European League, and Arab League to take effective action against
the Hamas-Fatah conflict and Israel's aggressive attitude and brutal killings
are equally responsible.
However, the recently discussed event, the news of the restoration of bilateral
relations between arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran through the mediation of
China, is somewhat of a message of hope for the Middle East. The geopolitical
relations of the Gulf region may be reshaped. And the troubled Middle East can
become peaceful, and geopolitical stability can return.
On the other hand, the United States has taken on the role of the police even
earlier, working non-stop to improve the relations of Arab states with Israel.
Hamas leaders feel pressured to take action because of Israel's normalization
process with Arab countries over the past few years. Due to this process, the
Palestinian issue is becoming less important to Arab leaders. Arab leaders have
no urge to pressure Israel on this matter. If Saudi Arabia establishes formal
diplomatic relations with Israel, brokered by Washington, the already tenuous
two-state solution will be forever destroyed. That is what Hamas had in the
equation.
Hamas is the largest of the radical Islamist organizations in Palestine. Hamas
was formed in 1987 after the start of the 'Intifada' or Palestinian uprising to
demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. According to
the organization's charter, it is committed to the destruction of Israel. And
their demand is that the Palestinian state will be a single Islamic state
consisting of present-day Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.