The Zionist movement succeeded in converting the legend of the Promised Land into a reality by forcing the Jewish population from different parts of the world to emigrate to Palestine.

Israel has been employing various terrorist methods and repression over the past 50 years to illegally drive away the original inhabitants of the land. Israel also managed to conceal these facts, misleading the world by clever manipulations of the media.

May 15, the day on which the state of Israel was declared, is a day of sorrow for the Arab world while that black day is a day of shame for the international community.

Let’s take a quick look at the manner in which the occupation of Palestine was engineered right from the beginning.

The scheming to usurp the Palestinian land can be traced back to 1844 when an American Jew, Mordechai Manuel appealed to the Christian world to permit the Jews to establish a homeland for international Jewry. The request coincided with the appeal by two Englishmen, Lord Shaftsbury and Sir Lawrence Olivier, to the British government to help Jews set up a state of their own.

British politicians welcomed the idea as it would, apparently, serve as a strategic outpost in the Middle East to protect the route to the colonies in the Indian subcontinent and East Africa. France also supported the idea in 1862 as it secretly desired to use the Jewish state as a bridge to its Far East colonies.

The first batch of immigrants came from Russia in 1882 with Baron Rothschild’s financial and political support. He promised to establish a Jewish colony in the Palestinian territory. Theodor Herzl, founding president of the International Zionist Congress, declared in the Swiss city of Basel in 1898 his goal to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. His attempts to get the backing of the Ottoman Sultan in this venture ended in failure.

The fifth Zionist Congress in 1903 rejected a British offer to establish a Jewish state in Uganda. In 1917, the British government issued the notorious Balfour declaration promising Jews the establishment of their nation in Palestine.

The League of Nations agreed in 1922 to make the Balfour declaration the cornerstone to deal with the Palestinian issue. A special Jewish agency was established to supervise and expedite the immigration to Palestine where there were only 85,000 Jews in 1929.

In 1936, a British commission recommended steps to counter the decision by the Arab Higher Committee to resist further Jewish immigration to the Arab territories. The British commission also suggested that the native Arab inhabitants in the region should be evicted to facilitate the founding of the Jewish state.

On the basis of the recommendations of this commission, the British government tried its best to suppress the Arab resistance and permitted the influx of the Jewish immigrants and aided in smuggling weapons for them.

In 1942, the Jewish conference in Baltimore demanded the immediate lifting of all the restrictions on Jewish emigration to Palestine.

With the increase in the number of emigrants new kibbutzs were founded. Several terrorist gangs such as Irgun and Stern were formed with the aim of driving away Arab families in large numbers by killing them and setting fire to their farms and homes.

After World War II, American President Harry Truman declared his support to found the state of Israel and demanded Britain to allow free Jewish settlements in Palestine. In 1947, the United Nations passed a resolution to divide Palestine. The UN recognized Israel in 1948 and the then Soviet Union was one of the first nations to recognize it.

This emphatically proves how the leading powers of the world were bent on founding the Jewish state of Israel after destroying the Arab identity of Palestine.