Let’s see what I am missing from this equation!
Colonialism and the concepts of colonialization have been the successful rise and dominance of the Europeans since the fifteenth century. North America, (USA and Canada) developed as offshoots of European culture, hegemony, and colonization. Today, Europe and North America form “The West” and the concepts of colonization by the colonizers have never stopped, only modified to suit the times. The rise and dominance of colonialism also represented the demise of all other cultures and nations and races that it encountered. The colonization of America (North and South), Asia, Australia, and Africa, was only practiced by “the Europeans, the West”. Due to the concepts of colonization by the colonizers, it was easy to have an article like the Balfour Declaration in 1917, after World War I. This designated a part of the land of Palestine for the “Jewish” people.
Only the colonizers were able to go into a country and take over the administration, install their people, or install other people. The promise of this part of Palestine manifested in 1948 after World War II. This brought the European Jewish people to Palestine. All of Palestine was occupied by Palestinians, who were Muslims, Christians, and African Jewish people. The “Jewish” people were living in European countries, African countries, and ‘Muslim’ countries without any problems. In Europe, however, oppression of the Jewish people was practiced by the German people, and then came the ‘holocaust’ as well depicted in European history by the Germans against the Jewish people. It must be noted that Muslims and Jewish people all through history from the seventh century lived in harmony and respect was given through the Islamic law. No Muslim nation or country ever slaughtered the European Jewish people as their European brothers the Germans did. Why was not a home provided for these European Jewish people in Germany? It was the Germans that did the holocaust on the European Jews, not the Arabs or Muslims or Palestinians.
The modern-day colonizers continue with their colonization of the land of Palestine supported by the original colonizers (The West). This is all wrong and will eventually meet the same fate as all colonized nations. However, the destructive system of colonization will again be felt, this time by the Palestinian people and by extension the Muslim nation. The solace is that in the end, the colonizers will not succeed. The enslavement of the Africans at one time seemed “eternal.” it would never end and after two hundred consecutive years of direct slavery of the Africans (200 plus years of free labour and dehumanization). The end came, but another two hundred years would pass with still no reparation for the descendants of the enslaved Africans.
Apartheid in South Africa was also supported by the colonizers (The West) until it became well known the world over and the evils of this system were exposed. It was like vomit to the colonizers who eventually began to mobilize against that system, it was no longer favourable to them though they greatly benefitted from that system. The Africans revolted against the system and the West was forced to support it, leading to the fall of the evil apartheid system.
Likewise, the colonization of Palestine will one day come to an end, it is inevitable. Even though at this time, it seems impossible to remove the occupation of Palestine, because of the great support of The West, it will eventually fail.
I am so proud that Africa, (South Africa) has taken the Israeli Government and nation to the International Court of Justice on the count of genocide on the Palestinian people. South Africa is the most appropriate country to do this having in recent history, been subjected to the evil concept of Apartheid. How ironic is it, that the same Jewish people who were subjected to the holocaust by Europeans (Germans), are now committing genocidal acts? Will justice be served as the world is being judged, will justice prevail?
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Salah, I believe the USA is the greatest country in the world. You put a madman in charge, all hell break loose, everything is skewed. This is what taken place today with the Israeli Government.
The Calypsonian as a Social Scientist.