PALESTINIAN OFFICER CALLS ON MUSLIMS TO SUPPORT THEIR CAUSE

By Nasser Kigwangallah

THE Palestinian 2^nd Secretary Derari Ghanamu has called on Muslims all over the world to support the Palestinian cause against the brutal repression from the Zionists of Israeli.

He said Palestinians were living under duress and Israeli soldiers do not want to see young people pray in the Al Aqsa Mosque, the sacred Muslim entity.

He said Muslims must keep Quds Day alive.

“I have repeatedly commented regarding Israel's avarice and that it will not be content with the lands it has already occupied,” he said.

He added: “You have now witnessed that it has chosen Jerusalem as its capital.”

He said that all the statements that the United States and human rights organizations announce are inconsistent utterances.

And thus you see that they disapprove of Israel's action, but it pays no heed.

Muslims should criticize it, in turn, and denounce them.

This trend is such because is nothing serious. America is not really against Jerusalem being Israel's capital; otherwise, it would not have been able to take such a step. This is all just a show. And human rights organizations and other such institutions are all allies.

They have all joined hands to plunder the Muslims and others in Asia and Africa, but, unfortunately, the Muslims are still not conscious of this.

The nations must themselves stand up against such oppression for the governments are generally on their side and thus you see that the Muslims; that is, the Islamic governments show no reaction to America's aggression. And if an Islamic government does say something, it is just words and nothing more.

You have witnessed how savagely they treated our dear sons, daughters, and our dear university students, and how bravely they held out, holding clenched fists, against the American police and the other security forces.

They bore all the blows and the atrocities of the Americans, but did not yield at all on their (principled) stand.

Muslims must learn what to do from these youth who are from Iran and are living abroad, whether in Britain, Europe or America.

We are disappointed with the governments, but the people are all right.

But what was the reaction of the nations to the American atrocities and, recently, also to what the British did to our zealous youth?! If there was any reaction it was from among the Iranian youth there and maybe, just in a few instances, their own people showed sympathy.

But overall, the nations did not demonstrate much sympathy and this is because the Muslim nations have not yet grasped the teachings of Islam.

Sheikh Alli Bassaleh and The Balfour Declaration of 1917

The grand Imam of Idrisa Mosque in Karikakko, Dar es Salaam said the Balfour Declaration was made in November 1917.

The Balfour Declaration led the Jewish community in Britain and America into believing that Great Britain would support the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East.

On November 2nd 1917, Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary of the time, wrote to Lord Rothschild. The Rothschild’s were considered by many Jews to be one the most influential of all Jewish families– they were certainly one of the wealthiest. Their influence in America was considered to be very important to the British government.

Balfour declared his support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the area known as Palestine – though there had to be safeguards for the "rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine".

This communication was accepted by the Jewish community as Great Britain’s support for a Jewish homeland.

Other nations that fought for the Allies offered their support for the declaration.

However, from a Palestinian Arab point of view, the same area had been promised to them for siding with the Allies in World War One and fighting against the Turks who were fighting on the side of the Germans.

Therefore, when Britain was given Palestine to govern as a League of Nation's mandate at the end of the war, both the Jews and the Arabs believed that they had been betrayed as both believed that they had been promised the same piece of land.

After 1918, politics in the Middle East was to become a lot more complicated as many Jews took the Balfour Declaration as read and emigrated to Palestine.

The Arabs there saw the increasing number of Jews moving to the region as a threat to their way of life and problems quickly multiplied.

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