My countrymen always prefer to live in dreamland. State of Israel is no doubt artificial and created unjustly by the French & English, main colonial powers of 19th & 20th century, but real culpability lies with Arabs themselves.
In order to understand the current situation, one must look at how this all could happen.
British occupation of Egypt started around 1880. Evelyn Baring (Earl of Cromer) came to Egypt as British commissioner in the Court of the Khedive (Hereditary Turkish governor, but in all but name King) in 1877. It was the time when Khedive Ismail Pasha has plunged Egypt into near bankruptcy and a committee was set up by the European Creditors to safeguard their interests. Ismael was deposed and his son Tawfiq made Khedive.
After a brief interlude in India Cromer returned as British Counsel general and became controller of Egyptian Finances until 1887. His conclusion was that Egyptians were in capable of managing their finances and the answer was annexation. He did this job well and by the 1907 when he left Egypt was well on its way to recovery and Cairo was turning into a modern & prosperous city. Khedive was still there but British were controlling Egypt by the time of WW1 when Egypt was used as the base for fighting the Turks. Hence it was gross incompetence by the Egyptians which allowed English to occupy Egypt without firing a single shot.
Muslims Arabs from Hejaz (Hashemites) and Wahhabis of Nejd fought for the British to liberate Bilad-ash- Sham from the Turks. State of Israel is direct result of the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. Therefore if the Arabs had not aided the British to defeat the Turks, we would have no such thing as the country of Israel. Hence it’s the Arabs who are partly responsible for the suffering of the Arabs of the region.
Anyone can google 1948 borders of Israel. It was a small innocuous state and would have remained so had Nasser of Egypt not started 1967 war. Israel more than tripled its size in the 7 day war by seizing Golan Heights, West Bank & Gaza and the Sinai as the result. Egypt managed to get back most of what she lost but Syrians & the Palestinians are still suffering.
I am anti-Zionist and believe that Israel has no right to forcibly evict Palestinians from their homeland. But as a student of history, I am a realist and know what can and cannot be done.
In my humble opinion, only way forward is for Palestinians to accept Israeli border of 1948 and then try the diplomatic means to get full independence for the West Bank and Gaza. Yasser Arafat had come to the same conclusion when he signed the Oslo Peace accord in 1993. Even this road is going to be very difficult, but by accepting Israeli right to exist as a State will go a long way towards permanent peace.
People can wish all they want and hope for Israel to disappear but it is not going to happen at least in my lifetime. However some of my country men like the fantasy world. Remember Jamaat Islami leaders boasted to plant Pakistan flag on the Red fort!
I may not be as knowledgeable as you are but I think that you are overlooking some historical facts.
First of all, even before Arabs,
Theodore Herzl had proposed the migration of Jews into Holyland in anticipation of a Zionist state - that is
before the 20th century. So,
mass mobilisation of jews and zionists was already in place when the Arabs went to conquer Syria and Transjordan. At approximately the same time, Balfour declaration was presented.
The other most important fact is that the terrorist militias of
Irgun and Haganah, which later constituted the Israeli Armed Forces, carried out massacres and
ethnic cleansings in Palestine in
1948 to drive the Palestinians out. Out of a total population of 1.3 Million, about 700,000 to
1 Million were sent into
exile in surrounding countries.
My point here is that in order to achieve a democratic Israel, fascist tactics were employed to tip the balance of demographics in the favour of Jews. At the start of 20th century, jews consisted only
6% of total population of Palestine. Arabs before that were irritated but did not committed mass atrocities as the Jews.
Right from it's start Israel was committing state terrorism. It kept it alive in the form of '
border wars' of 1950 and 1960.
Also, other than the 4th (1973) and 6th (2006) Arab-Israeli wars, all other wars were started by Israel not by the Arabs, that includes the 1967 and before that – in connivance with UK and France –
1956 war.
If you indicate the activities of Palestinian terror groups, then, I also want to point out that, in most cases, terrorism is the
weapon of the weak. You should also remember the state terrorism of Israel.
Final thing is the expansionist ambitions of the Israel which does not want any state around it to be at peace with it – exception is Egypt which gave Israel a severe blow in 1973 war. The single reason for such war-like conditions is the
dream of a greater Israel. Israel invaded
Lebanon in 1982 with implicit intentions to
annex South Lebanon, drive away the Muslim populations to neighbouring countries and achieve a '
Minority Alliance' with the Maronites, thus, converting it into a truncated Christian Lebanon.
To cut the long story short, even if the neighbours look for peace with Israel, Israel won't like to have that; after all without war how will it ever be able to conquer their territories and convert them to Greater Israel.
Please explain where?
what an innovative solution
