Palestine Conflict (Episode: 2)

Palestine Conflict (Episode: 2)

In 1907 the British Government established a committee to make a strategy to bring the people of Muslim Arab who were part of the Ottoman Empire towards the purpose. The committee after their work in the region reported to the British Prime Minister Henry Cambell Bannerman to establish an unbiased state which neither has any conflict with the Jews and the people of Palestine. The committee recommended establishing strong relations with the rest of Europe and the neighboring countries in order to increase the dominance of British influence. The survival of this unbiased state is dependent upon the European colonialism. Moreover, such a state could survive by keeping the neighboring states weak.

Europeans were of the opinion that the establishment of the Jewish state would be good for them as they feel more comfortable with Jews as compared to the Arabs. In 1907 Chaim Weizmann an emerging chemist who had a deep eye on the land of Palestine wanted to establish the company in Jaffa which would make the plan to occupy Palestine and convert it into Israel easier to implement. His business was supported by Barron de Rothschild. When the business was started the major business deal was closed within the first three years of business operations. In the region of Marj Ibn Amer in Palestine 10,000 dunums of land was purchased which disturbed the farmers in Palestine. It was the Jewish National Fund which purchased the land and it seemed that the land was occupied by the Jews.

Almost 60,000 were pushed to leave the land of Marj Ibn Amer and this was a clear indication of the first big occupied chunk for the Jews in the land of Palestine. This colonialism was very rapid because it was intended not only to exploit the people of Palestine but it was intended to force them out of the land and bring the land under the occupation of Jews. Zionist movements started to be more severe and the occupied land of Palestine was turning into Israel making Israel and the emerging Jewish state. The only way to occupy the land was to force the farmers out of the land and let the Jews from Yemen and the rest of Europe to settle in the land.

(To be Continued)