By Rafia Zakaria
February 19, 2020
IT has not been a good century for the Palestinians. The trouble, some historians would say, began as long as 103 years ago with the Balfour Declaration that gave Israeli Jews the right to establish a national homeland for the Jewish people. Less than 10 per cent of population at the time in Palestine was Jewish, but that did not matter. It has not mattered since either: not through the British Protectorate that was established in 1920, nor when the Jewish state of Israel was actually established in 1948 — and not at all since.
The 70 or so years since have bought no respite from Jewish settler colonialism either. A few weeks ago, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, came up with a peace plan for the Palestinians — without bothering to even talk to the Palestinians. It gave even less to them than they have. They rejected it immediately. Read More https://newageislam.com/current-affairs/rafia-zakaria/hamas-seem-to-have-turned-to-a-new-form-of-attacking-israeli-military-targets/d/121097
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