Genevieve Harris-Fraser: Tragedy of Palestine still being written

The politicalized purpose of Zionism was to plant the Western flag in the oil/gas-rich Arab tent as the world moved from steam-based power to petrochemicals. The tool to achieve this was Great Britain, which “won” Palestine as plunder following World War I. The people who were chosen to enact this were the Jews committed to the Zionist-Supremacist expansionist agenda.

To this day, Israel has no defined borders, always wishing to take more. The Zionists had been moving in place for decades, and turned the tables on England when Stern and Irgun terrorist gangs bombed British headquarters at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946 and then rampaged through Palestine, killing many thousands and destroying more than 500 villages and cities, driving 750,000 from their homes and declaring the captured land, Israel. (Crimes not dissimilar to those charged during the 1945-46 Nuremberg Trials.)

”Palestinia,” the Terra Sancta, the Holy Land appeared on ancient Persian maps, thousands of years old. Gaza may be older. It dates from the Iron Age and was already famous when Alexander the Great stormed the Gates of Gaza on his way to conquer Tyre, in today’s Lebanon. Before 20th-century events, Palestinians had thrived since the Crusades as a multi-religious, free people from “the river to the sea,” and a globally recognized tourist site. To this day, Palestinians maintain that ethos as central to their identity, embracing Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, with examples including the Samaritans in Nablus.

Today, Palestine’s quarrel is with the Zionist-Israeli, U.N.-cited “illegal” occupation. It is long past time to Free Palestine and desist from massacring its people and reducing it to rubble.

Genevieve Harris-Fraser

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