On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba: Peace will not be achieved unless the right is returned to its owners

On the fifteenth of May, every year, our Palestinian people everywhere celebrate the anniversary of the great catastrophe that befell our Palestinian people in 1948, that catastrophe that our Palestinian people are still groaning under the weight of its bloody effects and painful facts. It is the painful memory that befell our Palestinian people 75 years ago when they were uprooted. From his land, his homeland, and expelled from his homes in the widest and most heinous process of ethnic cleansing witnessed in the modern era. On that day, the chapters of the conspiracy hatched by the Zionist gangs were completed in collusion with global imperialism and the United Kingdom, which was mandated over Palestine at the time. In those dark days, the Zionist gangs succeeded with the support of the Mandate state and many From the emerging imperialist countries at the time, not only by stealing a land without a people as they claimed, but rather they took over the State of Palestine, which was based on its various institutions on the land and its people were safe and seeking their independence, just as the neighboring peoples achieved what they wanted.

Today, as we commemorate the Nakba, it is necessary to rejuvenate the memory by focusing on what research centers, studies, and the generations that are still alive dealt with, all of which confirmed that the Zionist gangs, based on the support provided to them, expelled the original owners of the land in the largest ethnic cleansing operation since World War II. They usurped the state of the Palestinian people, which already existed, but was subject to the British mandate, which unfortunately violated what was stated in the text of the mandate deed regarding the need to help the Palestinian people in self-determination, and deprived the Palestinian people of their right to independence, just like the peoples of neighboring countries that gained their independence after being subject to it. Britain's role was not only confined to this conspiracy and collusion, but it also provided the Zionist movement, according to the ominous promise of its foreign minister, Lord Balfour, with all opportunities and success factors, starting with the provision of weapons and equipment and the establishment of dozens of training camps for Jewish recruits, in addition to facilitating the movement of immigration and absorbing tens of thousands of Jews in and at the same time practiced all forms of oppression and brutal violence against the real owners of the land and deprived them of any means to defend their rights to face the imminent danger that was growing and escalating before their eyes, and they resisted it with courage and rare valor in an attempt to prevent the Zionist movement from achieving its goals, but it It finally succeeded in achieving its project of usurping the homeland and displacing the people of Palestine.

Today once again, and on the anniversary of the Nakba, the truth that no one can deny is renewed, affirming that Palestine was not a land without a people as they claim. Until the year 1945, it included a thousand and three hundred villages, cities, and towns that had a population of most of them exceeding thousands, while the Zionists had only 181 colonies until that. Its population does not exceed hundreds. They established it with British complicity and forgery. With continued support and facilities, hundreds of thousands of Jews were brought in from all over the world. They were organized under the auspices of the British army and trained in the Irgun, Stern and Haganah gangs that waged a brutal war and campaigns of extermination and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people until they were able to These gangs, in mid-May 1948, stole the homeland, which is what we rightly call (the Great Nakba). Palestine .

Today, while we are talking about the Nakba and the homeland that was stolen, the whole world must know that Palestine was not devoid of population, as the Zionists claim, but was an existing state subject to a mandate that played a conspiratorial role in depriving its people of independence, and various court studies and research indicate that the Zionists stole a homeland and established their racist state There were state institutions that existed. During the Mandate, there were 1,700 governmental establishments in Palestine, including clubs, buildings, industrial establishments, and others. Palestine was considered one of the most advanced neighboring countries in the commercial, industrial, and agricultural fields. It included 500 operating establishments in several fields. It connects neighboring countries with a network of railways and has 41 train stations and 700 kilometers of railways, in addition to 31 airports, 6000 kilometers of paved roads and 37 British army camps. Most of these camps and their equipment were handed over to the invading Zionists who used them in their war to annihilate our people and displace them from their homeland.

In that Nakba, which the Zionists still seized at the time, 2000 historical monuments of mosques, cemeteries, monasteries, caves, and antiquities centers. From killing, destroying, raping, burning people and burying them alive, this has been proven by recent studies, including those issued by Israeli writers and researchers whose consciences awakened after silence, and they indicated that 90% of Palestinian villages were displaced by their residents under the weight of military attacks that took place during the existence of the British Mandate Under his protection, with the advent of May 1948 and the official announcement of the establishment of the occupying state, the remaining 42% of the population was expelled, and the process of expelling the remaining 6% was completed after the so-called armistice agreements.

This day, and we and all the free people in the world commemorate the Nakba after 75 years. The world and people of living conscience must realize that the Zionist gangs committed, in their war against our people, the most heinous massacres known to humanity, as they destroyed more than 700 villages and towns that they completely wiped out from the ground and carried out between 1947 and 1949. Only 247 killings and exterminations, including 141 massacres, 70 of which are considered within the framework of the major massacres and 71 within the framework of the medium, with this unprecedented terrorism carried out by the Zionist gangs and still managed in 1948 to complete decisive and important episodes of the chapters of their plots to occupy all of Palestine and expel its people who They turned into refugees, whose number these days exceeded seven million refugees, scattered in various directions to Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and to many other countries of the world. Through the foregoing, the language of numbers that we referred to above and many others like them are still preserved in the memory of generations and confirmed by them. It is clear from the research and studies centers that the occupying state has stolen an independent state and displaced a people whose life has been turned upside down.

In these days of May, when the memory of the Nakba passes, this deep wound in the Palestinian body, we say that despite the passage of seven and a half decades and the painful effects it left behind, he will continue to suffer from it until he recovers, and this will not be done without achieving his just rights of return, freedom and independence.

And that our Palestinian people, despite the wounds and pain that befell them, did not and will not surrender to the facts imposed by the occupying state as a result of the Nakba, and is still continuing its struggle, adhering to the right to return to those lands from which it was displaced. The years of his long struggle since the start of the Palestinian revolution, which constituted the culmination of the Palestinian challenge in the face of the Nakba, and he was able to reshape his national identity and highlight his unified political entity represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is also exposed today to a liquidation plot after it represented the identity and entity of our people and its status was strengthened at all levels and won Arab and international recognition In supporting and consolidating the rights of our people to self-determination, the establishment of their independent state, and the return of their refugees in accordance with Resolution 194 of the United Nations General Assembly.

Today, while we are talking about the Nakba, we must point out and warn of the dangers of forming the fascist extremist government of the right-wingers led by Netanyahu, which approved in its program the implementation of the decisive plan that all previous governments failed to implement in order to complete the chapters of the Nakba, which has not yet been completed according to the Zionist perspective. The Zionist goal is still focused on The erasure of the Palestinian people and the liquidation of their cause. Today, this effort is escalating to the pace of aggression, the increase and intensification of settlement expansion, and the continuation of cold-blooded killings, arrests and sieges with the aim of maintaining full control of the occupation over the largest area of land and the smallest number of inhabitants, in addition to targeting the refugee issue and seeking to liquidate it by abolishing the role of UNRWA as an embodiment of the international commitment to the refugee issue and the right of return, not to mention the occupation's plan to push for the transformation of hundreds of thousands of our people inside into new refugees under the law of racial nationalism, which aims to uproot the remaining part of our people from their land.

The occupying power is also working to exploit the continuing state of division and intensify its efforts to transform it into a complete separation that makes the Gaza Strip a center for resolving the Palestinian issue at the expense of annexing Jerusalem and large parts of the West Bank, thus blocking the right of our people to establish their fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Today, our Palestinian people, along with the whole world, commemorate the Nakba, especially after the United Nations General Assembly decided to commemorate it from within the halls of the General Assembly. Especially Resolution 194, which stipulates the return of refugees to their homes. It is the responsibility of the United Nations and the whole world. Today, as we commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, our people look forward to all lovers of justice, freedom and stability in the world, to stand by our people and advocate for them in order to obtain their rights, guarantee the implementation of justice, and out of keenness to achieve peace, which will only be achieved by restoring the right that was stolen to its owners who will cling to it.