The Bullets Which Changed The Middle East!
By Dr Salim Nazzal
03 January, 2013
Countercurrents.org
Devoted to all Palestinian young men and woman who gave their life for Palestine!
Between the year 1948 and 1858 Palestinians found themselves in the worst situation a nation can experience. Ben Gorion the polish chieftain of the east European zio Jewish gangs declared the death of Palestine and the establishment of an east European state in Palestine.
The reality was dark. 70 percent were forcefully expelled from their home and fled to several neighboring Arab countries escaping the terror of zio Jews and those stayed at home lived under military control until the year 1966.
We had to face an unprecedented situation we never thought we would face, an old man of that generation told me.
Palestinians found themselves literary speaking a lost nation. We felt strongly that the world betrayed us, another man who was 30 years old in 1948 Palestine, and escaped with his family to Lebanon told me in an interview in 1995. And paradoxilly while Palestinians were fleeing their home the UN issued the human right charter in 1948. As Palestine is concerned this was empty talk to say the least! The same states which signed it are those who provided zio Jews with support to wipe off Palestine and to expel Palestinians.
But despite the general feeling among Palestinians that they were abandoned by the world, they had some hope that the world would not accept such things to happen too long. But as times go the hope that the UN does something for them began to fade. This must have consolidated the general feelings among Palestinians about the need to let their voice heard. We realize that we must depend on ourselves that same man whom I interviewed in 1995 told me.
It is also obvious that the Arab general political scene convinced those young Palestinians of the importance that they take their cause in their hands. The first Arab unity between Egypt and Syria failed and led to sort of inter Arab cold war. And with time Palestinians realized that Arab regime rather use the slogan (to liberate Palestine) to keep their power.
But things were not an easy task due to many challenges; the first is that Palestinians has no solid ground as for instance was the situation in 1936.In that date they declared the revolution against the British mandate which planned to fill Palestine with east European Jews to expel the natives. It was rather easier relatively speaking at that time because they were at home and all to do was to go to the mountains and declare the revolution. But not when they are dispersed in several countries, and these countries watch them and deal with them as a security problem.
The first spark began with the establishment of the Palestinian student union in Cairo which was a step to restore the Palestinian political identity. This was in a period when Palestine disappeared from the map and the UN dealt with it as a humanitarian problem only.
The secret meetings of those young Palestinian took place in Kuwait, Cairo, Amman, Damascus and Beirut. And the labor of years of organization and recruitment led to the establishment of Fath, the major Palestinian resistance movement. Fath was without a particular ideology in a period when the pan Arab ideology was dominating the political scence.For them liberating Palestine is the only criteria and this needs no particular ideology.
This perhaps explained that Palestinians who joined fath that period came from various ideological backgrounds, Marxists, Islamists, pan Arab etc...
In the first of January 1965 the first Palestinian resistance unit shot the first bullets against an Israeli goal.
In their way back the Jordanian army killed Ahmad mosa who became the first martyr in the contemporary Palestinian revolution. .This consolidates the general belief that there is no way to struggle against Zionism before removing the Arab regimes protecting the Zionist state.
Much of this characterization appeared during the Arab spring especially in Tunis and Egypt.
Dr. Salim Nazzal, a Palestinian-Norwegian historian on the Middle East, He has written extensively on social and political issues in the region.
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