Israel and the Arab World
Mohammad Abdullah Dhanmondi, Dhaka
This is a response to "Concerned Muslim's" letter on the following subject. I would like to remind him that Bangladesh didn't demand the whole of Pakistani land and didn't deny Pakistan's right to exist simply because we had no right to do so. But the Palestinians DO AND THEY REALLY DO have a right over the land Israel is currently occupying. Israel was formed by forcing out TWO MILLION Palestinians from their homeland. As a result, they became refugees in their own country. Their fight for freedom is absolutely just and no one can deny or ignore their fight to earn back their lost rights. Mr. "Concerned Muslim", your statement that all these years of fighting had given the Palestinians NOTHING is absolutely incorrect. Tell me what did the Palestinians gain before the latest "Intifada" began? It was only as a result of continuous and fearless resistance that Israel was forced to evacuate Gaza after 38 years of illegal occupation. If Allah wills, one day, for sure, the whole of Palestine will be freed from illegal occupation. Also, your suggestion that the Palestinians should be ready to make sacrifices simply shows your support for the adage "MIGHT IS RIGHT" instead of "JUSTICE SHOULD PREVAIL". The Palestinians are the true owners of Israeli lands and entirely it is up to them to recognise or not to recognise Israel. As a rational being, your duty is to stand for justice as has been prescribed in the Holy Quran. Finally, I believe that as a "Concerned Muslim", you are CONCERNED about the fact that recovering "MASJID-UL-AQSA" from illegal Jewish occupation is a duty entrusted upon the entire Muslim community, not only the Palestinians.I would request all not to make comments that will undermine the Palestinians' legitimate fight for freedom. *** The Muslims and Jews have a long history of mutual cooperation and coexistence, as well as suffering and persecution at the hands of Christian zealots. Even before the Holocaust, during Christian Crusades to free the Holy Land from the grip of the 'infidels' the Christian zealots from Europe (USA did not exist at that time) annihilated all the Jewish habitations on their way from Europe to the Middle East as an act of piety, before massacring the Muslim and the Jewish population of Jerusalem. During the Spanish Inquisition when the Muslims and the Jews were given two choices death or conversion to Christianity, many Jews found safe-haven in Muslim lands. Not only that, Jews had always enjoyed high and prestigious positions in Muslim empires up until European colonisation of the Muslim lands. Yet today, disillusioned by false promises of the imperialists, Zionist Jews are waging a ruthless war against Islam and fighting America's war. It is sad that the Israelis are allowing America to use them, just the way America used Afghan Mujahideens to fight America's previous adversary, Communist Soviet Union. Shukla Mirza, Doha, Qatar
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