The Jews invaded Palestine in 1220 BC. With the exception of the periods of Prophet-Kings, Dawud (David) (d.961 BC) and Sulayman (Solomon) (d. 922 BC), they led a precarious existence, sandwiched between their more powerful neighbours like the Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians and Romans. Their continuous intrigues, revolts and contacts with rival world powers (reminiscent of their current role) attracted retribution by their rulers and neighbours. The Chaldean emperor, Nebuchadnezzar took t...

The land policies, practices and measures adopted by the Israeli authorities since 1948 have proved prejudicial to the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people. Jewish acquisition of land in Palestine shows that there were several stages in the dispossession of the Arabs. The history of the acquisition of agricultural land in Palestine and of the land cultivation system before the traumatic emergence of Israel shows disparity between Jews and Arabs with respect to land ownership in Pale...

Israel has destroyed Gaza with the stated goal of creating a new reality on the ground:

“No Hams, only Abbas and his Fatah to deal with”.

Pro-Palestinian intellectuals are wondering if a new form of resistance will emerge from Gaza’s ashes.

President Obama has appointed a special envoy to work for peace between the Palestinians and Israel.  Oslo accord, Madrid negotiations and Annapolis meet failed. For years, Saudi proposal of an...

Recent destruction of Gaza has once again revealed the crimes of Israel against peace and humanity since this entity was planted on the Palestinian land in April 1948. Palestinians have already documented evidences for the International Criminal Court and Special Tribunal for War Crimes against the Palestinians either by the UN or the United States. Remarkably, on a complaint filed by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in January 2009, the Spanish Court on February 27 decided to invest...

Millions of Christian Zionists all over the world are praying and hoping for a doomsday war that will end with the complete obliteration of Humanity. The Bible prophesies a “battle on the great day of God Almighty” (Revelations 16: 14, Christian Bible). What the Bible intended as warning, however, has been reinterpreted as a promise. Dread of God’s wrath has been replaced with eager anticipation of His fury. A bizarre, apocalyptic hope has been covertly inculcated into the...

Palestine is the arena that shaped the direction of human history in the past. It taught us an important lesson that whenever humans, intoxicated with power, wealth and privilege, cross the limits of humanity, consider themselves the architects of others’ destiny, usurp the lands of others, deprive others of their basic rights of existence, and destroy the very fabric of dignified living, they have to face destruction. We are now facing the same situation in the contemporary era ...

The beginning of the 20th century saw arrival of Palestine looters and those who later became the oppressors in Palestine. The British government, with the help of other imperial powers, finally created the state of Israel on February 14, 1948. Arabs by the hundreds of thousands were driven out of their cities and villages when Israel was established. The looters and the oppressors got a free hand in terrorising the Arabs – both Muslims and Christians – who remained in Israel, a...

– Prof. Arnold Toynbee

 

Broadly speaking, human rights may be regarded as fundamental and inalienable rights, which are essential for life as human beings. Human Rights are the rights which are possessed by every human being, irrespective of his or her nationality, race, religion, sex, etc., simply b...

The United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) was founded on October 24, 1945 in order to meet challenges of offences against peace and to work also for the security of mankind. The assurance for peace as given in the preamble of its aims and objects was overflowing and attractive. Some of its objectives in the essence of its preamble for restoring peace and global stability are as follows:

“We the people of United Nations determined to save succeeding generation from the scour...

The current Palestinian problem has its roots in 1860s when European Jewish politicians and philanthropists started looking for a separate homeland for Jews as a way to escape persecution, especially in Eastern Europe and Russia. Various options were explored including Argentina, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Cyrenaica (Barqa or Eastern Libya), Uganda, Kenya, etc. But finally Palestine was chosen for its emotional appeal to the Jews. The British Secretary of State Lord Balfour in 1917 prom...

Abu Hurairah is a great companion of Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him). He embraced Islam sometime after the Treaty of Hudaibya, and narrated thousands of Ahadith from the Holy Messenger. Once he recalled, “I participated in the Battle of Mauta. We realised that enemy soldiers were virtually infinite; there was an endless ocean of soldiers, armed to the teeth, covered in iron from top to the toe. My eyes were effulgent with the glow of gold and silk (that they...

Fourteen centuries and a half ago not only Arabia but the whole world was deeply engulfed in darkness and ignorance. A lot of shameful and inhumane customs and deteriorated moral conditions i.e. human sacrifices on the altar of deities, burning of women alive, untouchability, caste system, idolatry, adultery, obscenity, cruelty and slavery, were the order of the day. Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) as the Final Messenger of God, stood up and provided grace and glorification for the...

The Palestinian conflict, in actual terms, started in the 1917 with formal pronouncement of Balfour Declaration when the British mandated for a Jewish majority state in Palestine. In fact the whole project was to expel the indigenous Palestinian population and provide an opportunity for the immigrant Jews to settle down in these regions. In actual terms it was a blind support to the project of Zionism that was forcibly imposed on the Palestinians. The partition plan of the UN is an absolute...