67 Words Of Destruction: Unravelling Palestine’s Century-Long Struggle [Opinion]

A non-Muslim Malaysian's perspective on the Palestinian cause and the power of solidarity

The beginning of the destruction of historical Palestine was marked by just 67 words in the Balfour Declaration of the British government in November 1917:

For a century, Palestinians have been betrayed, robbed, denied their statehood even as their Arab neighbours got theirs. They have been denied self-determination. They were unrecognised and not consulted even as their homeland was carved up by a UN committee in 1947. Over half their land was given to new Jewish migrants who were in the minority back then.

Israel created hell on earth in Gaza for the millions of Palestinians who became refugees and prisoners – the survivors of the Nakba and their descendants – in their own land. It is shameful, it is a loss of humanity – and, as so often happens, all this is dressed in a coat and a tie with hollow words from the lips. That’s civilisation for us.

In fact, there is an opportunity here for leadership in the country to build something in terms of a common cause among the various ethnic groups. This is something we can all join hands in. Yet, I see the talking as an act of support as an individual. It is also an empathetic, vicarious act of resistance against an ongoing historical injustice.

They were treated like non-entities while decisions affecting them were made by the imperial powers. They were stripped of their dignity by their occupiers. All this continues to this day. The solution, therefore, has to be a political solution – not a violent, military one. But it must be founded on moral foundations.I say, I am a Southeast Asian in a small corner of the region called Penang. I have no business having a Jewish problem. I have no business being anti-Semitic. If the situation was reversed between Israelis and Palestinians and it was a Palestinian knee on the throat of Israeli Jews, my sensibilities would be equally triggered.

Feeding such prejudices against Islam also feeds the convenient trope of terrorism. So they say, Hamas are Islamic radicals, its acts of violence are therefore simply acts of senseless terrorism. Therefore, the solution is to wipe out Hamas – instead of ending the occupation and land theft which are at the root of the problem.

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