By
Olusola O. Muhammad
Monday,
13/2/01 10:02:16
Reprinted from 'The Final Call to POWER' Newspaper
Why
would you as someone living in the United Kingdom need to
know about a conflict so far away? Why is it always in the
news and what has it got to do with you?
Five
hundred years ago Christopher Columbus established a trading
route across the Atlantic to the East for European Nations
when he discovered America and the Caribbean Islands. On discovering
these new found lands, the native Indians and peoples were
forced from their land and placed on reservations. This begun
a period of barbaric and inhumane treatment, never witnessed
before, in the annals of human history. Great Britain dominated
in this reign of terror and thuggery.
Like
a leopard that never changes its spots, in 1948, the foreign
policy of Great Britain was used to help to establish the
State of Israel on Palestinian land. Palestine was a
British Colony from 1917 until 1948. The Palestinians
were forced from their lands and made to live in Refugee Camps,
which at this time in history has not yet changed.
From
Holy Land to Unholy Land
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At
the dawn of this new Millennium, the start of an era, which
heralded peace and technological advancements, which could
change the entire globe for the better. An age-old conflict
remains simmering that could, if not resolved, become the
world’s greatest problem: Institutionalised Racism, the Race
problem in England and America and the Israel Palestine conflict.
The
year two thousand ended and ‘potentially’ ushered in a new
year where all three major religions; Islam, Christianity
and Judaism were united through their celebration of the One
and only true living God; Ramadan, Christmas and Hanukkah.
Jerusalem
being at the core of all three religions, through Abraham
who is referred to as the Father of Religion, means “Founded
in Peace.” This is a reason why the land in this area is referred
to as the “Holy Land.”
However,
“It was meant to be a time of celebration – peace
and goodwill to all men. But 2000 years after the birth
of Christ, Bethlehem [Palestine] is in the grip of a bloody
and bitter conflict,” says John Sweeney of the Sunday Observer
magazine.
In
the birth place of Jesus, Palestine (meaning that he was a
Palestinian) tank shells explode, bullets weave between buildings,
Palestinian children are shot dead, their homes blown to smithereens
leaving weeping and grieving families to continue fighting
for justice in the land of the Prophets of Bible and Holy
Qur’an. Are the bones of the prophets shaking in their tombs?
In
what is known as the New Jerusalem, ‘Mother England,’ the
family of Stephen Lawrence and many others are weeping and
grieving in their continued fight for justice against a rabid
and ‘genetic’ Institutionalised racism.
In
this unholy massacre of defenceless Palestinian children,
portrayed by the British media as a war, ‘The dying started
after Israel’s right-wing opposition leader; Ariel Sharon
inspected a contested holy site in Jerusalem. Since then 270
people have been killed: of those 70 are Israeli and 200 Palestinian,
of the Palestinian dead, 70 have been children”.
Ariel Sharon
“Is remembered by Palestinians
and Israelis alike as the villain of the 1982 Lebanon war.
That conflict was a defining moment for the Israeli peace
movement, not least the Lebanese massacres of Palestinian
refugees at Sabra and Shatila, which took place under Sharon’s
nose. The Government of Israel after their Inquiry into the
killings “Branded Sharon unfit to serve as defence minister.”
Rabbi
Michael Melchior, the Minister for the Jewish Diaspora in
the Israeli Government said “The Middle East conflict is about
two peoples claiming the same land… the problem is, if you
turn it into a religious conflict, then it becomes my God
against your God…”
As
the Ashkenazi European Jews are seen by the Christians as
the ‘Chosen’ people of God this would then make this conflict
a religious war, the billion Christians against the billion
Muslims making the Crusades of nine hundred years ago child’s
play in comparison to the bloodshed that will take place in
this modern time.
Can we avert the war of Armageddon?
The
Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan at the second anniversary of
the ‘Million Man March” speaking on the steps of the United
Nations building said two issues can commence this most dreadful
of wars, the war of Armageddon.
Britain started it, but can she end it?
“The turning point in relations between Arabs and
Jews came one crisp December morning in 1917, when General
Edmund Allenby became the first Christian commander since
the Crusades to march triumphantly into Jerusalem, at the
end of a gruelling campaign by British Imperial troops to
conquer the Holy Land”.
A
former Prime Minister of Great Britain Lord “Palmerston
believed that the restoration of a Jewish homeland would provide
Britain with a useful ally”.
If
Great Britain was truly a Christian Nation would Jesus, ‘The
Christ’ be pleased with her actions, or would He have to say
“Get thee behind me Satan, ye workers of Iniquity, I know
you not,” and “You are of your father, the Devil, who was
a murderer and a liar from the beginning, and abode not in
the truth and the lust of your fathers ye shall do. Will it
be proved that Great Britain is against God Almighty? Has
the Sun set forever on the British Empire? Has the Sun set
forever on the British Empire? |