The Israeli-Palestine Conflict Explained

By Olusola O. Muhammad
Monday, 13/2/01 10:02:16
Reprinted from ‘The Final Call to POWER’ Newspaper
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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.

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From Holy Land to Unholy Land
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”.

Arabs and Israel for Beginners

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?

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Sources:
Restoration of Jewish Homeland – Sunday Telegraph
O Little Town – Sunday Observer

Iraq: ‘The End of The Beginning’

By Olusola O. Muhammad
Saturday May 3, 2003
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Now that America is almost in total control of Iraq, and with Britain having a stake in Southern Iraq, it was recently reported in The Guardian newspaper, that, “Global oil companies have started to fight over the Iraqi spoils before the military conflict has ended with Russia’s Lukoil warning the west not to attempt any takeover of its West Qurna field.”

Lukoil is one of Russia’s state-owned oil companies and like British Petroleum (BP), TotalFinaElf (France) and others, are all competing for a slice of Iraq’s Oil.

With incredible riches to be derived from selling Iraq’s oil, securing and guaranteeing contracts has not been lost on the oil players in this game of brinkmanship.

“BP has warned that the US must not just carve up Iraq’s oil reserves and it has forged links with the UN” when BP’s chairman, Lord “Brown met Secretary General Kofi Annan last March” [2002], and its “co-chairman Peter Sutherland met him [Kofi Annan] on 4 February”.

As for Lukoil its vice-president Leonid Fedun, said “His group would…. arrest tankers carrying crude if any outsider tried to take a lead role on the project“.
The Lull Before The Storm As the war is about to be declared over and America and Britain plot to sell Iraq’s oil whilst refusing to permit the UN, France, Russia, Germany or any other nation to participate in the rebuilding of Iraq, and requesting the lifting of UN sanctions, the ‘eye of the storm’ is nearing its end.

Dispensing with Diplomatic niceties, President Vladimir Put in of Russia, during a 63-minute press conference on Tuesday April 29, told Prime Minister Tony Blair “Let’s send UN inspectors to Iraq if something is found there, let’s not show empty barrels on TV“, referring to Anglo-American claims of Iraq’s alleged WMD.

He also said according to The Guardian newspaper article – ‘We are not with you and we don’t believe you’ - “…Until clarity is achieved over whether WMD exist in Iraq, sanctions should be kept in place …Where is Saddam? Where are those arsenals of WMD, if indeed they ever existed? Perhaps Saddam is still hiding somewhere in a bunker underground, sitting on cases of WMD and is preparing to blow the whole thing up and bring down the lives of thousands of Iraqi peopl”.

Iraq has divided European Unity, establishing European fears of a widening polarity between an Anglo-American pact against Russia, Germany and France.

Military Preparations Against America

In order to ensure that Russia retrieves over $8 billion of debt that Iraq owes, secures her oil contract rights and participates in the rebuilding of Iraq, Russia, according to the Interfax News Agency, sent her Black Sea and Pacific naval fleets to the Indian Ocean on the 8th and 10th April, 2003.

“The Baltic fleet is also preparing to take part in the deployment to the Arabian Sea. Moreover it is possible that the Baltic Fleet will act jointly with French and German Fleets.”

These military manoeuvres to hold naval exercises in the Indian Ocean in May 2003, was agreed with by Turkey, for the Black Sea fleet to pass through the ‘Dardanelle’s’ and with India for the Pacific fleet to enter into the Indian Ocean.

According to the source in the Russian General Staff, “Since February 27, warships of the Black Sea and Pacific fleets have been in the state of ten-day readiness.” Also “the Russian Armed Forces are being brought into different degrees of combat readiness.”

When America attacked a Russian Diplomatic convoy as it was leaving Iraq and entering Syria, could this have been a precursor to plans, warning Russia not to get involved in the war?

Speaking to ‘Echo of Moscow radio station,’ Colonel-General Balery Manilov, a member of the Federation Council from the Primorye region said, “It is obvious from the diplomatic point of view that no country in the whole world will wish to live and watch Americans using the military force whenever they want…The world community will have to consolidate its military, political, economic, technical resources in order not to allow that to happen. The process is under way already…The world will have to unite and find a format to restrain America, the country, which opposed itself to the whole world.”

Is this the end or just the start?

Echoing Colonel-General views, Stratfor.Com the International Strategic Forecasting company says in an article, After Iraq: The Ongoing Crisis, “As the war in Iraq moves toward a conclusion, the expectations are that the end of the war will bring at least a pause in international tensions. We do not believe this will be the case. Given U.S. war goals, crises — inside Iraq, with nations along Iraq’s border and between Europe and the United States — can be expected to flow directly from war termination, whenever it come s… Iraq is a campaign in a much larger war and not a war in itself. We now will see what that means.”

Peace.