Nakbah day. How many more?

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Many who are not directly affected by the theft of Palestinian lives, homes, land, future and hope, tend to focus our attention on the Palestinian (akbah) only on anniverseries. But for the Palestinians, EVERY day is a Nakbah day. Thankfully the Zionist game is being exposed like never before.

Here follows a press statement from COMPLETE, an umbrella organisation of NGO’s whose members reject Zionism and who do are active in trying to end its necromatic manefestations.

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Statement begins:

Today, the 15^th of May marked the anniversary of an-Nakbah or the catastrophy in Arabic. It refers to the colossal human tragedy that unfolded in Palestine on 15^th of May 1948. Sixty one years ago, on this day, some 800,000 Palestinians, fearing for their lives fled from their homes and seeked refuge in neighbouring Arab countries. It was the culmination of the systematic usurpation of Palestinian land during the period of the British mandate by Jewish settlers since the 1920’s that climaxed with the Israel declaration of ‘independence’ on 14^th May 1948. Now after sixty one years, those Palestinians or their surviving children and children’s children, numbering over five million people are still languishing in refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Gaza strip in abject conditions and almost at the brink of oblivion.

 

Sixty one years on, today Palestine  still remains under occupation. Despite repeated calls by the United Nations under countless UN Resolutions for Israel to honour the rights of the Palestinians to a statehood, Israel has remained obnoxious. The longstanding occupation now has led to other more demeaning and sinister moves by the Zionist regime to carve up more land by building Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian lands and constructing the notorious wall that snakes through the West Bank from north to south, disrupting daily movements of the Palestinian people and blocking access to schools, farms and water sources. Against every sense of justice and international laws and convention, Israel has been laying siege on the densely populated Gaza strip since 2006, turning it into the biggest terrestrial prison on earth and collectively punishing the population of Gaza for putting up resistance against the occupation, an act that is sanctioned even by the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions. The siege was than followed by a massive military strike against a deprived population that lasted for 22 days, killing no less more than 1,000 people, half of these women and children, with the aim of breaking the spirit of the Palestinian people, only to find them surviving the nightmarish ordeal and coming out stronger.

 

These episodes only prove one thing i.e. no power can put down a national aspiration for freedom. The Palestinian people will continue to remain steadfast in their struggle to liberate their land and restore their dignity in the face of the most oppressive regime the world has ever known. They have put up sixty one years of honourable struggle to regain their freedom and they are showing no signs of letting up.

 

COMPLETE Malaysia would like to call upon men and women of conscience to contemplate on this longstanding suffering of fellow human beings who have been continuously denied of a homeland, freedom and dignity. It is a great shame for the whole of humanity to allow such gross violations of human rights going unchecked for over half a century. It is the paradox of the century that the Palestinians lost their freedom and the right to a homeland the same year the Universal declaration of Human rights was endorsed by the United Nations in 1948.

 

COMPLETE Malaysia therefore calls on governments of the world, civil societies and individuals of conscience to exhaust all efforts, be it diplomatic, legal and economic, to condemn Israel’s racist acts of dehumanizing the Palestinian people. It has become incumbent on every person to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and stand firmly by their side as they thrive hard to earn the freedom and regain their honour and dignity.

 

COMPLETE Malaysia will continue to raise awareness on the Palestinian issue by holding events with the objectives of dissemination of information and bringing understanding to members of the public. It is hoped that our humble effort will receive the warm support of every Malaysian regardless of creed and ethnic background, to do what is right in the name of humanity. COMPLETE Malaysia holds the view that the Palestinian issue is not one of religious or mere territorial dispute, but it is one of oppression and subjugation of one nation unto another that was left to linger for far too long. Therefore we hope every Malaysian will join us in unison when we say ‘Enough is Enough’ in the face of the Zionist Regime of Israel and demand a stop to their barbaric acts of debasement and annihilation of the Palestinian Nation.  

 

Adnan Tahir

Chairman

COMPLETE Malaysia

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