Palestine is a land now divided into mulitiple parts. 

There is Gaza, which is now as one.  One large prison where no plane nor ship is allowed enter, unless its an Israeli plane. Its a prison where three out of every four people are below the poverty line, and where one out of every four children is suffering from Malnutrition.

There is Israel, like a cancer it continuously grows swallowing up more and more land spreading further and further east. Most recently annexing the Jordan Valley, which is about as far east as the Israelis can go before invading Jordan (again). This borderless state is one of the few explicitly racist nations left on the planet.  Someone from, lets say New York, can go and live there if they are Jewish, however, someone (unsurprisngly, a Non-white Arab) who was forced from their home inside this land is not allowed to return to it!  Thus under a law they call the “Law of return“, people who have never lived in the land are allowed to “return” to someone elses home!  If a citizen marries a Palestinian, they must live apart, as Palestinians “should not be allowed into the country.”

And then, of course, there is the West Bank.  With East Jerusalem as its besieged capital, its under steady barrage of death from the swamping mass of Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers. If the Israelis are to be believed, Palestinian infants, women and other civilians are actually getting themselves in the way of their bullets and are not being targeted at all.  Just there, Yesterday, Sunday May 14th a further six people were murdered.  On Friday another person was shot dead by the Israelis following an illegal raid.  Apart from East Jerusalem, the west bank includes places like Hebron, Nablus and Jericho, and as such tourism could easily become a major source of Palestinian Revenue if the Israelis ever end their war.  but the Irsraelis are more interested in grabbing more and more land.  note this map which details the land Israel has both grabbed for their settlements, and simply banned the native population from living in.

                                               

We can clearly see the displacment and strangulation in place by the israelis.

Now, let us compare another thing. In 2002 it was recorded that since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population, that is more than $5,700 per person.  That was before the Sharon Government demanded $10 billion to “disengage” from a territory that was never there’s to begin with. The biggest most important Lobby group in the US are the sinister “AIPAC“, (The American Israel Public Affaris Committe) an organisation designed solely to propogate the interests of Israel, and several of whose members are currently on trial under espionage charges. Total US aid to Isael is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget. A portion of US foreign aid to Israel, which has increased in the past decade to $80 million annually, goes into building settlements for Jewish immigrants. 

However, the Palestinians, as we have seen, are living in poverty and hundreds of thousands of whom are literally starving to death recieve no US aid.  Not a single solitary cent. The EU too has cut off all aid.  $70m donated by Arab states is blocked because banks, fearing international sanctions, refuse to transfer the funds. Israel is refusing to hand over the tax money that is legally the Palestinians.

This is the world at large attacking the people of palestine, something which, as the law of israel highlights, would not happen if these people were Jewish. It is a disgrace of the highest magnitute. 

It is comparable, and I hope I cause no offence, with the time Muhammad () spent in the desert.  Rejected for not being the right religion, one third of the Muslims died. But they recieved help, the Ansari of Madinah aided the starving people of the Arabian Desert.  Today it is the Palestinians who are in need of their Ansari.  We need to help.

You can help by donating to Interpal, MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians), UNRWA, or Islamic Relief and I’m sure there are many more!

Don’t even think about it, just do it.