Israel’s latest ploy is to declare itself as a Jewish state. The main objective is to deny the Palestinian refugees their right to return to their homeland and thereby to force them to permanently settle down in the countries where they have taken shelter.

Alongside with the declaration as a Jewish state, Israel also plans to force the Palestinians still living in Al -Quds, the West Bank and even in the Gaza strip, to move out and settle in the neighboring Arab states or elsewhere so as to close the doors of their homeland on them for ever. That is the reason that Israel would not let the Palestinians be at rest anywhere in or near the land of Palestine.

This policy of Israeli usurpers can be seen in action in east Jerusalem in particular where in flagrant and repeated violation of UN resolutions and its own commitments, it has been building settlements .to impose what it calls ‘facts on the ground’.

In this open violation of the Palestinians’ fundamental human rights and of the international law, Israel is supported by its friend and mentor, the United States.

The Jewish state idea is another name for an ‘apartheid’ state The Palestinians would firstly be denied their right to return to their land, and if some of them succeed in coming or staying on in their motherland, they would not be treated as equal citizens with the Jews, or Zionists, to use the right term for them. Israel has already started acting on its sinister plans; it is hounding out the Palestinians from Jerusalem by harassing them and occupying their lands and houses by hook or by crook.

More trouble can be foreseen for Gaza and for the Palestinians in the Israeli occupied areas in the coming months, as part of Israel’s plans unfortunately, far from organizing themselves and standing like one man in the face of Israel’s machinations, the Palestinians today are more divided than ever before. In fact they could not have been in worse circumstances. They are not only in disarray themselves; they have lost active support of the Arab states for their struggle to liberate their land from Israel. On the contrary, some of the Arab states, like Egypt, have closed their doors on them. The Arab states’ concern and support for the Palestinians is now reduced to donations for their subsistence and aid for the PLO.

Israel’s ploy of Jewish state is naked racialism and worst kind of ‘apartheid’. The Arab and Muslim states must unite in support of the Palestinians to defeat Israel’s machinations to deny the Palestinians their inalienable right to return.

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