Today November 29 marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People the day in which the United Nations passed the Partition Resolution in 1947.
The Partition Resolution is the biggest stab to the Palestinian people because it robbed them of a large part of their land taking it from its original owners and giving it to alien Jewish settlers who came from various parts of the world. In response to this United Nations resolution governments and civil society conduct various activities annually to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
On this day in 1947 the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181 later known as the Partition Plan which stipulated that a Jewish and a Palestinian Arab State would be established in Palestine. Only a Jewish State Israel was established while the Palestinian state remained ink on paper for up till now.
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is an opportunity to remind the world and its forces of the reality of the Palestinian tragedy and the injustice inflicted upon the people of Palestine as a result of the Partition Resolution.
This is also an occasion to remind the international community of the fact that the question of Palestine has not yet been resolved despite all the efforts endeavors initiatives negotiations visits and exploratory tours of the Middle East undertaken by hundreds of officials and delegations from foreign countries.
It is worth mentioning that the Palestinian people whose number had surpassed twelve million have not yet attained their inalienable rights as established by the General Assembly namely the right to self-determination without external interference the right to national independence and sovereignty the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and property from which they have been forcibly removed.
Israel’s Greed
Israel’s greed was not limited to the articles of Resolution 181. In 1948 when the war broke out between Israel and the neighboring Arab states the Jewish state expanded and captured 77 percent of the territory of Palestine including a large part of Jerusalem.
There have been many Arab-Israeli negotiations in Madrid Geneva Oslo Washington Camp David and many others but they have shown one fact that Israel does not want a real peace and that all it wants is negotiations for the sake of negotiations.
Unjust and void resolution
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) asserted in a statement on the anniversary that the Partition Resolution 181 is unjust and void because it establishes and legitimizes the occupation of the lands of others by force in a flagrant violation of the most basic principles of justice the rules of international law and the legal and moral foundations on which the United Nations was established.
The Movement called the resolution “a crime and a great injustice to our people and our homeland Palestine as an Israeli entity was internationally recognized by the resolution 181 on the land of Palestine and at the expense of its people.”
Hamas noted that this painful anniversary reaffirms our attachment to our land and our full rights. Hamas added: “We recall the blood of the martyrs and the wounded the suffering of our heroic families and that of millions of our people who live in forced exile as a result of that unjust resolution.”
