Can Israel Indefinitely Delay Palestinians’ Resolve for Return Home?

By: Kayhan Int’l

The illegal Zionist entity has tightened its tentacles on Palestinians, subjecting them to more atrocities, as the Occupied Land is witnessed a series of regular protests since March 30 dubbed as "The Great March of Return.”

For past 7 decades Palestinians have been demanding the return to the original homes of those driven out of their ancestral lands by the illegal Zionist migrants of Eastern Europe, who have no connection to this land since they are not the offspring of the original Israelite tribes. As a matter of fact, many of the Palestinian Muslims although their mother tongue is Arabic and they are called Arabs, are the direct descendants of the ancient Israelite tribes.

Ever since the right to return which was formulated for the first time on 27 June 1948 by United Nations mediator Folke Bernadotte, proponents of the right of return regard it as a sacred human right, whose applicability both generally and specifically, is guaranteed by international law.

During his speech yesterday, the leader of the Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, paid tribute to the latest martyrs, that is, the seven Palestinians killed on Friday by Zionist forces. He vowed the weekly rallies will continue as long as the Gaza Strip remains under siege.

According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry around 200 Palestinians have so far been martyred and over 20,000 others wounded. Yet the struggle for liberation of their Zionist-usurped homeland continues, without the least dampening of hopes.

This is indicative of the indomitable spirit of the Palestinians, who despite the inhuman measures of the Zionists for the past several weeks, and in spite of being shunned by fellow Arab countries, are determined to continue their struggle in the face of Israel’s aerial bombardment and artillery shelling.

The point which we would like to emphasize is the right to return to their homeland as is evident the "Great Return March”.

In 1948 when the British illegally planted Israel in the heart of the Islamic World, over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and hearths by the Zionists.
They ended up as refugees in neighbouring lands, but with the resolve to return home one day. As a result the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 194 on December 11, 1948, recognizing the right of return.

It is rather unfortunate that the West unabashedly ignores the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people, whether Muslims or Christians, to return to their homeland, while the illegal Zionist entity, backed by its godfathers in London and Washington, and now supported by the treasonous Arab regimes, especially Saudi Arabia, continues its crimes against humanity.

It is obvious that the vast majority of refugees should be considered as victims of Israeli ethnic cleansing during 1948 and the subsequent years, including the periodic massacres such as Deir Yassin, in order to drive them out of Palestine.

It is time the free world seriously took up the issue of the right of return as a non-negotiable Palestinian right, otherwise it would be a great injustice to an entire nation.
The Zionist entity fully knows that if Palestinians were to succeed in their endeavour to return home, then the whole issue of Israel would be stake. It was for this reason, the Butcher of Sabra and Shatilla, Ariel Sharon, who later became Zionist premier, and was finally struck by divine wrath for his crimes against humanity by lying in the state of coma for several years, had once criminally remarked that the Palestinians must drop their demand for the right of return, since this was "a recipe for Israel’s destruction”.

Irrespective of the mindset of the usurpers, who themselves know that Israel is on flimsy ground, it is the duty of not just Arab and other Muslim countries, but the whole free world to support the displaced Palestinian people, including their demand to return home.