Palestine is a dear and holy land equally to Muslims, Christians and Jews.

It is said that in ancient days a Hebrew kingdom was established in Palestine (1000 BC) but after some time the kingdom broke into two-- Judah and Israel. Later on the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans in turn conquered the whole of Palestine. The Hebrew kingdom was totally destroyed and thousands of Jews were either taken prisoners or abdicated. Many Jews left Palestine for good at their own will for far distant countries.

It was a miracle in history that with the advent of Islam the Roman Christian rulers handed over the reign of Palestine to the Arab Muslim Caliph Hazrat Umar peacefully without waging any war. At that time only a few Jews lived in Palestine.

There were fierce battles between the Arab Muslims and the European Christians over the possession of Palestine for over 150 years i.e. the first crusade took place in 1097, second crusade in 1147, third crusade in 1189, fourth crusade in 1203, fifth crusade in 1229 and sixth crusade in 1244. But, surprisingly, the Jews kept themselves away from the Arab Muslims- European Christians war for their (Jews) own interest and benefit.

It was more astonishing and treacherous that when the British invaded and occupied Palestine during the World War II, some UK leaders in league with US leaders came out with the sinister idea of establishing a Jewish homeland in Muslim Arab Palestine.

After the League of Nations approved the British mandate of Palestine in 1922, large numbers of Jews started immigrating to Palestine despite strong opposition from the Arabs. In 1947, the United Nations divided Palestine, then under British mandate, into Jewish and Arab states. The Jews started carrying out large scale terrorist activities in Palestine, killing a UN mediator, a Swedish diplomat, Count Folke Bernadotte and in defiance of international laws unilaterally declared the creation of the State of Israel on 14th May, 1948. The US and the UK immediately accorded recognition to Israel.

We are puzzled and we fail to understand why the Jews, who had left their homeland more than 2,500 years ago, were hiding and sleeping for centuries together? Why have they created and established forcefully and illegally the State of Israel in the Arab world instead of doing so in the USA or Europe where they had settled in large numbers.

What is most unusual and shocking is that in spite of untold sufferings, pains and pangs for thousands of years under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and in the 20th century under the Nazi Germans and having established their own State of Israel, right or wrong but accepted by the Arab World including the Palestinians, why the Israelis have become arch enemies of the Arab Muslims, especially of the Palestinians? Why have they invaded and occupied more Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and are unleashing a reign of terror on the Palestinians, killing hundreds of men, women and children without any compassion? Why is not Israel withdrawing from occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, despite UN resolutions and world wide demand of billions of peace-loving people?

Now Israel is building boundary walls all along the West Bank and Gaza Strip forcing the Palestinians to live in enclaves of captivity. Israel says this would stop the suicide bomb attacks of the Palestinians on the Israelis.

We, however, strongly feel and believe that no wall or any power on earth can save the Israelis and ensure the safety and security of their lives and property and bring comprehensive peace to the Middle East unless and until Israel withdraws from occupied territories and Palestine emerges as an independent and sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital.