Unforgettable events of our Palestinian fight, from the Nakba to the Sword of Jerusalem…
While the First Intifada flared up in 1987 against the relentless persecution of the Zionist Israeli regime, this process came to an end with the Oslo Agreement. As Israel did not keep the promises made in the Oslo Agreement, as expected, this situation ignited the Second Intifada. The international community, which displayed a hypocritical stance during the Second Intifada, continued this stance after HAMAS's election victory. As the Zionist persecution increased with the fourth Netanyahu government, the initiative and construction of new occupation settlements in the West Bank began.
With the First Arab-Israeli War, the Six-Day War and the Occupation of Lebanon, a great resistance began in 1987 against the increasing persecution of Zionism. At that time, the Palestinians, who lived as refugees in their own lands, rebelled to oppose the assimilation policies and gain their independence. As a result of the occupying settlement policy of Zionist regime in the West Bank, the fact that the occupation settlements almost doubled in the mid-1980s, ignited the struggle for independence known as the “First Intifada”. In 1988, when Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Leader Yasser Arafat officially declared the establishment of a Palestinian state, the First Intifada became a largely spontaneous series of demonstrations, mass boycotts, nonviolent resistance by Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories. During the six-year intifada, the Occupying army killed 1,162 or 1,204 Palestinians, according to different records, including 241 children, and captured more than 120,000 people. According to a journalism calculation made in the light of the data provided by the press workers who were in the field throughout the process; from 1988 to 1993, approximately 60,706 Palestinians were injured by bullets, beatings or tear gas in Gaza alone.
OSLO'S DESTRUCTION TO END THE INTIFADA
As a result of the table established in Oslo under the mediation of the then President of the USA, 'great boil of the Middle East' is the United States of America, Bill Clinton, the First Intifada, which had been sustained for six years with great patience and determination, was ended. With the Oslo Agreement, while a step towards a historical peace and a free Palestine was taken, according to some, the flame of the great struggle was extinguished, according to the opposite opinion. Because the Oslo Agreement was seen as a cunning diplomatic move that prevented the independence movement that brought the occupying regime to its knees with the First Intifada, getting stronger over time, and ultimately the liberation of the Palestinian lands from the occupation. As a result of the agreement reached, while Israel withdrew from most of Gaza and Jericho, Yasser Arafat was also allowed to move the PLO administration from Tunisia to Palestine and establish his ‘national authority’ in a controlled manner. Immediately after this development, a peace treaty was signed between Jordan and the Zionist regime in October.
THE ISRAEL REGIME DID NOT KEEP ITS PROMISE
While it was thought that there would be developments in the direction of a 'two-state solution' with the Oslo Agreement, the Israeli regime did not keep its promises within the framework of the agreement. After Benjamin Netanyahu's coming to power in May 1996, he promised to stop ‘compromising the promised (!) lands’ and started to expand the occupation settlements again from where he left off, after Ehud Barak's reject the withdrawal from the West Bank by using the timing as an excuse, and Ariel Sharon's visiting the holy Masjid al-Aqsa lands to provoke and harass… All these events once again proved with an undeniable reality that the Oslo Declaration is a ‘distraction tactic’ of the Zionist mind.
THE SECOND INTIFADA AND THE WEST'S TWO-FACED ATTITUDE
The cunning failure of the First Intifada, the developments that followed, the sneaky and cunning moves of the Zionists, and finally Sharon's visit to Masjid al-Aqsa for provocation were the last straw. What happened is a second protest in Palestine led by civilians against the occupying regime. It was a harbinger of waves. Overcoming the bewilderment of the Second Intifada, the Zionist regime launched Operation Defensive Shield to the West Bank with the occupying army; This operation, which continued between March and May 2002, was the largest military operation of the Zionist regime in the West Bank since 1967. Immediately after the operation, in June 2002, the occupation forces began to build a barrier around the West Bank, and made frequent attacks on the West Bank from the ceasefire line agreed upon before 1967. On the other hand, the European Union (EU), USA, Russia and the UN, who were ready to act as "mediators" whenever a situation that radically threatened the Zionist regime in Palestine emerged, only made a passive call for peace.
HAMAS'S ELECTIONAL VICTORY AND ZIONIST OPPRESSION IN GAZA
With HAMAS’ winning the Palestinian elections in the beginning of 2006, there was a great increase in the attacks of the Zionist regime against Gaza. At the Annapolis Conference in November 2007, the basis for future distraction processes, the 'two-state solution' thesis was put forward for the first time. In December 2008, the occupation forces, fearing that HAMAS would rekindle the fuse for independence, launched a full-scale invasion that would last for a month. As a result of the inhuman attacks, whose clear data are not available even today, between 1,166 and 1,417 Palestinians were martyred. The failure to accept the election victory of HAMAS and the inaction against the massacres in Gaza also revealed the hypocrisy of the West regarding democracy.
THE FOURTH GOVERNMENT OF NETANYAHU AND THE INVASION PLAN WITHOUT COMPROMISE
Prime Minister of the occupying Israeli regime and leader of the Likud Party, Netanyahu formed a new coalition government with another racist party, the Bayit Jew (Jewish House Party). Another racist party, “Yisrael Beitenu” (Our Home Israel Party), joined the coalition the following year. The Zionist regime, after the EU's decision to label the goods coming from the occupied settlements as "come from the settlements, not Israel" and to negotiate with the Palestinians, froze contact with the EU. In December 2016, Israel severed its ties with 12 countries that voted for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to condemn structures built in occupied settlements. This came after the US abstained for the first time instead of using its veto power. In June 2017, the Zionists, who had not attempted to occupy the West Bank for 25 years, started the attempt and construction of new occupation settlements. This was followed by the enactment of a law retroactively legalizing the dozens of occupation settlements built in the West Bank.