Donald Trump’s intervention is not a mere aberration. It’s part of the continuing epic of injustice in PalestineOne hundred years ago,on 11 December 1917, the British army occupied Jerusalem. As General Allenby’s troops marched through Bab al-Khalil, or launching a century of settler colonialism across Palestine,prime minister David Lloyd George heralded the city’s capture as “a Christmas present for the British people”.
In a few months’ time, we tag another such anniversary: 70 years since the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, and the catastrophic destruction of the Palestinian polity; the violent dispossession of most of its people with their forced conversion into disenfranchised refugees; the colonial occupation,annexation and control of their land; and the imposition of martial law over those who managed to remain.
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Source: guardian.co.uk