Nasir Khan blog

I was born in Poonch (Kashmir) and now I live in Norway. I oppose war and violence and am a firm believer in the peaceful co-existence of all nations and peoples. In my academic work I have tried to espouse the cause of the weak and the oppressed in a world dominated by power politics, misleading propaganda and violations of basic human rights. I also believe that all conscious members of society have a moral duty to stand for and further the cause of peace and human rights throughout the world.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞

A short comment from last year

---Nasir Khan, October 10, 2022

Israel as a colonial settler state was created primarily by British imperialists with the help of other Western powers. Its ideology, Zionism, was an extreme brand of ethnoreligious superiority. As a result, the Zionist rulers of Israel were free to expand in Palestine through the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, using its military power and terror. They had done this systematically and consistently even before 1948 when Israel was formally established.

What is important for us to keep in mind is the fact all this has been and is because of the unconditional support of the United States, Britain and other Western powers for the Zionist rulers of Israel. Now, under US pressure and its bargaining power, many Arab despots, kings, emirs and dictators have joined the West as friends of Israel, thus ignoring the legitimate national rights of the people of Palestine whose land is in the hands of the rulers of Israel.