And when they are told, “Believe as others believe,” they reply, “Will we believe as the fools believe?” Indeed, it is they who are fools, but they do not know.
On April 9, 1948, more than 110 Palestinian men, women and children were slaughtered in one of the most heinous crimes carried out by Zionist forces. The massacre took place in the once-prosperous village of Deir Yassin on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. The New York Times reported at the time that half of the victims were women and children.
On December 31, 1947, the first large attack by the Haganah Zionist militia took place against the village of Balad al-Sheikh, east of the port city of Haifa, in which 60 to 70 Palestinians were killed, according to Walid Khalidi’s book, All That Remains.
Since 1967, the occupation forces have arrested more than one million Palestinians, and 7,559 prisoners are still behind bars, <> of whom are sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed between France and Britain on the division of the Arab states in the eastern Mediterranean in 1916. It was reached between April and May of that year in the form of an exchange of documents between the foreign ministries of the three countries (France, England and Tsarist Russia).