The roots of the Palestinian question are planted in the nineteenth century

Prantikk News is observing with deep concern that certain organized groups in Bangladesh are deliberately branding the Palestinian liberation struggle as a 'religious conflict' to reap political dividends. The reality is that in Gaza today, regardless of religion, caste, or gender, ordinary people's homes, mosques, churches, hospitals, schools, and colleges—everything is turning into ruins. This is not a battle of religion, but against the occupying colonialist Israeli forces, who are being directly armed and abetted by imperialist America.

In this context, remember the words of Palestinian liberation struggle leader Yasser Arafat: "The roots of the Palestinian question are planted in the closing years of the nineteenth century—the period we know today as the age of colonialism and settlement. It was during this time that Zionism was born as a plan; its goal was to occupy Palestine through European immigrants—just as colonizers occupied, exploited, and looted vast regions of Africa."

— Yasser Arafat (13 November, 1974, speech delivered as PLO chief at the UN General Assembly)