HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal and Fareed Mahdy

Now that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is further concentrating its efforts on submitting to the UN, next September, a formal demand for the recognition of Palestine as an independent state, the U.S. and Israel are working to prevent the international community from doing so, and proposing new talks with the condition that the Palestinians abandon their legitimate request. Many believe that the Middle East game was already over even before it started.

Photo: Mike Hanini – hanini.org

In fact, a reasonable dose of good memory and a quick look at the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be enough to conclude that it had already been solved exactly 114 years ago.

This is the story behind the story: in August 1897, Basel, Switzer- land, hosted the First Zionist Congress. It was the first congress of the Zionist Organisation, which in 1960 became the World Zionist Organisation.