Once upon a time, everything was so serene and calm in my holy homeland, a country that so many are ignorant of. Especially its people whom were newly born, in the 20th century, in different countries. They sadly never get to live and see with their very own eyes how much of an astonishing place their country was. How their country was something everyone wanted to be back then..
People just like me, Born into total ignorance blinded by the surrounding needs and of course self needs without knowing the truth until I found myself with no identity. So when I got a glimpse of truth three years ago, I was really disappointed as well as amused at how we have become and what was of us back then. To find that we are nothing but pawns created by pawns.
History of my homeland, Palestine, isn’t something to be told in a day or two; hence I decided to only talk about one thing – in this article - that most “Arab” countries couldn’t achieve while we did without a notification. Seldom do I remember seeing an Arab country in the age where I came to being that has what we once called "total peace". No, I’m not talking about diversity here, I’m not talking about Canada or the US or even Palestine now. No, I’m not talking about the oppressiveness we kept experiencing nor the wars that we went through. I’m talking about something that would most likely unite everyone: Religion.Yes, the unity of religion, even with all the differences.
October 1921, 78% of Palestine were Muslims, 11% Christians and 9.6% Jew. Back then, before even 1948, when the Jew kept immigrating to Palestine with the notion that it’s their holy mother land which their religion originated from, everyone lived together happily and without any kind of discrimination. Sadly, some nonsense got propagated back then by Zionists, a myth if you want to rephrase. Something that states ‘A land with no people is for a people with no land’ meant by Palestine of course. This myth was created to make Palestine become more filled with Jews. It made European Jews rise its overall population in the country to 16% in 5 years. They later increased to 30% in ten years. Palestine at some point had all the major three religions together, though due invasion that dissapeared. However, it’s a fact that everyone was together once upon a time. Britain only made Jews increase as well as the conflict in the country increase. Although it was never 100% fight-free between both sides, Jews and Muslims, in Palestine, but it became worse because of the Jews came through invasion by Britain.
In my opinion, those whom believed they belong to Palestine, those of “Jews Diaspora” and others, had immigrated normally like how people decide to reside nowadays in Canada and the US, none of those small fights would’ve occurred. We had Palestinians who were Jews, Christians and Muslims living all happily together to the point that Christians and Jews used to celebrate Eid Al Fitir with Muslims and Muslims used to Celebrate birthdays and Easter with them as well. Friends with different faiths used to fast together just so they could all eat together. Our country was full of mixed people due to its historical events. It was truly a holy homeland, mother of religions. People would come every year to pray in Jerusalem, Muslims, Jews and Christians. Some facts about each religion changed again due to culture clashes that I will discuss about later on.
Personally I think the only way to erase every single conflict right now (though it’s impossible and very difficult and I guess many would disagree because it’s so hard to forget what we’ve been through or how many sufferings we survived) is to let go of the conflicts and fights between all religions and just let each supplicate to god in their own way. Unite both flags with all three religions with a symbol that would represent Palestine, ancient Palestine.
Note: Pic is taken 1947 in Hayfa where it includes people who are christians and muslims.
Michel Ayoub, a christian palestinian guy who loves his country and who works as a "Masaharaty" for all religions including Islam. A masaharaty is person that wakes people up at dawn in order to eat and drink water so they can fast for the day.
