What is going on in Palestine lays a burden on every responsible person. Above all, the main responsibility is to be well-informed and well-focused. One must have a true picture of the situation in order to find out what to do about it. Then he must analyze his position well and decide what kind of responsibilities he carries and what he is able to do in that position. After that, he must take a step without delay.

We will give short information about the issue of Palestine and question ourselves about our responsibilities through this brochure. It is incumbent on each person to determine his position and what to do accordingly.

Palestine refers to the region which has been called so for at least 5000 years according to the known history. It constitutes the southwestern part of the area which is known as \u201cBilad-\u0131\u015eam\u201d (\u201cThe province of Sham\u201d) in the historical sources.

Today, it is the area which is bordered with the Jordan River and the Lake of Lut in the east, Mediterranean and the desert of Sinai in the west, Lebanon in the north and Red Sea in the south. East Bank that lays in the east of the Jordan River was regarded as part of Palestine in the history. In other words, the entire region of Jordan that is composed of the eastern and western banks of the Jordan River was part of Palestine.

Because the occupying state of Israel that was established through the private plans of the international imperialism was granted territory by the 1947 UN decisions, an important part of Palestinian land is shown as Israel in the official political partition. The region which is shown as Israel constitutes a territory of Palestine that is more than 20 thousand km2. This territory is known as \u201c1948 region\u201d among Palestinian people. Palestinian territory that is outside of the land called \u201cIsrael\u201d in the UN decisions is Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem was annexed to the land called \u201cIsrael\u201d after 1967 through the one-sided decisions taken by the occupying powers. However this decision of annexation has not been approved in the international decisions. An important part of the region called West Bank, since it is placed in the west of the Jordan River, has been seized by the Jewish settlers who were brought from other countries. On the other hand, the Jewish settlements in Gaza on the Mediterranean coast in the west of Palestine were evacuated in the 2005 withdrawal.

Palestine has a long past and a long-established history. It has also a central place in the Islamic combat. We note that Palestine had a special status in the lives of most of the messengers mentioned in the Qur\u2019an who spent most of their lifetime, if not all, there.

Muhammad (pbuh), the last prophet, encouraged the believers to take an interest in the land of Masjid Aqsa, visit there and pray in that temple. This encouragement influenced the battles of the later Islamic state in widening its borders of sovereignty. All the rightly- guided caliphs paid special attention to this region. Yet, the conquest of Jerusalem and its surroundings took place during the time of the second caliph Omar. After then, it has been under invasion for 1400 years; by the crusaders between the years 1099-1187, by the British between 1917-1948 and by the Zionists after 1948.

The aim of the British occupation in 1917 was to help the Zionist organizations to bring the world\u2019s Jews together in order to realize their goal of establishing a Jewish state. The 1916 Sykes-Pikos Agreement and the 1917 Belfur Declaration prove this aim evidently.

Since the aim of the British occupation was to support the Zionist organizations in their plans to have a state, the initiatives oriented toward this aim started soon after the occupation. Jews\u2019 migration to the Palestinian land was facilitated through every means. The British occupiers, by putting heavy taxes, confiscated the land of Palestinians and sold it to the Jewish immigrants at symbolic prices. But in spite of all these encouragements, the intended Jewish population was not ensured. Ironically, with the Nazi storm in Europe in 1933, the Jews fled to the land of Palestine because the Nazis used to kill some Jews, put their bodies in trucks and go to the Jewish provinces saying \u201cif you don\u2019t leave these territories, the same will happen to you too!\u201d As a result of the migrations after these threats, the number of the Jews in Palestine rose to 800.000 by the end of the Second World War while it had been less than 200.000 in 1933 before the Nazi attacks.

On the other hand, the Zionist groups formed various terrorist organizations in Palestinian lands, the most important of which are Haganah and Irgun. These organizations forced the Palestinians to leave their land by organizing several terrorist attacks. As a result, the British decided to withdraw in 1947 after ensuring that the Jewish terrorist organizations began to be institutionalized as a state and the sufficient number of Jewish population was assured for this. The Jewish terrorist organizations came to consensus and declared the establishment of a state called \u201cIsrael\u201d. Shortly after that, it was recognized formally by the UN and a significant part of the Palestinian territories was given by the UN Assembly Resolution 181 to the so-called state shaped by the terrorist organizations.

As summarized above, the emergence of a state called Israel was possible only through
occupation which is not different from the Crusader invasion. Therefore it is unlawful like
the Crusader invasion and is based on injustices. It was carried out by inhumane
terrorism, brutality and forced immigration like the Crusader invasion. Today, to protect
and carry on its existence, this state still uses the same means it used in its
establishment. As a result, Israel is not only a state that was established by terrorist
organizations but \u201cis a terrorist state\u201d. The Crusades, while being carried out during a
period of 88 years, did not achieve legitimacy and came to an end. In spite of all the
efforts by the international forces to make it legal, the occupying state of Israel is not
going to be legalized either.

The establishment of the occupying state of Israel, which was achieved with the help and
support of the international imperialism, led millions of Palestinians to become refugees
in their homeland. All the properties of the Palestinians, owned in legal ways, were seized
by violence. The Zionist terrorist groups applied the same methods used by the Nazis
against Jews in Europe. They killed some Palestinians, took the dead bodies to the
Palestinian cities by trucks and threatened others. The lands and houses of the
Palestinians who had been forced to immigrate by these methods, were registered as
\u201chaving no owner\u201d and sold to Jewish immigrants at symbolic prices or for free.

Millions of Palestinians, who were forced to migrate by occupation and deforcement, are
dispersed in different countries today. Most of them live in refugee camps formed in
Palestine or other neighbouring Arab countries. Because Gaza, West Bank and East
Jerusalem were not occupied then, some of the immigrants settled in these cities. For
example two third of the Gaza\u2019s population today consists of Palestinians who became
refugees after 1948 and their offsprings. A lot of refugees still live in the refugee camps in
Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Most of them were born in those camps. Especially in the