The Palestinian majority at the time was 95%; however, according to Belfour’s declaration, the Palestinians were called the non-Jewish people, and according to the racist Zionist ideology, they didn’t even exist; with the myth, the Jews, people without land were given land without people, the Palestinians, according to the Western racist ideology, then and now.
I grew up in a small village in the heart of the delta in Egypt, Meet Swaid; my town has only one street, mosque, cemetery, river, and elementary school. The village students had to go to the city a few miles away for middle school. We walk to the train station every morning to go to city school. Every morning, the village dogs follow us to the train station. As the slow train takes off, going through the skinny railroad in the middle of the fields, the dogs start chasing the train, barking and racing to catch it, once they catch up with the train, the dogs look at each other, confused, not knowing what to do; they could not jump on the train, bite the train, or even take selfies for memories; they were not selfish then. The dogs stop, turn around, and slowly walk back to the village, disappointed and tired. Everyone on the train laughs at the village dogs who chased and caught the train but couldn’t do anything with it.
