In November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly met to vote on Resolution 181, partitioning British Mandate Palestine into two.
One half would be a homeland for the Jewish people, and the other half would be a separate state for the indigenous people of Palestine.
Six months later, Israel declared independence which was immediately followed by the Arab Israeli war of 1948.
Several UN Resolutions on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict have been passed ever since.
But none, except the very first, Resolution 181 has survived the test time.
There is a reason for its endurance.
It was by Zionism, a European project that started five decades earlier and accelerated by two world wars.
Prof. Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian, sees the entire concept of Zionism; which is a movement established to support a Jewish state in Palestine, as a response to European racism towards its Jewish population.
An estimated 1.2 million Jews fled Eastern Europe before and after the Second World War.
Many of them ended up in what is Israel today.
But the British government had started to facilitate Jewish migration to Mandate Palestine as early as the 1920s.
It was not until the rise of Nazism that the rate of migration gained momentum.
And today, multiple countries in the wider Middle East face destruction to ensure that Jewish state survives
According to Pappe, a chronicler of Israel’s founding and the indigenous people of Palestine, the creation of the State of Israel was Europe’s solution to a European problem; which was to create a European Jewish state in the heart of the Arab world to end antisemitism.
And this, he believes, could have only been done through the use of brute force.
That way, Europeans could forget about their antisemitism problem.
Prof. Pappe believes, on the basis of its immorality, that the project has failed and the idea of the destruction of the Palestinians being a small injustice in order to rectify a bigger injustice perpetrated against the Jews no longer holds after what has happened in Gaza.
And today, multiple countries in the wider Middle East face destruction to ensure that Jewish state survives.
More and more people indigenous to the region are being forced to flee to Europe as refugees.
Germany has had to absorb nearly a million Syrian refugees.
Austria has taken in 100, 000, while the Netherlands has had to shelter some 70, 000 Syrian refugees.
France, Scandinavia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece and Spain are home to another 250, 000.
Apart from Syrians, thousands of Libyans, Iraqis, Sudanese, Somalis and Palestinians have found their way to Europe.
Millions of Iranians, it seems, are about to embark on similar journeys.
And Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Giorgio Meloni cannot turn these Iranian refugees away unless they can stop the war that has just broken out between the country, the United States of America and Israel.
Both the United States and Israel have offered shifting reasons for attacking Iran.
They range from stopping it from developing nuclear weapons to protecting the Iranian people from tyrannical rulers.
The war, launched on February 28, has already escalated to include all of the Gulf countries; Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman.
It is also threatening to engulf Lebanon where, Hezbollah, a Shia militia supported by Iran has fired rockets into Southern Israel.
In return, Israel has sent ground troops deeper into Southern Lebanon.
All eyes are also on Iranian proxies in Iraq.
So far, their participation in the hostilities have been limited but could very easily escalate.
All of this is bad news for Europe.
At the same time, it is a consequence and a continuation of European history written eight decades ago, some aspects centuries ago.
We know that history is written in centuries, not decades.
Jews, who were forced out of Europe, in turn are forcing Arabs out of their lands.
What is emerging over the last century is that the European ruling class has exchanged an anti-semitic problem with an Arab and Islamophobic one.
Anti-semitism in Europe goes back a whole millennium and even to the time of Titus Vespasianus, who was Roman emperor between 79 AD and 81 AD, when Jews were expelled from the holy lands and displaced all across Europe.
Through centuries, the Jews in Europe were at the receiving end of European racism in virtually every major capital on the continent.
They were persecuted and targeted by rulers, derided in public and socially ostracized.
Jews in many parts of Europe could not own land, hold public office and engage in certain professions.
There were also many stereotypes against European Jews.
They were blamed for disease, conflicts and poverty and regularly faced pogroms, expulsions from many European capitals, pushing them eastwards.
There too, they faced discrimination.
The culmination of centuries of antisemitic attacks came in the Second World War when German Nazis killed an estimated six million Jews.
It was in the middle of these mass exterminations that Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer, coined the word genocide.
It was supposed to be the final solution to Europe’s Jewish problem.
The world rallied together to defeat Nazi Germany in 1945.
But rather than own up to its antisemitism, the ruling elite in the continent embraced Zionism, an ideology first floated five decades earlier.
It has brought us to this very moment.
After launching the attack on Iran and assassinating its Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei along with his close aides and members of his family, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America said last week that his country was not going to be bogged down in a war with Iran.
US President Donald Trump campaigned and was elected on the promise that he would not drag the country into another forever war.
The US and its coalition partners had invaded Iraq in 2003 and ended up in a military quagmire that lasted until 2011, nearly 20 years.
It came at a cost of $3trn, 4500 American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives.
The war in Afghanistan lasted even longer and costing US tax payers even more with another 2500 soldiers killed.
It was a 20 year-long invasion that ended with the same government they toppled immediately coming back to power.
The plan last month, on the part of the US government, was to use air power to topple the Iranian government, assassinate its top leadership and install a friendlier government in its place all within days.
The military operation was supposed to replicate the quick success in Venezuela, where the US kidnapped President Nicholas Madura and backed his deputy to take the reins of powers.
Now, President Trump is suggesting the war in Iran could last four weeks or more.
A case is even being made for the US to commit ground troops in Iran, a country of 90 million people; majority of them Persians and with Kurdish, Arab, Baluch and Azeri minorities.
At the dizzying pace events are unfolding in Iran and the wider Middle East, it may already be a forever war.
The US and Israel maybe in Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to stay, and fight to the finish.
The war has divided the political base of President Trump, who are against foreign interventions.
But according to Tucker Carlson, an influential anti-war podcaster and Trump supporter, the president has been convinced that the Iran war will boost his popularity ratings 90:10.
Meanwhile, the Europeans are just standing, watching, thinking their problems begin and end in Ukraine
And Trump is known to make decisions not on historical trends, international law or moral judgements, but on how it affects his personal standing.
Here is the reality, though.
Long before Trump dreamt about becoming president, in 2001 to be precise; it has been widely reported that a US Army general, Wesley Clark said political leaders in the US back then, planned to attack and topple governments in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran within five years.
And there are viral videos on social media of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, going all the way back to 1996, repeatedly making a case for the US to invade each of these countries over the last 25 years.
It has taken more time than initially envision, but that grand national security goal has finally come to past.
To think that it won’t have repercussions over the next decades and century would amount to ignoring history.
There is a logic behind destabilizing and fracturing all of these seven countries.
They have all either supported or financed the liberation of Palestinian lands.
And to some extent, these countries offering political and diplomatic cover for Palestinian resistance, posed an existential threat to the State of Israel.
So, for Israel to remain safe, Syria, Iraq and Iran had to face destruction.
On top of that, Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel said in a recent interview that he wouldn’t mind if Israel took all of the land between the Nile River and the Euphrates.
In the same casual way Wesley Clark said they planned to attack seven countries in five years, no one can say for sure that it is not official US policy to help Israel occupy the lands covering the Nile and Euphrates.
It doesn’t stop there.
Fearing what is to come, Egypt that is right next door to Israel, is now arming itself to the teeth.
It has amassed thousands of troops at the Sinai Peninsula. Turkey is redrawing its national security documents.
Naftali Bennet, a former Israeli prime minister has already described it as the new Iran.
Meanwhile, the Europeans are just standing, watching, thinking their problems begin and end in Ukraine.
Even worse, Brussels thinks that Trump is the problem.
