Zionism root of Palestine plight

“We find [the International] Quds Day to be a very important day... because what is happening in Palestine for decades is very painful... and we find this very painful as Jews, following Jewish religion where all these crimes are totally forbidden,” Rabbi Feldman said.
 
    “All what we see today in Palestine was created or at least exacerbated because of the invention of Zionism, and therefore, we say that the solution is not necessarily the two-state solution, the solution is that this entire occupation should be stopped, all rights should be restored to Palestinian indigenous population,” he added.
 
 
The rabbi also noted that Muslims, Christians, and Jewish people co-existed and lived in peace in Palestine and there is no reason they should not be able to live together.
 
Quds Day is held annually on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan during which demonstrators call for the liberation of Palestine and an end to Israeli occupation.
 
Muslims in more than 80 countries, including Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Australia and Indonesia, attended Quds Day demonstrations to support the Palestinians and condemn the Israeli occupation.
 
In August 1979, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, declared the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month International Quds Day, a day of global solidarity with Palestine.
 
Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds, and the Gaza Strip, and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories occupied in a war in 1967.