How the proposal brought by the imperialists to create Israeli Jewish settlements in Sri Lanka ended in defeat.....! 1946...
This may be a story that most of you have never heard. Due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jewish people and their talents are being discussed a lot.
For many centuries, the Jews had to suffer many kinds of troubles all over the world due to not having their own state. Even though the original land of the Jews was present-day Israel, the Roman emperors had expelled them from that land.
The Jews who lived as refugees in various states of Europe were becoming a headache for those states as well. Also, the Zionism movement that started in Europe in the 1800s started a movement to win a country for the Jews.
By the decade that began in 1940, land had been proposed in several countries on the world map for this purpose. Madagascar, Australia and our motherland Sri Lanka were among them.
This idea first comes out from the editorial of Manchester Guardian newspaper published in Britain. In it, it was suggested to the world community that the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka should be used for the habitations of the Jews who are helpless in Palestine and orphaned in Europe.
The British who ruled Sri Lanka at that time had given primary attention to plantations. Apart from the Trincomalee port, they did not get much economic advantage from the North East. Also, it has been written in the same sentence that there was no objection from the northerners in this regard.
The opposition in this regard comes from the Sinhalese in the south. On March 26, 1943, immediately after the end of World War II, Horana MP A. P. Mr. Jayasuriya strongly opposes the idea of Western countries to establish Jewish settlements in Sri Lanka.
In a report published in the Sinhala Baudthaya newspaper published on July 28, 1943, A. P. It is said that Mr. Jayasuriya has raised questions in the Rajya Sabha as to why the civil officers who went to Palestine from Sri Lanka were brought back to Sri Lanka for higher salaries.
The Western proposal for Jewish settlements in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka was strongly opposed by the Sinhala Buddhist community. An article written by a special writer protesting against that was published on May 22, 1943 in the Sinhala Baudthaya newspaper, Is Sri Lanka a suitable country for Jews? Under the heading of
It is also said that the Dravidian politicians who talked about a Tamil homeland remained silent in this regard. Anyway, the imperialists will have to stop this attempt to establish Jewish settlements. It was as a result of the change of government that took place after the end of World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was defeated and Clement Attlee's Labor Party won.
Somehow, the Jews will be able to create their promised land in Israel. They expel the Palestinians and create colonies. If the Jewish settlements in the North and East were somehow created, the bombs and missiles falling on the heads of the Palestinian people would have landed on our heads. Which side should we really take? Ask your conscience for the answer.
