Pakistan, Oct. 8 -- What we are witnessing in Palestine is not merely a regional conflict - it is, in fact, one of the longest-running injustices of the modern world, which began more than a century ago in a letter written in 1917 that changed the destiny of an entire people known as the Balfour Declaration. It was issued by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild, expressing Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," while claiming that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."

At that time, Palestine was overwhelmingly Arab. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived together under O...