PRESS RELEASE — The Arab Renaissance for Democracy and
Development (ARDD) strongly condemns the indiscriminate attacks against
Palestinian civilians, and the shelling of hospitals, residential areas,
mosques, and schools in the Gaza Strip. These are not only unlawful but
tantamount to war crimes which should be duly accounted for.
اضافة اعلان
The violence and senseless loss of life that
we have witnessed since Saturday, October 7th is the result of over seven
decades of Israel’s colonial policies of ethnic cleansing, land theft, settler
and soldier violence against the Palestinians, killing hundreds, injuring, and
arresting thousands, raiding Holy sites, restricting civic and educational
space, in a bid to complete the erasure of Palestinians and Palestinians from
Palestine.
Over 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,
75% of whom are refugees who have been longing to return home for over seven
decades, have continued to live for the 16th consecutive year under a fierce
ground, aerial, and naval blockade which deprives them of freedom of movement,
livelihoods, self-sufficiency, clean water and access to health. Meanwhile,
over 9 million Palestinian refugees are scattered throughout the globe in the
impossibility of returning to their ancestral homeland.
Amidst the noisy soundtrack of Israeli
structural violence played by drones, airstrikes, and bulldozers, the position
and distorted narratives of international institutions are an offense to all
peoples and communities in the world struggling for justice and to the
rule-of-law-based order that emerged since WWII.
We
deplore the epistemological violence against Palestinians, their history, and
their culture: the de-contextualized and a-historical narrative, false
information, twisted discourses, orientalist misrepresentation, and superficial
stereotyping that silence their voices. This is another violent strategy of
oppression that is implemented on Palestinians through knowledge with the
complicity of international mainstream media and policy institutions.
Shamefully, international actors continue to
support the colonial crimes of Israel and refuse to acknowledge the rights of
colonized Palestinians to self-determination and to resist their oppression.
This cognitive dissonance between the historical reality of the Question of
Palestine and the international (lack of) response signals the continuous
asymmetrical power dynamics and pervasive racism that govern the international
system.
We are astonished by the military support that
is continuously guaranteed to Israel in order to further entrench its
oppression and massacre of the Palestinians.
We
further condemn the calls by international representatives, to suspend
humanitarian support to the Palestinians -who are not only facing disproportionate
military attacks and bombings but are also threatened by genocidal practices
under the current decision to cut all supplies, of water, food, and energy, by
Israel- as inhuman. These policies and practices are yet another confirmation
of the West’s complicity with Israeli crimes and interconnectedness with
Israel’s project to settler-colonize Palestine.
These international policies and narratives
are a reminder that decolonization has never been fully achieved, not only for
Palestinians but also in Western society, where the rights of the oppressed are
still understood and framed as a matter of privilege and unworthy of the
interests of the colonizers.
In this context, the dignity of the
Palestinian people, and their agency in subverting the oppressive dynamics of
colonization imposed on them with violence for over seven decades70 years, set
an example for the entire world and remain a call to true justice and equality
for all people.
We urge
the international community to:
Ensure protection to Palestinians under attack
and pressure to cease violence against civilians and civilian infrastructure.
Express solidarity with the Palestinian people
in their struggle for liberation to fully uphold international responsibilities
in achieving decolonization.
Address the root causes in line with history,
justice, and humanity.
Guarantee access to humanitarian aid in the
Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, we share Jordan’s preoccupation
with regional repercussions and join the Jordanian call to invest in diplomatic
efforts to prevent further escalations and assure and guarantee the protection
of Holy sites in Palestine.
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