After a series of positions by the United
States and Western countries, which dropped the Russian and Chinese draft
resolutions submitted to the UN Security Council on stopping the war. The
Western countries, led by the United States, the main partner in Israel’s
policies, have provided cover for the illegal and immoral Israeli crimes that
aim to implement the ultimate goal of mass forced deportation and ethnic
cleansing of the Palestinian people, robbing them of their national identity,
and denying their right to self-determination and national independence.
اضافة اعلان
In the midst of the emotionally charged
comments about the October 7 military resistance operation by Palestinian
fighters against Israel occupation soldiers. The media and political leaders in
the West seem to have forgotten that from the standpoint of international law,
Gaza remains occupied territory subject to the Fourth Geneva Convention and
international law, which the West claims to adhere to.
Although Israel unilaterally announced
“disengagement” from Gaza in 2005, withdrawing its forces, dismantling 21
colonial settlements and evacuating 8,000 settlers in exchange for granting
each settler family hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation, this did
not end Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip that kept it as an open prison or a
vast ghetto.
The UN Human Rights Council reached this
conclusion on the basis that Israeli disengagement did not end the existential
realities of Israeli control over Gaza, nor did it allow the Gaza Strip to
enjoy the benefits of independent political development.
Rather, what followed at that time included
the redeployment of the occupation forces, including the army and police, on
the Gaza borders, including full control over the entry and exit of
Palestinians and goods at the border crossings, as well as the continued
exclusive control over the air and sea space in Gaza.
The post 2005 occupation structure has been
strengthened by repeated Israeli incursions, including targeted assassinations
of resistance political and military officials and major military operations in
the years 2008-2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021 in which Israel committed many war
crimes and killed thousands of Gaza
residents.
Additionally, since 2007, the cruel and
punitive blockade has left Gaza's impoverished population facing the world's
highest unemployment rate and collectively experiencing life-threatening
economic decline.
Israel's criminal record towards Gaza was
significantly documented in the Goldstone Report issued by the United Nations
in 2009, whose policy recommendations were left unimplemented due to political
pressure exerted in favor of Israel by the United States, even through threatening policies against countries.
A lack
of action prolonged the suffering
This typical experience of condemning Israeli policies
and practices by many international organizations, without taking any
preventive or punitive action and sanctions in response, has been repeated time
and again, which explains the Palestinian disillusionment with the United
Nations and the implementation of international law.
The resistance attack by Palestinian fighters
was a natural reaction to the hell that Palestinians are experiencing and an
exercise of the right of a people subject to occupation to resist, as national
liberation movements around the world and peoples did throughout history.
Although Israel unilaterally announced “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005, withdrawing its forces, dismantling 21 colonial settlements and evacuating 8,000 settlers in exchange for granting each settler family hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation, this did not end Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip that kept it as an open prison or a vast ghetto.
As for the reaction of the Israeli occupation
state, it is devoid of the restrictions of law and morality. In the simplest
terms, crimes committed by Israel do not grant legal immunity for retaliatory
Israeli war crimes.
The appropriate international framing of the
relationship between the Israeli occupying state and the Palestinian people -
despite being crucial in interpreting the legal, moral and political issues at
hand - was clearly absent from most media treatments and political positions of
influential Western political leaders.
Israel’s
genocide is inexcusable
Israel has used increasingly inflammatory and
expansive language to justify its retaliatory responses. This lawless Israeli
extremism has received the support of the governments of the United States,
France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and other European Union
countries, which act in contradiction to the founding principles of the EU .
These statements ignore the need for the
occupying power to commit to administering the territories under its control in
ways that give priority to the protection and well-being of the civilian
population under occupation.
From this perspective, it is conceptually
misleading and normatively unacceptable for Israel to declare war on occupied
territory, as if the local administrative authority were a hostile foreign
government – but that is exactly what Israel did.
The Israeli colonial occupation state is not
actually defending itself, but rather defending the sustainability of its
settlement expansion and occupation of Palestinian lands.
It is
time to move beyond the hypocrisy of the global order
The UN security council ignored UN
Commissioner recommendation and others as it kept Israel above international
accountability, but the UN General Assembly was sufficiently disturbed by
Israel's pattern of behavior in occupied Palestine.
Israel, the apartheid regime and rogue state
of colonial occupation should be boycotted and political diplomatic ties should
be stopped by the Arab , Islamic countries and the non allied states to the USA
, as well oil and gas embargo should be practiced against the collective
colonial west as was done in 1973 .
BRICS countries should seriously take action
as well against Israel if they wish to prove they are in favor of a more
democratic, "multipolar" world.
However, this cannot be an exclusively
economic project, it is a geopolitical one. In fact, if the collective West led
by US and Israel is permitted to use such methods without cost, what
credibility remains of BRICS and for the multipolar project?
Gaza is the continuation of Ukraine and the prologue
to Taiwan. Better stop them now by using all political and economic means than
try later with the risk of a global disaster.
If the West continues to uphold the double
standards demonstrated during the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza,
it will serve as a reminder that the post-colonial world retains the spirit of
orientalist racism when it comes to addressing issues of peace and justice in
the Middle East and Global South.
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