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Settler boy tosses wine on a passing Muslim woman.~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal, The Hidden Tyrany
Is it the same organization charged with “putting an end to colonialism”?
Is it the same organization which believes in the right of all peoples to freedom without discrimination in terms of race or religion?
If it is the same organization, why does it allow Palestinian civilians suffer from the brutality of armed settlers?
The evasive and shameful language of the UN’s call comes in the context of the submission of the Security Council to the Zionist will, and consequently commits a historic disgrace in the form of ignoring the legitimate political, civil and human rights of the Palestinian people including their right to life and freedom.For the UN not to take any initiative or measure which leads to giving the Palestinian people the right to self determination will remain a disgrace in the history of the organization which will never be removed.
The Palestinians have been under a racist settler form of colonialism for over sixty years; and they are targeted with a campaign of ethnic cleansing launched by armed gangs of settlers supported by Israel’s police and army.
This is unparalleled in the 21st century in terms of the crimes which include siege, murder, food poisoning, starvation, assassination, demolishing houses, scorching crops, destroying farms, raping prisoners, trafficking in the organs of captives and preventing Palestinians from moving between their villages, farms and schools.
All this happens under the full gaze and silence of the ‘civilized’ world which fully supports the Israeli government and fully ignores the savage crimes committed each day by Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers. This silence is also a crime against the Palestinian people, because it allows Israeli politicians and generals and their allies to carry on with their crimes against civilians and violate the Geneva conventions and international humanitarian law.
The tent housed fifty persons of the two families who, up until a few months ago used to live in their home demolished by Israeli occupation soldiers in their policy of Judaizing Jerusalem.
Every now and then, the UN or the EU acknowledge that “destroying the homes of Palestinians is a violation of international law”. But if this and the other crimes referred to above are violations of international law, why do not they move their conscience to protect the security of Palestinians?
The question is: what will the United Nations or Europe do? Will they limit themselves to acknowledging that Israeli acts are in sharp contrast with the UN Charter and international humanitarian law, while armed Jewish settler gangs continue to murder, demolish and set fires in Jerusalem, Nablus, Hebron and other places without any deterrent and without being brought to account?
In America agents of the Hudson's Bay Company and other European trading companies , centuries ago, used to give contaminated blankets on Indians to kill them.
What Palestinian civilians urgently need now is an investigation into Israeli crimes to be reported to an international organization which still retains some self respect and concern for what remains of its credibility.
The crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces, the terrorization of unarmed Palestinian civilians by armed settlers have become a shame for humanity which should not be tolerated. The acts of these settlers and their supporters in the Israeli government and financiers in the Western pressure groups return the world to the law of the jungle.
They should not keep silence concerning these crimes and should not be satisfied with preventing Israeli criminals from travel. They should be brought to justice in the same way the world has brought to justice other criminals responsible for killing and occupation before them.
Jewish intellectuals in particular should ask themselves why should their government be built on the ruins of the lives and freedom of another people?
Why their government should commit crimes of killing children, massacres, home demolition and assassination and then try to justify these crimes and blame all those who want to bring it to account?
Why do not Jewish intellectuals face this historical moral dilemma in the Zionist entity?
Those who do, such as Neve Gordon who teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University and is the author of Israel's Occupation or Norman Finkelstein, an American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. are threatened, labeled "self hating Jews" and marginalized and discredited.
Then Nazi Germany committed massacres against the Jews and other peoples, the Germans faced this dilemma and passed laws banning anti-Semitism.
In fact, Germany has become more Zionist than almost every nation on the planet bar the United States. Their enforcement of the Holocaust story as accepted is harshest of all.
When the world paid the price of Japanese wars and ambitions, Japan took a historical and final decision against war.
Why would Jewish intellectuals think they should justify all the acts of Israeli politicians and generals?
How can they justify the fact that Ehud Olmert is prosecuted for financial corruption and not for his and others’ crimes against Palestinian and Lebanese children and civilians?
Why do they even consider these criminals heroes who should be secured and defended?
Why do they form governments consisting of criminals competing with their records in assassination, murder and massacres against Palestinian civilians? These crimes are crimes against humanity by any standard.
Why do not they criticize, in their culture, their rulers who have the blood of children on their hands?
Silent Jewish intellectuals are responsible for the continuation of crimes which bring them all eternal shame as a result of their silence concerning these crimes.
The United Nations and the European Union, and all those who use evasive language in describing crimes which should prompt the world’s indignation and anger share the responsibility.
History will condemn those who remain silent towards these crimes and will remember and thank only those who defend Palestinian children and the right of the Palestinian people to live in dignity, freedom, security and safety on their national soil.
I have said this myself in this blog more than once. History will look back and judge those who did nothing very severely. We have NO EXCUSE for not standing up for Palestine. Please read the previous article on The Palestinian Moral Right to Resist. Consider that being call ed an anti semite because you support Palestine to be a badge of courage! It is a meaningless term and chock full of idiocy as it is.
Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She has been the spokesperson for Syria and was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. She can be reached through nizar_kabibo@yahoo.com
Labels: genocide, Illegal Occupation, Palestine, United Nations, Zionism
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