The international community and Palestine!!

There is no doubt that the course of events since the occupation of Palestine in 1947 and then in 1967 to the uprisings, invasions, catastrophes and setbacks, up to October 7, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and everything in between and around them to this day, and the international community with its institutions issues decisions, whether from the various international institutions to the United Nations, up to the UN Security Council, and they are in the hundreds, but has a single decision been implemented?

Certainly not, and not a single decision related to Palestine will be implemented, because the nature of the formation of these international institutions and their formations is completely tailored to specific interests and specific countries as well, and these specific major countries that are still captive to a defunct colonial mentality legislate as they wish, issue decisions as they wish, and subjugate all international institutions to their will, which in any case is in their interests. Some may say that Palestine obtained important decisions, and this is true, but they did not touch on the essence of the Palestinian cause related to independence, statehood, protection, and stopping harm to the Palestinian people in general. Since the beginning of this century, acts of violence, terrorism, and attempts to erase, assimilate, and uproot the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been escalating, resulting in the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians, in addition to the expansion of the construction of Israeli settlements and outposts, which have become organized and planned and not random, leading to war and bloody aggression, which is classified at the very least as a war of genocide, the commission of massacres, slaughters, displacement, forced displacement, and repeated attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians, in addition to repeated threats from the Israeli military leadership and successive occupation governments, the latest of which is the most extremist Netanyahu government, to annex more Palestinian lands and expel Palestinians from Jerusalem, in addition to the tense situation in the West Bank; as the Palestinians have no way to exercise their rights stipulated in international law, including their right to self-determination. For decades, Israel, the occupying power, has continued to violate international law with complete impunity, and to constantly ignore and undermine UN resolutions, with the assistance of Western governments.

As the United Nations has indicated in many of its reports, Israel is pursuing a comprehensive policy of demographic engineering and granting land and resources to its “Jewish” citizens only, after seizing Palestinian property and land, and depriving them, including refugees, of their basic inalienable rights, in violation of international law and United Nations resolutions, in practices that amount to the crime of apartheid.

In return, what is required?

There is no doubt that this escalation, the most violent, deadly and displacing in the episodes of the Israeli-Arab conflict, which has unfortunately become Palestinian, and for more than fifty years, requires a new approach from all parties and from the international community; as the protection of civilians in the occupied territories of the State of Palestine should be the priority of all international parties, at the present urgent time and in the future, until the Palestinian people obtain their legitimate national rights, which are recognized by international resolutions and charters.

The international community as a whole bears the responsibility of protecting civilians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and bears responsibility for the crimes that have been and are being committed against them. It should not be allowed to evade this responsibility, but rather it should be activated and developed. What I mean here is international protection and also holding decision-makers accountable for all decisions that have contributed directly or indirectly to increasing the suffering of Palestinian civilians. This will not happen on its own, and we cannot rely on politicians alone. Rather, humanitarian and legal organizations and human rights activists around the world can submit their reports, reviews and visions of the violations, crimes and horrors that have been committed against the Palestinian people over more than 76 years.